Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys: Nonetheless review – a great, fan-pleasing album
The duo’s first LP in four years finds them refining and updating their late-80s heyday sound, with a new producer in tow
Damien Morris
26, Apr, 2024 @10:30 AM
The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review
The grunge grand dame tells her anarchic life story through the music she loves, while Charlotte Church has a tender chat with her ‘dada’. Plus, a deep dive into the Falklands war and Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits days
Jude Rogers
13, Apr, 2024 @4:00 PM
Olly Alexander: Dizzy review – it’s a sinful ripoff from the UK’s Eurovision entry
You could easily believe the prosaic Dizzy to be the work of AI: what if the Pet Shop Boys did Eurovision?
Laura Snapes
01, Mar, 2024 @10:50 AM
Offending Ringo and probing Thatcher: Tom Hibbert, the man who ‘brought the bonkers’ to Smash Hits
As a new collection of his work, Phew, Eh Readers?, is published, former colleagues including Neil Tennant recall the irreverent music journalist’s phrasemaking genius
Laura Snapes
06, Feb, 2024 @11:51 AM
‘Music has ceased to be ageist’: Pet Shop Boys on 40 years of pop genius – and their hopeful new album
The pandemic was but a minor blip in Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s four decades of arch observation, artful imagery and playful theorising. ‘You’ve got to stay interested,’ they say
Laura Snapes
03, Feb, 2024 @11:55 AM
‘A generation of queer people are grieving for the childhood they never had’: Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers
The writer-director’s devastating film, which stars Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, is hoovering up awards and leaving audiences in pieces. He talks about love, loneliness and the solace of 80s pop
Alex Needham
29, Dec, 2023 @5:00 AM
Drake: For All the Dogs review – repetitive rap titan needs new tricks
Dismal lyrics and wearying misogyny find too much airtime among the Canadian rapper’s most invigorating songs in years
Shaad D'Souza
09, Oct, 2023 @9:59 AM
Pet Shop Boys’ 30 greatest songs – ranked!
As pop’s greatest double act release a collection of all their singles, we pick their best tracks – from yuppie satires to finely detailed portraits
Alexis Petridis
08, Jun, 2023 @12:12 PM
Queer sounds: our writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ songs
For Pride month, Guardian writers have singled out their favourite LGBTQ+ songs, from Pet Shop Boys to Frank Ocean
Shaad D'Souza, Veronica Esposito, Owen Myers, Benjamin Lee, Jim Farber, Michael Cragg, Laura Snapes and Rob LeDonne
07, Jun, 2023 @3:00 PM
After cancer treatment, I too have found my voice | Brief letters
Brief letters: Being seen and heard | Pet Shop Boys | U3A courses | Summoning Satan
16, May, 2023 @3:36 PM
AI songwriting is not a sin, says Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys
AI could help overcome writer’s block, suggests musician amid industry move to stop perceived threat of fake songs
Jamie Grierson
16, May, 2023 @5:00 AM
Forty years of New Order’s Blue Monday: who inspired it and who it inspired
The Mancunians spliced Donna Summer with Ennio Morricone to make a futurist dance smash – and ended up influencing Rihanna, Pet Shop Boys and Detroit techno
Alexis Petridis
07, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
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