{"id":76051,"date":"2024-03-20T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/03\/20\/for-gossip-existence-itself-is-an-act-of-protest-everything-about-this-is-radical\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:04:28","slug":"for-gossip-existence-itself-is-an-act-of-protest-everything-about-this-is-radical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/03\/20\/for-gossip-existence-itself-is-an-act-of-protest-everything-about-this-is-radical\/","title":{"rendered":"For Gossip, Existence Itself Is an Act of Protest: \u2018Everything About This Is\u00a0Radical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThere was never supposed to be a \u201cproper\u201d Gossip<\/a> comeback. After releasing its album A Joyful Noise<\/em> nearly 12 years ago, the band \u2014 made up of lead singer Beth Ditto, guitarist Nathan Howdeshell and drummer Hannah Blilie \u2014 decided to call it quits and return to their respective lives, both in and out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFate, Ditto has since learned, works in funny ways. A brief 10th anniversary reunion tour<\/a> for their Rick Rubin-produced album Music for Men<\/em> in 2019 got the group back in the rhythm of things. But it wasn\u2019t until the early days of the pandemic that Ditto found herself recording a solo album with Rubin in Hawaii, missing her bandmates. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have such a language that we have developed together,\u201d she explains to Billboard <\/em>via Zoom. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve done it for 20+ years, you just know what the other person is saying. It happens in band practice a lot, with me and Hannah and Nathan.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tCalling up Howdeshell and Blilie to come work with her on a new album, Ditto is happy to say Gossip is officially back in 2024. Real Power<\/a>,<\/em> the band\u2019s sixth studio album (out Friday, March 22 via Columbia Records), is both a return to form and a breath of fresh air for the pioneering rock group. Continuing their time-honored tradition of blending Northwestern punk aesthetics with dashes of dance, soul and funk, the fabled trio spend much of the 40 minutes of their newest album addressing a world that has changed \u2014 both for better and worse \u2014 in the intervening decade since their disbanding.<\/p>\n

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