The Bowie Brigade
Atlanta’s Bowie Parade, in honor of David Bowie, who died January 10, 2016. Photo by Kristi York Wooten #Atlanta #DavidBowie #featured...
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Kristi Wooten
- Dec 14, 2015
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 8, 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
- Aug 27, 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
- Jun 11, 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 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
- Jul 31, 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
- 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,...
Kristi Wooten
- Jul 22, 2008
John Mellencamp Tackles Race, Politics in New Album
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Just because he’s riffed his way into our collective consciousness with no-frills all-American rock...