Tickets to see Sigur Ros at MoMA go on sale Tuesday - the same day that M.I.A. is playing there. (thx Dayna)

Continue reading "more details on Sigur Rós' NYC museum show (tickets, etc...)"

One day after the Grand Ballroom show I think. Eleven days before Iceland with Bjork.

Ryan McGinley is supposed to be there too. He is the one who took the picture for Sigur Ros' new album cover, and who inspired their new nudity-filled video.

Coney Island, August 23, 2003 (via Bjork gigography)

I'll never forget showing up late to the Bjork / Sigur Ros in Brooklyn five years ago. I was upset that I was missing it, but hearing the unmistakable music of Sigur Ros pouring out of Keyspan Park on to the streets (and boardwalk) of Coney Island completely made up for it. It's what I remember most about the show.

Bjork and Sigur Ros just announced another show together, but this time it will be in their shared home-country of Iceland....

Continue reading "Bjork is playing with Sigur Ros again....in Iceland"

In case you forgot: the new Sigur Ros single is very worth downloading off their site for free. That's also where you'll find the beautiful new (NSFW) video too (it reads: "Warning: this material contains adult content. By clicking on the buttons above you are confirming you are over 18.").

with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly

Sigur Rós will be releasing their fifth album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (English translation: with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly), on June 24th, 2008 on XL Recordings. The first track from the album, entitled "Gobbledigook," will be unveiled with a world exclusive first play on England's Radio 1 tonight (May 27th) by Zane Lowe on the Evening Session. The track will then be available worldwide for free download via www.sigurros.com beginning at 2:30 p.m. EST. The video for the song will also premiere on sigurros.com today.

Continue reading "new SIGUR ROS album - MP3, stream, tracklist & (NSFW?) cover art -- Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust..."

Tickets are on sale for the upcoming Sigur Ros shows in NYC & elsewhere (thx all).

Tickets ($40-$50) go on sale Thursday at noon for a June 16th Sigur Ros show at Grand Ballroom in NYC (thx Joe). The show is two days after they play Bonnaroo. All dates below....

Continue reading "Sigur Ros - 2008 Tour Dates (NYC included) "

Like they said, they posted the whole thing (temporarily)....

Continue reading "Sigur Rós - 'Heima' (video) (THE WHOLE THING)"

Continue reading "Sigur Ros taking over YouTube Friday"

Lez Zeppelin is playing Bonnaroo

No Led Zeppelin, but there is LEZ Zeppelin, Robert Plant and Metallica. Also Pearl Jam, Kanye West, Sigur Ros, Levon Helm, M.I.A., Mastodon, Sharon Jones, and many, many more.....

Continue reading "Bonnaroo 2008 - Initial Artist Lineup"

Olof Arnalds

1. The National - Boxer
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
4. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
5. Feist - The Reminder
6. M.I.A. - Kala
7. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
8. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
9. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
10. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
11. Radiohead - In Rainbows
12. Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
13. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Ólöf Arnalds, Múm's collaborator for the past three years, recently released her debut solo album, Við og við, on 12 Tónar. The release was produced by Sigur Ros' Kjartan Sveinsson and is avalaible here. [getecho]

Continue reading "Paste's Top 100 Albums of 2007 (includes Olof Arnalds)"

I present to you two lame videos by confused "artists" - both using lame stereotypes. The first song is supposed to be about "emo bitches", and the second one was.... performed by some....

Continue reading "Emo Bitches vs. Williamsburg"

Talking to The Sun, vocalist Jonsi Birgisson said: "I think it's cool what Radiohead did. It's a good idea that makes so much sense. Bands get so little money from every CD they sell anyway. Doing it like this, if they only get a few pounds, they might actually get more than before."

However, Birgisson did go on to add, "It's hard for young bands starting off. Radiohead have a name. They can do whatever they want. People are waiting for their album and they like their music so they would happily make a donation." [Angry Ape]

For those that haven't seen this already...

Continue reading "VIDEO: SIGUR ROS,'Gitardjamm' from new 'Heima' DVD"

review & photos by Bao Nguyen

Sigur Ros & Heima director Dean DeBlois

While thousands flocked out to Randall's Island to see Arcade Fire and friends, I was one of the lucky few to catch the early screening of Sigur Rós' new film, Heima, which documents the band's 2006 summer tour of Iceland.

continued below...

Continue reading "Sigur Ros - Heima screening & acoustic performance - pics"

"Valgeir Sigurðsson (born 1971) is an Icelandic record producer, mixer, composer, engineer and programmer. He has been Björk's main studio conspirator since 1998 and continues to work with an array of innovative artists internationally as well as in his native Iceland.......Valgeir Sigurðsson's credits include....Bjork, Nico Muhly, Sigur Ros...[Wikipedia]"

"He [Nico Muhly] is amazing !!" [Bjork to BrooklynVegan]

Sigur Ros is playing two short shows in NYC on October 6th.

