Sigur Rós will contribute music to a new Taiwanese dance piece by choreographer and artistic director Cheng Tsung-lung, the band announced today. The performance, titled “22° Lunar Halo,” will make ...

Last November, Sigur Ròs frontman Jónsi collaborated with Troye Sivan on a ballad called “Revelation" for the Boy Erased soundtrack. Today, Sigur Ròs announced that they will follow that contribution ...

Sigur Rós are putting on an arts festival this winter called “Norður og Niður” in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík. According to the festival’s website, “‘Norður og Niður’ means ‘go North and go down’, ...

Sigur Rós have soundtracked a new art installation in Reykjavík. The video projection piece, titled “Örævi,” was created by the Iceland Dance Company, Valdimar Johansson, Erna Ómarsdóttir, and Pierre ...

If the Pixies's song progression style can be described as LoudQuietLoud, Sigur Rós' is QuietQuietLoud. The soundscapes ...

Most television comedies either jump the shark or go so far off the rails that they’re either a.) unrecognizable, b.) predictably lame, or c.) completely out of touch by season three. FX’s It’s Always ...

Day two of Coachella came to a close with a difficult decision for music fans. With nearly 200 acts gracing 6 stages over the California music festival’s three days, there is frequent, inevitable ...

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 ...

Sigur Rós return after a bit of an absence with the best Animal Collective song we’ve heard in years. [href=”http://dontfearthemainstream.blogspot.com/2008/05 ...

The band recorded Hlemmur last year in its studio, a converted swimming pool near Reykjavik. “We just did it ourselves — everything was improvised,” singer-guitarist Jonsi Birgisson says of the ...

Cunningham used ceremonial throws of dice before the dance to determine the order of music, lights and costumes in the two-part piece. Radiohead lost their roll, so they accompanied the dancers in the ...