MVSW — Video Xu Xu Fang ~ “China Girl“(bowie cover) Radical Face ~ “Doorways“(mp3 below) Junip ~ “Without You”(live via Filter) mp3 RZA ~ “Gone”(mp3 download via rzawu) Exrays ~ “Hesitation”(mp3 download via pitchfork) Radical Face ~ “... more info

Stereogum — Yoko Ono brought the Plastic Ono Band to L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre this weekend, playing two nights with guests Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop, RZA, Perry Ferrell, tUnE-yArDs, and Lady Gaga. Gaga did “The Sun Is Down” with Ono, played piano for another son... more info

Idolator — On Saturday night, hair-raising pop diva Lady Gaga joined Sean Lennon, RZA and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore in helping Yoko Ono and her Plastic Ono Band celebrate what would have been John Lennon’s upcoming 70th birthday at Los Ang... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The second of two nights devoted to Yoko Ono ranged from sublime to self-indulgent. There were poignant, strange and thrilling star turns from Lady Gaga, RZA and Carrie Fisher, among others.The second of two nights devoted to Yoko Ono ranged from sub... more info

Guardian Music — Vancouver band juggle hard riffing with community work … just don't ask them to talk about itIt's the first day of the Electric Picnic festival in Dublin, and the five members of Vancouver rock titans Black Mountain take off in five different direc... more info

Guardian Music — Last week we vegged out in the Cucumber Castle, now let's celebrate John Lennon's 70th with a Fab Four feastGreetings pop pick-yer-owners. Here's a thing I learnt this week. There is an incredible amount of songs that take some sort of inspiration fr... more info

Guardian Music — There was some fear that there wouldn't be enough vegetable-related songs to make a decent list. But that was reckoning without Potato Head Blues, Asparagus Next Left, Pass the Peas and the rest...When setting this topic the thought did occur (when i... more info

Perez Hilton — Check out the video (above) to see Elijah Wood, Wu Tang Clan's RZA, and a couple of filmmakers perform The Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling like you've never seen the song performed before! The performance took place at a VIP-Only Karaoke Party at Fa... more info

Undercover, Australia — Kanye West’s seventh G.O.O.D. Fridays track features more huge stars and his 30 Seconds To Mars collab finds a home. more info

Topix — For the second consecutive GOOD Friday, Kanye West delivered something of an epic, with the new "So Appalled" and last week's "Lord Lord Lord" totaling over fourteen minutes of rap music between the two, and featuring Swizz Beatz, Mos Def, Raekwon, C... more info