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The Chicks

July 2024

  • Karen Middleton

    Tenacious D and the Dixie Chicks know the cost of speaking up – but there’s nothing funny about political violence

    Karen Middleton
    A bad-taste joke about the Trump shooting shows the old lines of democratic civility are beginning to blur

December 2023

  • An old, somewhat blurry color image of a woman with long brown hair and a cowboy hat playing guitar and singing into a microphone.

    US band Dixie Chicks ‘shocked and saddened’ by death of co-founder Laura Lynch

    Lynch, 65, who died following a car crash outside El Paso, played upright bass and sang on three albums in the early 1990s

June 2023

  • ‘Outlandish musicianship’ … Emily Strayer and Natalie Maines of the Chicks perform at Cardiff Castle, 27 June 2023.

    The Chicks review – barn-burning virtuosity and cut-glass vocals

    Cardiff Castle
    Rain no match for the pop-country icons as the Texans dazzle crowds with tracks from their comeback album and old favourites

March 2023

  • Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner, Elton John and Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses.

    Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, Elton John: all-male Glastonbury headliners a ‘pipeline’ problem, says Emily Eavis

    ‘We’re trying our best,’ says organiser as she unveils first 54 names on 2023 lineup and calls on music industry to develop headline-worthy female acts

July 2022

  • Aphex Twin pictured in 2014.

    ‘Aphex Twin pours water on my meltdowns’: Guardian readers on the songs that soothe them

    Donald Trump is reportedly calmed by a blast of Memory from Cats – but our readers prefer Radiohead and Miles Davis

July 2020

  • Mack, Jack &amp; McConaughey Presents Dixie Chicks In Concert<br>AUSTIN, TX - APRIL 12: (L-R) Singer-songwriters Emily Robison, Natalie Maines, and Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks perform in concert during the Mack, Jack &amp; McConaughey charity gala at ACL Live on April 12, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern/WireImage)

    Shut Up and Sing: why the Chicks' 2006 documentary means more now than ever

    It’s been 14 years since the Chicks released a documentary on their country radio cancellation – but the film still has a lot to say on how we got here
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