The Westies has arrived on MGM+, but which songs feature in the crime drama? Find out below.
Created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes, the eight-part series centres on New York’s real-life Irish-American gang the Westies during the early 1980s.
The construction of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center promises a financial windfall on the gang’s Hell’s Kitchen turf, but tensions between its younger members and old-school leadership threaten a fragile truce with the Italian Mafia.
J.K. Simmons stars as Westies leader Eamon Sweeney, alongside Tom Brittney as ambitious younger gangster Jimmy Roarke and Titus Welliver as troubled NYPD officer Glenn Keenan. Jessica Frances Dukes, Stanley Morgan and Sarah Bolger also feature.
The first two episodes premiered on July 12, with new instalments arriving weekly on Sundays until the finale on August 23. Watch the trailer below.
The original score for The Westies was composed by Mark Isham, while the opening titles are soundtracked by Dropkick Murphys’ ‘Dropped on My Head’, which first appeared on their 2025 album ‘For The People’.
Elsewhere, the show mixes period punk, new wave and disco with music from modern Irish acts including Lankum, Kneecap, Grian Chatten, Fontaines D.C. and The Mary Wallopers.
As the season is still airing, the complete episode-by-episode song list to date is below.
EPISODE 1: ‘THE TROUBLES’
Lankum – ‘The Wild Rover’
Dropkick Murphys – ‘Dropped on My Head’
Giorgio Consolini – ‘Serenata e’ Piscatore’
The Romantics – ‘What I Like About You’
The Cranberries – ‘In the End’
Kneecap – ‘H.O.O.D’
Grian Chatten – ‘Fairlies’
Steve Starlust – ‘Just For One Night’
Ray Dean and Les Vegas – ‘Dr. Funk’
Rita Pavone – ‘Come Te Non C’È Nessuno’
E.R.I.C. – ‘Waiting’
A Lazarus Soul – ‘Funeral Sessions’
EPISODE 2: ‘THE HOUDINI’
Dropkick Murphys – ‘Dropped on My Head’
Dizzy Gillespie – ‘Bang Bang’
The Boys – ‘Tenement Kids’
Frank Fafara – ‘One Kiss to Remember’
Iggy Pop – ‘The Passenger’
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – ‘Roadrunner’
Firkin – ‘Hold My Beer’
The Stunning – ‘Brewing Up a Storm’
EPISODE 3: ‘THE STARSHIP’
Prairie Dog – ‘Silverwing’
A la Carte – ‘Ring Me Honey’
The Three Degrees – ‘The Runner’
The Flashcubes – ‘Student Rape’
Fontaines D.C. – ‘Boys in the Better Land’
The Models – ‘Radiation Head’
The Mary Wallopers – ‘Madam I’m a Darlin’’
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