Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Sometime around 2016, Kevin Rowland, the driving force behind the ...
To most of the world, Dexys Midnight Runners are the definition of a one-hit wonder. In reality, however, they achieved significantly more success in their homeland. The British band is best known for ...
After topping the charts in the 80s, Dexys Midnight Runners enjoyed years of success before they disbanded and reformed years later. Here is what its former members are up to now ...
Dexys Midnight Runners has announced a new album titled LOVE, which marks the group’s first release under the Dexys Midnight Runners name since 1985’s Don’t Stand Me Down. Frontman Kevin Rowland ...
More than 40 years since the release of Dexys’ 1980 debut, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, and breakthrough, Too-Rye-Ay, in 1982, which featured the band’s No. 1 hit “Come on Eileen,” Rowland ...
The English pop rock band, Dexys Midnight Runner announced a new North American tour for the first time in 40 years. The newly announced tour is scheduled to take place from October 26, 2023, to ...
Last year, Ted Leo played a St. Patrick’s Day show at Brooklyn’s Bell House where he led a Dexys Midnight Runners tribute act called Too-Rye-Ay. While the that show was certainly fun, Dexys are not a ...
Dexys, Kevin Rowland’s current incarnation of Dexys Midnight Runners, were set to embark on their first North American tour in 40 years later this month, but it has now been canceled. The band write: ...
Four decades ago, soulful British post-punks Dexys Midnight Runners, now simply known as Dexys, became unlikely pop superstars when their skiffle-inflected banjo jam "Come On Eileen" went to No. 1 in ...
If you buy only one standards album this year, this is the one. And if you’ve only bought one or two Dexys records, please go buy one more. Dexy’s Midnight Runners. As Americans, we are used to sitcom ...
Dexys Midnight Runners are set to release their first album in 27 years. ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar’ will be out on June 4 and makes for their first release since 1985’s ‘Don’t Stand Me Down’. The ...
Dexys Midnight Runners broke up before Kevin Rowland could realise his vision of an album of traditional Irish songs, but the added “country soul” tag means it now stretches as far as Joni Mitchell’s ...