Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe record their 11th album in LA, Format, a second collection of B sides, arrives as a sequel to 1995’s Alternative. Pet Shop Boys played a vital role in establishing the (once) standard of original, non-album flipsides with...

Bottum says, punching every monosyllable as a sad organ and martial drums offer punctuation. We're back to Pet Shop Boys and 1986's 'Why Don't We Live Together', an acceptance of callousness so gleeful that it upends notions of how to define commitment.

On this collection of 38 B-sides and bonus tracks from 1996 till now you have everything from melancholy electronica to bouncy dance tunes stopping at all points on the way and all with lyrics that really do put most other writers operating at the...

It's weird that I'm not "getting" the subtext because this is such a straightforward and obvious-feeling video. As Creators Projects writes, this is "a parallel universe that seems to resemble Giorgio de Chirico paintings... Um, exactly? Also, it...

The colourful graphics on the lift-off lid card box represents the music contained within, as Mark Farrow explains: "The composition on the box is a graphic representation of all the spines of all 38 of the b-sides and bonus tracks included on the...

The OpenEMI initiative was launched last November with thousands of tracks, videos and other digital content from EMI’s catalogue as well as dedicated developer sandboxes for specific artists including Gorillaz, Pet Shop Boys, Tinie Tempah, Evanesence,...