On this edition of All Songs Considered we get a preview of new music from the band from Iceland, Sigur Ros; We look back at the strange and comical music of Sparks, plus new music from Portland's ...

There’s this memory I have of seeing Sigur Rós at Boston’s gorgeous Orpheum Theater in 2006 that perfectly encapsulates how it feels to witness the Icelandic post-rock band live in concert. Between ...

Best Band In The World alert. Thank you Sigur Rós, for making my post-holiday transition back to the internet so super great. This morning word spread that Sigur Rós's new album has a name (með suð í ...

Sigur Rós is not a band that does anything small. Even the Icelandic post-rock outfit’s most spare tracks are fraught with unspoken emotion on a huge scale, to say nothing of the sprawling epics such ...

When Jon "Jonsi" Birgisson visited Soundcheck last month, the Sigur Ros frontman gave our listeners a sneak preview of his upcoming solo album, Go. The Soundcheck staff, on the other hand, got ...

Sigur Ros is not easy to describe. In their 12 years together, the Icelandic band has left hordes of journalists in its wake. A sampling of the graveyard of well-intended, overwrought metaphors yields ...

In 2001, Iceland’s Sigur Ros made a splashy debut — a cover profile in the New York Times Magazine, a minor bidding war among major labels, and the first annual Shortlist Prize for Music, all spurred ...

Sceptics, meanwhile, object to Sigur Rós's amorphous meandering and this very barrier: their intent is not explicit. Their 2002 album was entitled (), a void between two parentheses, which, for the ...

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It suits Sigur Rós that Dublin's sky is foreboding and ominous for the entirety of Sunday. As standard, their set is a slow burner. They have a better audience for open-air performance here than their ...