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Classic Pop
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DFA Records are to mark the 10th anniversary of LCD Soundsystem’s long-out-of-print live album The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live At Madison Square Garden with a new pressing. The original LP…
Making Pet Shop Boys: Very
Vibrant, Computeresque and chockablock with potential singles, 1993’s Pet Shop Boys: Very was built upon purest hyperpop and buoyed by a technicolour promo campaign, with Pet Shop Boys sharing responsibility…
Making Duran Duran: Notorious
Returning from their hiatus diminished in size and stature, the three-man Duran Duran recruited two new members and turned to Nile Rodgers to help them get their groove back, resulting…
Making Rick Astley: Whenever You Need Somebody
The musical merging of a northern soul boy with pop’s hottest production team, Rick Astley: Whenever You Need Somebody Rickrolled the music business, defying critics to sell more than 15…
Making Blondie: Parallel Lines
Forsaking their punk sound but not their attitude, Blondie: Parallel Lines earned the band global success thanks to a string of hits and the undeniable star power of their charismatic frontwoman……
Making Duran Duran: The Wedding Album
With Duran Duran: The Wedding Album, the band responded to the new decade by eschewing their old extravagance, going back to their roots and injecting a heavy dose of introspection…
Making Erasure: The Circus
Lauded for bringing fun and flamboyance back to synthpop, Erasure: The Circus masked deeply political statements as well as heartbreaking despair with gloriously uplifting harmonies Vince Clarke had built up…
Alison Moyet interview
In this Alison Moyet interview from 2017, the former Yazoo singer talks to Wyndham Wallace about surviving 35 years in the pop business… It’s mid-April, and Alison Moyet is cradling…
The Time LP to get expanded re-release on 40th anniversary
Forty years ago The Time released their first eponymously-titled album, and now, to mark its anniversary, Rhino Records are releasing a 2LP expanded version. Originally released on 29 July 1981,…
Arthur Baker presents new collection of Shep Pettibone remixes
Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: The Shep Pettibone Master-Mixes is the first in a series of brand new series which opens with a new collection of 12” and 7” remixes…