ContactMusic — An intimate photo shot by ANNIE LEIBOVITZ featuring JOHN LENNON embracing YOKO ONO days before the rocker was killed is going up for auction in New York next... more info

All About Jazz — There's this most excellent footage floating around the 'net of a John Lennon / Yoko Ono party from 1972 that features Andy Warhol, Phil Spector and Miles Davis. The 16mm color film was shot by filmmaker Jonas Mekas (the date was specifically October... more info

Perez Hilton — Cyndi Lauper and Patti Smith will headline a tribute concert for John Lennon on his birthday on October 9. He would be turning 70 years old! We recently mentioned a tribute concert in the works by Yoko Ono. We're not exactly sure about the relationsh... more info

Altsounds — YOKO ONO soars to the top of the BILLBOARD HOT DANCE CLUB PLAY CHART, once again, with her irresistible dancefloor reinvention, “WOULDNIT' (I'M A STAR)” (Issue Date: 09/25/2010). The release marks the pop culture icon's 5th consec... more info

Reuters — BERLIN (Reuters) - Yoko Ono, whose husband John Lennon was murdered nearly 30 years ago, opened an anti-violence exhibition called "Das Gift" in Berlin on Friday. more info

Time — Three decades after John Lennon's murder, his widow, Yoko Ono, talks with TIME about violence, forgiveness and keeping her slain husband's memory alive more info

Guardian Music — Lennon's song God floors you with a punch. It's a farewell – to the past, to the Beatles. In destroying our idols, it somehow sets us all freePeople are always surprised when I tell them how much I like Yoko Ono. I interviewed her a few years ago,... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A list of upcoming concerts across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. The Orpheum Yoko Ono: We Are Plastic Ono Band, Oct.1-2 (now) El Rey Theatre Nosaj Thing and Toro y Moi, Nov. 11; Brooke Fraser, Dec. 2 (now);... more info

Guardian Music — Review board refuses sixth bid for freedom by man convicted of shooting former Beatle in 1980, saying his release would be 'inappropriate'Nearly 30 years after he shot and killed John Lennon, Mark David Chapman has once again been denied parole. The ... more info

E! Online — All Yoko Ono needs is a rejection. Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, is set to go before a New York parole board this week in his latest bid for freedom—three months... more info