In the era of Spotify, Noisetrade and YouTube, there are thousands of emerging bands and artists competing for your attention. Perhaps too many. Just because anyone with an iPad can…
Keith Creighton
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Keith is a music correspondent for Popdose and an advocate on women's empowerment, gender identity, and gender liberation issues. He is a monthly new-music contributor to the Planet LP Podcast and is a marketing writer by day for Sudden Monkey.
I could tell my holidays were on the highway to hell when thanks to Jason and Jeff’s annual Mellowmas cavalcade of saccharine Xmas ear candy, I wound up not only…
Network TV used to sell summer reruns with the zingy catchphrase, “If you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you.” Swap in the word “heard” and a short stack of…
More than 70,000 albums likely hit the market this year — along with just as many year-end “Best Of” lists. While word “best” is subjective at best, here are the…
As a budding music blogger (is it too pretentious to call myself a journalist?) I would love to become the industry’s go-to guy for fancy pants premieres and coveted exclusives. But once…
The year 2000 was a much simpler time. The only creature on earth who Tweeted was the Rockin’ Robin (and not the Thicke kind). Digital music storage devices were those…
Take a bow Kenny Powers, you have earned it yet baby. On Sunday night, the HBO series Eastbound & Down takes a final bow for the second time after a…
Tis almost the season for giving, so before you trek out to the malls to take care of your loved ones, why not give yourself a little treat? Now this…
SPOILER FREE POST: While the Badfinger song that ushered us into the end credits will get a whole lotta buzz today, I can’t stop thinking about the song that ushered…
Not one to rest on her laurels — writing and guesting on Icona Pop’s global smash, ‘I Love It”, and crafting the best album I’ve heard this year, True Romance…
In terms of bold, visionary, boundary-pushing pop music, 2013 pretty much belongs to the ladies. While the new albums by Lorde, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry are getting the big…
Ready for an excellent adventure? Fire up the Delorean, pad your shoulders, grab a turbo dog and bag of corn nuts, we’re about to bend the polyester fabric of space…
Holy Bucky Done Gun, has it really been 8 years since Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A. first burst onto the scene with her Arular eargasm? For me, it was love at first sight. So much…
While most of America is still shell shocked by Miley Cyrus’s tongue, people with actual taste have been busy rocking out to Orianthi’s blistering third album, Heaven in this Hell….
Now that Metallica and Guns & Roses are fine upstanding members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, it’s high time to induct the party brigade. While dozens of…
Many great Hollywood Westerns were shot in the San Fernando Valley, so it almost seems fitting that an Americana/Texas/Country Rock tour de force like Brady Harris is actually encamped in…
On Monday, the pop culture universe let out a collective “meh” when Lady Gaga and Katy Perry rushed their latest singles to radio after dastardly hackers leaked them to the…
A decade after Justin Timberlake brought the SexyBack, a new Southern California band, De Verre, takes the SexyHigher with their captivating debut single, ‘Mad’. Now if there’s one thing I…
Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of punk powerhouse Against Me!, may be a woman in transition — taking the brave and inspiring journey from male to female — but…
This summer, I’ve been so into the new Charli XCX album, True Romance, that I’ve all but given up listening to anything else. It’s the perfect forward-thinking retro 80’s goth…
Let’s begin with full disclosure, POPDOSE loves Caro Emerald. I discovered the Dutch salsa, jazz, mambo pop supernova while driving through Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2011 and interviewed her a year…
Popdose doesn’t believe in a “one post stand”, so this week we’re drunk dialing some of the loveliest ladies we’ve ever featured in our “Download Now” and “The Popdose Interview”…
No offense to the fellas and your multi-platinum rock bands, chart-topping hip hop and country albums and ill-advised racist anti-racist collaborations; but when it comes to innovation, envelope pushing and…
As part of an ongoing series, POPDOSE explores the positive portrayal of women in pop culture. Last year, we discussed how British teen pop star Cher Lloyd was strangely repackaged…
Not too long after Orianthi sat down with Popdose to discuss her new album Heaven in This Hell (read our complete interview here), she plugged in with KCRW’s Nic Harcourt…
Could this be the music geek equivalency of The Big Bang Theory? Last week, the breathtakingly beautiful (but smart as a whip, so there goes that analogy) Gabriella Cilmi befriended POPDOSE during…
What would you say to one of your favorite musicians if you were given the chance to hang out for a while? For me, this would be Aussie singing sensation…
Crystal Bowersox was compared to Janis Joplin the moment she first stepped onto the national stage, and yet, she was still a bit ahead of her time. While her rich,…
[youtube id=”ym0WL-9cSGg” width=”600″ height=”350″] As Jermaine Stewart once so eloquently sang, “We don’t have to take our clothes off to have a good time.” Now, some 27 years later, Brittany…
Amaluna, the latest gem from Cirque de Soleil’s seemingly bottomless treasure chest, is about to bid farewell to Seattle and trek across North America. This dazzling, spellbinding and breathtaking show…