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Duran Duran sparkles in the Hollywood rain
Onstage during a tropical storm, the band lived up to its rock, punk and funk influences It's been a huge year for Duran Duran: The...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 10, 2022
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 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
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
Jan 4, 2016
Elvis Costello's Hardcover Rock: Why Music Memoirs Matter
THIS Christmas, booksellers are featuring several memoirs by rock musicians in their product queues. The authors are not all household...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 14, 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 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
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
Jun 11, 2015
Branford Marsalis and the Echoes of Grace Cathedral
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN The latest album from saxophonist Branford Marsalis finds him playing at one of our country’s most beautiful...
Kristi Wooten
Oct 20, 2014
Mad World is a Great Reason to Revisit the Crazy 1980s
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Photo courtesy of Abrams Image Big hair, shoulder pads, and synthesizers are the first...
Kristi Wooten
May 5, 2014
Joys of Moogfest: Geeks, Hippies and Nile Rodgers
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST First, let me set the tone: Imagine you’re walking around in downtown Portland, Oregon....
Kristi Wooten
Apr 29, 2014
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
Sep 30, 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...
Kristi Wooten
Jul 31, 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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