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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 14, 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 8, 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


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
Sep 23, 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
Aug 27, 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
Jul 13, 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


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
Mar 30, 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 27, 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
Feb 2, 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
Jan 1, 2015


Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira Vs. Boko Haram
Actress, activist and African American: Danai Gurira believes in the power of using her voice to amplify African storytellers. The set of...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 30, 2014


Original Recipe: Midge Ure and "Do They Know It's Christmas"
THE ECONOMIST THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding and others added their voices and carefully mussed-up hair to “Do They...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 19, 2014


The Original Recipe for "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
One of the driving forces behind the original Band Aid recording looks back 30 years. THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 18, 2014


This Infographic Explains How America Feels About Spandau Ballet
A new documentary called Soul Boys of the Western World follows the British band Spandau Ballet from its New Romantic beginnings in...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 13, 2014


Annie Lennox's Nostalgia: Timeless Soul
“NOSTALGIA”, the latest album from Annie Lennox, the British singer-songwriter, recalls an era of smoky clubs and street-corner swing....
Kristi Wooten
Oct 21, 2014
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