Click around LAist. We don't really listen to a lot of new-fangled country music. We love the oldies: Cash, Willie, Waylon, Hank Sr., Patsy. But when we heard that NBC refused to run the ad for the ...

When a red-blooded, macho, flag-waving, Bush-voting American country-music fan looks at a gorgeous blonde who also happens to make his kind of music, one doesn’t normally expect him to pay particular ...

Toward the end of “Shut Up & Sing,” Natalie Maines is lying on a couch listening to Dixie Chicks manager Simon Renshaw lay out possible television options for promoting “Taking the Long Way,” the band ...

If video killed the radio star, conservative politics may have killed the country music boom of the early 2000s. When the Chicks, then known as the Dixie Chicks, publicly criticized President George W ...

Natalie Maines was just warming up when, on March 10, 2003, 10 days before the Iraq invasion, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks stepped up to the mic on stage at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire Theatre ...

With watchmaker skill, director Barbara Kopple plays both loose and tight with time in her Dixie Chicks doc. The film jumps around before, during and after Natalie Maines’ infamous 2003 dis on Bush to ...

In the early 2000s, the Dixie Chicks (now The Chicks) reached new career heights, topping the country music charts, winning multiple Grammy Awards, and smashing commercial records left and right.