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Parton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame while Halford got the Award for Musical Excellence with his band. By John Russell for LGBTQ Nation – Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford joined Dolly Parton on stage at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony to perform the country legend’s iconic song “Jolene.” Parton was one of this year’s class of inductees, which also included Pat Bena

Musician June Millington on CBS Saturday Morning Co-founder and lead guitarist June Millington of the all-female rock band, Fanny, discusses the band’s run in the early 1970s and the Institute for Musical Arts, which she founded with her longtime partner to inspire the next generation of women musicians. WATCH HERE https://news.yahoo.com/musician-june-millington-inspiring-next-141220718.html

by Marissa Lorusso for NPR Music – Last weekend, singer and drummer Mimi Parker, of the critically acclaimed rock band Low, died. She was 55, and had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2020. Parker’s voice was singular and her contributions were essential to the band’s sound. My colleague Stephen Thompson wrote about listening to Parker for three decades, and I think he really captures what made her so remar

Selena Gomez Wasn’t Sure She Was Ready To Tell This Story She’s wrestled with bipolar disorder, life-threatening illness, and tabloid hell. Now, she’s opening up about all of it in incredible ways by Alex Morris for Rolling StonePhotographs by Amanda Charchian for Rolling Stone Selena Gomez has a lot of baggage. She says this is true both “literally and figuratively,” and she says it while I am rolling my own literal

Women Changing the Music Industry Today: ‘I Deserve the Spotlight’These 15 women are rewriting what it means to succeed in the music world, on their own termsBy Janine Henni for People – SSDD – We’ve heard this tune time and time again. Here’s what People has to say. 1 – Dolly Parton – The queen of country music has racked up 11 Grammys and 25 no. 1 hits on Billboard

A Decade Later, Taylor Swift’s Red Still Sounds Like a New Beginning10 years and a re-record later, Red is somehow both a time capsule and completely timeless By Ellen Johnson for Paste – Red is Taylor Swift’s best album because it’s the epitome of everything she does best. It’s built on all the “Taylor-isms” that have come to define her identity as a pop artist: songs about falling in and out of love too fast

Spice Girls’ Melanie C opens up about sexuality speculation: ‘I actually love that’ by Charlie Duncan for PinkNews – Spice Girls have announced 25th anniversary celebrations for their iconic album, Spiceworld. Spice Girl Melanie C has said that the tabloid media’s obsession with her sexuality made her feel more “affinity” with the LGBTQ+ community. Throughout the 90s, the media feverishly speculated over Melani

On their I Am the Moon LPs, Tedeschi-Trucks Band breathe new life into a centuries-old story of star-crossed love By Geoffrey Himes for Paste – Who was this woman named Layla? How did she come to be the title of Eric Clapton’s best-known song and best-known album? And how did she come to be the inspiration for the Tedeschi-Trucks Band’s new, four-LP collection, I Am the Moon? As any consumer of rock-star gossip

Rina Sawayama Brings Inner-Child Work to the Masses on Hold the Girl By Max Freedman for Paste – In her music, Rina Sawayama flattens time. On the Japanese-British pop artist’s breakout debut LP, 2020’s SAWAYAMA, songs about childhood family tension sat comfortably next to modern-day critiques of capitalism and racist microaggressions, and she tinged her music, clearly indebted to early-aughts Britney and nu-me

Russia’s version of Madonna breaks with Putin, slams Ukraine war for making Russia a ‘pariah’ state BY Chloe Taylor for Fortune – One of Russia’s biggest pop stars has issued a scathing condemnation of the war in Ukraine, and said her government may ostracize her for doing it. Alla Pugacheva, who has been a huge star in Russia for decades, said in an Instagram post on Sunday that the invasion of Ukraine had mad