John Lennon

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Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Rewrite "The Times They Are a-Changin'" To Protest Fracking; Rock And Roll Officially Dead

Rock and roll, 62-ish, died Friday at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan after a courageous battle with poor taste. At the time of its death, rock and roll was surrounded by friends, family, and comedian Jimmy Fallon, as Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon -- the former wife and son (respectively) of Beatle Jo ... More >>

Jenny Scheinman, Bill Frisell, and Brian Blade

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 >>

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 >>

September 11

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 >>

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 >>

John Lennon's Death, the 30th Anniversary: How the Internet Is Coping

via onlinemusicnews.wordpress​Today 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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

John Lennon Gets His Very Own Corny Biopic in Nowhere Boy

LIFE OF LENNON

They say it's your birthday . . .

Harry Nilsson Gets the Rock-Doc Treatment

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

Renewable Karma

Honor the spirit of John Lennon

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 >>

Lit Seen: Momus, Joe Pernice, and Nick Cave Trade Guitar Picks for Pens

On the improbable return of the rock-star novel

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 >>

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 >>

NYC HEARTS JOHN LENNON

Artifacts of the rebellious Beatle

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 >>

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 >>

A John Lennon Memory

Letters 10.08.08

John Lennon's Imagine Demands Truth, But Provides Little Of Its Own

'Looking at Music' and Philip Guston at the MoMA; 'Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting' at the Met

Looking at Music

Daily Flog: Lennon killer gets laid regularly and Edwards doesn't, Russia rips Georgia, China rips U.S., Con Ed rips us off

A Curse on Your Walls

Quick Lohan Reality Check

Chapter 27

Jared Leto kills John Lennon. Yup.

MODERN VINTAGE

Enter the alternate universe of the Walkmen

Dakota Fanning

Up against another film about Lennon's killer, first-time director digs in

Not Particularly Jealous Guy

Mr. Lennon's new love-triangle record is a nonetheless tranquil mutation

Magical History Tour

Lennon rock doc is both poignant and topical

Don't Let Me Down: Paying Homage to a Working Class Hero

Tragic Circles

Massive new Beatles bio probes Fab Four heart of darkness

What's in a Name? 'Lennon' Offers Less of John Alone Than of John and Yoko.

NY Mirror

Thoughtful Florida Rapper Knows What the Alligators Know

Bugging A Beatle

Keeping tabs on public enemy number one: John Lennon

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