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Dolly Parton “Busted a Gut” Reaching for the High Notes on “Rockstar”

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Dolly Parton “Busted a Gut” Reaching for the High Notes on “Rockstar”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.After six decades as an icon in country music, it’s hard to imagine Dolly Parton had anything to prove. But when she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, in 2022, she admitted to feeling uneasy. A result of that feeling is “Rockstar,” the seventy-seven-year-old’s first foray into rock music. “I wanted the rock people to be proud of me, let’s put it that way,” Parton tells the New Yorker contributor Emily Lordi. “I wanted them to say, ‘Did you hear Dolly’s rock album? Man, she killed it.’ ” Plus, three of the magazine’s best thinkers on American politics and history—Jill Lepore, Evan Osnos, and Jelani Cobb—discuss the state of American ...

Hard Rock Hotel Amsterdam American rebrands as Clayton property – Business Traveller

Dalata Hotel Group has added its first property in the Netherlands, following the acquisition of a leasehold interest in Hard Rock Hotel Amsterdam American. The hotel is located on the corner of Leidsekade Canal and Leidseplein Square, and is now known as the Clayton Hotel Amsterdam American. The four-star property features 173 rooms, a lobby bar, fitness centre, and Cafe and Bar Americain. Housed within a UNESCO Heritage protected building which was built in 1903, the property was formerly home to the American Hotel, and only joined the Hard Rock collection of hotels in 2020. Hard Rock opens Amsterdam hotel Dalata said it would invest €4.5 million in the property over the coming years, including “a substantial investment in its sustainability credentials, which will result in a signifi...

The Origin Story of “Stop Making Sense”

When it first opened in theatres, in the fall of 1984, “Stop Making Sense,” directed by Jonathan Demme and starring the rock group Talking Heads, was quickly recognized as one of the finest concert films ever made. Reviewer after reviewer settled on the word “exhilarating” to describe the experience of watching an expanded nine-member iteration of the four-piece group perform sixteen of their best-known songs in an uninterrupted sequence of dynamically staged and photographed musical vignettes. In the pages of this magazine, Pauline Kael praised the film as “close to perfection,” and described the Heads front man, David Byrne, as “a stupefying performer.” “He’s so white he’s almost mock-white,” Kael wrote, “and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements. He seems fleshless, b...