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  Beth Ditto Arrested for Drunkenly Screaming 'Obama!' in the Streets of Portland

  March 18, 2013 – Gossip leader Beth Ditto was arrested early Saturday morning (March 16) for disorderly conduct after being denied service at a Portland bar, the Portland Mercury reports.A source at the scene told the Willamette Week that the 32-year-old frontwoman was cut off from drinks at Bungalo Bar, which prompted the "Move in the Right Direction" singer to walk out into the street, throw off her shoes and purse, and repeatedly screa …
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  Beth Ditto Bares All In Her Memoir 'Coal to Diamonds'

  October 11, 2012 – Finally, the fall's parade of music memoirs features a title from someone who is not an old white rocker. Beth Ditto's Coal to Diamonds (Spiegel & Grau), out October 9, finds the provocative Gossip frontwoman sharing the details of her journey from poverty and a broken home in small town Arkansas to dance-punk stardom. At only 153 pages, the book is a brief read, but it's got its fill of drama. …
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  Simian Mobile Disco Preview New LP, 'Unpatterns'

  March 6, 2012 – Journalistic ethics prevent me from doing much in the way of covering Simian Mobile Disco, or at least I’m required to disclose that the U.K. duo once included one of my tracks in their mix CD Is Fixed (#humblebrag). So feel free to consider me biased when I tell you that I'm excited about SMD’s forthcoming album Unpatterns, due May 14 on Wichita Recordings. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: Gossip's Beth Ditto Nods to Madonna

  February 16, 2011 – While Lady Gaga is expressing her love for Madonna with "Born This Way," Gossip singer-gone-solo Beth Ditto pays apparent tribute to Madge with the music video for "I Wrote the Book" (watch below), the first single from her eponymous solo EP (available online March 8).Shot at London's swank Grosvenor House by director Price James (Hercules and the Love Affair, Peaches), the black and white clip finds Ditto primping, being smothered by t …
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  Watch It: Ronson and the Kills Rock Fashion Show

  January 27, 2011 – Mark Ronson recently performed a live set for Paris Fashion Week - and he brought out a top roster of guests for the show, including Gossip's Beth Ditto, The Kills, Karen Elson, Spank Rock, and more. …
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  New Britney Song, Kanye-Kardashian Collabo + More

  December 30, 2010 – Britney Spears will premiere the first song from her upcoming album on January 7. "Hold It Against Me" is produced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin. According to Z100 radio's programming director Sharon Dastur, who heard the track, "Hold It Against Me" has "this infectious bass beat beneath the song. …
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  The Gossip Kick Off U.S. Tour in D.C.

  October 8, 2009 – Now a major-label act with U.K. chart hits whose bluesy garage-punk style has been streamlined by producer Rick Rubin, the Gossip are no longer underground scrappers. But somebody forgot to inform vocalist Beth Ditto, who was her old exuberant subcultural self when the band began its first U.S. tour in three years early Wednesday night at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club. …
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