Something I’ve been meaning to post for a couple of weeks now … I’ve long thought that Monica Kendrick is the best music writer at the Reader and the spot-on writeup she turned in just before Yoko Ono’s appearance at the recent Pitchfork Music Festival only reinforces that notion:
9:00 Yoko Ono
For decades her name […]
Entries Tagged as 'Yoko Ono'
Music: Catching Up to Yoko
Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 24th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Tags: News · Culture · Music · Journal · Chicago · LGBT · Media · New Wave · TV · Beatles · Yoko Ono · Human Rights · Video · Feminism · John Lennon · Amnesty International · Modern Rock · 60s Pop
Music: Amnesty International’s Instant Karma — The Campaign to Save Darfur
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Green Day’s cover version of “Working Class Hero” by John Lennon was released May 1 as the third single from Instant Karma: the Campaign to Save Darfur, Amnesty International’s album of Lennon covers by various artists to raise awareness about the human rights catastrophe in the Sudan. All proceeds from the album will go to […]
Tags: News · Culture · Music · New Wave · Activism · Beatles · iTunes · Yoko Ono · Human Rights · Darfur · Punk · John Lennon · Amnesty International
The Waterboys: Mike Scott in The Guardian, and new album Book of Lightning
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Mike Scott, singer, songwriter, and bandleader of The Waterboys, has a thoughtful and entertaining piece in The Guardian recounting his experiences trying to correct errors in the band’s entry on Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, the Waterboys have a new album coming out in April! It’s called Book of Lightning and you can hear samples of a couple […]
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