Occupy Wall Street now has an A-list soundtrack: the compilation Occupy This Album, which was announced today and will be released sometime this spring. The record will feature music from Debbie Harry, Jackson Browne, Yoko Ono, Third Eye Blind, Crosby and Nash and many more. Several of the contributors, including Joan Baez and Crosby and Nash, performed at the New York OWS site while it was still active.
Enjoy Record Store Day! love, yoko
Released on Record Store Day (21 April 2012), The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends features collaborations with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Neon Indian, Ke$ha, Prefuse 73, Tame Impala, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Lightning Bolt, Biz Markie, New Fumes, Chris Martin of Coldplay, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
listen to Yoko Ono – Songs for Spring The first Twenty Songs for Spring, handpicked and sequenced by Yoko Ono, March 2012. SKY PIECE III spring Imagine a cloud slowly going across the sky and back. Send a postcard to your friend. love, yoko
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Let’s sing, dance and hug each other to bring in a new year and with it, a new world. Yoko Ono 1 January 2011 YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND played at The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freak Out #5, two shows December 31 and January 1 at Coca Cola Bricktown Events Center in Oklahoma [...]
The Flaming Lips have released the final of their (almost) monthly 2011 releases at the New Year Freakout, a collaborative EP with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. Each of the Limited Edition (2000 only) psychedelic, multi-color, glow-in-the-dark 12″ vinyl records is a one-of-kind piece of art. Let’s sing, dance and hug each other to bring [...]
By Amy McGrath, Reverb Yoko Ono has been a hero in my life since my early teenage years. She is a woman on the vanguard in so many ways — her avant-garde music has always been years ahead of its time, her conceptual art is full of quirky humor and simple beauty, and she has [...]
Message from Yoko Ono: To the Mayor & City of Oklahoma I am so thrilled & honoured that today, 31st Dec has been proclaimed “Yoko-lahoma City Day” and I look forward to us all celebrating the New Year together at the Bricktown Events Center tonight & tomorrow night with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, The [...]
Having celebrated its tenth anniversary last year, this year’s edition of the Dream Power John Lennon Super Live will mark a new beginning, taking place once again on the anniversary of his passing, Thursday, December 8, at the Nippon Budokan. The concert was initiated at Yoko Ono’s behest to donate schools to children throughout the [...]
“A Tradition in our family” by Kári Tulinius, Reykjavik Grapevine Airwaves. I did not know what to expect from tonight’s lineup. Essentially it was Plastic Ono Band and various sub-voltrons thereof. I was afraid the gig would be hermetic and insular. People playing for their friends. This could not have been further from the truth. This [...]
YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono before the dissolution of the Beatles, joins Polaris Music Prize Winner Owen Pallett, synth siren Glasser and Bristol’s Zun Zun Egui on this year’s Iceland Airwaves line-up. The festival, which runs from 12-16 of October in Reykjavík, also sees more Icelandic additions, including [...]
It’s true. Not only has the 78-year-old artist hit #1 this week on the Billboard Dance Club Play singles chart with “Talking to the Universe, ” she’s also a big fan of Lady Gaga. Gay.net reports that Ono is making a fierce comeback as a diva of dance music with her latest chart-topper being her seventh consecutive No. 1 dance single and her ninth overall.
“Isn’t that amazing?” Ono said. “I can’t believe it. But it’s a good song.”
YOKO ONO AGAIN REACHES THE COVETED NUMBER ONE SPOT ON BILLBOARD’S HOT DANCE CLUB PLAY CHART WITH HER LATEST SUMMER ANTHEM TALKING TO THE UNIVERSE FEATURING SCORCHING REWORKS BY RALPHI ROSARIO, DAVE AUDE, JUAN MACLEAN, EDDIE AMADOR, CHRIS COX, YIANNIS, RICHARD MOREL, HARLUM, CHRIS THE GREEK & TONY MARINOS YOKO ONO continues her [...]
Visit the TALKING TO THE UNIVERSE webpage with brand new remixes by Ralphi Rosario & Chris The Greek. Enjoy the music, leave your messages in the music timeline and Tweet to The Universe! Keep checking back – more tracks coming soon! Download the mixes on the first EP from the iTunes Music Store here.
Reading the lyrics after so many years made me choke up. NOW OR NEVER! It works now. The lines “Are we gonna keep shooting the ones that try to change, Are we gonna keep thinking it won’t happen to us” were hard to read. When I wrote those lines, John and I were a proud and happy couple, believing that it would make a difference to speak out. And I think it did. I didn’t know that John was the one who would be shot to death for trying to change… But they couldn’t kill him. His spirit is still alive and growing inside all of us. yoko
Yoko Ono Lennon, Memorial Day, 30 May 2011
Yoko Ono – guest speaker at SXSW 2011 – March 18th South By Southwest (SXSW) is thrilled to announce Yoko Ono as a very special featured speaker for the 25th Music Conference and Festival. Ms. Ono will sit down with Jody Denberg for a SXSW Interview on Friday March 18th. Yoko Ono & Jody Denberg [...]
MAR.16.2011 SWEET RELIEF TO RAISE MONEY FOR JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO LENNON’S SAXOPHONIST STANLEY BRONSTEIN Sweet Relief is asking for your help in providing assistance to Stanley Bronstein who has been battling lung and brain cancer. Sweet Relief Musician’s Fund was contacted by the loving family of Stanley Bronstein in an effort to [...]
Yoko Ono continues her dance floor domination with her 6th consecutive #1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart-topper MOVE ON FAST. Featuring explosive mixes by Dave Aude, Digital Dog, Ralphi Rosario, Richard Morel, Chris The Greek, Emjae, Twisted Sound+Vision, DJ Yiannis, Nacho & Ivan and Timmy Loop Sitting atop the cream of the pop crop [...]
