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The MGM+ drama series The Westies, co-created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes, will feature  Dropkick Murphys’ song "Dropped on My Head," which appeared on their October 2025 album, For the People, as the main title theme of the series. Dropkick Murphys released a new music video inspired by The Westies featuring the song ahead of the show’s July 12th premiere date.

Dropkick Murphys’ manager Jeff Castelaz explained, “When the show reached out about us doing the theme song, we actually had an existing song from our latest album where the lyrics perfectly described the environment, the characters, and the story arc of The Westies. When Chris Brancato heard 'Dropped on My Head,' he had an immediate reaction, and the deal was done. This happens once in a lifetime in our business… In the case of Dropkick Murphys, it’s the second time: this also happened with Martin Scorsese putting 'I’m Shipping Up To Boston' in The Departed 20 years ago."

Ken Casey, Dropkick Murphys’ vocalist and founder adds, “Rowdy violent music for a rowdy violent show. Seems like a perfect match.”

The Westies is a gritty and kinetic crime drama centering on New York City’s infamously violent Irish gang of the same name. The series is set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the Westies’ home turf in Hell’s Kitchen promises a financial windfall. Despite being outnumbered fifty-to-one by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente. But internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia. The ensemble cast includes J.K. Simmons, Titus Welliver, Tom Brittney, Stanley Morgan, Sarah Bolger, Jessica Frances Dukes, Hamish Allan-Headley, Vincent Walsh, Allen Leech, Hillary McCormack.