The Beatles’ Bizarro Boxing Day
On this day, after the one known so well as Christmas, The Beatles beamed a sloppy, surreal cult standout into holiday televisions, confounding many and captivating few.
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The Beatles Let It Get Back
Enjoy this holiday sneak peek of The Beatles: Get Back, knowing its reprogramming is all we have left of The Beatles, as the original fades.
Socially Distancing McCartney III
Fifty years after the passing of The Beatles, McCartney has again added his voice to our turbulent time.
Goodbye, The Beatles (Again)
Fifty years ago, The Beatles tragically left us, after changing the world for almost a decade. And what they left us with, like much of what they made, sequenced the genes for the recombined culture to come.
I’m Sorry, Kurt Cobain
A quarter of a century ago, I turned my back on our revolution. As the reprogramming accelerated, I slowed time by pursuing love. But it was not enough.
Geek The Beatles: Lennon’s Last Years
John Lennon’s life-saving retreat into domesticity is legendary, most particularly because it was subsequently and violently stolen away from him by a fanatic passing as a Christian.
Happy 50th Birthday, Revolver!
The Beatles’ ambitious classic clocks five revolutionary decade, as futuristic as ever.
Geek The Beatles: The Lennon Claypool Delirium Pops Bubbles
Sean Lennon has inherited his mother and father’s sense of art and agitation
Geek The Beatles: LOVE’s Guitar Gently Weeps
The re-staging of George Harrison’s iconic Beatles song for the 10th anniversary of The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil.
Ron Howard Geeks The Beatles
The director of Cocoon blossoms into a Fab Four aficionado.
Happy Birthday, Sir Paul McCartney!
Still taking a sad song and making it better.
MorphToons: June 2015
I kicked off my first month as Cartoon Brew’s associate editor with an exclusive on the late, great John Lennon.
Geek The Beatles: John Lennon Sketchbook Makes Official Online Debut
“It was created from original drawings by John Lennon and a soundtrack that I also edited together, consisting of snatches of conversation between John and Yoko and song excerpts.”
I’m Just An Ordinary Alien: An Interview With Sean Lennon
As the dust of the 20th century the Beatles dominated depixelates into memory, Lennon is quietly hacking their legacies to create lasting multimedia of his own.
Who Is TheNewNo2? Dhani Harrison’s Cinema Soundtracker
“My dad’s soundtracks were always psychedelic.”
Can TheNewNo2 Make It Home From Liam Lynch’s Sci-Fi?
Dhani Harrison’s dread zeppelin is led through a puzzling digital dreamscape in thenewno2‘s new video.
Geek The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Reboots For Millennials
One man’s crap made-for-TV movie becomes another fan’s Pythonesque art trip, and the popular tastes of the ensuing decades makes up the difference. Who’s your Walrus now?
Tripping On John Lennon, Jesus Christ and Epigenetic Cloning With Jonathon Keats
[Here’s the raw feed of my mindmeld with concept artist Jonathon Keats, whose yeast-based art cloning of Barack Obama and Lady Gaga is making cats mad at Wired. Check out […]
TheNewNo2 Brings Sci-Fi Sounds to Secret KCRW Show
It was only a matter of time before someone dropped a sample from The Prisoner.
Geek The Beatles: Yellow Submarine Plays Lead On Psychedelic Animation Classics
Even The Beatles, who were descending into bitter dissolution and didn’t even record their voices for the film, were ultimately swayed by its animated ambition. And they weren’t alone.
Norwegian Wood Mashes Beatles, Radiohead, Revolution
Beatles geeks, Occupy populists and postmodern fiction nerds should merge sweetly, and sourly, in Norwegian Wood, director Tran Anh Hung’s adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel.
Dhani Harrison Honors Father George, Faces Fear of Missing Out
“I’m all about trying to reduce my level of ADD.”
iTunes Downloads The Beatles’ Greatest Hits
How’s this for postmodern circularity?
Martin Scorsese Documents George Harrison’s Material World
Living in the Material World explores the so-called quiet Beatle‘s storied career using previously unseen archival materials and movies, as well as revealing interviews with Paul McCartney, Terry Gilliam, Eric Clapton and more.
Grant Morrison Gives John Lennon a Chance
“I decided to treat John Lennon as a god.”