Chimera Music

29/11/2024

Yoko Ono's and Flaming Lips' version of Happy Xmas (War Is Over) was first released as a limited 7-inch and Amazon digital exclusive in 2014. We're happy to announce the track is now available anywhere you can listen to music! Stream it at the link here: https://lnkfi.re/warisover

10/10/2024

On NPR World Cafe: “The Culture Corner: How Cibo Matto quietly influenced New York in the '90s”

Listen at the link below!

World Cafe correspondent John Morrison explains how the alt rock band's 1999 record subverted stereotypes at the time.

01/05/2024

Listen to the DEAKIN (of Animal Collective) remix of Yoko Ono's 2013 track "There's No Goodbye Between Us," now on all streaming services! https://lnkfi.re/theresnogoodbye

29/04/2024

10 years ago today, released “Midnight Sun” (Chimera Music). Never bring a bone to a banquet. Read our The Claypool Lennon Delirium cover story with Sean Lennon and Les Claypool by Nels Cline (Wilco): https://magnetmagazine.com/2016/05/16/exclusive-cover-story-excerpt-les-claypool-and-sean-lennon-interviewed-by-wilcos-nels-cline/

22/04/2024

Yoko Ono will be the recipient of the 2024 ! Read more in the Washington Post below.

MacDowell

One of the country’s leading artist residency programs, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Yoko Ono

11/03/2024

Congrats Sean Lennon!

Sean Lennon wished Yoko Ono a Happy Mother's Day during the Oscars acceptance speech for Best Animated Short.

09/03/2024

To keep their legacy relevant for a new generation, he worked on the short “War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko.” Now it’s up for an Oscar.

19/02/2024

'The Tokyo-born artist known for her marriage to John Lennon as much as her avant-garde (and often very funny) art has a much-anticipated retrospective at Tate Modern in London, running through Sept. 1. The show, “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” contains more than 200 works spanning seven decades.'

Read more in The New York Times:

A major retrospective at Tate Modern instructs visitors to draw their own shadows, shake hands through a canvas and imagine paintings in their heads.

19/02/2024

'To celebrate Yoko Ono’s 90th birthday on 18 February 2023, Sean Ono Lennon has made a virtual ’Wish Tree’ for people all over the world to post their wishes online and (in association with One Tree Planted) plant real trees in Yoko’s honor.

16/02/2024

Sean Ono Lennon is out with a new instrumental record, 'Asterisms.'

15/02/2024

Pre-order for mid-March shipping.   Released on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records, with Devin Hoff, Yuka C. Honda, Michael Leonhart, João Nogueira, Mauro Refosco, Ches Smith, Johnny Mathar, Sean Ono Lennon.  Years in the making, the music is powerful, trippy, and inten

15/02/2024

Yoko Ono in The Quietus: “The Tate Modern is honouring the Japanese’s work this month with YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND, her largest UK retrospective. With this in mind, now seems like a good time to also take a retrospective look ourselves at some of Yoko’s most inspiring musical moments, which will hopefully present portals for further navigation should you need them.”

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

10/02/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/10/yoko-ono-moby-peaches-jean-yoon-kathe-kollwitz

As a major retrospective of her work opens in London, artists and writers recall their brushes with a cultural one-off

24/01/2024

Mystical Weapons - Gross Domestic Happiness

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12/01/2024

We’re thrilled to announce that WAR IS OVER!, Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko has received a nomination for an Annie Award in the Best Short Subject category. A huge thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to bring this film to life, we’re truly grateful for the recognition.

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