-
Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass
Billy Strings’ sixth album, So Much for Goodbyes, is presented as an introspective response to the death of his mother from an overdose in 2025, despite a year otherwise marked by major commercial and critical success. The review argues that grief and generational trauma shape the record’s songs, often indirectly, while Strings continues to broaden…
-
Biopic, coffee brand and dog treats among Dolly Parton’s upcoming business projects
Dolly Parton’s team says several projects she personally approved will continue after her death, including a biopic, documentary, avatar performance, museum, coffee brand, dog treats and facilities for truck drivers. The plans underline how Parton’s career extended far beyond music, with a carefully managed business and charitable legacy expected to remain active for years. Parton…
-
Dolly Parton’s six-decade love story with Carl Dean began at a laundromat
Dolly Parton’s long marriage to Carl Dean is remembered as a largely private relationship that contrasted with her global fame. According to the article, Parton died aged 80 following a brief battle with cancer, less than 18 months after Dean’s death, prompting family tributes describing their reunion. The couple met at Nashville’s Wishy Washy Laundromat…
-
Lake District park bosses crack down on selfish fly-campers who leave litter and light dangerous fires ahead of Bank Holiday weekend
Lake District authorities are stepping up enforcement against fly-camping before the Bank Holiday weekend, targeting people who leave rubbish, light fires and park dangerously. The action follows reports of campers lighting fires on dry grass during a heatwave, raising wildfire concerns and prompting worries that heavily visited areas are being damaged. Westmorland and Furness Council…
-
Watch Harry Styles kick off landmark 30-night residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden
Harry Styles began a 30-night residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden as part of his ‘Together, Together’ tour. The opening concert featured several live debuts and a tribute to Dolly Parton, marking the start of the tour leg’s final North American dates before shows in Australia. Styles opened with ‘Dance No More’ and performed…
-
Met Orchestra excels in Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben at Proms
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra made its Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall with an all-Richard Strauss programme under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The review found the Rosenkavalier suite structurally awkward but skilfully managed, while the performance of Ein Heldenleben was judged exceptional, confirming the conductor and orchestra’s strengths in large-scale late-Romantic repertoire. South African soprano Elza…
-
20 Movies From the Last 5 Years That Are Perfect From Start to Finish
Collider selects recent films it considers near-perfect examples of cinema, arguing that the past five years have produced ambitious work across genres, from studio comedy to Japanese monster films and Park Chan-wook thrillers. – Barbie (2023): Greta Gerwig’s hugely successful comedy uses Margot Robbie’s doll character entering the real world to explore womanhood, identity, mortality…
-
Geese honour Dolly Parton and air ‘Disco’ as they warm up for Reading & Leeds 2026 with two sold-out Glasgow gigs
Geese paid tribute to Dolly Parton during the first of two sold-out Glasgow concerts, shortly after news of her death was announced. Frontman Cameron Winter played part of Parton’s 1977 song ‘Here You Come Again’ through his phone during ‘2122’, reflecting the band’s habit of incorporating covers into the track; the shows precede festival appearances…
-
3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1950s We Hear All the Time in Shopping Malls and Grocery Stores
The article selects three 1950s one-hit wonders that it says remain familiar through shop, supermarket and shopping-mall playlists. – “Lollipop” (1958) is presented as a confection-themed song that suits sweet shops. – “At the Hop” is cited as cheerful early rock-and-roll that keeps shoppers in a good mood. – Sheb Wooley’s “The Purple People Eater”…