Dixie Chicks

  • Dixie Chicks win, Grammys lay an egg

    Despite a few riveting performances, the hopelessly square industry music awards go out not with a bang but with a (baby) boom!
  • Politics at the Grammys

    Quips from the Chicks, Ludacris, Gore.
  • New music from Bloc Party, Yoko Ono and Patty Griffin

  • "Everybody needs an honest shake"

    Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple talks about her new Dixie Chicks movie, "Shut Up & Sing," and why she hopes their fans will forgive them.
  • Toronto Film Festival

    The festival's hottest movie imagines the assassination of George W. Bush. Plus: The new Dixie Chicks film is a rousing shout of defiance.
  • State of Maines

    The Bush-hating Dixie Chick holds forth on life three years after "the incident."
  • Mothers who rock

    Liz Phair, Kelly Willis, Linda Thompson and Corin Tucker talk about washing bottles after shows, writing songs that won't freak out their kids, and how ambition changes once you become a parent.
  • The Fix

    Mass exodus at "The Practice," but Oprah stays put. Plus: New York Times fabulist Blair looks to cash in -- and laugh at his former bosses.
  • Letters

    Readers respond to Charles Taylor's essay on the Dixie Chicks' interview with Diane Sawyer.
  • Chicks against the machine

    The Dixie Chicks beat back Diane Sawyer on national TV, posed nude for Entertainment Weekly and stood up to the reactionary zeal of country radio. In a time of crisis for America, they're patriots we can be proud of.
  • The Fix

    "Will and Grace" star nabbed for shoplifting, Bruce sticks up for the Chicks, and Harry Potter author richer than the queen! Plus: Want more reality TV?
  • The Fix

    Peter Jackson takes on "King Kong," Cher takes on Michael Jackson, and Al Gore sticks up for the Dixie Chicks. Plus: Is Vin Diesel a sensitive guy?
  • "Shut your mouth"

    As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America.
  • Letters

    Shame on Bush? Shame on the Dixie Chicks! Readers sound off on Natalie Maines' controversial statement -- and its retraction.
  • Bush, shame and the Dixie Chicks

    The arch-conservative country music biz forced Natalie Maines to apologize to the president. But for a moment she was the bravest American entertainer.
  • Can women save country music?

    Dynamite new albums from the Dixie Chicks, Kelly Willis and Allison Moorer bridge the gap between alt-country and those cowboy-hat robots in Nashville.
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Monday, Nov. 20, 2000
  • The Dixie Chicks, TV Guide and me

    America's favorite weirdly schizophrenic magazine comes bound in leather in swanky hotel rooms.
  • Oh, Rosie, shut up

    A silly organization gives out frivolous awards to has-beens and evanescent pop -- for the 42nd year.
  • A Dogg's life and Dixie Chickdom

    Everything that rises must converge: These days black Snoop and the white Chicks are all part of the same big megastar aristocracy.
  • Sharps & flats

    Thug rapper Eve's assertive female raps would sound even more radical at the top of the charts if the countrified Dixie Chicks weren't telling the exact same stories.
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1999
  • Charge it, it's free

    A big credit-card company puts on a Sheryl Crow show in Central Park for 25,000 lucky fans.
  • Extra! Extra! Monica inhales ... a candy bar

    Scottish paper reveals what Lewinsky's swallowing these days; hey! the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines is swallowing the same thing! Plus: Yeoww! Universal Studios cuts Costner's penis.

From Salon's blogs