Uber-producer Rick Rubin has made a venture with Columbia Records, the label announced Monday. Rubin, who grabbed five Grammy Awards this past February for his work with the Dixie Chicks and Red Hot Chili Peppers, will "form a dynamic and creative executive partnership" with Columbia chairman Steve Barnett, under a new model devised by Sony Music Label Group president Rob Stringer, the label’s .
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Wanna venture a guess who has this fancy little tattoo? Answer after the jump.... It's Dixie Chick, Natalie Maines, who has apparently decided she'd be happier as an angry male motorcycle cop. I kid, I kid. More pictures here.
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"All the News that's fit to print"NY Times does a brief review of "Shut Up And Sing" in the Movies section today. I probably will not see the movie but would happily give the cost of two tickets, popcorn, drinks, etc. to the makers of the film just for keeping it in the public eye and "on the record". "Shifting back and forth between 2003 and the more recent past, as the trio prepares its newes...
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FROM THE NY TIMES: 51% of Women Are Now Living Without SpouseFor what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.
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*Prairie poppets become the unlikely darlings of the counter-culture and emerge with dignity intact in a must-see documentary*When Natalie Maines told a London audience in 2003 she was "ashamed" that President Bush came from her home state of Texas, the fallout threatened to destroy the Dixie Chicks, up to that point the biggest-selling female band in history. It led to boycotts by all-powerful...
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And so the Dixie Chicks win all five awards Grammies they were nominated for, including "Best Song" for "Not Ready to Make Nice".Take that, Clear Channel!On their first US tour after Natalie Said That Stuff, they played to a sellout crowd at Philips Arena here in Atlanta.Someone booed, and Natalie smiled out over the audience, and said, "Go ahead and boo - you paid us sixty bucks for the privil...
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I am posting these songs in honor of CrashPryor and of all of our ghosts, as one MOGGER has so well put it.The first speaks of the silence our loved ones give us and the comfort we find in even that silence. After they are gone, sometimes it is all we have.The second features so many wonderful lines about how our loved one made us a better person and how we undervalued him or her --- but, as t...
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Not usually a big fan of these Harry Chapin-style songs, but this one came up in a mix I was listening to yesterday. I've seen Bruce Robison, who wrote this, do it live a number of times. I had just read about a guy who re-upped for his third tour in Irag. He said he felt like people cared about him more there than in the US, which is why he was going back. That bummed me out and then I hea...
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Anyone gonna check this out? If you're in the entertainment business the right think you shouldn't have opinions.
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Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys murdered in Crittenden County, Ark. in 1993, recently filed a complaint against Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for statements posted to the band's website in November of 2007 and comments she made last December. The complaint alleges Maines wrongfully made a "false and reckless claim that [...]
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When news came out in 2003 that Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said to a London audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas", many country music fans and music industry experts turned their backs on the band. The band's future looked uncertain until they released their 2006 single 'Not Ready To Make Nice', a smart country-rock anthem...
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A LoFi MP3 of an original song composed and performed by the Dixie Chicks has leaked on the internet. "Lucky Ones" was slated to appear in the upcoming Lionsgate film titled The Lucky Ones, directed by Neil Burger and starring Tim Robbins, but the song was removed from the film when both sides could not [...]
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This is one song i can sing word for worrd...not that i sing realy well..but this song is forever in my heart
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PopMatters is 10 years old this year and we're celebrating all year by remembering the culture of the year we were born. Look for a special music of 1999 special section in just a few weeks. In the...
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A couple of years ago, as we were launching the Rock Town Hall blog that you are presently reading, a Founding Father of this long-running discussion group, one who launched our original Yahoo Groups list with me, was caught in the grips of resistance to the changing tides. He fought valiantly to keep the old list alive, posting his patently hilarious and sometimes offensive rants, ones that in...
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