Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday John and Sean Ono Lennon. Beautiful boys. (Sean photo for MAGNET by Gene Smirnov.) Read the Primitives on the John/Beatles song that invented punk (“Birthday”) and our Claypool Lennon Delirium cover story with Sean and Les Claypool... more info

Stereogum — The upcoming Beatles biopics have cast their first non-Beatle. We’ve been hearing about director Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles movies — four of them, one for every Beatle — for a while now. Earlier this year, Mendes confirmed that all four ... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Les Claypool (Primus, Claypool Lennon Delirium). Pudding time! Read our Claypool Lennon Delirium cover story with Les and Sean Lennon (cover photo for MAGNET by Gene Smirnov) by Wilco’s Nels Cline: The post Happy Birthday Les Claypoo... more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Fiona Apple. Remember that depth is the greatest of heights. Read our MAGNET Feedback with Robyn Hitchcock, writing about Apple, Syd Barrett, Byrds, Decemberists, Bob Dylan, Feist, Kinks, Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch, John Lennon, N... more info

Antimusic Rock — On September 10, 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono were staying at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Paddy Considine (actor, director, writer, musician, Guided By Voices superfan). Renaissance man. Paddy, Steven Soderbergh, Sonic Youth, Spoon, the Black Keys, Strokes, Decemberists, Drive-By Truckers, Sean Lennon and more pick their fa... more info

New York Post — Boyle played Ray Romano's on-screen father, Frank Barone, on the beloved sitcom. more info

Stereogum — Last year, the world got a new Lennon-McCartney song, but it wasn’t John Lennon or Paul McCartney. Instead, James McCartney, son of Paul and Linda McCartney, got together with Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, to write and record... more info

Magnet Magazine — 30 years ago today, Primus released Tales From The Punchbowl. That beaver eats Taco Bell! Read our Claypool Lennon Delirium cover story with Les Claypool and Sean Lennon by Wilco’s Nels Cline: The post Primus Released “Tales From The Punchbowl”... more info

Stereogum — At CinemaCon last month, director Sam Mendes officially announced a ridiculously ambitious project that’s been in the works for a long time: Four intersecting Beatles biopics, each told from the perspective of a different band member, set to com... more info