Open Modal In the new issue of Electronic Beats Magazine, Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe eloquently meditate about pop being a matter of surface. Tennant states: “The war between the fake authenticity of rock and the real authenticity of pop was sort of won by pop. But it could be un-won by a rock – more
Trap music and Renaissance art in the same setting might make art (or, possibly, music) purists yell ‘Suffering saviors!’ in a funny Sylvester the cat voice, but from EB editor Daniel’s perspective, it’s a perfect fit. – more
Here’s something to make the start of the new week more bearable—a fifteen minute clip of Nicolas Jaar’s live set at Electronic Beats Festival, Budapest on September 13. – more
Today’s Mix of the Day is a recording of September’s Pet Shop Bears’ DJ set from the Pet Shop Boys EB Showcase, recorded live at Horst Krzbrg. – more
“Elysium is an album that has been made by two men in their fifties. And yet it’s still pop music. So, in a way, this is sort of a strange dialectic that pop in theory is a young people’s musical form and it can be about growing old.” – more
