Gossip's new album A Joyful Noise was released yesterday and it was produced by Brian Higgins, from Xenomania.
This is the fifth album of the american indie pop band formed in 1999 that succeeds the very successful, Music For Men.
Track listing:
1. Melody Emergency
2. Perfect World
3. Get a job
4. Move in the Right Direction
5. Casualties of war
6. Into the Wild
7. Get Lost
8. Involved
9. Horns
10. I Won't Play
11. Love in a Foreign Place
Let's hope this new album is as joyful as its title suggests.
In the beginning of March, Gossip released their first single Perfect World. Check it out here:
Gossip are an American indie rock band created in 1999.
The actual members are Beth Ditto (vocals and piano), Nathan "Brace Paine" Howdeshell (guitar and bass) and Hannah Blilie (drums), the last one replacing Kathy Mendonça who left the band in 2003.
Gossip's sonority is a mix between indie rock and dance-punk. They are known for songs like Pop Goes The World, Listen Up and Love Long Distance.
The band released 4 EP's - The Gossip (1999), Arkansas Heat (1999), Real Damage (2005) and GSSP RMX (2006) and 4 studio albums - That's Not What I Heard (2001), Movement (2003), Standing In The Way Of Control (2006) and Music For Men (2009).
Music For Men was released on June 29, 2009 by Columbia Records.
The initial critical response was positive, but some criticized the "loud" sound quality of the album.
Heavy Cross is the first single taken from Music For Men and according to Ditto on an interview with NME this song is "I know so many amazing people who devote their lives to undoing things, and I feel that's the essence of punk now because punk's already been done, it's old. It's about recreation and my friends, who I feel like are the ultimate creative re-creators."
Released on April 28, 2009 the single was considered on September 2010 the "most successful internationally produced single" of all times.
"It's a funny way to make ends meet
When the lights are out on every street
It feels alright, but never complete
Without you"
Joe Jonas, better known for being member of Jonas Brothers, is coming to Portugal on October 14.
Jonas is going to give a showcase on the Lisbon disco - Gossip, presenting his solo project Fastlife, released on October 10, including his debut single See No More.
But this show is reserved to ZON Música Ilimitado users or TV ZON Clients with Iris service, becoming an exclusive presentation. On zon.pt/musica there are 200 invitations available, follow the link for more information.
But for those who don't have those services, the american artist will be on Vasco da Gama WORTEN, on October 14 around 5pm.
This is a song released in 2006 along with Gossip's third studio album Standing in the Way of Control.
Later, in 2007 this song was re-released (the version above). This version (the raio version too) has in its music video a transgender woman and a transgender man walk around Portland, Oregon cruising during the day, then later in the evening at a club the two stare at each other from across the dancefloor and they start dancing together.
I really like these lyrics and they tell an important truth. There are some people that you can't trust. Maybe that's why I don't trust anybody too much. Besides the lyrics, the beat is really catchy.
Everybody knows someone like that Who borrows money and won't pay you back They'll talk about you at the drop of a hyde lie about it to your face, when they're caught... There's some people that you just can't trust Some people just talk too much. Take my advice, and Listen Up! Don't be a fool like the rest of us. Now listen UP!
One year ago I was having one of my best nights ever. A night I was waiting for for a couple of months. A night full of energy. A night to remember.
July 2nd 2010 was the day I saw P!nk for the very first time live. And you can imagine it was amazing, even better than what I was expecting and believe me my expectations were way high.
P!nk was the first woman headlining Wireless Festival – a festival that happens once a year in London. She was the last one of the night.
First were the ‘Bowling for Soup’ and ‘Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders’, didn't like it..
The afternoon got some meaning when Beth Ditto – the singer of 'Gossip' – got on the stage. It was such a concert. I didn’t know the band, only one or two songs. At the end I was surprised with the vocal abilities of their singer.
After that we had the pleasure to warm with 'The Ting Tings', how wonderful it is when one girl and one guy make a concert by themselves with so much energy to share with the crowd, hun?
Last but not the least, of course, P!nk. She was supposed to act at 8:30pm we arrived at the place where the festival would be around 8:00am. How crazy? Not that much, when it’s the only gig you’re going to be able to go of your idol.
It all started with P!nk flying down from a massive box that was 50 feet in the air and goes straight to Get The Party Started. She sings Funhouse and Ave Mary A (with such a different but amazing beginning). Could ANYONE ask for a better entrance?
Who Knew, I would say, was sung by every single person that was on that park. Seriously, what a crowd!!!! Following Bad influence, and Just Like a Pill.
While singing Please Don’t Leave Me she make her way down to the crowd. Back to the stage, she continued with her hugest successes I’m Not Dead, Unwind (old song), I Don’t Believe you and Dear Mr President – I swear the security girl in front of me knew the whole lyrics of this song.
The night got better when Butch Walker got on the stage to sing a song they both wrote together Mean and a medley of three songs My Generation, Basket Case and Roxanne – the last one while P!nk in a huge inflatable dome, surfing the grown from one side of the arena to the other. She then covered a song from the mythic band 4 Non Blondes called What’s Up?. Another two successes U + Ur Hand and Leave Me Alone and P!nk and the band left the stage. BUT…
They returned to play one more song. So what, if P!nk decides to straps herself into a harness and flys across the Arena?
It was the perfect end.
[Unfortunately, the videos are from another festival she went a few days before in UK.]
Yeah I'm pretty sure it was one of the best nights of my life.
This is the fifth album of the american indie pop band formed in 1999 that succeeds the very successful, Music For Men.
