The Chicks’ ‘Gaslighter’: Album Review

Also Read: 'The Fight' Producer Kerry Washington on Why ACLU Lawyers Are 'Our Avengers' | VideoAn exemplary work of nonfiction storytelling that won a special jury prize after its premiere at Sundance, the film from directors Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despres and producer Kerry Washington won’t persuade those who, in this hyper-partisan age, look upon the ACLU as left-wing zealots (even though it has also fought for things like allowing the far-right protestors in Charlottesville to

“The Fight,” Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despress’ documentary about the American Civil Liberties Union, opens with the inauguration of Donald Trump. His oath rings out like an opening salvo.

Folklore, the singer's , which she wrote and recorded during quarantine and announced only a day prior to it dropping. Yesterday (July 23), surprised fans with the news on all of her social media accounts. “Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my ; an entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into,” she tweeted. And she released the away, too. Now, Folklore is here, and it's one of Swift's strongest albums to date.

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Chris Willman Music WriterWhile most of us spent the last four months putting on some variation of “the quarantine 15,” Taylor Swift has been secretly working on the “Folklore” 16. Sprung Thursday night with less than a day’s notice, her eighth album is a fully rounded collection of songs that sounds like it was years in the interactive making, not the product of a quarter-year’s worth of file-sharing from splendid isolation.

Most Americans probably learned the phrase “gaslighting” – when someone tries to manipulate you into doubting reality – around the time Donald Trump was elected president, as it was frequently used to describe his behaviour. The members of the Chicks were already well-acquainted with the term.

The Chicks are remaining politically outspoken as their career resurgence continues with the release of their first album in several years. The trio, made up of Natalie Maines and sisters Emily Robinson and Martie Maguire, released their first album since 2006, “Gaslighter,” earlier this month.The release marks an improbable comeback for the band following backlash for comments they made about former President George W.

A.D. Amorosi Ellie Goulding may not be not a household name in America in the same star electro-pop universe that contains brand-name contemporaries such as Katy Perry, Lorde and Florence Welch.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJesus and Mary Chain, Royal Trux and Spacemen 3 aren’t evoked by many albums these days, but they’re present in glorious splendor on “Flower of Devotion,” the third full-length from Chicago trio Dehd.

After a decade-plus away from the spotlight, The Chicks are very much back.

The Chicks are very much back.The country trio, formerly the Dixie Chicks, are rejuvenated under their new, tighter name and with their first album in 14 years Gaslight, which dropped at midnight.Their fifth studio set, Gaslighter features the previously-released tracks "Juliana Calm Down," "March March," "Sleep At Night" and the album's title track.The Chicks -- Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer -- dropped Dixie from their name last month, explaining at the time: “We want to meet

known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. Bush in 2003.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – 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 Trump on social media, not onstage.

Jarvis Cocker’s 2006 anti-establishment anthem ‘(C**ts Are Still) Running The World’ to Christmas Number One last year, in protest to the Tories’ Brexit failings, proved that the Sheffield’s icon’s mark on culture is ever-present.

Ted Johnson As reporters rushed to post many of the juicy anecdotes and scorching analysis from Mary Trump’s new book this past week, they might have missed that the memoir also is a media critique.In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, set to be published Tuesday, the niece of President Donald Trump still seems a bit surprised that, through his entire career, her uncle, whether by design or impulse, has used distraction to his advantage.“The media

A.D. Amorosi Just a week after the posthumous release of Pop Smoke’s debut album, “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon” comes another new album from yet another young rapper gone far too soon.