Kristi WootenJan 26, 2016The Bowie BrigadeAtlanta’s Bowie Parade, in honor of David Bowie, who died January 10, 2016. Photo by Kristi York Wooten #Atlanta #DavidBowie #featured...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Kristi WootenJun 15, 2014World Party on Tour: Long Live Rainbows and RevolutionsBY 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 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...
Kristi WootenJun 27, 2013In a Big Country, Reasons to Stay AliveBY 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 WootenJul 22, 2008John Mellencamp Tackles Race, Politics in New AlbumBY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Just because he’s riffed his way into our collective consciousness with no-frills all-American rock...