Best New Bands » John Lennon http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Words with Daniel Blue of Motopony: The new album, influences, and cruising Burning Man naked http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-daniel-blue-of-motopony-the-new-album-influences-and-cruising-burning-man-naked/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-daniel-blue-of-motopony-the-new-album-influences-and-cruising-burning-man-naked/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Motopony – King Of Diamonds Daniel Blue is equal parts open book and enigma. The artist-turned-fashion-designer-turned-musician didn’t get serious about music as a profession until he was in his late twenties, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to his project Motopony‘s self-titled debut album. I was charmed by the first track “June“, but it

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-daniel-blue-of-motopony-the-new-album-influences-and-cruising-burning-man-naked/feed/ 0 Conversations with Legends: Yoko Ono talks with Philip Sumner http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/conversations-with-legends-yoko-ono-talks-with-our-philip-sumner/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/conversations-with-legends-yoko-ono-talks-with-our-philip-sumner/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:00:00 +0000 A few years back I visited a Yoko Ono retrospective exhibit in Japan featuring the work from her 1966 show at the Indica gallery. This was the show that acquainted John Lennon with Yoko’s work. At the time I was very familiar with the Beatles catalog and much of John’s later work, but not at

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