Review: Lily Allen — West End Girl

Review: Lily Allen — West End Girl
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My heart truly belongs to the pop girlies of the early 2000s and among the most underrated is Lily Allen. Post-90s, there was a sudden wave of women musicians. … read more

Review: Addison Rae — Addison

Review: Addison Rae — Addison
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The truth is she is just so damn charming and delightful so listeners welcome the new superstar with open, loving arms. The world is her oyster and she is the only girl. … read more

Raiding the Airwaves: The Legacy of Jimmy Chunga and Radio Ronin

Raiding the Airwaves: The Legacy of Jimmy Chunga and Radio...
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Tuning my signal to the Sin City airspace, I spoke with Jimmy Chunga, the ringleader of 101.9 The End (and now, the podcast Radio Ronin), to analyze this curve. … read more

Quoting The Best Bits: Pet Shop Boys @ The Complex 10.22

Quoting The Best Bits: Pet Shop Boys @ The Complex...
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Pet Shop Boys always deliver the goods, and they adapted their latest set (gleaned partially from their recent, excellent Super album) to The Complex’s smallish stage successfully with their talent and charm and simply gave the crowd what they wanted: great dance and pop tunes in dynamic new arrangements. … read more

Pet Shop Boys’ Super: We’re Gonna Burn This Disco Down!

Pet Shop Boys’ Super: We’re Gonna Burn This Disco Down!
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Ever the purveyors of sophisticated dance music, Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe return to show us why 35 years in they not only have the goods, but are still thrillingly active in pioneering the sound that made them famous. … read more

Contributor Limelight: Dean O Hillis

Contributor Limelight: Dean O Hillis
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  There’s no bigger purveyor of new wave pop than SLUG’s own beloved music lover Dean O Hillis. As a manager of MODified Music in the ’90s, Hillis was Salt Lake’s ambassador of musique Britannica, from Morrissey to Pet Shop Boys to Saint Etienne. He began writing for SLUG nearly 15 years ago, and has