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Stella Lefty has explained how Noah Kahan came to receive a songwriting credit on her hit ‘Boston’ and how the songs’ similarities came about. The track was released in March and has now climbed to a peak of Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100. For some listeners, its chorus bears a close resemblance to Kahan’s 2022 breakout hit ‘Stick Season’, and Kahan is credited as a songwriter on ‘Boston’, alongside Lefty, Grace Enger, Jacob Hindlin and Joe Reeves. Now, Lefty has spoken to Vanity Fair about how the song came about, explaining that she wrote it about her boyfriend, country musician Vincent…
Dolly Parton knew how loved she was. It wasn’t an accident — it was always part of her plan. Even as a girl, growing up dirt-poor in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, she planned to grow up into a star everyone would know. The country queen wore the whole story of American music on her shoulders like a coat of many colors. That’s how she become the most universally beloved of American singers, a sequined superstar who also happened to be a ferociously original genius. “I was telling my own stories, speaking my own feelings,” Parton told Rolling Stone in…
Snoop Dogg is the latest celebrity to appear in Hitman: World Of Assassination, playing elusive target Dr Crysu Cane. Hitman: World Of Assassination launched in 2023 and brought together the best bits of the original Hitman trilogy. Since then, a number of limited-edition missions have been added to the stealth shooter with a number of celebrities also getting involved. Already this year, Wiz Khalifa, Eminem and Dmitri Vegas have joined Hitman: World Of Assassination as elusive targets and now Snoop Dogg is being added to the game as part of the new The Herbalist mission. Available from tomorrow (August 27)…
Ha venduto più di 100 milioni di dischi e ha contribuito a ridefinire la musica country e l’industria dell’intrattenimento. A partire dagli anni ’60, le sue canzoni hanno raccontato con vivida precisione i dettagli della sua infanzia in povertà sui Monti Appalachi. Ha cantato di amore, fede, perdita e rimpianto. Ha influenzato generazioni di autori e interpreti conquistati dal suo spirito indomabile, dal suo senso dell’umorismo brillante e dalla sua saggezza schietta e popolare. Dolly Parton è stata la più grande artista country di tutti i tempi e ha scritto migliaia di canzoni personali eppure universali tra cui 9 to…
An early ‘songwriting work tape’ has been released, showing how The Beatles‘ ‘Day Tripper’ came together. The original song was recorded during the sessions for the Fab Four’s landmark 1965 album ‘Rubber Soul’. Both ‘Day Tripper’ and ‘We Can Work It Out’ were set to be released as a standalone double A-side single and were kept separate from the album. Now, ahead of a new expanded Special Edition of ‘Rubber Soul’ being released on October 2, a new ‘Songwriting Work Tape’ of ‘Day Tripper’ has been released – offering a rare glimpse into the earliest stages of the song. The…
Eminem has shared the touching letter he once received from Dolly Parton, while thanking the late icon for her “kind words”. The rapper (real name Marshall Mathers) paid tribute to the country icon on social media, following her death, aged 80, yesterday (Tuesday August 25). He attached the letter Parton had sent him after he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2022, with Parton being inducted that same year. “I’m sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had an impact on me. She definitely didn’t have to…
Ever since their fated formation in the hallowed stairwells of the Berklee College Of Music back in 2021, Tiny Habits have invited us to slow down. Whether you’ve scrolled onto their viral folk-infused covers to hear those divinely dissonant harmonies, been entranced by their backing vocals for indie darling Lizzy McAlpine or, most recently, watched clips of them singing the first dance song at the wedding of The 1975 frontman Matty Healy and Gabbriette Bechtel, the trio’s seemingly destined voices insist you stop and listen. Yet, while they have contributed many a beautiful “harmony on somebody’s story”, as they put…
Violet Grohl has cancelled two dates of her current UK headline tour after losing her voice. The singer-songwriter is out on the road for a run of UK and European shows in support of her debut album, ‘Be Sweet To Me’, which was released in May. However, Grohl told fans in a statement yesterday (Tuesday August 25) that her scheduled performance at Manchester’s Band On The Wall would not be going ahead – just hours before she was due on stage. She also confirmed that her planned gig at Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut for tonight (Wednesday August 26)…
“Mark Zuckerberg is my number one person I would like to donate some Kwengletarianism to,” Kibo declares, chuckling over Zoom. “I saw him do one interview where he was talking about sometimes he drinks coffee recreationally, and I was just like, ‘Oh, someone needs to get this guy a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch, a four-pack of Red Stripe, and let him listen to Max B’s greatest hits, and watch The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.’” The London MC’s self-devised mythology has come to define a lot of the chatter around him. It’s not a religion or a…
Kesha honored Dolly Parton during her concert at the Pavilion at Star Lake in Pittsburgh last night, showcasing a cover of Parton’s 1980 hit “Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You.)” The singer shared her familial connection to the song, which was originally released by Joe Sun in 1978 and then popularized by Parton a few years later. Kesha noted that her mom, Pebe Sebert, was one of the writers on the tune. “I just want to say thank you for bringing me so much joy today, because earlier today, I’m sure many of y’all know that we lost…
