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Dw. Dunphy On… The End of the Album

Dw. Dunphy May 8, 2008 14

Okay, this is how I think it’s going to go down: before the end of the year, a major player in the music industry will announce that it’ll no longer sign bands to make

Dw. Dunphy On… Cover Songs — Why and Why Not

Dw. Dunphy April 10, 2008 10

Some people are just flat-out smart-asses. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to be at times, mind you, but a good smart-ass pulls it off with a modicum of grace and might give you

Hooks ‘N’ You: Nick Heyward, “Tangled”

Will Harris April 7, 2008 18

I liked Nick Heyward before I ever knew I liked Nick Heyward. In the hazy, lazy days known as the early ’80s, I was just as enthralled by MTV as everyone else, but I

Hey, You Kids Get Out of My Yard!: Holdin’ Out for a Hero

Darren Robbins March 27, 2008 13

When I was a kid, my heroes were, at the very least, deserving of adoration. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cheap Trick, Dan Pastorini (the one non-musician of the bunch) — the one thing they

Dw. Dunphy On… The Smithereens

Dw. Dunphy March 23, 2008 10

I like the power pop. When done right, it can be a deceptively potent thing, like the best of Cheap Trick, or Jellyfish’s Spilt Milk. When it’s done wrong, there’s nothing worthwhile to be

Basement Songs: The Beatles, “Here Comes the Sun”

Scott Malchus March 6, 2008 15

The call came in the middle of the workday, sometime after lunch. Julie was fighting back tears as she drove home from Jacob’s pediatrician’s office. What we had feared was confirmed: Jacob’s failure to