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Alison Moyet kicked off her first solo tour of North America in 14 years at Toronto's newly renovated Queen Elizabeth Theatre last night.

The British singer kicks off the 16-city trek Oct. 5 in Toronto, with highlights including stops in New York City , Boston and Los Angeles .

YouTube via peahix "This is a cover of the Yazoo song "Nobody's Diary." Marie Haddad did the singing, I did the music/production. This was largely an experiment to see what could be done with an old Casio ...

's synth-pad last night at the Beacon Theater should have been more than enough to break the heatwave that has taken over the city.

's synth-pad last night at the Beacon Theater should have been more than enough to break the heatwave that has taken over the city.

EVERY summer, musical acts that seemed like they were gone for good suddenly get together for one last hurrah or to try to make a go of it again .

Martina McBride has the kind of voice made for outdoor concerts, where it can soar.

The entire short-lived career of Yaz could be summed up in the final 15 minutes of its "Reconnected" tour: the dance floor packer "Don't Go," the haunting ballad "Only You," and the club anthem "Situation." But ...

In an '80s music scene dominated by glossy, superficial sounds, the British duo Yaz stood out: While musical wizard Vince Clarke was one of the pioneers of electronic music, his partner, vocalist Alison Moyet, ...

Called Yazoo in England - and Yaz over here - Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet were a duo only from 1982 to 1983, just enough time for them to score three dance hits that, by themselves, justify the existence of ...

Yazoo -- known as Yaz in the US -- kicked off their first Stateside tour in 25 years in California this week.

In Your Roomis a very nice summation of a brief, but shining seminal '80s act.

Yaz (in the US, and known as Yazoo in the UK and abroad) has just released In Your Room, a box set of their entire and short-lived career. Both albums, Upstairs At Eric's and You And Me Both, are presented in remastered versions of their original UK running order as well as a bonus disc of B-sides and remixes, and a DVD that includes the...

Yaz always did leave fans wanting more. During the course of their brief but auspicious career in the early 1980s, the onetime Basildon, England-based duo released just two albums and three singles.

Alison Moyet isn't one of those '80s stars stuck in the past. Sure, she's in the middle of the much-anticipated Yaz reunion tour, teaming up with synthesizer wiz Vince Clarke for the first time in 25 years.

Anyone attending Carmel Morgan's London play "Smaller" a couple of years ago was in for a surreal surprise.

If you make or spin music involving electronic elements and you're halfway good at it, chances are you played Snar at some point over the past few days.

If you're as big an '80s pop fan as I am, you know Yaz. And you love them. Since I happened to be in London this week on "holiday" , I made sure to get my arse to the Hammersmith Apollo theater to catch the ...

Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke have seen so little of each other since electro duo Yazoo went its separate ways in 1983 that Moyet reckons they caught up recently for the first time in 16 years.

Ah yeah. Time once again for the monthly Bootie Top 10 over at the always slammin' Bootie USA .

So I return from the Memorial Day holiday to find a surprising announcement in my mailbox: Yaz has reunited for the first time in 25 years and is coming to the Lakewood Theater.