Tag Archives: Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys – Thursday

From their new album, Electric.

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LISTEN: Pet Shop Boys – Electric

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 …

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BRITAIN: Palestinian Activists Call For Pet Shop Boys To Cancel Tel Aviv Concert

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 …

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Pet Shop Boys – Vocal

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 …

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Pet Shop Boys – Vocal

The upcoming Pet Shop Boys album, Electric, is due to be released on July 15th and the duo is currently performing the new track Vocal on their South American tour.  Electric was produced by Stuart Price, who is famed for his collaborations with Madonna, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, and Scissor Sisters. (Tipped by JMG reader Rob)

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Pet Shop Boys Announce Two NYC Dates, Release First Video From Coming Album

Pet Shop Boys have announced concerts at the Upper West Side’s gorgeous Beacon Theatre on September 16th and 17th.  Tickets go on sale this Friday. RELATED: The Presets and Dragonette will play Terminal 5 on May 8th. Get tickets here. UPDATE: Via Towleroad, there’s the first video from the coming Pet Shop Boys album, Electric, which is due out on …

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Pet Shop Boys Leave EMI After 28 Years

After spending their entire career with EMI’s Parlophone Records, the Pet Shop Boys have jumped ship and this June will release a new album with the relatively unknown Kobalt Label Services. “This is a very exciting point in our careers,” said Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe in a statement. “We are hugely proud of the new album and are very …

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JMG Top Ten Tracks For 2012

Here’s my annual roundup of the tracks that got the most play at Casa JMG. A few of them appeared here on the blog over the year, but most did not.  A couple of them aren’t even originally from this year, but became unexpected 2012 hits due to remix treatments.  Clickety on the unfamiliar ones and tell us what you …

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Pet Shop Boys – He Dreamed Of Machines

Pet Shop Boys have created a tribute piece to gay British computer genius Alan Turing. Yesterday they wrote on their blog: Last night’s concert with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra was a wonderful experience for us. The orchestra played with such luxurious power and conviction, conducted by Dominic Wheeler, and the Manchester Chamber Choir brought ethereal beauty to, for instance, “Miracles” …

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Pet Shop Boys – Leaving

My favorite track from the new album. (Via Towleroad)

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Pet Shop Boys To Perform Symphony Piece Inspired By Gay Genius Alan Turing

(Tipped by JMG reader Paul.)

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Swag Tuesday

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 …

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Pet Shop Boys – Leaving

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

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Gayest Closing Ceremony EVAH

Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, openly bisexual Jessie J, and a full stadium singalong with Freddie Mercury on center-stage screens. I don’t think we could have asked for much more.

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Pet Shop Boys – I Started A Joke

The four-track release for Pet Shop Boys’ latest single Winner includes the below tribute to Bee Gees vocalist Robin Gibb, who died of colon cancer in May. While Neil Tennant’s plaintive voice seems quite well-suited for this song, I’m afraid it doesn’t approach the beauty of Gibb’s anguish-drenched original. Available now on iTunes.

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Pet Shop Boys – A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

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

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Pet Shop Boys – Winner

Earlier this month I posted the audio version of this track. Here’s the production video, which Andrew Sullivan calls “one of the very few videos I’ve seen that actually celebrates the life of the transgender person.”

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Pet Shop Boys – Winner

Available for download tomorrow. And it’s timed, I’d think, for the London Olympics, although the press materials don’t say so.

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Pet Shop Boys – Invisible

From the coming album, Elysium, due in September.(Via Towleroad)

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Pet Shop Boys + A-ha – Listening

Lead vocals by A-ha frontman Morten Harket. Music and Lyrics by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Backing vocals by Neil Tennant. (Tipped by JMG reader Fritz)

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