Friends, robots, Kardashians, lend me your ears. Remember the days when you didn’t rely on a streaming algorithm to turn you onto new music? That’s right, back when your parents,…
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.
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One of my fondest memories from the fall of 2016, before the autumn of life as we knew it, was writing up the first POPDOSE profile of Hailey Knox. Back then,…
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There are only two types of music fans in this world, those who believe Propaganda’s audacious German synth pop opus, A Secret Wish, from 1985 is one of the greatest…
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This week, pop star Rita Ora issued an apology for living her truth. That’s right, she’s not apologizing for using slurs, defaming or sexually assaulting someone, she apologized for having…
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Popdose first met rock journalist and power pop musician Ken Sharp through the supernova that is Omnivore recording artist, Cait Brennan, and her producer Fernando Perdomo. All three of their…
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Music consumption seems to be diverging into two directions. To the right we have streaming, where complex algorithms turn you onto new bands, but also move you so quickly from…
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In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett promised the Concrete and Gold world tour would be unpredictable, and they certainly delivered in Austin, Texas when…
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A few years ago, while promoting Sonic Highways, Dave Grohl told the Television Critics Association, “I don’t want my kid to think that the only way you can be a…
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A week after the latest government shutdown, the fates of Dreamers, the 800,000 people currently in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), have been reduced to a single…
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It would take a stadium-sized record store to inventory at least one copy of every album and single produced in a given year (at at least three Amoeba Records…
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We’re not gonna lie to you, what you’re about to see might terrify your brain space or arouse your nether regions. Whereas bands of other stripes have all but given…
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There are some comebacks the world doesn’t need: Sean Spicer, Bill Cosby, another Spiderman reboot — and plenty that are long overdue: til Tuesday, Lone Justice, Heathers (imagine Veronica & friends…
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In the age of streaming, does anyone still care about someone else’s top albums list when every album in the known universe is at your fingertips 24/7 (if you have…
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This Los Angeles singer/songwriter releases albums at a pace that makes both Axl Rose and Kate Bush seem prolific. Wow and Flutter, Spicer’s first studio release since her sophomore album,…
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Record Store Day 2017 has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t treasure to be found online and at your local record store. I’ve never been one…
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What is the Minneapolis sound? For some, its Prince & The Revolution, The Time, Jessie Johnson’s Revue and Andre Cymone. For others, its The Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum and…
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With the May 5th release of his jaw-droppingly stellar album, Wild Empty Promises, Holden Laurence joins an elite group of artists on my CD wall, including Dave Grohl, Chris Mars,…
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On Friday, April 21, 2017, power pop rock goddess Cait Brennan releases Third, her second album and first on Omnivore Recordings. It’s only been a year since her 20 year-in-the-making,…
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The saying, ”if we reached just one person, then it was all worthwhile” usually applies to indie films nobody has seen or cancelled-too-soon cult TV shows, but it also applies…
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The Wild Now, the duo of Taylor Baker and Drew Walker, gives Popdose the honor of debuting the second single and title track of their upcoming EP, Afterglow. The EP (out in May)…
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When you find out your professor also has a band, curiosity will eventually compel you to sit through a set of Beatles covers at the campus Ratskeller. But professor John…
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I’ve been listening to tracks from Anna Rose’s EP, Strays in the Cut, for a while now, so we were honored to premiere the lyric video for one of the EP’s…
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Good concert films can either define an era (Woodstock, The Last Waltz) or an artist (Frampton Comes Alive, Cheap Trick at Budokan, Stop Making Sense). And then there are the…
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As news broke that Trump was rescinding Department of Justice guidelines to protect transgender students, I was immediately swept back in time, to the 1970’s and 80’s, when I was…
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While playing the nostalgia concert circuit — state fairs, package tours and casinos — seems like a depressing way for members of a once iconic band to ride out the…
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To balance the terror of living in the tiny clutches of a flaming Orange Cheat-o, 2017 is already Making Music Great Again by serving up bushelfuls of spellbinding new records you will surely want…
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The 2010’s have seen a festival’s worth of typically-pegged Eighties acts come back swinging with some of the best albums of their careers. In addition to crackling new discs by Animotion (already…
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The year is young, and even though Emperor Cheat-o just took office, the Women’s March around the world gave us plenty of hope to cling to. Besides relentless advocacy, another way to…
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On Saturday, people around the world united, in record numbers, to peacefully and powerfully advocate for women’s rights. Equal rights. Not once did any handmade sign, T-shirt or speaker demand that we…
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Chiffon. Taffeta. Tulle. Satin. Silk. Velvet. Lace. These are the seven deadly fashion sins of cis gendered men. One exception, Hugh Hefner and those fabulous silk jammies. Ed Hardy t-shirts…