Rock bands aren&#8217;t supposed to get big anymore, but apparently no one told Fontaines D.C. The young Dublin quintet took the world by storm just over a year ago with their bracing mixture of raw guitar-beating energy and a distinctly Irish sense of poetry. Fronted by Grian Chatten, who speak-sings in a heavy brogue, the…

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