REVIEW

The New Tears For Fears Album Is Right On Time

Kristi Wooten

Feb 26, 2022

The New Tears For Fears Album Is Right On Time

The Tipping Point offers introspection and gives hope to a hurting, mad world. By Kristi York Wooten Tears for Fears' music has addressed...

Rocketman is a Bodacious Romp, But Elton John Deserves More

Kristi Wooten

May 19, 2019

Rocketman is a Bodacious Romp, But Elton John Deserves More

Rocketman opened at the Cannes Film Festival this week: it’s a glorious song-and-dance extravaganza interspersed with fantasy and...

Grammys 2019: How Music Reclaimed Its Power

Kristi Wooten

Feb 11, 2019

Grammys 2019: How Music Reclaimed Its Power

The four-hour broadcast silenced political division with dynamic performances by three generations of women and proved ‘less dancing,...

Kristi Wooten

Dec 7, 2018

Women Made the Best Albums of 2018.

Female songwriters topped publications’ year-end music polls, but few lists captured the gamut of their ages, genres, and talents. From...

Queen's Brilliance at Live Aid: What Bohemian Rhapsody Missed

Kristi Wooten

Nov 14, 2018

Queen's Brilliance at Live Aid: What Bohemian Rhapsody Missed

Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic named after one of the British rock group’s most famous songs, opened in theaters two weeks ago. The...

Kristi Wooten

Oct 3, 2018

The Modfather Goes Pastoral Again

Paul Weller is consistently one of the most listenable artists of the past forty years, and his latest album is spot-on. The former Jam...

Sting and Shaggy's Reggae Party Broke the ATL

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...

Florence and the Machine’s New Feminist Sensibility

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...

What No One Else Will Tell You About the New U2 Album

Kristi Wooten

Dec 3, 2017

What No One Else Will Tell You About the New U2 Album

When music critics focus on confirming or denying the band’s place in music history, they miss the real story of Songs of Experience. I...

Watch Dua Lipa Jump into Crowd of Atlanta Fans

Kristi Wooten

Oct 3, 2017

Watch Dua Lipa Jump into Crowd of Atlanta Fans

Summer’s over and the leaves are falling, but we’ll always have memories of the music festival season to get us through fall and winter....

Bryan Ferry and the Seduction of Subtlety

Kristi Wooten

Mar 15, 2017

Bryan Ferry and the Seduction of Subtlety

A relentless assault of zeros and ones is stripping our brains of the ability to recognize smooth edges. In the 21st century, we want...

The Monkees Kick Off Fun 50th Anniversary Tour Down South

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....

Florence Welch Climbs the Rafters at Shaky Knees

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...

What Happened When Jimmy Carter and Bono Went to the Disco

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.

Hardcover Rock: Do Music Memoirs Matter?

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...

Can Miley Cyrus Educate Millennials About the Fight Against AIDS?

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...