Scratch any literate songwriter – Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey – and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS Eliot The New Yorker critic Louis Menand, reflecting on TS Eliot's transition from radical modernist to arch-conservative, wrote in a review of the poet's letters: "He tried to shut the door on modern life. It was too late of course. He was the author of Prufrock and The Waste Land. He was already inside." Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land , he remains ...

Night Surgeon , a duo from Portland, OR composed of Patrick Replogle and John Boyd are into melodic synth pop with a twist. Their new self-titled EP, produced and mixed by Gabriel Espinosa (Blondie, Fischerspooner, Mobile), is built around early Eighties New Wave pop interacting with a pulsating back beat. Both Berklee graduates, they have found a middle ground between complexity and accessibility. Progressive pop that could cross over to the mainstream. Touches of Depeche Mode ( Let Love In , Changes ) and The Pet Shop Boys ( Magnets ). Night Surgeon is released via Too Dark Records . Buy it from the band's website ...

The quality of The Saturdays ' music output pretty much nose-dived to shit levels and has stayed that way after their promising first album, so it's disheartening to see that "30 Days," the lead single off the stripper pack's upcoming fourth album, charted higher this week in the UK ( #7 ) than new Scissor Sisters jam "Only The Horses" ( #12 ). Yeah, I know — the Internet has collectively torn the Calvin Harris -produced "Only The Horses" to pieces. But you can all just kiss my classy butt. This is the Scissters' best single in ages, if you ask me, and it ...

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia: Up first today, the mighty Cabaret Voltaire with 1980’ ‘Nag Nag Nag’, laying foundation for all electronic music that came after it. Late ‘80’s Pet Shop Boys now with ‘Domino Dancing’ from 1988, with that post-Italo [...]

Irregardless of what the moniker IO ECHO  may intimate of Italian origin the LA-based, "New Orientalism" pairing comprising Ioanna Gika and Big Pink bassist Leopold Ross effectuate something eerily devoid of both place and time on When The Lilies Die. Like a sinister Pet Shop Boys predatorily gnawing a chink in The Jesus & Mary Chain, it's a recording that is barely short of perfect. Io Echo's Soundcloud .

[rating:2] Nem parece mas esse já é o quinto álbum do Gossip. Desde o último lançamento, Music For Men , para este aqui, A Joyful Noise , coisas mudaram. Gossip não é mais aquela banda de punk-indie cheio de barulheiras. As músicas estão mais dançantes por conta de dois fatores principais: o trabalho com a produtora Xenomania (Pet Shop Boys, Cher); e a nova direção musical da icônica vocalista Beth Ditto, que disse ter passado um ano inteiro ouvindo Abba.

From wiki:- The Cinematics were an alternative rock band from Scotland, consisting of Scott Rinning (vocals and guitar), Larry Reid (lead guitar), Adam Goemans (bass) and Ross Bonney (drums). The original line-up, with Ramsay Miller on lead guitar, formed in Glasgow, however, the members originally met at school in Dingwall.  The band were signed to TVT Records in 2005 after playing at an In the City showcase gig in Manchester. Their debut album A Strange Education was produced by Simon Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Editors, Kaiser Chiefs) and Stephen Hague (New Order, Blur, Pet Shop Boys), and released on March ...

I guess I’m a simple guy. I kind of like reliving the music that mattered to me. In the 80′s it was synth pop like Yaz, Depeche Mode, and Pet Shop Boys. So when I hear something remotely similar it brings me back. Death In The Afternoon have just done that with their song “Francis [...]

by Bill Meyer I'm not even going to deal with that title, except to say curse you, Ben Vida, for making that damned Pet Shop Boys song play in my head again after a too-short break of many years. That's only the first way this record plays with my mind, which it does quite well even when it's not supposed to... Read More

Das Melt! Festival verkündet sechs weitere Acts für das diesjährige Line-up. Zuletzt wurden neben Grand Hotel Van Cleef-Chef Thees Uhlmann so illustre Elektronik-Künstler wie Djedjotronic, Shadow Dancer und Markus Kavka bestätigt ( motor.de berichtete ). Dazu gesellte sich am letzten Freitag unter anderem das britische Duo Red Shoes">Blood Red Shoes, um die Bühnen in Ferropolis zum dritten Mal mit ihrem sphärisch-halligen Indie-Sound zu beschallen. Zusätzlich werden die dänischen Dance-Punker WhoMadeWho auftreten, sowie die walisischen Shoegaze-Elektroniker Man Without Country Stücke ihres kommenden Albums "Foe" erstmalig live spielen. Seht hier noch einmal das bisherige Line-up und den aktuellen Clip des Duos: Adam ...

For fans of New Order and Pet Shop boys, check out this bands' single “The End Of The Affair”.

Gossip will return on May 22nd with their fifth full-length, A Joyful Noise . The album was produced by Brian Higgins (Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys) and features the band's "own brand of pop." Stream "Perfect World" on the band's website . [ gossipyouth.com ]

Known for delivering stellar renditions from the catalog of The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, and even The Pet Shop Boys, Field Music has announced that the band will follow-up its recently released album Plumb with an album of covers due out sometime this fall.

Having shown off their takes on the Pet Shop Boys ' "Rent" and "Heart" for a Record Store Day single, Sunderland's Field Music have announced that they will release an album of covers to coincide with their UK fall tour. The tracklist is still to be announced, but it will feature both previously released covers as well as new ones, like their take on Syd Barrett 's "Terrapin". They've also covered the Beatles, Roxy Music, Leonard Cohen, and, of course, the Pet Shop Boys in the past. David Brewis explains in a press release: "Over the years we've ...

Field Music: "Terrapin" (Syd Barrett cover)   Having shown off their takes on the Pet Shop Boys ' "Rent" and "Heart" for a Record Store Day single, Sunderland's Field Music have announced that they will release an album of covers to coincide with their UK fall tour (dates below). The tracklist is still to be announced, but it will feature both previously released covers as well as new ones, like their take on Syd Barrett 's "Terrapin" (above). They've also covered the Beatles, Roxy Music, Leonard Cohen, and, of course, the Pet Shop Boys in the past.