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February 14, 2012
Paul McCartney Opens The Book Of Love Songs With Kisses On The Bottom
What do you do when you are the Cute Beatle approaching 70? Age—and those decades of inhaling herb—is finally catching up to those pipes, yet vanity or stubbornness prevents you from simply clipping on that capo to sing your classics in a lower key. Oh, and your name is Sir Paul and you' ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011
Jenny Scheinman, Bill Frisell, and Brian Blade
What do you do when you are the Cute Beatle approaching 70? Age—and those decades of inhaling herb—is finally catching up to those pipes, yet vanity or stubbornness prevents you from simply clipping on that capo to sing your classics in a lower key. Oh, and your name is Sir Paul and you' ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Yoko Ono Accused of Selling Altered John Lennon Artworks
Yoko Ono rented out a big space in SoHo this weekend and held a sale of her late husband John Lennon's artworks. Lennon would have been 71 this year. A Florida-based "artist, creator of original lithographs, scholar, and author" named Gary Arsenau is accusing Ono of selling Lennon works that ... More >>
Blogs
September 12, 2011
Live: Don Fleming And The Folding Men "Remember" September 11
Brad Cohan Don Fleming and the Folding Men Mercury Lounge Sunday, September 11 Better Than: Watching Terrorist Motherfuckers Destroy The World Trade Center As Don Fleming told the Voice recently, the Velvet Monkeys/Gumball/B.A.L.L./Half Japanese dude and superproducer moved to NYC in 1986 ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 24, 2011
September 11
Brad Cohan Don Fleming and the Folding Men Mercury Lounge Sunday, September 11 Better Than: Watching Terrorist Motherfuckers Destroy The World Trade Center As Don Fleming told the Voice recently, the Velvet Monkeys/Gumball/B.A.L.L./Half Japanese dude and superproducer moved to NYC in 1986 ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Week In Review: Stop Looking At My Moms
In the week we continued counting down the worst songs of 2010, noting atrocities from Susan Boyle, Liz Phair, Christina Aguilera, Jackyl, and NeverShoutNever, and Die Antwoord, we also began our overall year in review, listing the 10 biggest music stories of 2010, our 10 favorite concerts, t ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Remembering John Lennon, 30 Years On: The Voice's 1980 Eulogy
Today is the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. His senseless murder on December 8th, 1980 was hard to sort out at the time--"the anonymous eating the famous like a cannibal feasting on testicles," as Robert Christgau wrote in these pages--and not much easier to parse now. In memory of ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
John Lennon's Death, the 30th Anniversary: How the Internet Is Coping
via onlinemusicnews.wordpressToday marks the 30th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. He was infamously murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City on December 8, 1980. This anniversary, people all over the world and the Web are mourning in different ways. Here are a few of our favor ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Sissy Spacek Was a Pop Singer! (Music Below)
We all know Oscar winner Sissy Spacek as Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, and the co-star of this year's gritty rural drama Get Low. But in 1968, she called herself Rainbo and sang a pop ditty titled, "John, You Went Too Far This Time"--a hallucinogenic screed against Beatle John Lennon and ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #19: Ringo Starr featuring Joss Stone, "Who's Your Daddy?"
F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. Far be it from me to make life harder for the least embarrassing living Beatle... but, wow, someone just double-parked his Yellow Submarine in Creepytown.
Blogs
October 8, 2010
Happy Birthday, John Lennon: Here's Your Google Doodle and an FBI Investigation
Imagining John Lennon today.Tomorrow would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. Back in 1971, he gave his famous interview with Rolling Stone, saying the following: "I was different, I was always different... A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to ... More >>
Film
October 6, 2010
John Lennon Gets His Very Own Corny Biopic in Nowhere Boy
Imagining John Lennon today.Tomorrow would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. Back in 1971, he gave his famous interview with Rolling Stone, saying the following: "I was different, I was always different... A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
LIFE OF LENNON
They say it's your birthday . . .
Film
September 8, 2010
Harry Nilsson Gets the Rock-Doc Treatment
They say it's your birthday . . .
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Yoko Ono's New Boyfriend
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 43 Scenes by Howard Smith YOKO ONO was a well-known New York happening artist a few years ago, especially noted for "Stone" at the Judson gallery (a room full of bulging black burlap sacks large enough fo ... More >>
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December 25, 2009
Fork in the Road Presents Five Great Rock Christmas Songs
The crappy quality makes this version of "Little Saint Nick" by the Beach Boys as broadcast on "Shindig" all the more endearing.
