Yoko Ono

Barenaked Ladies Were One of the Coolest, Cleverest Bands of the '90s

Ahead of West Coast Sound's 20 Worst Albums of the '90s poll next week, let's talk about the Barenaked Ladies. When I tell people I love Barenaked Ladies, the first thing they usually say is, "I'm sorry." This is because I typically only bring it up after one of my friends has launched into a mini-r ... More >>

Oh, Look Out You Rock & Rollers

Geoff Barrow's Protege Anika on Politics and Pissing Off Pop-Culture Consumers

​See also: Our interview with Portishead's Geoff Barrow With her faltering deadpan, spare dubby grooves and post-punk clanking, Anika's eponymous debut album on Stones Throw is political, a substance-over-style snub at standard music biz fare and the many who love it. A former music promoter ... More >>

Yoshitomo Nara, Jeff Koons and Yoko Ono Become 'Party Animals' at Royal/T. Woof!

Keith PlocekYoshitomo Nara's Your Dog​Pulling works from an art collector's private cache and organizing them around a theme is often a tricky affair, where capitalized nouns such as Transgression or Race or Patriarchy wind up applying to just about anything a curator hangs on the wall. Maybe ... More >>

Last Night: Big In Japan Featuring Cibo Matto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Buffalo Daughter at The Hollywood Bowl

Timothy Norris Yoko "Oh No" Ono​ WHO: Big In Japan Featuring Cibo Matto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Buffalo Daughter WHERE: The Hollywood Bowl WHEN: 6/26/11 A show called Big In Japan freely invites you to stare at its Japaneseness, and last night's concert at the Hollywood Bowl wore a risin ... More >>

Yellow Magic Orchestra Play First L.A. Show Since '79

What 78-Year-Old Woman Beat Lady Gaga and Britney to the Top of the Billboard Dance Chart? (And It Was Her 6th Consecutive #1)

​Earlier this month, Billboard announced that someone had beaten the likes of Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and every high-profile DJ you know (yes, even Tiesto!) to the top position on their Dance Music chart. That someone was a 78-year-old woman. The track in question was called "Move on Fast, ... More >>

HOLD ON, JOHN

FRIDA PEOPLE

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

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 >>

What do Moby, Questlove, Will Oldham, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright and Yoko Ono Have in Common? 'ITW Pathway', a Mysterious Movie Also Featuring Terrence Howard and Rosie Perez

Autism survivor and animal doctor Temple Grandin (not to be mistaken for Claire Danes playing Temple Grandin) appears in "ITW: Pathway."​Color us pleasantly confused. This morning we received an enigmatic announcement about what looks to be a star-studded reimagining of The Blair Witch Projec ... More >>

Movie Review: Who Is Harry Nilsson?

Last Night: UK Pop Sensation Kate Nash Redefines the C-Word @ El Rey

Timothy Norris​Yes, that's UK pop singer Kate Nash last night at the El Rey (sitting down due to one of her oddly not-infrequent foot-related accidents). Yes, the banner says "A CUNT IS A USEFUL THING." Yes, you know her mostly through some cutesy (kawaiiiiiiiiii) pop ditties and accolades f ... More >>

Sisters With Voices: The L.A. Ladies Choir

“I walked in and all these wonderful women were singing, and I just went, ‘Whew, I’m at home.’”

Rockers at Morrison Hotel Gallery with Legendary Music Photographer Bob Gruen

To be honest, I never thought I'd be standing in legendary photographer Bob Gruen's teenage bedroom. The unkempt bed covered by a Led Zeppelin blanket, the shelves of rock memorabilia, the walls plastered with photos and cutout articles from vintage rock magazines like Creem and Rock Scene... it is ... More >>

No Dark Knight: Salute to Sir George Martin, and His Ears

Legendary producer receives Grammy Foundation Leadership Award

Record Reviews: Juno soundtrack, Carpenters ring tone

Also: Disco Not Disco, Trus'me's Working Nights

Rock Picks: The Slits, Squiddo, Electrocute

For the week of August 2 - 9

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For the week of July 26 – August 2

John Sinclair's Guitar Army

Must See Art

“Last Resort” by Mark Mann at Taylor De Cordoba and auction time

What the Heck Is That?

Arthur Nights, the festival you never expected

Yearning to Breathe Free

John Cameron Mitchell and the huddled masses of Shortbus

Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim

Kim Jong-Il, North Korean Dictator is straight up gangsta style, he admits to lovin many bitches and he's had way more people killed than Shug Knight. He drives a Benz and has a penchant for extravagances like lobster and Hennessy. He's big fan of the NBA (he even has a signed ball by Michael Jord ... More >>

American Dreamer

Idealism under siege in The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Arthur, Arthur!

Jay Babcock

Surging Forward by Standing Still

Anarchy in the U.K.

The Wachowskis prosecute their Vendetta

Arthurfest

Live in LA

O, No!

Arthurfest headliner Yoko Ono on the Beatles, baseball, sex and peace

The View From Four Score

Eighty years in a musical life

In the Heart of the Universe

Jay Babcock talks with visionary comics author Alexandro Jodorowsky

Like a Cancer

Neil Hamburger is so inside he could break out

Devil's Bargain

Elvis Yoko Anna Nicole

Serious Racket

The intersection of art and decibels

The Noise of Art

Audio visuals

All You Need Is Weed

Tales of serendipity and Lennon

X-Small

30 years of little art in Laguna

Battle of the Bads

Satori Night Fever

A Ghost in the space-time machine

Music Reviews

Marx and Duchamp for Beginners

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect

The Low Life

Built for Speed

Fastbacks: Punk in the present tense