The first time I saw The Gossip was in Olympia, Wash., in 1998 or '99. It was at a house party on the east side of town. I was sitting on a porch when the band started. I watched a few seconds from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "If it doesn’t come naturally for me, it’s usually not meant to be," Beth Ditto says. "But I tried really hard to get this part." ...

Gossip, a band that I watched open for Sleater-Kinney at Irving Plaza nearly a quarter century ago, are back with Real Power, their first new album in 12 years. I knew that singer Beth Ditto always ...

When Beth Ditto speaks of her former Gossip bandmate Nathan “Brace Paine” Howdeshell, the love outweighs her shock. The rock trio disbanded in 2016 in part because Howdeshell became a born-again ...

“Who the hell writes a memoir at 27?” Beth Ditto recalls asking a decade ago. “I did it for the money of course, because I wanted to buy my mom a house.” And, with Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir, ...

“The first night of my tour is tonight,” said the singer, model, designer, and Marc Jacobs favorite Beth Ditto from a coat room in Washington, D.C., where she was taking refuge before heading onstage ...

As much as Beth Ditto has always been a woman ahead of her time—she burst onto the scene some 18 years ago as the rabble-rousing frontwoman of Gossip, back when intersectional feminism was hardly a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disco, pop, punk, rock, soul, electro: Gossip, like few other bands, have had no fear of crossing genre boundaries. Their comeback ...

Former Gossip singer Beth Ditto declared the impending arrival of her debut LP Fake Sugar with its searing first single “Fire.” The album, Ditto’s first full-length release as a solo artist, is due ...