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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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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Keith Creighton
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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…
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Keith Creighton
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Year end album round-ups are no longer a consensus of the nation’s listening experience. We live in a hyper fragmented world — a total niche fest. I’ve read about 50…
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Keith Creighton
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It’s been two years since Vancouver singer/songwriter Nat Jay landed high on the Popdose year-end album charts with her sterling full-length album All I Think When I Wake Up. This month,…
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Keith Creighton
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Angels Bend Closer, billed as Jane Siberry’s first official album in five years, is actually her first one in close to 20 that I’ve fallen in love with. Alas, ours…
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Keith Creighton
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Who’d a thought that 48 years after the release of ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, 2016 would become Iggy Pop’s biggest year yet. That year is about to get a…
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Keith Creighton
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In this new series, Injustice League, Popdose looks at some long-standing wrongs in the world of rock and roll that will thankfully not live on for another year. Mike Watt…
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Keith Creighton
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When we last checked in with Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons, the Columbus, Ohio rockers were just about to drop their new album, Homemade Vision. The romantic, rootsy, rocking,…
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Keith Creighton
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I was working on this post, a celebration of the best new songs in the Fall of 2016, long before the latest Trump tape surfaced; but I’ll tell you, playing…
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Keith Creighton
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When she was 17, it was a very good year. That is, if you’re Hailey Knox in 2016. The singer/songwriter from Carmel, NY has already been featured in the New…
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Keith Creighton
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In a perfect world, Duckie would have won Andie’s heart in Pretty in Pink; Xander would have wound up with Buffy, or at least Cordelia; and, well if you haven’t yet…
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Keith Creighton
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Before we review a bunch of stellar new records, let’s have a quick recap of the year: fireworks, hangover, Bowie dies. Frey dies. Prince dies. Vanity, George Martin, Merle, Prince…
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Keith Creighton
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A few weeks ago, Allison Iraheta and fellow Idol alum Haley Reinhart totally smoked out the Popdose servers when we spotlighted their triumphant new albums (read it here). When the…
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Keith Creighton
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Earlier this year, Eliot Sumner quietly released Information, one of the loudest, most ambitious, most exhilarating and inventive rock/pop albums of the decade, let alone the year. And I had…
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Keith Creighton
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Dear American Idol, Since you’ve been gone, I’ve been thinking about your legacy. Your original premise was to take an unknown talent and usher them into superstardom. Mission accomplished in…
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Keith Creighton
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One of my favorite musical trends of the 2010’s is the glorious “return to form” comebacks from a dizzying array of great ’80s artists. As gutted as I am about the…
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Keith Creighton
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Long before Prince’s death, fans were wildly discussing if and when the vast contents of his audio library — the legendary vault — would be officially released. While former…
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Keith Creighton
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For my final Popdose post until Fall, I am going out with a bang — or better yet, a shake, rattle and roll. Cancer sucks. I am shifting my focus…
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Brian Boone
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A new series in which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely…
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Brian Boone
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Hole founder, rumored songwriter behind Live Through This, and all around difficult human being Courtney Love once remarked that, ”you’re nobody in rock unless you’ve fought me and fucked Winona…
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Brian Boone
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Here’s the deal, fathers. If you have daughters—or sons who don’t care about outmoded gender roles (and if so, good on you, man)—there is a 90 percent chance that at some point during your day, you’re going to have to watch something with unicorns in it. The key is to find a unicorn-based entertainment which
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Brian Boone
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Of all of the at least pretty good, moderately successful alt rock bands of the mid-90s, the one that everybody in my high school loved was the Toadies. The Dallas…
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