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Kristi Wooten
- Jun 11, 2016
The Perfect Album for Your Midlife Crisis
With his new recording, Fever Dream, Ben Watt captures the pleasure and pain of a Gen-Xer caught between two fires – his youth and the...
Kristi Wooten
- May 27, 2016
The Monkees Kick Off Fun 50th Anniversary Tour Down South
Five decades after their TV debut, The Monkees are on the road with a multimedia tour featuring footage from the 1966 television series....
Kristi Wooten
- May 1, 2016
What Happened When Jimmy Carter and Bono Went to the Disco?
Jimmy Carter, Bono and Nile Rodgers made for a surprising trio of revelers at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last Friday night. On the...
Kristi Wooten
- Mar 10, 2016
Simon Le Bon: Why Duran Duran Never Complains
Only Duran Duran can get away with a seven-minute title track that offers electro grooves, hand-waving harmonies, and upbeat lyrics about...
Kristi Wooten
- Jan 4, 2016
Why We're Still Watching That Video of Aretha Franklin at the Kennedy Center
By now, I’m sure you’ve seen the viral video of the Queen of Soul singing for the Obamas and songwriter Carole King at the Kennedy Center...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 20, 2015
The Best Albums of 2015: Did Your Favorite Make the List?
This year, traditional songwriting went head-to-head with algorithm-based formulas, leaving our brains confused about what makes a good...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 8, 2015
The Endless Dance: Spending My Birthday With Spandau Ballet
A woman checks my ID at ATL TSA and hands me my driver’s license. “Make it a good one,” she says. I walk to T Gates and fill my water...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 4, 2015
Can Miley Cyrus Educate Millennials About the Fight Against AIDS?
At Carnegie Hall this past Tuesday night, Miley Cyrus joined U2’s Bono and The Edge, Hozier and Jessie J for a World AIDS Day event...
Kristi Wooten
- Sep 23, 2015
Ready and Worthy: Glen Hansard on Love, Money and Why Artists Should Never Give Up
Every great songwriter has a “bird on the shoulder” moment now and then. Glen Hansard says the melody of the lead track from his new...
Kristi Wooten
- Aug 27, 2015
U2's Age Against the Machine
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST Many of today’s top touring artists, including Taylor Swift, One Direction, the Rolling Stones,...
Kristi Wooten
- Jun 11, 2015
Why We Love Brian Wilson's Melodies (and Matzo Ball Soup)
After seeing the new movie, Love & Mercy, we’ll never hear The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” the same way again. During a scene in which...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 3, 2014
The Best Albums of 2014: Here's What They Have in Common
For the past few years, my year-end music column has focused almost exclusively on lists of singles, from which I’ve tried my darndest to...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 2, 2014
Star of The Good Lie Has a Holiday Message of Hope (and a Hot New Song With Nile Rodgers)
Emmanuel Jal’s story is an inspiring personal journey of survival: During the second Sudanese civil war in the 1980s, his mother was...
Kristi Wooten
- Nov 13, 2014
This Infographic Explains How America Feels About Spandau Ballet
A new documentary called Soul Boys of the Western World follows the British band Spandau Ballet from its New Romantic beginnings in...
Kristi Wooten
- Oct 20, 2014
Will Super Fans Save Music?
Not too long ago, I had an interesting phone call with Benji Rogers, the president and founder of PledgeMusic. We geeked out about...
Kristi Wooten
- Jun 15, 2014
World Party on Tour: Long Live Rainbows and Revolutions
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Karl Wallinger is sitting on the running board of his tour van and smoking a cigarette. He...
Kristi Wooten
- Jan 11, 2014
Rock Hall of Famers Honor Gregg Allman
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR ROLLING STONE Rock and Roll Hall of Famers joined current and former members of the Allman Brothers Band for a...
Kristi Wooten
- Sep 30, 2013
Little Richard Confesses to Cee Lo About Heart Attack
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR ROLLING STONE Last night in Atlanta, Little Richard joined Cee Lo Green onstage for a Recording Academy...
Kristi Wooten
- Jul 31, 2013
Paul Weller: Apollo Landing
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST THE Apollo Theatre’s place in music history dates from 1914, when the building opened as a...