Sean Lennon

Los Angeles Animation Festival 2012 Opens With Shrek, Bugs Bunny and SpongeBob's Tom Kenny

Read about LAAF artistic director Sean Lennon's picks for the festival in last week's Cult Stars column. Wednesday night, the third not-quite annual Los Angeles Animation Festival opened at the Regent Showcase. The free event was essentially a preview of what's to come over the next few days, with ... More >>

Sean Lennon Brings Akira and Other Favorites to Los Angeles Animation Festival

Sean Lennon is best known in music circles. The 36-year-old son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono has released three solo albums, as well as two full-lengths with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl under the name The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (GOASTT). He played with Cibo Matto, collaborated extensively wi ... More >>

Top Five Metal Guest Vocalists That Make You Say "WTF"

WWEThe Ultimate Warrior​At the end of August, Pennsylvania hardcore/metalcore outfit Century released its third album, Red Giant. The group's emotionally-charged lyrics are given a fiery delivery via the combined efforts of vocalist Carson Slovak and bassist/vocalist Ricky Armellino. On this a ... More >>

Music Picks: Janet Jackson, John Escreet Quartet, DJ Quik, Charles Bradley

Also, Charlie Haden Quartet West, John Williams, Philip Glass and others

Tonight: Fitz & the Tantrums, Robyn, Blonde Redhead, Natasha Bedingfield, Ferraby Lionheart, Bear Hands, Papercranes

Timothy NorrisFitz & the Tantrums​Can we get an exclamation point for Fitz & the Tantrums? The stylish purveyors of old soul helmed by Michael Sean Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs have had a quite a 2010. They started the year practically as a novelty -- a slick band with nice EP and a great li ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum

Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

First Snapshots: Yoko Ono meets Lady Gaga (and Sonic Youth's Thurston & Kim, and the RZA, and Mike Watt, and Princess Leia, and many others) at the Orpheum in LA

Gustavo TurnerYoko Ono and Lady Gaga frolic on a piano at the Orpheum Theatre in LA​We told you this one was going to be special. Stay tuned for our full review, but Saturday night's brilliant show/tribute to Yoko Ono at the Orpheum brought some extremely special moments with Tune-Yards, the ... More >>

This weekend: Plastic Ono Band, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, School of Seven Bells, the Avett Brothers, Fountains of Wayne

Yoko Ono​John Lennon would have turned 70 next week, and among the events celebrating the legendary Beatle are two shows this weekend featuring a reconstituted Plastic Ono Band, the loose collective of musicians Lennon assembled 40 years ago. His widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon (the musica ... More >>

Yoko Ono is Coming to Los Angeles. This Is Why You Should Go See Her.

John Lennon's favorite musician​I wrote this column for this week's print edition of the LA Weekly about this weekend's very special, star-studded concert celebrating Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band: Listening to Yoko Do it, without prejudice Circa 1970, John Lennon was savagely mocked whe ... More >>

Listening to Yoko

Do it, without prejudice

Music Picks: Plastic Ono Band, Ooh La LA Fest, Belle & Sebastian

Also, Marianne Dissard, Bad Company, Matador 21 and others

FREE MP3 and Interview with Sean Lennon's New Band Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger: "We are like two Serge Gainsbourgs"

Terry Richardson for Purple MagazineDoes this pose look familiar? (full NSFW picture below)​Sean Lennon has been collaborating with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl on a set of "surrealistic psychedelic pop songs," which they will be unveiling under the collective project name Ghost of a Saber T ... More >>

We Are the Mods, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

Also, Inception, Predators, Kisses

Movie Reviews: Restrepo, Eyes Wide Open, The Sun Behind the Clouds

Also, Knight and Day, Raavan, The Killer Inside Me and more

Rock Picks: GZA, the Ettes, A.A. Bondy, Mose Allison

Also, the Kris Special, Jesse Sykes, Mamak Khadem and others

Petra Haden Sells Out

A singer lets her love flow in a quirky series of Toyota Prius commercials

ROCK PICKS: Black Francis, Bob Dylan, Caroline Weeks, Casiokids

Also, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, The Dodos, Buddy Guy and others

Easy Come Easy Go: Marianne Faithfull and Hal Willner's Songs of Tragedy and Heartbreak

Icon's sandpaper vocals sing it like no one else

Rock Picks: Tegan & Sara, Patti Smith, Stereolab

Also, Pinback, the Quarrymen, Kris Kristofferson and more

Rock Picks: Antony & the Johnsons, Kings of Leon, Jay-Z

Also, Joan Osborne, Earl Zero, Petra Haden and more

Wax On, Wax Off

Car wash, yeah; pole-dancing queen; photo Zone at Drkrm

Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age

For the week of Jan. 3 - 10

Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match.

The Iceman cometh

Sean of the Live

Sean Lennon, Kamila Thompson, Women and Children April 25 at the Roxy

Rock Picks

For the week of April 19–27

King Jeremy the Wicked

Around the world and back with designer Jeremy Scott, guest-starring Karl Lagerfeld, Cory Kennedy, Mario Testino and the FedEx lady

Big Damn Deal

Media darling Lily Allen’s hype exceeds her

Valentine for the Strokes Fan

On his solo debut, Albert Hammond Jr. (the best-dressed Stroke) reveals a candy-coated heart

From Sun to Fire

Back after eight years, Sean Lennon makes art out of heartbreak

Clusterfucked

Live in LA

On the New York Fashion Week Train

Björn Again

How Clean Was My Valley

Edited by Kateri Butler

Outfest

Edited by Kateri Butler

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

The best of Sitegeist

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

More Is More

Loved-up in Indio

Power of Flower

Built for Speed

Fastbacks: Punk in the present tense