The ethereal beauty of Sigur Rós’s music is intensified via a gorgeous depiction of Iceland in their 2006 film Heima. Heima (Icelandic for “at home” or “homebound”) provides rare insight into one of ...
The music of Icelandic band Sigur Ros is hard to describe. The critics have tried, comparing it to ice floes drifting across the water and a hang glider riding the breeze to the edge of the sea.
ADD REYKJAVIK to the farthest outposts of pop culture overrun with American music journalists and label talent scouts. From the East Coast, it's about the same flight time as it was to Seattle a ...
The list of accomplishments by Sigur Ros, Iceland’s most successful band of all time, keeps growing, 31 years after its then-teenaged members first came together in Reykjavik. It includes: appearances ...
"I wished to show how Sigur Rós is the soundtrack of our lives through happiness, pain, hope, grief, and love. The short documentary, Andrá, celebrates the way in which Sigur Rós captures and channels ...
On second thought, writing this article in “Hopelandic” may prove more difficult than I first thought. If I want to give a favorable review to Sigur Rós’s concert Tuesday night, then using a ...
Sigur Rós are bringing the Wordless Music Orchestra on a U.S. tour. The Icelandic band and 41-piece orchestral outfit will bring Átta and more to life at concerts in September and October. (The lone ...
“Icelandic music hit the international scene with The Sugarcubes in the eighties, followed by Björk’s solo takeover in the nineties, and, in the last decade, several bands and solo acts have followed ...