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Guitarist + bassist & keyboardist Brace 'Nathan' Paine and Vocalist
Beth Ditto have been friends since Nathan was 15 and each of them was
formulating a cosmopolitan world-view encompassing far more than their
lives in small farming towns on the outskirts of Searcy, Arkansas USA.
A Punk mixtape made its way from Paine to Ditto, via a mutual friend,
Kathy Mendonca, who became the first drummer for the Gossip and the seeds
of a long-standing friendship and musical union were planted.
The trio managed to channel the Blues through the basics of Rock, a strong
singer, hip-shaking riffs and a steady beat, recording their first album
in Mendonca's garage. "That's Not What I Heard" was released
in November 2000 on Kill Rock Stars label.
A 6-track EP, "Arkansas Heat", followed two years later before
the band got to work on their second full-length disc. Recorded in a true
studio, in Seattle, "Movement" arrived in May 2003; the album
showed that working in this environment did not hinder the trio's trademark
raging Rock and Beth Ditto, a self-described fat lesbian feminist, became
an unlikely sex symbol.
Drummer Hannah Blilie replaced Mendonca in late 2004; once she came on-board,
the Gossip line-up was in-place, ready to shake some action and kick down
some walls. The young indie-Rock trio broke-through with 2005's "Standing
In The Way Of Control", which soared to #1 on the U.K. indie chart
and reached the #22 position on the official British Albums Sales chart
while the title-track hit the U.K. top 10.
Since the group's formation, the Gossip has toured with a wide variety
of musicians including Le Tigre, Sonic
Youth and The White Stripes to
a name of few.
The genre-bending do-it-yourself post-Punk Rock trio Gossip bring a new
level of lyrical power and musical sophistication to their ever-evolving,
always-electrifying sound and sensibility on "Music For Men",
the group's first major label studio album. It was realeased through Columbia
Records in June 2009; "Heavy Cross" is the first single off
the CD.
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