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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few pop songs evoke such an overwhelming, immediate rush of pure joy more than Dexys Midnight Runners’ No. 1 hit “Come On Eileen.” In the world of 1982 pop radio, there was simply nothing like it – ...

Dexys – formerly known as Dexys Midnight Runners – have announced their first new album of original music in over a decade, and shared the lead single ‘I’m Going To Get Free’. Check it out below. Only ...

Dexys, the current incarnation of Dexys Midnight Runners led by founder Kevin Rowland, have announced Feminine Divine, their first album seven years. It will be out July 28 via 100% Records and was ...

Dexys have released a video for their cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now". The track is taken from the band's forthcoming album, Let The Record Show Dexys Do ...

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 ...

Dexys Midnight Runners – or Dexys, as the band now prefer to be known – have started work on their new album, which is expected to be released in 2012. Singer Kevin Rowland, who is due to play a rare ...

The band formerly known as the Midnight Runners hopes to move beyond one-hit wonder status in the U.S. with "One Day I'm Going to Soar." By Jonathan Bernstein Dexys One Day I'm Going to Soar Album - P ...

The covers that comprise Dexys’ fifth album are rather more inspired than its none-more-descriptive title suggests, from Irish folk standards such as Carrickfergus and The Curragh of Kildare through ...