Jim Kerr Talks About Simple Minds' Hot New Tour and Top-5 Album
Simple Minds’ latest album, Walk Between Worlds, pierced the Top 5 on the Official U.K. Album Charts earlier this year, and the band is...
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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 21, 2016
The Curious Comforts of “In the Bleak Midwinter”
FEW Christmas songs temper the joy and light of the festive season with the dark realities of modern life. Most “wish it could be...
Kristi Wooten
- Nov 4, 2016
Johnnyswim’s New Album Makes Marriage Sound Wonderful
Johnnyswim’s new album Georgica Pond makes marriage sound wonderful – just ask TV’s hottest couple, Chip and Joanna Gaines. “The album...
Kristi Wooten
- Oct 4, 2016
Global Citizen Festival: Bands and Prime Ministers
The annual Global Citizen Festival encourages people to sign petitions and write to world leaders rather than swipe a credit card. Before...
Kristi Wooten
- Aug 27, 2016
Why We Love the Dulcimer-Playing Dad, His Raccoon and Tears for Fears
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Ted Yoder set up a dulcimer in his Goshen, Indiana backyard and turned on Facebook Live, while his wife and...
Kristi Wooten
- Jun 11, 2016
Ben Watt Made the Best Album for Your Midlife Crisis
With his new recording, Fever Dream, Ben Watt captures the pleasure and pain of a Gen-Xer caught between two fires – his youth and the...
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
- Apr 6, 2016
Exclusive: How Nile Rodgers and Duran Duran Helped Each Other Win
Thirty years ago, no one might have predicted that Nile Rodgers would be on the road with Duran Duran in 2016. Yet, this spring the...
Kristi Wooten
- Mar 10, 2016
The World Without George Martin
In the America song, “Tin Man,” folk rhythms sweep into jazz harmonies and arpeggiated piano riffs. Listening to that recording is like...
Kristi Wooten
- Jan 4, 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
- Dec 20, 2015
The Best Albums of 2015: Did Your Favorite Make the List?
This year, traditional songwriting went head-to-head with algorithm-based formulas, leaving our brains confused about what makes a good...
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...
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