Elton vetos first follow up to 'Ta-Dah'

Reuters - In Europe, the American band Scissor Sisters are full-fledged pop stars, with No. 1 albums and sold-out tours. But in the United States, the brassy and bold five-piece hasn't managed to break through.

The Scissor Sisters used a 1980 Robert Mapplethorpe photo of dancer Peter Reed’s clenched ass for the cover of their Stuart Price-produced third studio album Night Work. The image says a lot about the group’s retro-Downtown in-your-face (and, sure, “greatest, gayest“) aesthetic, as does disco-dramatic &...

Scissor Sisters will release their third album, Night Work, in the U.S. on June 29th

So far the purveyor of authentic shit Mark Ronson’s been tight-lipped about what’s in store for the follow-up to his Stax-horned covers album Verison, though we do know it’s both fairly script-flipping for the prolific producer (no brass, no covers) while still lined with his infinite rolodex (Santigold and Scissor ...