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Yola leads her band through "Diamond Studded Shoes" at Nashville's legendary Grand Ole Opry in a new video shared on YouTube.

Nashville Tennessean With her new album "Stand For Myself," British-raised Nashville artist Yola crisscrosses classic pop with a rock n roll spirit, country twang and undeniable disco grooves .  She graduates from the self-described "queen of country-soul" to sonic shapeshifter, steering a time-traveling jukebox that delivers what standout songwriters do best – deeply personal stories with a universal hold.  Ask Yola and shell tell you that was the plan all along.  "A big part of t...

Summer Mixtape: Yola on being an outsider, discovering American music, and learning to ‘Stand for Myself’ Written by Andrea Domanick, produced by Bennett Purser Jul. 29, 2021Music MORE Yola’s new album “Stand for Myself” is out on July 30. Photo by Joseph Ross. All week, Press Play has been bringing you DJ and artist interviews, along with custom DJ sets. This fifth and final installment of “Summer Mixtape” features a conversa...

Last year, the English powerhouse singer and songwriter was nominated for four Grammys. Now she’s returning with “Stand for Myself,” an album made on her own terms. Calculus is hard. Parallel parking is hard. Meeting and working with people who don’t look like you — that’s a breeze. “It’s. Not. Hard,” the singer and songwriter Yola emphasized during a recent call, clapping her hands in between each word. “I literally came from another continent, and remedied it in six months...

Rock Fest 2021 Daily Lineups Announced, Corey Taylor + More Added Rock Fest is back for 2021, but the lineup with have a little different look than it did when it was initially supposed to happen in 2020. As expected, the pandemic forced a few schedule changes, with Corey Taylor and Philip H. Anselmo + the Illegals among the new additions, while Snoop Dogg is the biggest name to exit the festival. Taylor, Philip H. Anselmo + the Illegals, Tommy Vext (replacing his former band Bad Wolves), Pop ...

Rolling Stone April 22, 2021 8:30AM ET Yola on the ‘Good Energy’ of Her New Protest Song and Finding Her Voice on Her Second LP “I wanted it to feel like a bunch of people who were just marching down the street very victoriously,” singer says of “Diamond Studded Shoes,” the new single from her upcoming album Stand for Myself David Brownes Most Recent Stories Joseph Ross Smith* A few years ago, the British-born singer-songwriter Yola was watching her country’s t...

Nashville Tennessean Yola, a Grammy-nominated artist self-described as the British "queen of country soul," releases her anticipated sophomore album "Stand For Myself" this July.  The record finds Yola returning to producer and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, the same room where she delivered her 2019 breakthrough debut "Walk Through Fire."  "Stand For Myself" drops July 30 via Auerbachs label Easy Eye Sound.   Yola, born Yolanda Quartey, gave listeners a ta...

First came the fire, then came the flood. Last January, Through Fire,’ the first in a series of three EPs the New Zealand hardcore vets had created in 2019. But then, alas, all of 2020 happened. However, new year, new music, which now sees Antag All Things,’ out March 26th. Vocalist Sam Crocker talked about this new EPs themes of mental health and political issues being further exacerbated from the events of last year, and how us, the common folk, look to leaders and elites for assistanc...

Trump Country, Hamilton and COVID-19: The top 10 entertainment stories of 2020 Any other time, “Hamilton” wouldve been our top entertainment story of the year. The blockbuster musical finally — finally! — rolled into Southwest Florida after years of anticipation. And yes, it was awesome. But this wasn’t any other year, was it? This was the year of COVID-19 — and that changed everything. Just two months after “Hamilton” visited Artis—Naples and Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts...

The music that got these Bostonians through 2020 By James Sullivan Globe correspondent,Updated December 28, 2020, 3:53 p.m. Email to a Friend YolaWilly Sanjuan/Invision/AP If music is what feelings sound like, then here’s hoping you had more than your share of music in your life this year. Because we were all up in our feelings. Whether it was that one certain song, a beloved old album as comforting as mashed potatoes, or a playlist that matched your frustration or lifted you out of it, yo...