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’…
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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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…
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You know the story… boy meets record label, record label sees handsome face and dreamy eyes and can smell the sweat dripping from millions of teenage girls, boy can actually…
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I just poured through the Fall Movie and TV previews and beyond Key and Peele, there’s not much to get excited about. Music on the other hand? Based on the…
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Charli XCX is taking forever and a day to release her second LP. Lady Gaga is moving on from her Artflop with a promising jazz duets album with Tony Bennett….
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Richard Patrick, and I have so much in common. We’re both from Cleveland. I was friends with Chris Vrenna, the original drummer for Nine Inch Nails. Patrick was in Nine…
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Hear that quiet summer breeze? Enjoy it while you can. A typhoon of big hooks, good looks and screaming tweenage girls is about to hit these shores, direct from the…
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If the ongoing misadventures of Justin Bieber have you believing that children are indeed NOT the future — and by children, I mean anyone under 30 — and by future, I mean…
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Summer is officially here, so things are about to get hot. This past week, two spicy songs with azure nomenclature landed in my inbox. Which one best gets your knickers in…