In February 2020, right before the world shut down, British synth-pop greats Pet Shop Boys and New Order announced a co-headlining North American tour called the Unity Tour. Obviously, it didn’t end up happening last year, and it isn’t going to end up happening this year either. But today, they’ve announced reschedu...

Iconic UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys are having a big day. They’ve just shared “Cricket Wife,” a 10-minute track recorded during the UK’s first lockdown based on an instrumental by Chris Lowe and a poem from Neil Tennant. That song is being bundled with a new “Lockdown Version” of their...

Early in 2021, Years & Years — now officially an Olly Alexander solo project — released a cover of Pet Shop Boys’ queer anthem “It’s A Sin.” The cover was recorded in conjunction with Alexander’s starring role in It’s A Sin, the Channel 4/HBO series about th...

New Order were supposed to be on tour with the Pet Shop Boys right around now, but those dates have been pushed until this time next year. The band was also going to release a new song to coincide with the tour, and they're at least following through on that plan. New Order have shared…

New Order's Bernard Sumner worked with Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe on a few tracks from Electronic, his late-'80s/'90s side project with Johnny Marr. And now New Order and Pet Shop Boys, two giants of '80s UK synth-pop, are joining forces for a full co-headlining tour.