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Yoko Ono/The Plastic Ono Band

Reviews 2

Theory Into Practice: Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed

The Ladies Of The Norse: Iceland Airwaves Review

Articles 9

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Yoko Ono

Despite the predictably & performatively negative reaction the Japanese artist inspires in some critical quarters, it is clear she has been responsible for a cavalcade of bangers over the decades. With a new retrospective at the Tate Modern, Jeremy Allen explores her back catalogue
Art

Sound & Vision: Broken Music Vol. 2 Explores Records By Artists

A little over three decades after Ursula Block's first exhibition of artists' vinyl records, a new show at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof looks at 70 years of records and sound works by artists
A Quietus Interview

Harping On: Zeena Parkins Interviewed

Ahead of her appearance later this month at Semibreve festival, Zeena Parkins talks to Claire Sawers about the need for boundaries and the need for generosity
Books

Two Ears Are Better Than One: Gascia Ouzounian’s Stereophonica

From the stethoscope to contemporary sound art via wartime psychoacoustics, a new book dives into the strange history of binaural sound
Black Sky Thinking

A Place To Dream: Arcadia, The Kitchen & The History Of NY Lofts

With William Basinski's Arcadia Series opening this week in London, Robert Barry speaks with Basinski, Michael Gira and Rhys Chatham to trace the rich history of New York's artist-run loft spaces and the pioneering music they fostered
A Quietus Interview

Every Day Counts: Yoko Ono Interviewed

Petra Davis talks to the inspirational artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono
Black Sky Thinking

Is 2013 The Year for Militant Feminism in Music?

Feminism has been mainly absent in popular music for the last decade, says Steph Kretowicz, until now...
Albums of the Year

The Quietus Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The Year List: 40 To 21

Another best of '09 list? Well at least ours was compiled with the rapidity and contempt that these things deserve. And yes, it's still better than Q's. Guaranteed 100% Dylan and Big Pink free

A Quietus Interview

Yoko Oh Yes! Ms Ono Speaks About Peace, Pop And Computer Games

Some of us may be surprised at just how good _Between My Head And The Sky_, the new album by the Plastic Ono Band, actually is. Not Carol Clerk, who met up with Yoko to talk about her music and peace projects . . .

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 3

Baker's Dozen

An Expanse Of Sound: Jane Weaver’s Favourite Albums

With the release of her stunning new album, Modern Kosmology, Jane Weaver talks to John Freeman about the 13 records that shaped her musical universe. Portrait by Rebecca Lupton.

Baker's Dozen

Personal Records: Eleanor Friedberger’s Favourite Albums

With her third solo record, New View, released last week and a UK tour imminent, the singer-songwriter and one half of The Fiery Furnaces talks Gary Kaill through the 13 records she's played most from start to finish
Baker's Dozen

A Zola Jesus Baker’s Dozen: 13 LPs By Women Who Inspired Me To Sing

Zola Jesus (Nika Rosa Danilova) gives us a special Baker's Dozen - 13 albums by female singers who inspired her to find her own voice

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