While Amy Winehouse mined the albums of ’60s girl groups and Phil Spector for inspiration on Back to Black, the three gals in the Pipettes take a much more playful approach to that era. On its debut, ...

The Pipettes have revealed that they are recording a new Christmas single. The group, who released their first track 'Pipettes Christmas Single' in 2004, have recorded a new festive song which they ...

I went to see the Pipettes at the new Highline Ballroom in NYC Tuesday night (June 5, 2007). I expected a polished, very modern, and sleek concert hall. That was exactly what I got – the ballroom was ...

“I’ve been writing about pop music for over a decade. The bulk of my work can be found on Pitchfork, where I hung my hat between 2000 and 2004.” [Chris Ott] “In the end, We Are the Pipettes is a ...

On the surface, The Pipettes appear to simply be a throwback to the girl group era of the early ‘60s — an English trio in polka-dot dresses singing catchy pop love songs. But there’s more to The ...

A British pop act is taking the world by storm – one polka dot at a time. The female trio, which has made its polka-dot ensembles a visual motif for the band, is in the midst of its third tour ...

It reminded me of Olympia, WA. It wasn’t much. A half-dozen chairs pushed to one side, a woman behind the bar serving reasonably priced beer, a boy on stage playing sweet, plangent songs of loss and ...