The 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...
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Kristi Wooten
- May 19, 2019
Rocketman is a Bodacious Romp, But Elton John Deserves More
Rocketman opened at the Cannes Film Festival this week: it’s a glorious song-and-dance extravaganza interspersed with fantasy and...
Kristi Wooten
- Feb 11, 2019
Grammys 2019: How Music Reclaimed Its Power
The four-hour broadcast silenced political division with dynamic performances by three generations of women and proved ‘less dancing,...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 7, 2018
Women 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 Wooten
- Nov 14, 2018
Queen's Brilliance at Live Aid: What Bohemian Rhapsody Missed
Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic named after one of the British rock group’s most famous songs, opened in theaters two weeks ago. The...
Kristi Wooten
- Oct 3, 2018
The Modfather Goes Pastoral Again
Paul 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 Wooten
- Sep 18, 2018
Sting and Shaggy's Reggae Party Broke the ATL
He 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 Wooten
- Jul 9, 2018
Florence and the Machine’s New Feminist Sensibility
From 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 Wooten
- Jun 22, 2018
Digital Design, Analog Soul
From 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 Wooten
- May 17, 2018
An Oral History of U2 in Atlanta
U2’s intersections with Atlanta over the years have gone beyond the city as a requisite tour stop.
Kristi Wooten
- Mar 22, 2018
Singing Your Life with The Zombies
ROD 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 Wooten
- Dec 3, 2017
What No One Else Will Tell You About the New U2 Album
When 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 Wooten
- Oct 3, 2017
Watch Dua Lipa Jump into Crowd of Atlanta Fans
Summer’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 Wooten
- Mar 15, 2017
Bryan Ferry and the Seduction of Subtlety
A relentless assault of zeros and ones is stripping our brains of the ability to recognize smooth edges. In the 21st century, we want...
Kristi Wooten
- May 25, 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 17, 2016
Florence Welch Climbs the Rafters at Shaky Knees
Florence and the Machine closed the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park May 15 with an energetic 90-minute...
Kristi Wooten
- May 3, 2016
What Happened When Jimmy Carter and Bono Went to the Disco
Bono, Jimmy Carter and Nile Rodgers made for a surprising trio of revelers at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last Friday night. On the...
Kristi Wooten
- Apr 21, 2016
Prince’s Death and the Power of Music
Every note produced further evidence that he was one of the most purely creative and otherworldly talents to walk the earth in our time.
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 14, 2015
Hardcover 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 Wooten
- Dec 3, 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...