The Gossip are the three-piece punk rock electro band from Olympia, Washington’s underground scene who broke through in the UK in spectacular style in 2006 with the single and album ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’. Lead by the unlikely rock star, lesbian, feminist, fashion icon and ‘cool’ person Beth Ditto, the infectious trio...
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Today, I’m with The Beastie Boy’s Mike D, in a central London hotel, the day of the group’s second London Brixton Academy show, and just a few days before they are to headline the UK summer festival swansong, Bestival. Mike D is sporting a coloured band-aid on his cheek which, he says, is the...
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It almost looked, in 2002, that the super-group of Audioslave – featuring the instrument-playing members of Rage Against The Machine and the distinctive vocals of Chris Cornell from Soundgarden – was doomed, less than a year after the musicians had first come together. An album was recorded, but then Cornell abandoned the group and...
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