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...
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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 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
- Dec 4, 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...
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...
Kristi Wooten
- Sep 23, 2015
Ready and Worthy: Glen Hansard on Love, Money and Why Artists Should Never Give Up
Every great songwriter has a “bird on the shoulder” moment now and then. Glen Hansard says the melody of the lead track from his new...
Kristi Wooten
- Aug 27, 2015
U2’s Disappearing Act: Age Against the Machine
LAST September U2 released its 13th album, “Songs of Innocence.” Critics lauded the collection’s lush ballads and rhythmically angular...
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
- Jul 13, 2015
The Legacy of Live Aid, 30 Years Later
On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul...
Kristi Wooten
- Jul 13, 2015
The Legacy of Live Aid
On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul...
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 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
- Mar 30, 2015
How 1980s Atlanta Became the Backdrop for the Future
Downtown Atlanta contains very little brick and mortar. A westward view of the city’s skyline—the same image used in the opening credits...
Kristi Wooten
- Mar 30, 2015
Portmandia: Atlanta Architecture in the Movies
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ATLANTIC The Southern capital has set the scene for dystopian thrillers such as Divergent and The Walking...
Kristi Wooten
- Feb 27, 2015
Noel Gallagher on Guitar Solos, Cowbells and Dirty Underwear
PASTE MAGAZINE Twenty years ago this spring, Oasis holed up in a recording studio in Wales to create the defining album of the Britpop...
Kristi Wooten
- Feb 2, 2015
What Eva Longoria Learned in the Barrios of Cartagena
Eva Longoria says some of her earliest childhood memories are of accompanying her family to volunteer at the Special Olympics in her...
Kristi Wooten
- Jan 1, 2015
10 Inspiring Life Lessons From My Conversations With Jane Goodall
THE HUFFINGTON POST One doesn’t need an encyclopedic knowledge of science to hang with Jane Goodall; instead, a dose of curiosity will...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 3, 2014
The Best Albums of 2014: Here's What They Have in Common
For the past few years, my year-end music column has focused almost exclusively on lists of singles, from which I’ve tried my darndest to...
Kristi Wooten
- Dec 2, 2014
Star of The Good Lie Has a Holiday Message of Hope (and a Hot New Song With Nile Rodgers)
Emmanuel Jal’s story is an inspiring personal journey of survival: During the second Sudanese civil war in the 1980s, his mother was...