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(Tipped by JMG reader Bert)

(Tipped by JMG reader Paul.)

This is their third dance chart #1, following Filthy/Gorgeous (2005) and Fire With Fire (2010).

Directed by JMG reader Dan Murphy. Not work-friendly.

A deluxe package of dance duo Pnau’s reworking of Elton John’s earliest 1970s work comes out domestically on October 9th. The album is already available as an import from the UK, where it has hit #1 on the iTunes chart. The below single has been circulating for a couple of months and you’ll likely hear overtones of Ibiza and Chicane. …

(Tipped by JMG reader Austin)

Today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Elysium, the new album by Pet Shop Boys which goes on sale worldwide today. Recorded in Los Angeles (the first time the duo have recorded an album in the US), the record was co-produced by Andrew Dawson, who has won three Grammy awards for his work with Kanye West. Elysium features twelve new songs which …

Michael Stipe: “Losing My Religion” was used in the Fox News coverage of the Democratic National Convention last night. R.E.M. today, through its music publisher, Warner-Tamerlane Music, demanded that Fox News cease and desist from continuing its unlicensed and unauthorized use of the song. Michael Stipe said, “We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage. …

Samantha Fox’s 1986 smash gets even gayer.

JMG reader Mike tips us to a gorgeously simple new video for the 2009 track by gay Irish pop artist Gregory Gray, who also records as Mary Cigarettes. Gray writes about the new video: “There’s not really a lot I need to say about this…it just speaks for itself. My friend Robert Shaw (or *Renee* as I call him) is …

After the conclusion of the convention last night, NYC council candidate Corey Johnson and I cabbed to Charlotte’s boisterous club district for an unadvertised private concert by the Scissor Sisters, who opened by advising the mostly straight audience: “If you’ve never heard of us, it’s because you aren’t British or gay.” Track list from their abbreviated set: Shady Love, Let’s …

This is in contention for my song of the year.

From the coming album. (Tipped by JMG reader Dwight)

This week’s Swag Tuesday prize is the new album from gay rocker Bob Mould. Silver Age goes on sale nationwide on September 4th and is currently being streamed in its entirety by Rolling Stone. Their review: Alt-rock icon Bob Mould has made his share of confessional albums layered with deeply personal sentiments, but his latest project isn’t one of them. …

Here’s the video for the kicking first single from Mould’s new album Silver Age, which will be released on September 4th.

San Francisco’s dragapella beauty shop quartet is back. Don’t miss a chance to see one of their shows. The Kinsey Sicks are in Fort Lauderdale and Tampa this week with more dates around the country in September.

Rosie O’Donnell has revealed that she suffered a heart attack last week. Calling it a “miracle” she’s still alive, Rosie O’Donnell suffered a heart attack last week and is now recovering at home. O’Donnell, 50, credited her survival to quick Internet research on her painful symptoms and a Bayer aspirin she had seen recommended in ads. “Thank god/saved by a …