IT'S OK -- Big Stir Digital Single -- August 23, 2019

On August 23rd 2019, Dolph is proud to present the IT'S OK single, as a summertime pre-taste of the REBUILDING PERMIT album to follow in the fall.  Making this…

1. Juliana Hatfield, PUSSYCAT
- In 2017, where an up-to-the-minute protest album was needed more than ever, how many of us guessed it would come from Juliana Hatfield? Coming out when it did, directly between the Women's March and #metoo…

Well, folks -- though I didn't put out new music myself in 2015, and though my weekly blog RELEASED THIS DAY went to sleep 3 years ago, I still did a pretty fair amount of listening to new stuff, and…

Another in the holiday calendar series, this is of and for Kerry my sweetest. Not so afraid of love songs after all, I guess.

Sweetest Day

On one 3rd Saturday of October
the candy came to those with none
A…

In those dark pre-Christina-Hendricks-on-MAD-MEN days of 2006, I spat this song out of frustration with a culture that seemed to be literally starving out a generation of the young and talented. But... a straight guy ranting about female body image…

The 32nd piece I worked on with my digital 16-track is an instrumental using the Moog MG-1 into the Boss GT-3 "riff" setting, while also recording a raging thunderstorm through the window.  "32" is also the title because of a…

This song came quickly and in a single piece, as if straight from the hangover of Athena.  For those of you that don't like puns, here are some puns... with booze!  

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Water From a Bourbon Glass

Over, hung over…

"Break" is another in a long line of cases where a lyric gimmick tricks me into revealing my state of mind.  I'm grateful that I'm still this subconsciously gullible after 23 years of writing songs -- many of my favorites…

This song started when I realized I'd never written a song that prominently featured me singing "ooooooo." So I decided I would, and what would be good to rhyme with "ooooo"? "Papathanassiou," the surname of Aphrodite's Child keyboardist, Jon Anderson…

Drum solo!!!  Err, not really, just a beat that I never ended up using for anything else, repurposed as a transition to "side 2" of the album.  In my dreams, this will end up sampled and tweezed by some famous…

I've been writing songs about various holidays for many years -- some day it's likely that my Greatest Hits album will be a calendar...

This is the first song I've ever written starting from a Facebook status update.  "Dolph…

Here's me trying to laugh through my anxiety attacks.  Most of my immediate family has dealt with anxiety disorders; I've fought them since I was 13.  At the most anxious periods in my life, I have experienced hallucinations, many involving…