UK Times Online just listed the 100 best pop albums of this century (but remember, we’ve still got one year with hopefully loads of good tunes coming up).
Here’s the top 10:
1. Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
2. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black (2006)
3. Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
4. Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
5. Britney Spears – Blackout (2007)
6. The Strokes – Is This It? (2001)
7. Richard Hawley – Coles Corner (2005)
8. The White Stripes – Elephant (2003)
9. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (2007)
10. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
Gossip (aka The Gossip) got very creative and made a funny infomercial for their forthcoming new album «Music For Men» out on June 22.
Gossip was formed in 1999 in Olympia, Washington with vocalist Beth Ditto, guitarist Brace Paine, and drummer Kathy Mendonca. The band is pretty indie and clearly not girlie pop. They have toured with the likes of the White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sleater Kinney.
Beth Ditto, who fronts the band, describes herself as a «fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas,» whose powerful voice has been compared to female greats such as Etta James, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner. Her lyrics are explicitly girl-love related and the band’s latest single «Standing in the way of control» is a fiery disco/punk/blues/soul attack on the Republicans’ attitude to gay marriage.
One of Rolling Stone’s top 100 albums of the decade, Rated R from Queens Of The Stone Age marks its 10th anniversary with the expanded, two-CD Rated R – Deluxe Edition, released August 3, 2010. Added to the original album is a second disc with six B-sides and the band’s memorable summer 2000 Reading Festival […]