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Lovely long intro, builds nicely. Their website. (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

(Via Towleroad)

Well Strung is playing Provincetown all summer. I’ve seen them several times, most recently at the Ali Forney Center gala. The guy in the tank top used to be in Naked Boys Singing. (Tipped by Zack Ford)

Elton John’s European tour has been put on indefinite hold as he prepares for appendicitis surgery. John, 66, was diagnosed with “appendix abscess surrounding retrocaecal appendicitis” after falling ill during the tour, publicist Gary Farrow said in a written statement. The surgery will be performed in the United Kingdom in “the coming weeks” after he undergoes an intensive course of …

The new Pet Shop Boys album, Electric, is streaming live today on Pandora.  If you’re in the UK, you can listen at the Guardian.  The album will be released next week. “When we started work on it, it was more Chris’ project really, and we agreed that it wasn’t going to be Disco 5,” Neil Tennant recently told Popjustice. “But …

Produced by Blowoff’s Rich Morel. Goss plays Provincetown’s Crown & Anchor during Bear Week 2013, which begins on Saturday.

Gay pop rock, Abercrombie-style. (Via Towleroad)

Ukraine’s stiletto-wearing hotties are back with a homoerotic dig at the TSA. It appears that the group has shed a member and is now a trio.

An update of the 1978 Tom Robinson classic. Watch this.

“A portion of this song’s iTunes proceeds will be donated to fight for marriage equality.” Download it here.

Featuring Beth Ditto!

Boy George has made a string of really lovely tracks in the last few years. You might also enjoy his 2010 single Amazing Grace, which I still play often. (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, tonight we’ve got three copies of Summer Horns,  the new album by openly gay jazz superstar Dave Koz. Summer Horns is now on sale nationwide. Enter to win Summer Horns from Dave Koz! Concord Records presents SUMMER HORNS, the brand-new album from Grammy-nominated saxophonist DAVE KOZ with a little help from his friends: Gerald Albright, …

Pro-Palestinian activists are planning to picket a Pet Shop Boys appearance in London tonight in protest of the dance duo’s gig scheduled for June 28th in Tel Aviv.  From the protesters’ website: The Pet Shop Boys – Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, recognised as the most successful duo in UK music history, are scheduled to perform in apartheid Israel to …

(Tipped by JMG reader Hector)

Towleroad tips us to the Pet Shop Boys’ description of their clip in support of the first single from their coming album, Electric. (I posted the audio to the track a few weeks ago.) This short film has been produced and directed by the filmmaker and photographer, Joost Vandeburg. He has created it using authentic amateur film footage shot at …

Neil Patrick Harris will play the title role when Hedwig And The Angry Inch makes its Broadway debut next spring.  Broadway World reports: The announcement that Neil Patrick Harris will play ‘Hedwig,’ follows his recent triumphant engagement as the host of the 67th Annual Tony Awards (the highest rated Tonys broadcast in more than a decade). Harris said, “I am …

I posted the leaked audio last week and last night Ricky Martin performed his new dance single on Australia’s version of The Voice. (Via Queerty)

Ricky Martin’s new single leaked out last night. The below clip cuts off the beginning by a few seconds, but you can listen to a higher quality full version on Soundcloud.  Sounds like a big summer club hit to me.