The most frustrating aspect of reviewing music is the point where you appreciate something but aren’t entirely enthused about it. You’ve heard something enjoyable, but once it is over, you…
Dw. Dunphy
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Dw. Dunphy is a writer, artist, and musician. For Popdose he has contributed many articles that can be found in the site's archives. He also writes for New Jersey Stage, Musictap.net, Ultimate Classic Rock, and Diffuser FM. His music can be found at http://dwdunphy.bandcamp.com/.
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It would be wildly inaccurate to say Keith Richards’ solo work (and that with backing band, the X-Pensive Winos) was light years ahead of the Rolling Stones stuff from roughly…
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If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s still a Crib left to plunder,…
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There’s an awful lot that Popdose’s Dw. Dunphy doesn’t get. Here’s something else.
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It bothers me that Bryan Ferry’s new album Olympia slips into the “what might have been” category so easily. For what it is, being a release primarily comprised of Ferry’s…
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Dear readers, I’ve never consciously steered you wrong before and I don’t intend to start now, so we’ll make the declaration right up front that I am being compensated for…
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The second (and seemingly final) Traveling Wilburys album turns 20 this week — and for Dw. Dunphy, the disappointment still stings a little.
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This is an archival interview which took place in October 2010.
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If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s a solitary teen mom left…
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From time to time, it is interesting to look back on albums often regarded as classic, if just to divine what is so classic about them. Some albums have had…
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If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while the dreaded Snooki-beast is running around, trying…
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The Popdose staff curates this mix to be a companion through the headlong rush to the winter solstice.
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Alas, poor Buckley. We knew you not. And here are some more cartoon characters that took the big dirt-nap.
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Although I considered Carptree’s previous album Insekt (2008) to be one of that year’s best, even I had to admit it was a pretty dark series of songs. The combination…
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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…
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Things have been problematic for the post-Neal Morse era of Spock’s Beard. They’ve produced some good songs during this time, but never a full album that gelled completely. The closest…
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In conjunction with our mini-series 50CCM50 (check out the first installment here), Popdose is giving away a unique prize to a lucky reader, but be warned – it is not…
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There was an exciting, albeit brief, period in the early 1990s where bands of limited resources but unlimited ambition managed to not only get their records out to the public,…
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This is an archival interview which took place in October 2010.
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There is very little difference between breakup bravado and a midlife crisis. Both make people do drastic things, buy pink Corvettes, show off in front of potential suitors and, sometimes,…
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In celebration of what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, Capitol Records has released a remastered set of his solo work, arriving in digi-envelopes to mirror last year’s Beatles…
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This review is late. Eight years late, to be exact but I do have an excuse. The only way I could have gotten it in on time would be to…
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Several critics were head-over-heels for Christ O, the 2006 release from German prog-metallers Vanden Plas, but it left little to no impression on me. Scratch that: it did leave me…
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The comedy group The State recorded two very funny albums once, but never got around to releasing them – At least it seems that way. In reality, it was only…
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Contemporary Christian music that’s worth the time of the average music fan? Popdose investigates, and includes interviews with Phil Keaggy, Glenn Kaiser from Resurrection Band, Ric Alba from the Altar Boys and Beki Hemingway from This Train.
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Ever wondered about the people behind those TV ad characters? Popdose says, wonder no more.
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I’ve been a supporter of the group The Choir for a long time. In fact, one of my first contributions to Popdose was an appreciation of the band. They’ve collectively…
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Let me bring you down for a moment. Remember that song “Silent Lucidity” you heard that night when you and (insert name here) went all the way? If you wound…
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I know two things you’re thinking right now. The first is, how awful that such a wonderful actor as Kevin McCarthy has been lost to us. The second is, really?…
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It is a muggy, overcast summer day, the kind of unsettled New Jersey weather that precludes long distance trips. Once, these were the kinds of days local shop owners dreamed…