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Goldfrapp Announces The Singles Album Details, Reveals "Yellow Halo" Video

Electro/synthpop duo Goldfrapp (Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory) recently announced via their website and twitter that they have a greatest hits album coming out early next year on February 6, The Singles, celebrating over a decade of awesome electro-synthy goodness. Nestled in with popular mainstays are a couple of new songs as well, like "Yellow Halo", a soothing pop number that the duo recently released a music video for.  read more

Hans Zimmer Getting Inspired by Goldfrapp and Verdi

Talking to MTV earlier in February, film composer Hans Zimmer revealed that the score for The Dark Knight Rises will be “extraordinarily epic.”...  read more

Goldfrapp Announces American Tour Dates

Now that their latest album, Head First, has hit streets, the Goldfrapp duo of Brits Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory are ready to set out on tour to promote their newly minted tunes. They already had some European dates lined up, but have just added a few American stops to their tour as well....  read more

Goldfrapp: Head First

Thinking man’s diva revels in ’80s-pop artifice Alison Goldfrapp never does anything halfway. From the icy, otherworldly electro-acoustic soundscapes of 2000’s Felt Mountain to her subsequent romps through dance-pop and leering glam, she’s become a more dangerous and dignified counterpart to the look-at-me theatrics of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Now, following an unexpected shift toward pastoral psych-pop on 2008’s Seventh Tree, she and collaborator Will Gregory have circled back to dance music, this time with a pronounced emphasis on ’80s synth-pop and Italo disco....  read more

Portishead and Goldfrapp Members Score Joan of Arc Movie

How do you update a classic silent film from the 1920s? By breaking the silence with a new score. That’s what Adrian Utley of Portishead and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory are doing with The Passion of Joan of Arc, Prefix reports....  read more

Le Tigre Blogs About Christina Aguilera Collaboration

Christina Aguilera has come a long way from middle-school boom box jams (“Reflection,” anyone?) and the “Dirrrty” music video. For her upcoming album, Bionic, tentatively scheduled for April, Aguilera has logged studio time with an interesting and talented batch of ladies—Goldfrapp, Ladytron, M.I.A., Santigold and Le Tigre....  read more

Band Names That Sound Too Much Alike

When our esteemed designer Josh Baker heard that Dignan was playing in our studio, he thought Dungen was coming in. Fortunately, both bands are awesome so he wasn’t disappointed—just a little confused. But it got us thinking about other bands with names that are too much alike. Here are our favorites: ...  read more

Ricky Gervais, Daniel Day-Lewis, more auction underwear

Just admit it. We all get a little curious about the details of our favorite celebrities' personal lives at one time or another. Well, thanks to a charity organized by Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone, you can get just about as close to those (hopefully clean) details as humanly possible....  read more

Goldfrapp announces North American tour dates

Goldfrapp will bring its infectious electronica pop (electronipop? poptronica? too much?) to North American shores this fall. ...  read more

Goldfrapp to tour U.S. and Europe

British duo Goldfrapp will play a handful of U.S. concert dates before kicking off a European tour later this summer. Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory formed Goldfrapp in 1999 and released their debut, Felt Mountain, a year later. The pair has since released three more albums and continues to dabble in multiple musical genres. The duo's unique hybrid of atmospheric electronic music and glam rock caught the ears of marketing teams at Verizon Wireless and Target, who used the songs “Strict Machine,” “Fly Me Away” and “Number One” in national advertising campaigns. Goldfrapp’s latest album, Seventh Tree, was released Feb....  read more