Guardian Music — Vinyl may have been overtaken by CDs and downloads but it still has passionate fans, with the last major plant in the UK pressing about 25,000 records a week on its 40-year-old pressesForty-year-old record presses, installed by EMI in the 70s vinyl h... more info

Guardian Music — Just ahead of their Saturday Other Stage headline set at Glastonbury festival, we meet Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe as they give the rest of this year's lineup a once-overIn 2000 Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe visited Glastonbury for the first time, prov... more info

Altsounds — Pet Shop Boys are delighted to announce that Pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor will be joining them as special guest on their final run of UK dates, which will conclude their hugely successful worldwide Pandemonium Tour. Sophie Ellis-Bextor emerged ten... more info

Guardian Music — From football to focus groups, a new wave of pop democracy is sweeping the web, says Chris SalmonEarlier this year, Irish web-based label Indiecater appealed for 32 artists to help make a compilation featuring an original song for each nation at the... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Infrason said... Power Pop surfing with the Barracudas / Les Barracudas inventent le métro-surf : BARRACUDAS - SUBWAY SURFIN' (1979) http://infrasons.blogspot.com Thanks / Merci / Trugarez music499 said... Pet Shop Boys - Release Stars - Heart Bjo... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sir Charlie Palmer said... The Original Rumble Plus 22 Other Storming Guitar Instrumentals - Link Wray Peel Session 110 – The Mekons 16.09.85 http://sircharliepalmer.blogspot.com Fermo said... Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin - Harlequin (1985) Genre:... more info

Nialler9 — Florrie is a 21 year old drummer, singer and pop star in waiting from the UK. She played in the Xenomania house band and played drums on bona-fide pop hits by Girls Aloud, Pet Shop Boys and Alesha Dixon. This year, she recorded some stuff with Fred F... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Thomas said... This Week's Top 5 Most Played Songs! 1. School of Seven Bells - Babelonia 2. Toro Y Moi - Leave Everywhere 3. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 4. Dirty Three & Cat Power - Great Waves 5. OMD - Sister Marie Says (demo) http://www.thefront... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Gumshoe said... New Top-10 and Album of the Week #19 ... what could it be? Plus a surprise MP3; what could it be? Bobby B? MayB. Listen. Learn. http://gumshoegrove.com Mr Tear said... Classic UK reggae from 1985. Great for a sunny summer's day: Ma... more info

Guardian Music — (Fiction)The Canadian electronic duo Crystal Castles first attracted attention with their jarring juxtapositions: noise butting hard against what was called nu-rave at the time they emerged. The opening pairing of their second album suggests they mea... more info