Choose your dystopia. I’ve mentioned it before, but for the past couple years I’ve waited until the last minute to write these columns because the news moves too fast. Every time I write ahead, something catastrophic happens before they run and I look like a complete jerk for ignoring…

Neil Tennant (R) and Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys perform at The Royal Opera House in London on July 25, 2018. Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage. Pride Month is now a time for corporations to plaster their social media accounts with rainbow flags while leaving gay characters out of…

Pet Shop Boys sounded futuristic when they broke onto the music scene in 1984 with their first single, “West End Girls.” The London duo used a relatively simple synthesizer, a Korg MS-10, to craft lush and sophisticated soundscapes, which singer Neil Tennant populated with the silky razor blade of…