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...
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Kristi Wooten
- Oct 27, 2016
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
- 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
- Apr 8, 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
- 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
- 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
- Jul 13, 2015
The Legacy of Live Aid
On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul...
Kristi Wooten
- Feb 27, 2015
Noel Gallagher on Guitar Solos, Cowbells and Dirty Underwear
PASTE MAGAZINE Twenty years ago this spring, Oasis holed up in a recording studio in Wales to create the defining album of the Britpop...
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 19, 2014
Original Recipe: Midge Ure and "Do They Know It's Christmas"
THE ECONOMIST THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding and others added their voices and carefully mussed-up hair to “Do They...
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 21, 2014
Annie Lennox's Timeless Soul
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST “NOSTALGIA”, the latest album from Annie Lennox, the British singer-songwriter, recalls an era of...
Kristi Wooten
- Oct 21, 2014
The Life Cycle According to James
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR PURE POP “So this is it, our life on earth, we’re made of stars, we’re made of dirt,” Tim Booth sings in “Walk...
Kristi Wooten
- Sep 10, 2014
Howard Jones: Orange is the New Black
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST When Howard Jones asked his fans on Facebook to wear orange to his performances this...
Kristi Wooten
- Jul 5, 2014
The Summer of Ben Watt: It's Christmas in July
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Photo by Ian Webber. “Is this cheating on Tracey? I dunno,” Ben Watt asked. He felt a...
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
- May 5, 2014
Rufus Wainwright Compares Verdi to Nirvana
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR ORIGIN MAGAZINE Rufus Wainwright is an enigmatic singer from a family of Canadian-American musicians. He...
Kristi Wooten
- Apr 30, 2014
When Johnnyswim's "Home" Comes on the Radio
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano, better known as LA-based music duo Johnnyswim, released...
Kristi Wooten
- Jan 14, 2014
Rosanne Cash's Southern Music
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST FOR her latest muse, Rosanne Cash returns to the familiar world of the American South, where the...
Kristi Wooten
- Jun 27, 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,...
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