Leaving

The video for the new Pet Shop Boys single is as elegant as the song, in stark black-and-white with echoes of Derek Jarman's "Rent" and "King's Cross".

 

Cover for CD 2, Chris and his weird hoodie. CD 1 can be seen here.

Elysium cover

The cover of the new Pet Shop Boys album makes me think of perfume. Are they also releasing a new fragrance?

Speaking of covers, the Boys (fresh from performing at Wimbledon as pre-Olympic match entertainment) are about to release a cover of classic Bee Gees' track "I started a joke" as a B-side to "Winner."

Pet Shop Boys meets Roller Derby

The worst Pet Shop Boys video ever?

Story here.

New George and Madonna

George Michael, thankfully back in the game (for the moment at least), makes another ultra-stilish video, this time employing his gal-pal druggy Kate Moss, in a long tradition of using supermodels in his videos.

Madonna is also up to her old tricks, recycling a video formula she's done a few too many times: the "drive around town and pick up random people to dance in her car" schtick. Now with Italian backgrounds on the greenscreen. 

Winner is a loser

The PSB announced the new single for Elysium, which so far is a snorefest. After beautiful but barely moving Invisible, they came up with a synth ballad for the Olympic Games, which is as cheesy as it sounds.

Invisible

The Pet Shop Boys announced a new album for September and released the song Invisible with a boring art film. If the song is any indication, Elysium will be quite low key.

Wonderland remixed

By pogo

Animated recycling games

Muse vs. PSB

Brilliant mashup that creates a whole new "What have I done to deserve this?"out of Muse's "Uprising".

Rhyme o'clock

This video is all kinds of awesome. It has more pop culture, comics and Toronto references than I can count. Props to More or Les, Wordburglar and MuchFACT.

Eric Watson 1955-2012

He was the first one to photograph the Pet Shop Boys. Eric Watson was the visual architect who helped create the classic PSB aesthetics.

 He took the pictures for the covers of “West End girls",  "Opportunities", "Love comes quickly", "Suburbia", "It's a sin", "What have I done to deserve this?", "Rent", "Heart", "It's alright", "So hard", "Jealousy", "DJ culture", "I don't know what you want but I can't give it anymore"  and albums "Please", Behaviour" and “Nightlife”. He also directed many classic PSB videos, including "West End girls", "Suburbia", "Domino dancing" and "Jealousy" as well as the 1991 concert film, "Performance" considered by many to be the Pet Shop Boys’ best concert. He also took pics of other pop stars of the 80s.

On helping create the PSB aesthetics, he said: "We realised there was something about somebody singing and somebody else doing nothing – just looking, then looking away – that adds a hideous tension. It's creepy but also, I suppose, charming. It was only later we realised we'd created a product."

Queen West End Girls

Trio Plum Thunder made the most perfect homage to both Toronto and the "West End Girls" video by the Pet Shop Boys, with hilarious Toronto-centric lyrics.

The classic:

Turn me on

David Guetta picks Nicki Minaj for his 5th(!) single off of his latest collab-intensive "Nothing But The Beat." The weird video for the song features medieval robotics, creepy SEARS mannequins and some pretty cool animation effects.

Cop car

Dilma rocks out

In my head for 10 years

Released in 2001, Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" was the most played song in the last decade, according to a survey in the UK.

Happy 2012

New animated videos

And this isn't really a song, but it makes great use of phenakistoscopy.

Break dancing

Seems to be everywhere these days.







Mad props to people with mad skills.

Wait And See

Great concept for Holy Ghost!'s new video.