Kristi WootenJun 29, 2016Keytars, Tesla Girls and the Toilet Song: How Barenaked Ladies Won the Summer#2016 #BarenakedLadies #HowardJones #omd
Kristi WootenMay 27, 2016The Monkees Kick Off Fun 50th Anniversary Tour Down SouthFive decades after their TV debut, The Monkees are on the road with a multimedia tour featuring footage from the 1966 television series. The performances are...
Kristi WootenApr 22, 2016What Prince's Death Teaches Us About the Power of Music1981 seems like just yesterday. Remember roller skating with your friends to Prince’s song “Controversy”? Fast forward 35 years, and it’s likely you and thos...
Kristi WootenJan 4, 2016Why We're Still Watching That Video of Aretha Franklin at the Kennedy CenterBy 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 in Washington, D.C....
Kristi WootenDec 14, 2015Elvis Costello's Hardcover Rock: Why Music Memoirs MatterTHIS Christmas, booksellers are featuring several memoirs by rock musicians in their product queues. The authors are not all household names, yet new volumes...
Kristi WootenDec 8, 2015The Endless Dance: Spending My Birthday With Spandau BalletA 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 bottle before boarding....
Kristi WootenDec 4, 2015Can 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 featuring U.S. Vice Presi...
Kristi WootenAug 27, 2015U2's Age Against the MachineBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST Many of today’s top touring artists, including Taylor Swift, One Direction, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Be...
Kristi WootenJun 11, 2015Why 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 Brian Wilson (portray...
Kristi WootenOct 20, 2014Branford Marsalis and the Echoes of Grace CathedralBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN The latest album from saxophonist Branford Marsalis finds him playing at one of our country’s most beautiful spiritual homes – Grace Ca...
Kristi WootenMay 6, 2014Mad World is a Great Reason to Revisit the Crazy 1980sBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Photo courtesy of Abrams Image Big hair, shoulder pads, and synthesizers are the first things that come to min...
Kristi WootenApr 29, 2014Joys of Moogfest: Geeks, Hippies and Nile RodgersBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST First, let me set the tone: Imagine you’re walking around in downtown Portland, Oregon. Now, subtract the water...
Kristi WootenSep 30, 2013Little Richard Confesses to Cee Lo About Heart AttackBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR ROLLING STONE Last night in Atlanta, Little Richard joined Cee Lo Green onstage for a Recording Academy fundraiser, where the topic...
Kristi WootenJul 31, 2013Paul Weller: Apollo LandingBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST THE Apollo Theatre’s place in music history dates from 1914, when the building opened as a whites-only burlesque hall...
Kristi WootenSep 29, 2011Paul McCartney's Ballet: Ocean's KingdomBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST PAUL MCCARTNEY is one of the most important figures of 20th-century music. Therein lies the dilemma. Can the 69-year-...
