Via Rolling Stone: Madonna hadn’t planned on releasing her 13th album, Rebel Heart, until spring 2015. But leakers had other plans for the Queen of Pop’s follow-up to 2012’s MDNA, unleashing early mixes of 13 tracks onto the Internet this week. In response, Madonna has put six official versions of the songs up for sale on iTunes and other digital …
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Pop Danthology 2014
1.3M views on the first day.
Read More »Madonna – Rebel Heart
Via Billboard: A snippet of a new Madonna song, rumored to be titled “Rebel Heart,” leaked to the Internet on Thursday (Nov. 27). Madonna’s publicist had no comment about the leak, but the diva’s manager, Guy Oseary, tweeted: “I would be grateful to any Madonna fans that can assist us in finding those responsible for the leak. We appreciate your …
Read More »Erasure – Reason
This is the second single from The Violet Flame, which is now available. Their current tour concludes in Manhattan on December 30th and 31st at Terminal 5. Erasure first entered the US charts 29 years ago with Who Needs Love Like That, which peaked at #8. The first single from the new album, Elevation, peaked last month at #3.
Read More »Beyonce – 7/11
A big change from her usual lavishly produced clips.
Read More »Deborah Cox – Everywhere
Above is the edit of Deborah Cox’s new single Everywhere, followed by the Tom Stephan remix, which makes its premier on JMG today. Cox has scored twelve #1 singles on Billboard‘s dance chart and has recorded the vocals for an upcoming Whitney Houston biopic as the producers were unable to get the rights to Houston’s actual tracks.
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Ballet House: Hercules & Love Affair’s
New Clip For Do You Feel The Same?
Back April, Hercules & Love Affair teamed up with gay singer/songwriter John Grant, whose 2013 hit Pale Green Ghosts topped my year-end list of favorites, for a song about coming out as HIV-positive. That video featured smoking hot dancers, as does this one. Via press release: The inspiration for the video came from Hercules & Love Affair’s founder Andy Butler …
Read More »Giorgio Moroder – 74 Is The New 24
Three-time Academy Award winner and disco legend Giorgio Moroder, 74, today released the first single from his first studio album in 30 years. Via Billboard: Moroder’s long-awaited forthcoming album will feature collaborations with Britney Spears, Sia, Charli XCX, Kylie Minogue, Mikky Ekko, Foxes, Matthew Koma and others. He has signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music International for the release …
Read More »Jimmy Somerville – Travesty (Fan Video)
A Jimmy Somerville fan has compiled the below video to accompany his latest release. As a challenge to hardcore disco heads, let’s see who can name all of the artists that appear. Some of them are extremely well-known, but there are a few fairly obscure acts too. I think I count 21 in total. RELATED: The single and 12″ are …
Read More »JMG Interview With Jimmy Somerville Plus Worldwide Debut Of Travesty Re-Edit
I recently had the privilege of speaking with groundbreaking dance artist Jimmy Somerville about his new album and his history as one of the loudest and proudest gay artists. JMG: Hi, Jimmy! Let’s start with today and work backwards. Tell us about your coming album, Homage, and its first single, Travesty, which made its worldwide debut on my site last …
Read More »Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne – Real Love
Retro early 90s dance/pop.
Read More »Bright Light Bright Light – Arms Of Another
Scruffy Welsh cutie Rod Thomas, aka Bright Light Bright Light, is currently opening on Elton John’s European concert tour, which comes to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on New Year’s Eve.
Read More »TRAILER: 808
The machine that moved your feet. More than 30 years ago, Afrika Bambaataa’s Arthur Baker-produced “Planet Rock” changed the music industry forever, thanks in part to its use of the revolutionary 808 drum machine. The 808 created a beat no one had ever experienced before, and eventually gave birth to genres such as EDM, synthpop, dubstep, and countless others. Now, …
Read More »COMING: Donna Summer 9-CD Box Set
Coming in December is Donna: The CD Collection, a nine-disc remastered retrospective of Donna Summer’s lesser-known catalog from the years after the late 70s peak of her disco fame. Included are The Wanderer, the eponymous Donna Summer, Cats Without Claws, I’m A Rainbow, All Systems Go, Mistaken Identity, and Another Place And Time – the Stock/Aitken/Waterman-produced smash which has been …
Read More »Marina & The Diamonds – Froot
This is apparently going to be a big hit, judging by the number of you that have sent it to me. 1.3M listens on YouTube since it launched this weekend. I’m hearing a bit of Lene Lovich in this.
Read More »Mary J. Blige & Disclosure – Right Now
Kazaky & Hardkiss –Strange Moves
The 2 Bears – Not This Time
I’ve posted tracks by these guys before, but here’s some background in case you missed that. Raf Rundell and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, who are both straight, call themselves the 2 Bears in homage of the gay subculture mostly because they fit the bill aesthetically but also as homage to the vanguards of the dance music they love. “We have …
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Kristine W – Love Come Home
Kristine W has reached the summit of Billboard’s dance chart 16 times, starting with 1994’s Feel What You Want. The video below was filmed at a Las Vegas event put on by one of the organizers of Burning Man. RELATED: Artists with more #1 dance hits are Madonna (43), Rihanna (22), Beyonce (21), Janet Jackson (19), Donna Summer (17), and …
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