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Kristi Wooten
Dec 30, 2019
The Must-See Willie Nelson Film You Missed in 2019
Writer and director Lian Lunson talks about working with the country legend on "Waiting for the Miracle to Come."
Kristi Wooten
Apr 5, 2019
HuDost Makes Music for the Sacred and the Profane
How the Kentucky duo is using social activism and interfaith messaging to forge a new path for independent rock on its latest album Of...
Kristi Wooten
Feb 8, 2019
Rosanne Cash Opens Up About Her New Album
The 63-year-old singer’s dedication to amplifying women’s voices is evident in ten new songs with atmospheric, country-gothic textures.
Kristi Wooten
Oct 3, 2018
Jim Kerr Talks About Simple Minds' Hot New Tour and Top-5 Album
Simple Minds’ latest album, Walk Between Worlds, pierced the Top 5 on the Official U.K. Album Charts earlier this year, and the band is...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 8, 2017
Petula Clark’s New Songs Offer Good Advice for 2018
Petula Clark’s 1964 song, “Downtown,” burnished modern urban life into a smash hit. In 2017, she’s back at age 85 with new music and lots...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 20, 2017
Premiere: Watch Tom Chaplin Sing The Pretenders’ Holiday Classic, “2000 Miles.”
As Thanksgiving turkeys fill the dining table and twinkling lights hang from every lamppost, Tom Chaplin’s Twelve Tales of Christmas...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 31, 2017
Halloween Special: PVRIS’s Lynn Gunn on Finding Light in the Darkness
PVRIS is an esoteric band whose latest release, All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell, makes a timely addition to your autumn...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 30, 2017
Neil Finn’s Quiet Masterpiece
Neil Finn’s latest solo album, Out of Silence, offers us the gift of catharsis in a season of unpredictable politics and societal...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 20, 2017
Mark Ruffalo's Environmental Superheroes
MARK RUFFALO is making the most out of his time in metro Atlanta, both on and off movie sets. While filming his roles as Bruce Banner and...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 8, 2017
Mike Scott on Love Affairs, Disco, and The Waterboys’ Groovy New Album
In July, I caught up with musician Mike Scott in the basement of an ivy-covered Georgian townhome in Dublin to talk about The Waterboys’...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 7, 2017
Hear the Waterboys Profess Love for Music City in Live 'Nashville'
The Waterboys’ new album Out of All This Blue continues where 2015’s Modern Blues left off – with plenty of twang-and-groove plucked from...
Kristi Wooten
Aug 27, 2017
Pop music is rejecting the piano. Why?
The instrument’s warm tone is increasingly rare in an industry driven by computer-generated sounds. A SEARCH for the sound of acoustic...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 27, 2017
Is Beth Ditto the New Stevie Nicks?
Beth Ditto has always been ready for her close-up, but now the fashion-forward singer is ready for a brighter spotlight, too. After years...
Kristi Wooten
Jan 15, 2017
Keane's Tom Chaplin Talks Drama, Drugs and Dreams
Releasing an album no longer guarantees success in an industry where platinum-selling singers face the same pressures as fledgling...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 4, 2016
Johnnyswim’s New Album Makes Marriage Sound Wonderful
Johnnyswim’s new album Georgica Pond makes marriage sound wonderful – just ask TV’s hottest couple, Chip and Joanna Gaines. “The album...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 14, 2016
What Happened When Midge Ure Drove Himself Across America
Midge Ure is music royalty. Or at least an indefatigable and decorated player who originates from the pre-digital age. He has sold...
Kristi Wooten
Aug 27, 2016
Why We Love the Dulcimer-Playing Dad, His Raccoon and Tears for Fears
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Ted Yoder set up a dulcimer in his Goshen, Indiana backyard and turned on Facebook Live, while his wife and...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 11, 2016
Ben Watt Made the Best 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
Apr 6, 2016
Exclusive: How Nile Rodgers and Duran Duran Helped Each Other Win
Thirty years ago, no one might have predicted that Nile Rodgers would be on the road with Duran Duran in 2016. Yet, this spring the...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 21, 2014
Annie Lennox's Nostalgia: Timeless Soul
“NOSTALGIA”, the latest album from Annie Lennox, the British singer-songwriter, recalls an era of smoky clubs and street-corner swing....
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