• Chicks singer Natalie Maines: ‘Today I might actually make out with George Bush’

    Chicks singer Natalie Maines: ‘Today I might actually make out with George Bush’

    The Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, famously became pariahs in country music after they criticized George W. Bush in 2003 for the war in Iraq. But singer Natalie Maines says Donald Trump has put things in perspective. “Today I might actually make out with George Bush,” she told Andy Cohen in an upcoming …
  • The Chicks’ ‘Gaslighter’ review: A bold, bracing divorce album

    The Chicks’ ‘Gaslighter’ review: A bold, bracing divorce album

    In a long-distant era of discord suspi­ciously similar to our own, Natalie Maines, the singer for the group that was, until last month, known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. Bush in 2003. Since then, she’s owned her political words more deliberately by laying into Donald …
  • Dixie Chicks change their name, dropping the ‘Dixie’

    Dixie Chicks change their name, dropping the ‘Dixie’

    Goodbye, Dixie. Amid calls for the removal of Confederate symbols and nostalgia prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement, the notoriously liberal country-music trio formerly known as Dixie Chicks have finally decided that “Dixie” had to die. Now simply the Chicks, bandmates Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire, who have sold some 33 million …
  • Is it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name?

    Is it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name?

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  • The 8 hottest bookings in the summer concert series

    The 8 hottest bookings in the summer concert series

    Summertime does not only usually mean music festivals in the city — it also brings on concert series from TV’s morning shows that give you good reason to set your alarm on a Friday. This year, though, it won’t be quite the same: “Good Morning America” won’t be taking over Central Park Summerstage, nor will …
  • Dixie Chicks share heartfelt new song ‘Julianna Calm Down’

    Dixie Chicks share heartfelt new song ‘Julianna Calm Down’

    The Dixie Chicks have postponed their comeback album “Gaslighter,” originally slated for a May 1st release, but they’re still sharing new music from the LP. On Thursday, the group quietly posted a new track, “Julianna Calm Down,” to IGTV. Produced with Jack Antonoff, the song is a message to young women (it’s named after Emily …