Kristi WootenFeb 26The New Tears For Fears Album Is Right On Time The Tipping Point offers introspection and gives hope to a hurting, mad world. By Kristi York Wooten Tears for Fears' music has addressed...
Kristi WootenMay 19, 2019Rocketman is a Bodacious Romp, But Elton John Deserves MoreRocketman opened at the Cannes Film Festival this week: it’s a glorious song-and-dance extravaganza interspersed with fantasy and...
Kristi WootenFeb 11, 2019Grammys 2019: How Music Reclaimed Its PowerThe four-hour broadcast silenced political division with dynamic performances by three generations of women and proved ‘less dancing,...
Kristi WootenDec 7, 2018Women Made the Best Albums of 2018.Female songwriters topped publications’ year-end music polls, but few lists captured the gamut of their ages, genres, and talents. From...
Kristi WootenNov 14, 2018Queen's Brilliance at Live Aid: What Bohemian Rhapsody MissedBohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic named after one of the British rock group’s most famous songs, opened in theaters two weeks ago. The...
Kristi WootenOct 3, 2018The Modfather Goes Pastoral AgainPaul Weller is consistently one of the most listenable artists of the past forty years, and his latest album is spot-on. The former Jam...
Kristi WootenSep 18, 2018Sting and Shaggy's Reggae Party Broke the ATLHe may like his toast done on one side, but Sting’s new tour with Shaggy is crispy all the way around. At Atlanta’s Tabernacle Monday...
Kristi WootenJul 9, 2018Florence and the Machine’s New Feminist SensibilityFrom the July 9 2018 issueof The Economist magazine: FLORENCE WELCH has made her name both as a hitmaker and as a kind of strong-willed...
Kristi WootenJun 22, 2018Digital Design, Analog SoulFrom the June 2018 issue of Keyboard magazine: One of the joys of 21st century life is opening a digital music library and discovering an...
Kristi WootenMay 17, 2018An Oral History of U2 in AtlantaU2’s intersections with Atlanta over the years have gone beyond the city as a requisite tour stop.
Kristi WootenMar 22, 2018Singing Your Life with The ZombiesROD ARGENT AND COLIN BLUNSTONE began making music as The Zombies eleven years before I was born. By the time I was riding around in my...
Kristi WootenDec 3, 2017What No One Else Will Tell You About the New U2 AlbumWhen music critics focus on confirming or denying the band’s place in music history, they miss the real story of Songs of Experience. I...
Kristi WootenOct 3, 2017Watch Dua Lipa Jump into Crowd of Atlanta FansSummer’s over and the leaves are falling, but we’ll always have memories of the music festival season to get us through fall and winter....
Kristi WootenMar 16, 2017Bryan Ferry and the Seduction of SubtletyA relentless assault of zeros and ones is stripping our brains of the ability to recognize smooth edges. In the 21st century, we want...
Kristi WootenMay 26, 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....
Kristi WootenMay 17, 2016Florence Welch Climbs the Rafters at Shaky KneesFlorence and the Machine closed the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park May 15 with an energetic 90-minute...
Kristi WootenMay 3, 2016What Happened When Jimmy Carter and Bono Went to the DiscoBono, Jimmy Carter and Nile Rodgers made for a surprising trio of revelers at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last Friday night. On the...
Kristi WootenApr 21, 2016Prince’s Death and the Power of MusicEvery note produced further evidence that he was one of the most purely creative and otherworldly talents to walk the earth in our time.
Kristi WootenDec 14, 2015Hardcover Rock: Do Music Memoirs Matter?THIS Christmas, booksellers are featuring several memoirs by rock musicians in their product queues. The authors are not all household...
Kristi WootenDec 3, 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...