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Check out the official lyric video for 'One Foot' by Fun.
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On July 15th, Pet Shop Boys return in triumphant form with their new studio album 'Electric', the first to appear on their own label x2 (via Kobalt Label Services).
The album is the first Pet Shop Boys studio album to be produced by Stuart Price. Visit Stereogum for an extensive "Progress Report" interview with the duo -- along with the debut of the new track 'Axis' HERE.
In March this year, a teaser video for 'Electric' appeared online. The accompanying music, 'Axis', which is the album's opening track, is now available in full online and is here accompanied by a video.
'Electric' features nine tracks in total - eight brand new Pet Shop Boys' songs plus a cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'The Last To Die'. The result is as uncompromising a collection of dance anthems as Pet Shop Boys have ever made.
Pet Shop Boys said: "'Electric' is very much set on the dance floor. Our latest album often evolves as a response to our previous album and, whereas 'Elysium' had a reflective mood, 'Electric' is pretty banging! And working with Stuart Price on a studio album is something we have wanted to do for a very long time".
Stuart Price said: "Making 'Electric' was an exciting experience. We recorded it between Berlin, London and Los Angeles using various techniques between old school synth and drum machine programming and new school computer mangling. For me it was a chance to work with two people who shaped so much of my musical taste, yet who keep on pushing farther in both a natural and unexpected fashion. 'Disco' (from 1986) was an album that always spoke to me because it blended song arrangements with dance floor mixes, and that is what 'Electric' felt like to make. Allowing songs to be full length without considering the pop rules, disregarding classic structures and instead just working instinctively on what was fun and danceable."
Singer/rapper Example, who won a BRIT award last year for Best British Single, appears as a guest vocalist on the track 'Thursday'.
The track listing for 'Electric' is:
1. Axis
2. Bolshy
3. Love is a bourgeois construct
4. Fluorescent
5. Inside a dream
6. The last to die
7. Shouting in the evening
8. Thursday (featuring Example)
9. Vocal
As previously announced, Pet Shop Boys will embark on the 'Electric' tour in May this year. The tour is created in collaboration with Es Devlin (creative director/designer) and Lynne Page (stage director/choreographer), and has already received rave reviews when it debuted in Mexico in March. Tour dates, including the newly announced North American dates, are as follows:
13 May - Movistar Arena, Santiago, Chile
16 May - Luna Park, Buenos Aires, Argentina
18 May - Conmebol Bourbon Convention Center, Asunción, Paraguay
22 May - Credicard Hall, São Paulo, Brazil
25 May - Centro de Eventos Bima, Bogota, Colombia
3 June - Oktiaborski Concert Hall, St Petersburg, Russian Federation
5 June - Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russian Federation
9 June - Falconer Salen, Copenhagen, Denmark
11 June - Grand Rex, Paris, France
15 June - Sónar Festival, Barcelona, Spain
18 June - O2 Arena, London, United Kingdom
20 June - Manchester Arena, Manchester, United Kingdom
23 June - Nokia Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel
26 June - Life Park, Istanbul, Turkey
29 June - Peace & Love Festival, Borlänge, Sweden
1 July - Dortmunder Music Week, Dortmund, Germany
3 July - KV Arena, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
5 July - Õllesummer 20, Song Festival Grounds, Tallinn, Estonia
7 July - Ruisrock Festival, Turku, Finland
9 July - ZMF, Freiburg, Germany
10 July - Tollwood Festival - Musik Arena, Munich, Germany
16 July - Ejekt Festival, Athens, Greece
9 August - SonicMania, Tokyo Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan
11 August - Summer Sonic festival, Tokyo, Japan
17 August - Skeeno Hall, Jakarta, Indonesia
24 August - Impact Exhibition Center, Bangkok, Thailand
6 Sept - Berlin Festival, Berlin, Germany
12 Sept - The Jackie Gleason Theatre, Miami Beach, USA
13 Sept - Mahaffey Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
14 Sept - Symphony Hall, Atlanda, Georgia, USA
16 Sept - Beacon Theatre, New York, NY USA
17 Sept - Beacon Theatre, New York, NY USA
19 Sept - Music Centre at Strathmore, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
21 Sept - House of Blues, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 Sept - Mann Centre for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 Sept - Olympia Theatre, Montreal, Canada
25 Sept - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada
27 Sept - Caesars Windsor - The Colosseum, Windsor, Canada
28 Sept - Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Illinois, USA
2 Oct - Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA
3 Oct - Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
4 Oct - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, Oregon, USA
5 Oct - Fox Theatre, Oakland, California, USA
8 Oct - Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, California, USA
11 Oct - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - The Joint, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
12 Oct - Shrine Auditorium, LA, California, USA
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Watch Motion City Soundtrack video of "True romance", taken from their latest album "Go".
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Watch the lyric video for Bleu's "In My Own Little World" from his upcoming album "To Hell With You".
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The brand new OK Go album isn't titled yet. Hell, it's not even finished. But that doesn't mean you can't hear some of it right now. We told you we were going to send out an unreleased mp3 every month, and we meant it. As such, you can find a link to a piping fresh song recorded with Dave Fridmann in Fredonia called "I'm Not Through" a few paragraphs down in this very email. But don't click on it yet.
The reason you have the opportunity to hear this song is because we, OK Go, are working with the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi on the 2013 edition of their Music Video Challenge. Put another way: until we finish this album we’re going to be too busy making music to make a video of our own, so we want you to make one and share it with the world. There'll be a panel (including Damian) to pick the best, and the winner will be invited to the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in June. There’ll be a People's Choice winner, too, and a website compiling all the submissions.
Okay, now you can click on the link. Then, close your eyes, and imagine what your OK Go video will look like. Probably after that you'll want to open them again to get the file into iTunes or whatever. Then close them again.
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Did you know that?
James Blunt wrote the song "No Bravery" while he was on call in Kosovo.
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