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If I'm not in the room, then Gossip lead singer Beth Ditto is the loudest person in the house. Ditto has a big mouth, and not just in interviews, but on record too - she packs a wallop. With Rick R... Read more

Gossip is blessed with possibly the strongest, most easily identified and soulful female singer in current rock music. Beth Ditto's tremulous voice ranges in tone from raging shouts to melodic cooi... Read more

Gossip naming their latest ‘Music For Men’ is obviously ironic, considering how female theiraudience is, and the band’s iconic status in the lesbian community. But their electro-... Read more

"If there's a risk, I’ll take it," the post-punk princess Beth Ditto proclaims on "8th Wonder." Sweeping up disco sounds and bringing them out of the safe havens of gay-friendly towns and niche gen... Read more

Music For Men is the Rick Rubin produced major label debut from indie darlings The Gossip. This is a band that has evolved since their Kill Rock Stars days of two minute bluesy garage punk in 2000 ... Read more

After spending the past half-decade strutting around the edges of the mainstream, Gossip makes its major-label debut with Music For Men, which buffs the band’s sound to an even higher sheen than ... Read more

Beth Ditto, the singer in this Portland, Ore.-via-Arkansas trio, has become a celebrity overseas because of her anti-diva attitude, robust physique and gutsy voice. Her outspoken views on feminism ... Read more

It’s hard to figure out exactly what Rick Rubin is doing as a producer, even if most of the time he’s doing it right. In a cover story for The New York Times Magazine two years ago, Rubin said,... Read more

‘Music For Men’ opent met een citaat: “Everybody knows / the things she does to please”. Een verwijzing naar de Velvet Underground, of naar de versie van ‘Femme Fatale... Read more

Two parts Corin Tucker to one part Big Mama Thornton, Arkansas' Beth Dittois a bow-down awesome singer, and her powerhouse trio have been makinggroove-wise punk blues for a decade. But here, with h... Read more