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Keane Singer Tom Chaplin Makes Triumphant Solo Debut in America
Releasing an album no longer guarantees success in an industry where platinum-selling singers face the same pressures as fledgling...
Kristi Wooten
Jan 15, 2017
Adele at 20
It’s hard to believe this London singer’s not old enough to buy herself a celebratory bottle of champagne on her first U.S. tour.
Kristi Wooten
Oct 27, 2016
Gallery: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 2016 US Tour Opener in Atlanta
#2016 #featured #NOELGALLAGHER #RECENT
Kristi Wooten
Jul 2, 2016
Keytars, Tesla Girls and the Toilet Song: How Barenaked Ladies Won the Summer
#2016 #BarenakedLadies #HowardJones #omd
Kristi Wooten
Jun 29, 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 27, 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
May 1, 2016
What Prince's Death Teaches Us About the Power of Music
1981 seems like just yesterday. Remember roller skating with your friends to Prince’s song “Controversy”? Fast forward 35 years, and it’s...
Kristi Wooten
Apr 22, 2016
Duran Duran Live: Dancing is in the DNA
Move over, nostalgia. When a band brings its personal best to the stage, there’s only room for respect. Friday night at Atlanta’s Philips...
Kristi Wooten
Apr 18, 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
Apr 8, 2016
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 8, 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
Dec 4, 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
Aug 27, 2015
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
Jun 15, 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
Jan 11, 2014
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...
Kristi Wooten
Jul 31, 2013
In a Big Country, Reasons to Stay Alive
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST It may surprise music fans of a certain age to know that various members of Big Country,...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 27, 2013
Paul McCartney's Ballet: Ocean's Kingdom
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST PAUL MCCARTNEY is one of the most important figures of 20th-century music. Therein lies the...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 29, 2011
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