To attract a younger crowd and celebrate his company's fifth decade, choreographer Merce Cunningham let his general manager Trevor Carlson invite two bands, Radiohead and Iceland's Sigur Rós, to each ...
Last year, Sigur Rós staged their first world tour in five years. The Icelandic band must have liked how it felt because they’ve decided to drop their first studio album in 10 years, Átta. The ...
Sigur Ros fans are of a mind that anything the arty Icelandic band does is special — and with good reason. Since 1997 the group — multi instrumentalists Jon Por “Jonsi” Birgisson and Georg “Goggi” ...
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008 7:00-11:00 P.m. MoMA PopRally invites you to a special performance by the celebrated Icelandic band Sigur Rós, in conjunction with the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson ...
Iceland’s Sigur Rós has a sound so singular you could almost say the group created its own genre. In the context of the turn of the millennium, Sigur Rós was usually called post-rock, meaning it used ...
Jón Þór “Jónsi” Birgisson’s voice is androgynous, and his made up “Hopelandic” language makes it seem like he’s singing folk songs of all cultures and none – almost as if he’s inhabiting a shared ...
Sigur Rós are a millennial band in the truest sense — not because they are inordinately popular with millennials compared to other demographics, though that might be somewhat true. Rather, Ágætis ...
Valtari’s evolution doesn’t suggest that it could be cohesive, or even convince as an album. Sessions for a follow up to 2008’s Með… began, but it was announced in 2010 that what’d been recorded was ...
More happens in the first 30 seconds of Kveikur (XL), the seventh LP by slow-melt Icelandic trio Sigur Ros, than in some 30-minute stretches of the band's other albums. (This is hyperbole, but not by ...
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