Electronica

Broad group of electronic-based music genres

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2024 Voiced the character Jörmungandr in the 'The Scapegoat God' episode of Twilight of the Gods
2024 Appeared on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia for the first time, photographed by Viðar Logi.
December 6 2024 Released Diving Deep Live album on double vinyl, CD, and digital formats.
November 1 2024 Announced the release of live album Diving Deep Live, featuring recordings from her 2022-23 Ocean to Ocean tour.
October 2024 A newly discovered large butterfly species was named Pterourus bjorkae in her honor.
2023 Continued her Dirt Femme Tour, showcasing her latest music and performances
2023 Collaborated with Trevor Horn to cover Kendrick Lamar's 'Swimming Pools (Drank)' and released a remix dance single 'Tequila' produced by Paul Woolford.
2023 Rolling Stone names her the 64th-greatest singer and 81st-greatest songwriter of all time.
November 2023 Posted on social media criticizing the Israeli occupation of Palestine during the Israel-Hamas war.
November 21 2023 Released the single 'Oral' featuring Rosalía, with proceeds donated to Aegis, an environmental organization she founded to stop intensive fish farming in Icelandic fjords.
September 7 2023 Released a remix of her 2017 song 'Disco Tits' by frequent collaborator Karma Fields, marking the 6-year anniversary of the original song.
July 21 2023 Released an EP of remixes for 'I Like U', with the Emergency_Loop & Melanie C remix released as a promotional single.
May 31 2023 Released the single 'I Like U'.
2022 Served as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 7 during the 'Total RuQuest Live' episode
2022 Supported Dua Lipa on the Future Nostalgia Tour and began her own Dirt Femme Tour
2022 Embarks on the Ocean to Ocean Tour, initially postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic, featuring bassist John Evans and drummer Ash Soan.
2022 Published 'Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes', an official graphic novel celebrating 30 years of her breakout album, created with Neil Gaiman.
2022 Yoko Ono won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for her contribution to 'The Beatles: Get Back.'
2022 Stated her reason for returning to Iceland was due to America's gun violence.
December 2022 Referred to herself as pansexual in an interview with Paper Magazine.
October 14 2022 Officially released the album Dirt Femme through Pretty Swede Records, featuring themes of body positivity, femininity, and self-exploration.
August 5 2022 Executively produced Pussy Riot's debut mixtape Matriarchy Now.
July 29 2022 Released the single '2 Die 4' from the Dirt Femme album, which samples the melody of the 1969 hit Popcorn.
July 10 2022 Appeared in the EPIX original docuseries Women Who Rock.
June 21 2022 Announced her fifth studio album Dirt Femme, scheduled for release on 14 October 2022.
May 3 2022 Released the single 'No One Dies From Love' through her own label Pretty Swede Records, marking her debut as an independent artist after being signed to Island Records since 2014.
April 22 2022 Appeared in the feature film The Northman, directed by Robert Eggers, alongside her daughter Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney.
February 11 2022 Tove Lo released the single 'How Long' to promote the soundtrack of the second season of the American teen drama Euphoria.
2021 Made her feature film acting debut in the Swedish-language film adaptation of 'The Emigrants'.
2021 Yoko Ono served as a producer and appeared as herself in the documentary series 'The Beatles: Get Back,' which featured archival footage.
November 2021 In a New Yorker piece, it was noted that Ono had 'withdrawn from public life', with her son Sean acting as the family’s public representative.
February 18 2021 On her 88th birthday, Ono was one of the founders of The Coda Collection, a service featuring music documentaries and concert films that launched in the U.S.
February 5 2021 Featured on Martin Garrix's track 'Pressure'.
2020
Eutopia
The EP was released on the band's YouTube account as a collection of three music videos, featuring spoken word passages from academics addressing climate change, tax havens, and universal basic income.
2020
Eutopia
Robert '3D' Del Naja collaborated with documentary filmmaker Mark Donne, AI Art pioneer Mario Klingemann, and vocal groups Algiers and Young Fathers, along with US poet Saul Williams, to create the politically-themed Eutopia EP during the COVID-19 global lockdown period.
2020
Eutopia
EP recorded during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring spoken word passages from academics addressing climate change, tax havens, and universal basic income.
2020
Eutopia
Massive Attack released the Eutopia EP, their first work in four years since the 2016 Ritual Spirit EP and 'The Spoils' single.
December 4 2020 Released Christmastide EP, recorded remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 2020 Joined the cast of The Northman, a feature film by Robert Eggers, alongside her daughter Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney.
August 22 2020 Amos appeared on a panel called Artistry & Activism at the CARLA digital global conference, focusing on diversity and inclusion.
July 2020 Hosted a special contest where six fans could join her on her Animal Crossing: New Horizons island for a DJ set by creating an outfit for their villager.
July 26 2020 Announced her marriage to Charlie Twaddle via Instagram story.
May 2020 Released the Paw Prints Edition of Sunshine Kitty, a reissued version with 8 new songs including 'Bikini Porn', 'Jag kommer' cover, and new single 'sadder badder cooler'.
May 21 2020 Amos was invited to give special remarks at Johns Hopkins University's virtual 2020 Commencement ceremony, joining notable speakers like Alexis Ohanian, Michael Bloomberg, and Anthony Fauci.
May 5 2020 Released her second memoir, 'Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage'.
March 2020
Eutopia
Guy Standing published a new book, which led to Massive Attack contacting him to discuss basic income as part of the Eutopia EP project.
March 2020 Released an English cover of Veronica Maggio's song 'Jag kommer' in partnership with Spotify, which reached top 40 in Sweden, Norway, and New Zealand.
January 15 2020 Released the single 'Bikini Porn' which included the song 'Passion And Pain Taste The Same When I'm Weak'.
September 27 2019 Made a surprise appearance during Arca's Mutant;Faith performance-art piece at the Shed, debuting the collaboration 'Afterwards' in Spanish and gibberish.
September 6 2019 Released 'Really Don't Like U', a collaboration featuring Kylie Minogue.

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