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All posts tagged "pet shop boys"

  • World AIDS Day 2013 via music

    The power of music is its universal ability to express feelings and emotions in a way that touches us all on any possible subject imaginable....

  • Pet Shop Boys debut new video for “Thursday”

    Pet Shop Boys are back with a new video for the song “Thursday” from their latest album “Electric.” Filmed in Shanghai, it features some of...

  • Pet Shop Boys set to electrify the Strathmore tonight

    Veteran British duo Pet Shop Boys will electrify the Strathmore in Bethesda tonight as they continue their North American tour in support of thier latest album,...

  • Pet Shop Boys Electrify on New Dance Album

    Veteran pop duo Pet Shop Boys are back with their 12th studio album, the aptly titled “Electric.”   The set hits on July 16 in the...

  • Boy George turns 52 today: Some of his best moments

    Former Culture Club singer, solo artist and icon Boy George turns 52 today.  So what better way to mark the occasion than take a look...

  • Pet Shop Boys launch new single, “Vocal”

    Only a few weeks after releasing the high-energy mostly-instrumental “Axis”, the first single from the Pet Shop Boys’ eagerly awaited new album “Electric”, the legendary...

  • Capital Pride Week: 10 Essential Tracks

    It’s Capital Pride week in D.C. once again. A time for reflection on the accomplishments of the past year, to celebrate who we are, revel...

  • 80s pop from the gay U.K.

    On BBC2 Radio‘s Wednesday night broadcast of The People’s Songs, an hour-long episode will be dedicated to the historical influence of gays in British pop music....

  • The Best and Worst Music of 2012

    {Scissor Sisters (Photo by Neil Krug)} The year 2012 goes down as a sad one, the year we lost both Donna Summer and Whitney Houston....

  • Heaven's End

    Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are ready for The Love Boat. As the Pet Shop Boys, the two have even written a song for the...

  • Boy Talk

    ''West End Girls.'' ''It's A Sin.'' ''Always On My Mind.'' ''Go West.'' ''New York City Boy.''Quickly approaching 30 years of musical partnership, Neil Tennant and...

  • Being Boring

    Neil Tennant wants to rekindle the romance. ''I'd survive with only memories, if I could change the way I feel,'' the Pet Shop Boys frontman...

  • Scatter Pop

    It is the best of albums, it is the worst of albums. With apologies to Charles Dickens, never before has there been a more polarizing...

  • Soundwaves

    ERASURE GOES COUNTRY... Erasure lead singer Andy Bell released his debut solo album Electric Blue last summer, and the first single is just now near...