Kristi York Wooten

This post was co-authored with Joshua Case.

When reports surfaced that Bono's investment group, Elevation Partners, would make upwards of a billion dollars after the Facebook IPO last Friday, dozens of websites got snarky with the Irish rocker: "Bono will be richer than a Beatle," "It's a 'Beautiful...

Note from the bloggers: As fellow music lovers and advocates for improving maternal health, we're joining our voices to let you know about a new CD that will help make a difference in women's lives around the world.

"Daddy, Daddy," a little girl calls out in the background. The strumming...

When a new American musical called Ghost Brothers of Darkland County opened last week in Atlanta, its creators were on hand to relish a standing "o" from a crowd enamored with the star power in the room. In addition to spooky novelist Stephen King and

It was 1997: A few days after Oasis released its third album, I hung out with music journo J.D. Considine at a critics luncheon. Naturally, we discussed the hot topic of the moment: Were the Gallagher brothers destined for world domination? Or would they turn out to be...

He told his story in the 2008 documentary "War Child" (and in his 2009 autobiography of the same name), but Emmanuel Jal's journey from child soldier in the Sudanese People's Liberation Army to international music star wasn't complete until the Republic of South Sudan...

Although March 8th marks the 101st anniversary of International Women's Day (first celebrated in the US in 1911), women and men are far from equals in 2012.

Only 16 percent of Fortune 500 board chairs are women, and the U.S. ranks /gender_gap.pdf" target="_hplink">17th in the World...

When documentarian Mark Johnson decided to film street musicians performing rock and soul classics such as "Stand By Me" and "Try a Little Tenderness," he had no idea the videos would yield nearly 100 million views on YouTube, two albums, and collaborations with the likes of

When your favorite stars walk down the gold carpet Sunday night at the 54th annual Grammy Awards ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, get ready to be wowed with one of the best shows in years -- including performances by Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band, Paul...

Fellow Huffington Post blogger (and longtime music editor) David Wild hit the nail on the head when he said The Explorers Club's sophomore outing, Grand Hotel, is "the best album of the year -- but what year?"

Music nerds (like me) who are in touch with...

Dinner with family. Exchanging presents. Lighting candles. Caroling. Vacation. Parties. Fireworks!

How will you celebrate the holidays this year? We often forget that we have a choice about how we will observe the national, cultural and religious holidays that make up this "most wonderful time of the year." But what...

We music critics haven't had much to froth over for the past few years. The charts across most genres have been decidedly barren of worthy sounds, thanks to the never-ending influx of auto-tuned fluff. Sure, there are always a handful of really great songs in any calendar year, but there...

There's been a lot of talk lately about the strides being made against HIV/AIDS. During a speech at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on November 8, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton even went so far as to proclaim the possibility of an "AIDS-free generation" with "a global...

Entrepreneur Al Meyers was attending a TED conference in Palm Springs in 2009 when a presentation by TED Prize winner and Venezuelan conductor and economist Jose Antonio Abreu sparked an idea. During his speech, Abreu connected to a live satellite feed of...

Have you ever wondered what happens to all those little bars of soap in hotels? You use them once or twice during a stay and then they're discarded the next day. Thanks to Global Soap Project, an Atlanta-based nonprofit founded by humanitarian worker Derreck Kayongo, more than 100...

A little baby born in India earlier this week was welcomed to the world as our planet's seven billionth citizen. Not only is it a staggering statistic to realize earth's inhabitants have increased two-fold in the past fifty years, but in light of "World...

Allee Willis stood at the mic, a white Jewish girl from Detroit fronting a ten-piece soul band dressed in sequined vegetable costumes. The venue was the Ohio State campus cafeteria, and the three people who comprised the audience were chomping hot dogs while a psychology professor conducted a...

Eighteen years ago, a little-known performer (and one of my favorite singers ever), Victoria Williams, was in the middle of an opening stint on the road with guitar god Neil Young when unexplainable, debilitating symptoms forced her to leave the tour. She was later diagnosed with...

Although New York singer Marilyn Carino says listening to her catalog of work with new-millennium indie darlings Mudville "feels like a nostalgia trip," she's proud of what she and collaborator Ben Rubin accomplished: critical praise (in 2006, critic John Pareles of The New York Times described their...

Quick! Name a music festival. Did you say Bonnaroo or Coachella? Maybe you just attended the Austin City Limits Music Festival ? I bet you didn't think of Music Midtown, did you? If not, there's a reason for that. The newly re-minted...

Similarly to the scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in which our favorite truant trio visits the Art Institute of Chicago and surveys Seurat's pointillist masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte to the strains of "Please, Please,...