Are you feeling the latest from queer crooner Sam Smith? Hot off the success of “How Do You Sleep?” – which had us oozing gender fluids everywhere – Smith has just covered the 1977 Donna Summer synth/disco classic “I Feel Love.” For use in Target holiday commercials. Ugh. Smith teamed up with Disclosure’s Guy Lawrence,…
Sometimes you feel you’ve got to run away, and that’s what new wave/synth-pop duo Soft Cell is doing with their recently-announced farewell show. The men behind the classic 1981 hit “Tainted Love” is reuniting for the first time in 15 years on September 30 for a show called “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” — a callback…
In 1989, Liza Minnelli and Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys discovered they were mutual fans. PSB by that time were a synthpop duo (the second half being Chris Lowe) solidified in the annals of pop-chart history—with monster hits like “West End Girls” and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” the latter a collab…
