Fun, fun, fun.  I am a fan of all of these guys’ bands. Fountains of Wayne‘s “Valley Winter Song” is one of my faves of all time, and...

Onstage at a Tulsa, Okla., nightclub in March, hometown singer Taylor Hanson shimmies to the beat of a dozen catchy rave-ups. Dressed in...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Onstage at a Tulsa, Okla., nightclub in March, hometown singer Taylor Hanson shimmies to the beat of a...

I enjoyed interviewing Goldenvoice guru and Coachella founder Paul Tollett for this Newsweek piece about summer festivals. and, once...

This weekend, California’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival kicks off the summer music festival season with some of the biggest names in...

First of all, let me say that Razorlight is, hands down, one of my favorite bands of the past five years. I love Johnny Borrell‘s voice –...

Photo from Adele.tv story by Kristi York Wooten Parked in her new tour bus outside a popular theater in Atlanta, Adele curls up on a...

Cut to the Chase: Adele Has a Hollywood Dream to Fulfill and a Grammy Curse to Avoid (VIDEO) March 17, 2009 Parked in her new tour bus...

What a great week last week supporting my friends in New York City for the one-night-only A Powerful Noise Live! event to benefit CARE....

This was a crazy and very tough year. When I first sat down to do this list, I thought I wouldn’t have as much to say as I did in 2007....

Check out my Newsweek story on the return of the 1990s supermodel!

The fashion industry wants everything skinny—except, of course, its magazines. While thin models sashay under the tents at New York’s...

“Today, I saw a Prada ad with Linda in it, and I said, ‘Is that Linda? That’s amazing!'” Isaac Mizrahi says. “I don’t think [Italian...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK The fashion industry wants everything skinny—except, of course, its magazines. While thin models...

By now, John Mellencamp is used to hearing his songs on the Election 2008 soundtrack. McCain, Clinton and Edwards all used his patriotic...

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Just because he’s riffed his way into our collective consciousness with no-frills all-American rock songs doesn’t mean John Mellencamp...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Just because he’s riffed his way into our collective consciousness with no-frills all-American rock...

Jakob Dylan says he knows what reviewers will write about his first solo recording, the Rick Rubin-produced “Seeing Things,” which goes...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Jakob Dylan says he knows what reviewers will write about his first solo recording, the Rick...