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The best No 1 records: Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls | Jude Rogers

4707 days ago
Guardian Music1986: The second version of the duo's signature song took US electro and hip-hop to peculiar (and British) placesPop is often about the shock of the new. The Pet Shop Boys also understood the shock of older details: a 30-year-old in an overcoat deliv... more info

Night Surgeon: Night Surgeon

4717 days ago
Here Comes The Flood 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 Eig... more info

trio VD: Maze – review

4721 days ago
Guardian MusicNaim EdgeThis successor to caustic Leeds improv group trio VD's 2009 album Fill It Up with Ghosts retains their frantic hit-and-run staccato structures, farmyard squealings, howling distortion, and pithily short track-lengths. But, deploying a lot mo... more info

Synth pop from Death in the Afternoon – “Francis & The City”

4728 days ago
SwedespleaseI 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... more info

Edinburgh paper celebrates Scottish Cup final with Go West 'parody' | Media Monkey

4730 days ago
Guardian MusicWith the two Edinburgh football clubs Hearts and Hibs competing in this year's Scottish Cup final, it was only natural that the local paper, the Edinburgh Evening News, would want to do something special to mark the occasion. That something special h... more info

'I'm constantly learning how to be confident'

4733 days ago
Guardian MusicNow in her 30s, Beth Ditto's priorities – and her music – are changing. Here she discusses her forthcoming marriage and how Abba became an influence on Gossip's latest albumBeth Ditto is tremendously unflappable, even at the end of a long day wit... more info

An alternative playlist for Her Majesty's water music

4745 days ago
Guardian MusicThe music to be played while the royal barge makes its way along the Thames for the Jubilee is a little dull. Perhaps the Queen would appreciate this alternative playlist?According to Adrian Evans, the "pageant master" tasked with arranging a London ... more info

Don Giovanni – review

4750 days ago
Guardian MusicHeaven, LondonNew productions of familiar operas are often so far-fetched that you're lost without a programme to help piece together what does happen with what's supposed to happen. Not at London nightclub Heaven, however, where Richard Crichton and... more info

Southend's-on-Sea's 300ft Dr Feelgood statue: the story so far

4753 days ago
Guardian MusicOne man's inspiring dream to built a fitting tribute to the band's frontman, Lee Brilleaux'It's obviously an exaggeration, but it's born out of enthusiasm," says artist Scott King of his proposal to erect a 300ft-high gold statue of Dr Feelgood's sin... more info

New music: Field Music – Heart

4756 days ago
Guardian MusicHear Pet Shop Boys reinvented by the Brewis brothersBefore Heart became the fourth single to be released from Pet ShopBoys' Actually album (it reached No 1 in 1998), they'd toyed with idea of giving it to Madonna. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the b... more info

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