Isley Reust is a force of nature. While most everyone in Hollywood is a multi-hyphenate of some kind (writer/producer/model) with an off-resume day job, Isley is making waves on several…
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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My Popdose op-ed on how to build a better record store day turned into a bit of a lightning rod when Salon picked it up and added an incendiary new…
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People have been griping about eBay since the beginning, but there are many more reasons why we should save our independent record stores by abolishing Record Store Day. As a kid, I…
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On Record Store Day, do you really want to stand in line for hours at the crack of dawn to get your mitts on a bunch of half baked rarities before…
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Spring is here and some of the big releases come in even bigger “deluxe editions”. So, if you pony up the dough, is it worth the extra show? POPDOSE places…
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In honor of Net Neutrality, there is just about something for everyone in this week’s round-up of hot new tracks: MUSE “¢ Dead Inside After getting their Queens of the…
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ZTT Records, the influential record label founded by Paul Morley (NME Journalist), Trevor Horn (mega producer) and Jill Sinclair (the business end), has been prolifically releasing and reissuing the limitless…
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This week, two exciting funk workouts have been blowing up my speakers. The first, a surprise track leak by Prince & 3rdeyegirl called ‘What If…‘; the second, ‘We’ll Be Free’…
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The first three Blancmange albums came in quick succession between 1982 and 1985. The next three as well, save for the quarter century in between. 2011’s stellar Blanc Burn was…
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If you’re a softer Soft Cell fan like me, it’s been hard to keep up with Marc Almond all these years. If you’re more ambitious, it’s been quite the ride…
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Lee DeWyze isn’t the first person to hear the soon-to-be-disproven words, “your life is about to change forever” on a reality TV show, nor will he be the last. It…
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fun., Imagine Dragons and Foster the People are HUGE bands band with members that you can’t name and frontmen you couldn’t pick out of a police lineup. None of em make…
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After a lot of prayers, God has finally built a better Bieber. More talent. Less antics to serve as TMZ fodder. Leroy Sanchez hails from Spain and is winding his…
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Meiko hails from the City of Angels, and like many of my favorite artists, she made a name for herself on the tiny stage at Hollywood’s thriving singer/songwriter mecca, Hotel CafÁ©. While she has…
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As purveyors or breathtakingly gorgeous, cinematic pop, Cleveland’s The Modern Electric are one of the most exciting bands on the modern rock landscape. Fans of the Killers who are wondering…
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Everyone thought it was crazy for the drummer of Nirvana to go solo as an axe-wielding frontman and look how that turned out for him. Now that Foo Fighters are…
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Most year-end “Best of” lists are about wrapping up the year in a tidy bow and moving on, this list celebrates amazing albums that deserve new fans, continued spins and deeper listening…
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2014 has been an amazing year for new music, and my very last purchase of the year will hopefully arrive this Friday — that said, we could still use a little help from…
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There’s no shortage of scrape the vaults, lost demos saturated, resist the urge overkill, 10-pound, 20-disc, collector’s edition reissues designed to take the hardcore fan by the ankles to shake…
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LA’s Guardian Ghost blazes across the night sky casting off a comet tail of influences ranging from Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay, Hooray For Earth, Editors and the Chameleons; shimmering…
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Taking a break from listening to a stack of essential fall releases and reissues by the likes of Rancid, Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, Suzi Quatro (read Popdose’s brand-new interview here), Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes…
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Vinyl is mainstream again. Hipsters are into cassettes. Heaven knows some asshole out there is trying to make 8-tracks happen again. Another dinosaur of the 80’s has recently roared back…
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Kate Voegele is one of those artists that indie rock hipsters and Taylor Swift fans can proudly call their own. Her roots, like mine, are in Cleveland, Ohio yet while all…
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This past week I was messaging back and forth with one of our avid readers, Benjamin, about the dearth of good power pop bands in my 2014 Popdose posts — when alls a…
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Interpol and the Faint both staged massive artistic and commercial comebacks in 2014, so what better time for Long Beach, California’s Repeater to finally break on through to the other…
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I spent a good 22 years in the Cleveland/Akron area before motoring West. The area might be the butt of a lot of jokes, including this one and that one, but…
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I own a bajillion records on every format known to man, and the #1 record of them all, bar none, is a left-field, one-off smash called A secret wish by Propaganda….
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One of the best things about being a feverish fan of British music while living in the States is getting to see massively popular UK arena acts play intimate club…
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OK, I’ll admit it — I’ve been sitting around my house like South Park’s Eric Cartman waiting for the new Charli XCX album, Sucker, to come out in October… “come…
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Popdose last caught up with David Schelzel of The Ocean Blue in March of 2013 (read it here) as the band was about to release, Ultramarine, their first album of…