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| Gossip Is MTV’S 52/52 Featured Artist This Week |
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| News Briefs - Music | |
| Written by Marilyn Almonte | |
| Wednesday, 23 April 2008 | |
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Gossip is considered simultaneously iconic and iconoclastic, forging new visual and musical templates. Their music is uncompromising, even by rock & roll convention, and utterly refreshing by anyone else’s. Well, this is what they say. What do you think? Highlights about the Group: Gossip is signed to Music with a Twist—Sony BMG’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender label. They formed in Searcy, Arkansas, in 1999, relocated to Olympia, Washington that same year and released their eponymous debut EP, The Gossip. Now they’re based in Portland, Oregon, where Gossip has opened for Le Tigre, Mates of State, and Scissor Sisters, among others. This punk trio sensation has appeared on the cover of the UK’s prestigious music bible, NME, no less than three times in 2007, with the June 2nd issue notoriously featuring Beth Ditto proudly flaunting her “birthday suit". The NME declared Beth as its #1 choice for its “Coolest Of 2007″ list while, back in the States, Spin featured Beth in a six-page spread. I think the coolest thing about Beth is her self-confidence. Go Beth! She's definitely fighting against an image that has corrupted all our minds of what a singer should look like. Now, as for the band's music, that's all up to you. During the summer of 2007, Gossip was a part of the multi-artist True Colors Tour 2007, which traveled through 15 cities in the United States and Canada. Profits from the tour went to benefit the Human Rights Campaign. Their Releases: First full-length collection of songs, That’s Not What I Heard, in January 2001. EP, Arkansas Heat, in 2002, after touring with the White Stripes and Sleater-Kinney. Second full-length collection, Movement, was released in May 2003. Standing In The Way Of Control charted on Billboard’s European Top 100 Albums, with the single hitting the European Hot 100 Singles charts. The single has sold more than 150,000 copies in the UK. More than 50,000 copies of Gossip’s independent releases have been sold in the United States to-date. Their most recent album, Gossip - Live in Liverpool, is a deluxe live CD/DVD combo package. Look out for Gossip spots on MTV all this week on-air, or on demand at MTV.com. Sneak previews of Gossip Promo: Gossip Prom Performance- Heavy Cross MTV’s How to Survive High School A Taste of Their Music: Standing in the Way of Control           |
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Fronted by the brash and unapologetic vocalist, Beth Ditto, Brace Paine on guitar and bass, and Hannah Blilie on drums, the radical feminism-infused punk rock trio, Gossip, is MTV’s “52 Bands/52 Weeks” featured artists for this week. MTV provides the group with 11-hours of exposure through a series of videos aired on the channel throughout the week.
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