#John Lennon

Massive 50th Anniversary Reissue of Plastic Ono Band Sessions Positions Yoko Ono as Musical Maverick

Yoko Ono portrait by Iain Macmillan at the St. Regis Hotel, New York, September 1971. © Yoko Ono Lennon On October 10, 1970, John Lennon was busy working on his first solo album at EMI Recording Studios (not yet rechristened “Abbey Road,” after the Beatles’ album of the same name). The sessions had...

Gillian G. Gaar

ONLY NOISEDon't Take Your Guns To Town

Last Saturday, while performing at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, Marilyn Manson was crushed by a falling stage prop. The assailing object was not a steel cage, nor a neon pentagram, but a sculpture of two massive handguns affixed to scaffolding. Manson was rushed to the hospital with undisclosed...

Madison Bloom

NEWS ROUNDUPYoko Ono's "Imagine" Credit, LCD Soundsystem Shows and More

Yoko Ono To Receive Songwriting Credit For 'Imagine" In a 1980 BBC interview, John Lennon admitted that his wife Yoko Ono deserved a co-credit for one of his most beloved solo songs, "Imagine," since much of the ideas and lyrics came directly from her poems. He denied her important role in its...

Emily Daly

PLAYLISTChristmas Songs That Don't Suck

Anyone who's worked in retail can tell you what a headache Christmas carols can be. You're working eight hour shifts surrounded by irate customers who forgot the meaning of holiday cheer in a rush to get presents for their shitty boyfriends and picky sisters. These people have no regard for the...

Lindsey Rhoades