Blogs
December 24, 2009
Clip Job: Wary, Post-'Jesus' Beatles Meet the NY Press for Shea Show
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 25, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 45 John, Paul, George, Ringo: Cool Duel with the Press By James Kempton A press conference is where photographers jostle for the same shot as the one in the files and the reporters ask questions about th ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
Robert Christgau Remembers John Lennon, Redux
"In 1971, I wrote something about John and Yoko that they liked a lot, and to show their appreciation they invited me and my girlfriend Dominique to John's 31st birthday party--in Syracuse, where a Yoko Ono retrospective had been mounted. I've never been one to hobnob with the stars, but who could ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Renewable Karma
Honor the spirit of John Lennon
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October 19, 2009
Supermarket Sweep: Rachel Ray Spotted in Gristede's Impersonating a Chicken
How hard can it be to boil eggs? Some customers prefer to have it done for them. What with buying food at farmers markets, cheese shops, butchers, and specialty grocery stores, it's rare for me to step inside a supermarket. When I do, it's usually to buy staples like baking soda and toilet ... More >>
Books
August 25, 2009
Lit Seen: Momus, Joe Pernice, and Nick Cave Trade Guitar Picks for Pens
On the improbable return of the rock-star novel
Blogs
June 19, 2009
News Roundup: Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival, Beck, RIAA, Sean Lennon Hates Springsteen
--The full lineup to Brooklyn's "Woodsist Captured Tracks Festival" has been announced. Organized by Blank Dogs Mike Sniper's label, the shows will be at Broadway Backyard July 3rd and 4th. The lineup includes Woods, Kurt Vile, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, Psychedelic Horseshit, Blank Dogs, and Crys ... More >>
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May 11, 2009
John Lennon Show at Rock Annex: Death Clothes, Ono Phone, Stiller Memories
Lots of coverage today for the upcoming "John Lennon: The New York City Years" show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Soho. Yoko Ono's been publicizing it, and adds a personal touch with a piece of her own, "Telephone," in which annex-goers are encouraged to answer a ringing telephone -- an ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 29, 2009
NYC HEARTS JOHN LENNON
Artifacts of the rebellious Beatle
Blogs
March 16, 2009
Britney's New Video is Filth on a Stick
Remember the old days, when pop stars had to sneak coded words into their songs to get subversive messages on the radio? ("Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was mumbo jumbo meant to signify "LSD"--though John Lennon denied that to his death. Ooh, cool shit!) Well, Dame Britney Spears has caught on t ... More >>
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December 26, 2008
Slow Nudes Day III
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2008
A John Lennon Memory
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
News
October 8, 2008
Letters 10.08.08
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
Music
October 1, 2008
John Lennon's Imagine Demands Truth, But Provides Little Of Its Own
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
Art
August 27, 2008
'Looking at Music' and Philip Guston at the MoMA; 'Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting' at the Met
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 27, 2008
Looking at Music
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
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August 11, 2008
Daily Flog: Lennon killer gets laid regularly and Edwards doesn't, Russia rips Georgia, China rips U.S., Con Ed rips us off
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 2, 2008
A Curse on Your Walls
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2008
Quick Lohan Reality Check
After dead John Lennon's TV appearance, we needed a nude palate cleanser, but it's still quiet, clothed Christmas season everywhere except in our accursed internet guard-tower -- and at Haber 27, an Austrian softcore vendor which is new to us but apparently works holidays including the Birth of the ... More >>
Film
March 25, 2008
Chapter 27
Jared Leto kills John Lennon. Yup.
Voice Choices
February 26, 2008
MODERN VINTAGE
Enter the alternate universe of the Walkmen
Film
April 17, 2007
Dakota Fanning
Up against another film about Lennon's killer, first-time director digs in
Music
October 10, 2006
Not Particularly Jealous Guy
Mr. Lennon's new love-triangle record is a nonetheless tranquil mutation
Film
August 29, 2006
Magical History Tour
Lennon rock doc is both poignant and topical
NYC Life
November 29, 2005
Don't Let Me Down: Paying Homage to a Working Class Hero
Lennon rock doc is both poignant and topical
Books
November 15, 2005
Tragic Circles
Massive new Beatles bio probes Fab Four heart of darkness
Theater
August 9, 2005
What's in a Name? 'Lennon' Offers Less of John Alone Than of John and Yoko.
Massive new Beatles bio probes Fab Four heart of darkness
Columns
June 7, 2005
NY Mirror
Massive new Beatles bio probes Fab Four heart of darkness
Music
July 20, 2004
Thoughtful Florida Rapper Knows What the Alligators Know
Massive new Beatles bio probes Fab Four heart of darkness
Theater
March 23, 2004
Bugging A Beatle
Keeping tabs on public enemy number one: John Lennon
Columns
July 29, 2003
NY Mirror
Keeping tabs on public enemy number one: John Lennon
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May 7, 2002
Horoscope
Keeping tabs on public enemy number one: John Lennon
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September 25, 2001
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