New Pet Shop Boys album in July

The Pet Shop Boys have announced that their new album, Electric, will be released on July 19. You can pre-order at iTunes. The album was produced by Stuart Price.

They have also released this video of the song Axis, from the new album.

New Order

New Order is one of my favorite bands. They technically don’t exist as a group anymore, but they come together (but without bassist Peter Hook) periodically to give live performances of their classic hits. They recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel, performing “Bizarre Love Triangle.”

As much as I love the band, I think their performance left a lot to be desired. Aging is not pretty. An example of how they actually sounded in their heyday is this from 1987:

New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle from vadimchirkov on Vimeo.

And if you would like to hear a great acoustic cover of the song, check this out:

Beyoncé kills at the Superbowl

The best Superbowl half time show ever. Without question. Watch full screen in HD by selecting the gear icon and the full screen icon. She should be selected as MVP and she should get a Superbowl ring for her performance. And fuck the inauguration performance.

Kudos to Destiny’s Child and it is really too bad that she blew out the lighting system in the Superdome.

Update:
I have had to replace the video with a new version because the prior version was deleted. This one doesn’t have the best audio quality, but it is still powerful.