Performers include: Blood For Blood, Dropkick Murphys, 10 Yard Fight, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Pinkerton Thugs, Anal Cunt, The Trouble, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, The Grenades, Tommy And The Terrors, Close Call, Pug Uglies, Strikers, Vigilantes, Intent To Injure, Kicked In The Head, Wrong Side Of The Tracks, Blacklist, Last In Line, Nobody's Heroes, Down But Not Out, Molly McGuires.

Contains 22 tracks.

A reasonably good idea for a tribute album, Boston Drops the Gloves: A Tribute to Slapshot is devoted to one of Beantown's best-loved hardcore bands. Slapshot might not have been prominent in the national consciousness but its impact on the local scene can be measured in the number of Boston bands -- 22 -- eager to pay their respects here. And some of these groups have been pretty well-known on the late-'90s punk/ska scene: the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Dropkick Murphys, Anal Cunt, the Pinkerton Thugs, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, 10 Yard Fight, and the Trouble, to name a few. Boston Drops the Gloves is uneven as most tribute albums are, but it has undeniable high points. ~ Steve Huey