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Hear New Pugwash Music, “I Don’t Like It But I Gotta Do It”

Hear New Pugwash Music, “I Don’t Like It But I Gotta Do It”

Dw. Dunphy August 31, 2011 2

From their latest, The Olympus Sound, comes this new track from Irish pure-popsters Pugwash

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CD Review: The Divine Comedy, “Bang Goes The Knighthood”

Dw. Dunphy October 13, 2010 2

Maturity tends to be the dirtiest word in pop music. Fans of good pop seldom equate it with being “redolent with the heady fragrances of adulthood,” but more likely, “old fart music for old

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The Friday Mixtape: 8/14/09

Dw. Dunphy August 14, 2009 5

Read that headline and weep, folks. In just two more weeks, the summer of ’09 will be finito. Yeah, I know technically summer has a few more weeks of life but, who are we

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CD Review: The Duckworth Lewis Method, “The Duckworth Lewis Method”

Dw. Dunphy August 13, 2009 6

Two of pop’s most studious classicists, Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy) and Thomas Walsh (Pugwash), converge on what could only be considered a monumental summit for UK pop fans, bestowing on the listening public

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Mope Like Me: Divine Comedy, “The Certainty of Chance”

David Medsker November 5, 2008 4

“A butterfly flies through the forest rain And turns the wind into a hurricane…” I was playing this song at work once, and a coworker of mine walked up and said, “Is this the

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