December 22nd, 2012 
Dan Bogosian Squid the Whale news has been quiet lately, with no real stories coming out since they posted a song clip in September after announcing plans to record a new album. Bradley Walden, the front man for the Michigan rock band, recently teamed up with Lisa Vitale to cover John Lennon’s post-Vietnam War Christmas classic “Happy Xmas, War Is Over”. The duo nail the cover of it.
To see the killer performance for yourself or get a free download, click “Read more”.
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December 3rd, 2012 Jacob Tender That’s a cool band name right? It isn’t, but it could be. Trademark pending.
Anyway, welcome back to Monday Morning Mind-Melters. It’s been forever and a day since the last entry, but this is the Internet and I do what I want.
This caught my eye today and I thought I’d share. This is John Lennon’s “Imagine” played on instruments made out of confiscated and destroyed weapons. Lots of weapons. 6,700 weapons to be exact.
From this, Pedro Reyes created 50 instruments of the wind, percussion and stringed variety. These were played by 6 musicians in Mexico city …
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June 18th, 2012 Michael Meeze On this day in 1942 Sir Paul McCartney was born James Paul McCartney in Liverpool, England. The son of working class parents, Paul grew up modestly, but comfortably, in post-war England. His father, a jazz player and pianist, encouraged Paul to play music at an early age. In the spring of 1957, at the age of fifteen, Paul joined his first band, The Quarrymen. It was the start of a musical revolution that would change not only Rock n’ Roll, but culture in general.
As a member of the Quarrymen, Paul worked closely with another local musician by the name …
Posted in Music History Class Tags: Coming Up, Diamond Jubilee, england, george harrison, II, john lennon, Johnny and the Moondogs, Linda McCartney, Liverpool, london, My Love, olympics, Opening Ceremonies, paul mccartney, Queen Elizabeth, ringo starr, solo, the beatles, the Quarrymen, the Silver Beetles, Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, wings No Comments » April 24th, 2012 Michael Meeze On this day in 1976, a reunion six years in the making took place; no, not a musical reunion, but rather a personal reunion. Six years after the The Beatles posthumously released what would be their last album, Let It Be, Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, visited John Lennon at Lennon’s apartment in New York City.
It was a rare event following the tumultuous final years of the iconic Rock band. Reportedly, the McCartney’s and Lennon spent the evening watching Saturday Night Live. The duo was asked to come down to the SNL studio only several blocks away …
Posted in Columns, Features, Music History Class Tags: 1976, john lennon, let it be, Linda McCartney, New York City, paul mccartney, saturday night live, the beatles, Yoko Ono 2 Comments » October 17th, 2011 Melanie Rock’s Backpages, the world’s largest online library of rock journalism, is launching an eBooks department in celebration of it’s 10th birthday in November. This new branch is headed by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. The eBooks will consist of two series which further initiate Rock’s Backpages as an electronic publisher of elite rock writing.
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September 10th, 2011 Melanie In hopes of continuing John Lennon’s dream for world peace and to benefit families affected by 9/11, Automatic Loveletter now have their acoustic track “Dream With Me” available to download for a donation at a price of your choosing or free.
Posted in News Tags: 911, Acoustic Download, acoustic song, automatic loveletter, Automatic Loveletter acoustic, Automatic Loveletter acoustic download, Automatic Loveletter Dream With Me Acoustic, donate, download, download to donate, Dream With Me, free, free download, free song, john lennon No Comments » July 27th, 2011 Tori Thomas Go Radio performed “Goodnight Moon” on the John Lennon Bus on Warped Tour. The John Lennon Bus is an educational tour bus built with state-of-the-art recording equipment and HD video equipment. In the bus you can record a few tracks or even shoot a music video. Go Radio won a contest from Whooznxt, to record this track on the bus. You can watch the performance below and tell us what you think about this bus and performance.
July 4th, 2011 Tori Thomas You can check out the Day 6 video from Vans Warped Tour in Pomona, CA below. Brian, the pit reporter, takes you to the John Lennon tour bus (where bands can record on the road), performances, and more. Check out the video update below.
Posted in News Tags: acoustic, California, day 6, john lennon, pomona, update, vans warped tour, video No Comments » December 10th, 2010 Laura Former Beatles front-man Paul McCartney took a moment to remember dear friend and band-mate John Lennon last night after an interview with Jimmy Kimmel by performing his song “Here Today”, check it out after the jump.
September 17th, 2010 Grant Trimboli An interview recently with John Lennon’s killer Mark Chapman revealed the exact reasoning for the fatal shooting of the legend. Link to the article after the jump.
April 9th, 2010 Matth Check out what releases will be available!
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