Gossip Protocols help with maintaining membership and messaging in a distributed system by propagating messages throughout a cluster similar to how gossip spreads through a high school. Mimicking a dispersed band, we’ll strap together a cluster of nodes to make music to find out if gossip protocols are identical to their namesake. We will explore different implementations of gossip protocols, their use cases and downfalls, and open source projects that use them. Afterwards, we’ll listen to the song the cluster made as a musical immersion into a hefty distributed computing topic. This will clarify a commonly used, but less commonly understood key part of distributed systems infrastructure that will one day aid in resolving a late night page.