The single biggest departure on Only In Dreams, the Dum Dum Girls' great 2011 sophomore album, was the slo-mo Mazzy Star-esque ballad "Coming Down." That song's brand-new video is a single worshipful…   Read Story »

Psych-rock kings the Flaming Lips did a shit-ton of collaborating in 2011, releasing EPs with Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, and Lightning Bolt. And they ended their year with another one, releasing an…   Read Story »

Last week, from Wednesday until Sunday, Reykjavik, Iceland hosted its annual Airwaves festival. It's an urban festival and a hell of a party, with the city's invariably intimate venues acting in…   Read Story »

Merrill Garbus joined Plastic Ono Band onstage at Iceland Airwaves to perform Yoko Ono's "We're All Water" as a duet. We're not sure exactly where Amrit and Scott were when this happened, but my…   Read Story »

Yoko Ono brought the Plastic Ono Band to L.A.'s Orpheum Theatre this weekend, playing two nights with guests Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop, RZA, Perry Ferrell, tUnE-yArDs, and Lady Gaga. Gaga did "The Sun Is…   Read Story »

A few years ago I wrote a positive review of CocoRosie's The Adventures of Ghosthorse And Stillborn. Too positive, it turns out: The publication that assigned it killed the piece at the 11th hour and…   Read Story »

Ono's Between My Head And The Sky, (the first album under the Plastic Ono Band name since 1975) was surprisingly great, but she hasn't stopped commissioning remixes of her older work. This remix of…   Read Story »

As far as rock widows go, Yoko Ono's so far done a better job of preserving her husband's legacy than this woman. The Beatles: Rock Band and Love, the Cirque du Soleil show, are both Classy Affairs,…   Read Story »

Thurston blogs(!): "kim and i will be recording a trio LP w/ yoko this year, with blindfolds." Fun news, especially on the back of this unforgettable radness.   Read Story »

A hefty price tag accompanied tickets to this very special one-off at Brooklyn Academy Of Music last night, a mix of simple supply-demand economics and, presumably, underwriting costs associated with…   Read Story »