Weeeeird. So do we! Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto sounded off on pop starlet Katy Perry in a cover story for this month’s Attitude magazine, opining that Perry’s Summer of ‘08 smash “I Kissed A Girl” is merely an “anthem for straight girls who like to turn guys on by making out or faking gay.” Herself a lesbian, Ditto continued, “She’s just riding on the back of our culture, without having to pay any of the dues and not being actually lesbian or anything at all.” Look out for the Gossip’s forthcoming Rick Rubin-produced full-length, Music For Men when it arrives on June 22nd. It growls.

The latest album from The Gossip will not be available until late June, but the dance-punkers have a new single out, “Heavy Cross”, and we are unleashing the song via an unofficial video for you to preview.
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Ever since the collective frenzy we all worked ourselves into worrying what was going to happen to the world when the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2000, New Years have become cause for worry and constant concern. Now as that fateful date approaches again, we find ourselves asking — what horrors does 2009 hold? Luckily, former Sleater-Kinney guitarist and writer/blogger Carrie Brownstein has the answers for us via an extremely informative psychic/astrological reading.
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