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Jelly Roll shared his thoughts on Dolly Parton while filling in as guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “We lost a legend today,” he told the audience at Jimmy Kimmel Live following her death on Tuesday. “She was such an inspiration to so many, myself included. We’re both from Tennessee and she meant a lot to my family, y’all. We used to sit around the kitchen table and listen to her music together as a family. I’ll never forget it.” He continued, “I learned so much from Dolly over the years about songwriting, how to handle this crazy business, and…
Jack White paid tribute to Dolly Parton with a live cover her famous song “Jolene” during his show at London’s Eventim Apollo on Tuesday night. White later shared a video of the emotional cover on his Instagram page. At the end of the clip, White points to the sky and makes the sign of the cross. The musician has a long history of covering “Jolene,” Parton’s 1974 hit single. The White Stripes frequently showcased their version of the song in concert, and included their rendition as the B-side to their 2000 single “Hello Operator.” In 2016, Parton told The Guardian…
The cast of Heroes joined forces to “celebrate the life” of Hayden Panettiere, who died suddenly earlier this month at 36 years old. Actor Jimmy Jean-Louis, who played the character known as “the Haitian,” shared photos of the gathering online. “A Heroes reunion to celebrate the life of Hayden was deeply emotional,” he wrote. “There was sadness in our hearts, but also so much love, gratitude, and warmth as we remembered the beautiful moments shared and the lasting impact of a life that touched so many. Au revoir Hayden.” The reunion included Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Jack…
Dolly Parton‘s cause of death has been confirmed. Read the full statement from her team below. The country icon died yesterday (Tuesday August 25), with her family sharing the news in a statement. She was 80 years old. Parton had spoken publicly about her health in recent months. In an update published last week, she said she was dealing with issues she had neglected while caring for her husband of 58 years, Carl Dean, before his death last year. Now, the singer’s team has confirmed that she died following “a brief battle with cancer” (via Billboard). “Our beloved Dolly Parton…
Andy Burnham jammed a song by The Smith on guitar with a Ukrainian soldier during a visit to Kyiv. Watch below. Burnham is currently on his first visit to Ukraine as Prime Minister, and yesterday (Monday August 24) he went to the country’s military and artistic unit, who perform on the front lines, in hospitals and at rehabilitation centres. While visiting the unit’s mobile recording studio, Burnham was handed a guitar by a soldier and began to play the riff from ‘Rusholme Ruffians’, from the band’s iconic 1985 album ‘Meat is Murder’. “I’m out of practice, a little bit,” the…
To various degrees, Chicago has been rapping over booty music forever. In the 1990s, Crucial Conflict were getting their hip-hop hoedown on with juke rhythms and tempos to go with their bugged-out flows. Meanwhile, DJ Deeon was dropping throbbing ghettohouse singles that sometimes felt like freaky, diced-up Three 6 Mafia jams. DJ L, one of the pioneers of early 2010s Chicago drill production, never fails to mention that the hard bass kicks and pulsating beats were some footwork shit. Years ago he said to Vibe, “Bibby used to always say when he heard my beats: ‘I need the footwork sound.’”Given…
Presidents across party lines celebrated Dolly Parton on Tuesday following her death, speaking to the country icon’s ability to transcend politics through her work that often spoke louder than words. On Tuesday, former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and George Bush each paid tribute to Parton, while President Donald Trump ordered that flags be flown at half-staff for the next week to honor “one of the greatest Country singers, and far beyond, EVER.” In their statements, the former presidents praised both Parton’s music and philanthropic endeavors. In 2020, Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University, which helped fund coronavirus research and Moderna’s…
In 2026, metalcore is experiencing two very different renaissances. While the rock mainstream is being polluted with some of the tamest, schlockiest breakdown-based music of all time, a far more artistically credible variant—mercilessly heavy, authentically hostile, tastefully stylized—has been permeating metalcore’s DIY underground. The genre, which originated as an outgrowth of hardcore before it was captured by the Hot Topic industrial complex, is now being reclaimed by the grassroots community that birthed it. In other words, metalcore is getting good again.The return to metalcore’s sinister roots started in 2023 with a couple of bands, like Balmora and Azshara, referencing the…
Julia Holter has a finger on a pulse and a hand in the ether. Over a decade and a half, the Los Angeles-based musician has written and produced an expansive catalog of celestial yet hummable ambient pop, marrying modern sounds with classical touchstones like Euripides and Hildegard von Bingen, great sprawling compositions that orient the ancient in a neon hall of mirrors. On Materia, the follow-up and companion piece to 2024’s Something in the Room She Moves, she reshapes and reenvisions previously recorded songs alongside new material, and the resulting seven-song odyssey is both slyly glinting and overembellished, dazzling and…
It would have been understandable if Sam Smith wanted to stay in the body shop a little while longer. Their 2023 hit “Unholy,” a spooky infidelity bop featuring Kim Petras, was camp enough (in a “Looking camp right in the eye” kind of way) to inspire a period of mass awareness rare for our fractured pop culture landscape. Smith performed it at the Grammys in a silly top hat with devil horns that nonetheless got freaked-out conservatives hooting and hollering about Satan worship; the reality show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which follows a group of women with varying…
