Tag Archives: Pet Shop Boys

TripleDouble – Red State Girls

A clever Pet Shop Boys parody at the expense of the remaining GOP candidates. Ricky I know you’re down for actionC’mon let me see if you’re SuperPACkingGlitter bombs. Glitter bombs.Explode in the air when you fall in my armsLet’s throw a Grand Ole PartyMy tongue Karl Rove all over your body

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Pet Shop Boys Launch SmartPhone App

Allure Of Sound reports: Pet Shop Boys have released their very first official app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. According to the press release, the new app — titled Singbox — gives you the chance to experience, sing to and compete with music on your devices in the same way that has only previously been possible on console games. …

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The Great British Synth Documentary

It took me half the day to watch this fantastic 2009 documentary because it kept sending me spinning off into Wikipedia and YouTube holes. It’s a bit strange that so many of the records that I thought was randomly picking out of the import 45s bin turned out to be such groundbreaking and influential tracks. And most of them I …

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Stop Modernists – Subculture

For a total 80’s mashup, here’s a cover of my favorite New Order classic with vocals by Pet Shop Boys’ Chris Lowe.(Tipped by JMG reader Jeb)

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Pet Shop Boys – Together

Via press release: Pet Shop Boys will release their latest single “Together” on April 12th through Astralwerks. This track will be accompanied by new versions of “Glad All Over” and “I Cried For Us” plus exclusive remixes. “Glad All Over” is a version of the early 60s hit by The Dave Clark Five which Pet Shop Boys performed in Chris …

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Pet Shop Boys Score New Ballet

Six-time Grammy winning Pet Shop Boys have scored a film, written a musical, and sold over 100 million records. Now they’ve written the music to a new ballet.

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Twenty Years Of Being Boring

As the 20th anniversary of the release of Pet Shop Boys’ immortal Being Boring approaches this fall, the Guardian UK’s music blogger calls it the greatest pop single of all time. In the panoramic lyrical sweep from the 1920s to the 70s and, finally, the 90s, Being Boring really is about everything: innocence and experience, ambition and self-realisation (“I never …

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Pet Shop Boys Play Concert In Fan’s Home

In a Brit Awards and Mastercard joint promotion, a viewer won a home concert by Pet Shop Boys. In the clip below, they are appropriately playing their classic Suburbia in the delighted Lorraine’s living room. (Tipped by JMG reader Iain in the UK)

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Pet Shop Boys – Pandemonium

Here’s the trailer for Pet Shop Boys’ coming concert DVD, Pandemonium, which comes out in the U.S. on March 23rd.

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Amazon’s Ten Best Dance Tracks Of 2009

Amazon has posted their picks for the best dance tracks of 2009. (Sample tracks here) I can’t say I’m familiar with much of the list, but I’m happy to see Pet Shop Boys on there as well as my personal favorite track of 2009, Deadmau5’s beautiful I Remember, the only song on my iTunes player to reach triple-digit plays this …

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Pet Shop Boys – All Over The World

Pet Shops Boys have released this new version of All Over The World to promote their Christmas EP, which comes out on December 14th. The clip below also acts as a PSB “Advent Calendar” in which you click the days of the month to get increasingly longer versions of their coming single, It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas.

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Pet Shop Boys To Release Xmas EP

Next month Pet Shop Boys will release a five-song EP. Whee! Included on the five track EP, titled appropriately enough Christmas, will a new version of “All Over The World”, a song from the band’s most recent studio album, as well as an reworked version of “It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas”, which was originally an exclusive Christmas single issued …

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80’s Flashback

Raze, Break 4 Love, 1988. A sexy classic of the early days of house music, Break 4 Love was a global smash, reaching #1 on the U.S. dance charts and topping out at #28 on the UK pop chart. Vocalist Keith Thompson had a falling out with producer Vaughan Mason (whom you might recall from his 1979 roller-disco hit Bounce, …

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80’s Flashback

Pet Shop Boys, Domino Dancing, 1988. Last night at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom, Pet Shop Boys wove this, their lone foray into freestyle, into a fantastic medley capped by a surprisingly wonderful cover of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida. (Please PSB, put that out commercially.) Domino Dancing was produced by the then-red hot Miami freestyle king Lewis Martinee, who gave us Expose’ …

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Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc

Pet Shop Boys score their 9th Billboard dance #1 in the U.S. this week with Love Etc, stretching their run on that chart to almost 25 years. The disco-tinged duo has notched 24 top ten dance singles here, but their best tally is on the UK pop singles chart, where 44 singles have hit the top 40. Last night they …

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Pet Shop Boys Tour Announced

Pet Shop Boys have just announced the dates for a North American tour to begin at the end of the summer. The tickets pre-sale will begin Monday, June 8th, at 1:00 PM in the time zone of the performance. Aug 29 Montreal MetropolisSept 1 New York, NY HammersteinSept 2 New York, NY HammersteinSept 3 Washington, DC Constitution HallSept 5 Boston, …

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Pet Shop Boys – Did You See Me Coming?

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Astralwerks Records, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Yes, the tenth studio album from Pet Shop Boys. Yes goes on sale nationwide on April 21st. One of the most iconic and influential pop acts in the world, Pet Shop Boys return with their tenth album and first for Astralwerks on April 21, 2009. In a career spanning over 2 …

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Rescue Shelter Boys?

PETA has asked Pet Shop Boys to change their name to Rescue Shelter Boys. You have many loyal fans of the Pet Shop Boys [JMG:*] here at PETA. We have a request that may at first seem bizarre, but we hope that after considering the following facts, you will understand why we are asking this of you: will you please …

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Live Stream: New Pet Shop Boys CD

The new Pet Shop Boys album Yes comes out in the U.S. on April 21st, but you can listen to the entire thing here with this handy widget.

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