"Some people are saying it's the wordless show at lincoln center, others are saying it's bjork or will oldham or antony who are the special guests" [Sigur Ros secret show speculation in the comments]

Fri 10/5/2007 7:30 PM
Doors: 6:30 PM
Good-Shepherd Faith Church
At Lincoln Center
152 West 66th StreetNew YorkNY

Nico Muhly
Valgeir Sigurdsson
Sandro Perri

DOWNLOAD: Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble - B.F.B.F. (Panama) (MP3)

Boris @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, NYC - Oct 03, 2007 (CRED)

* The Good Life & Luke Temple are @ Bowery Ballroom
* Arbouretum, PG Six and Illuminations are @ Union Pool
* Kele from Bloc Party DJ's with Kasper Bjorke
* Dax Riggs plays one of two shows at Mercury Lounge
* Lucinda Williams & Fionn Regan are @ Town Hall
* PILOOSKI's US Debut @ APT (Wurst Monthly)
* Celebration is playing Uniondocs Bodega
* Akoya Afrobeat & DJ Nickodemus @ Southpaw
* Roseanne Barr is at Comix

WIN TIX to the midnight (Saturday night) screening of Sigur Ros' Heima by emailing BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Sigur). Include your first and last name. One winner will be picked at random and notified.

What else?

DOWNLOAD: Sigur Ros - fönklagið [the funk song] (live) (MP3)

due to high demand there will be a second screening of “heima” in new york on october 6th. this will be a midnight show with a brief acoustic performance by the band prior to the screening. tickets go on sale wednesday october 3rd at 12 pm (est) on ticketmaster (limit of 2 tickets per person). there will also be some tickets for sale at the french institute box office the same day, while supplies last.

Check out the Heima trailer, and more info HERE.

from the new DVD....

Continue reading "VIDEO: Sigur Rós - 'Heima' Film Trailer"

DOWNLOAD: Sigur Ros - untitled #8 (a.k.a. popplagið / the pop song) (MP3)

You already heard of this band called Sigur Ros, and you know about the NYC show, but maybe you didn't hear all about the new Heima DVD and Hvarf / Heim Double CD....

Continue reading "Sigur Ros - new DVD, CD & NYC show"

Ani Difranco, RZA & Steve Albini @ 2005 New Yorker Festival (CRED)

The eighth annual New Yorker Festival happens in NYC from October 5-7, 2007. Though not completely announced yet, this year's lineup will include all of those you see in the title, and more....

Continue reading "Diplo, Fiona Apple, Sigur Ros, David Byrne, Roseanne Cash, Yo La Tengo & more for the 2007 New Yorker Festival"

EW: What did you do when you finished reading Deathly Hallows?

Daniel Radcliffe: I was in a car at the time. I had my iPod in, and I was listening to Sigur Rós. I don't know if you know them. They're a band who do sort of instrumental music, but it's just amazing. I think they're from Scandinavia somewhere. They've got an album called Takk...I was listening to, and it's very, very appropriate [for the end of Deathly Hallows]. I was listening to it and I remember I was sort of turned away from everybody else in the car, just so I could be in my own little world when I read it. What did I do when I finished? I think I just put the book down and carried on listening to the music. Just looked out of the car window, 'cause I couldn't think of what else to do. I'm still struggling to really take it in. It doesn't leave you in a hurry [EW.com] (thx Jeff)

Harry Potter also likes The Hold Steady, and Art Brut:

"Very very cool...the most entertaining [band]...they're great" - Daniel Radcliffe on Art Brut, to Conan O'Brien

Whether Feist will be reading Harry Potter at the 826NYC benefit is still unknown, though some of you were definitely spotted reading it at the 2007 Village Voice Siren Festival. Photos of Art Brut playing the 2006 Siren Festival, HERE. Some recent Sigur Ros & Iceland news, HERE.

DOWNLOAD: Benni Hemm Hemm - Snjórjljóssnjór (MP3)

* Screaming Masterpiece is a new DVD about Bjork, Sigur Ros, Mum and other Icelandic music.

* Milan Records is offering people the chance to win a trip to Iceland.

* Video of Bjork's recent appearance on Jools Holland is on YouTube. M.I.A. is opening for Bjork in France.

* There's a new book called In a Frozen Sea: A Year with Sigur Ros.

* I missed singer-songwriter Lay Low's recent NYC debut at Midway, Pianos, Lakeside Lounge and Zebulon respectively, but she will be back for CMJ. Video below.

* Dance to Lauren Flax's 'Iceland'.

* Tickets are on sale for two Mum shows happening in NYC in November. More tour dates and details on a new album below.

* Tickets are on sale for a July 5th Benni Hemm Hemm show at Mercury Lounge in NYC (w/ Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). All tour dates below...

What else? All that promised stuff, and more, below....

Continue reading "What is up with Iceland? Benni Hemm Hemm, Mum, etc"