Sigur Ros News

Some musicians just don't want their music played in daytime. Sure, you can play them when the sun is shining, but they keep most of their secrets hidden till it sets.

Good news for Michiganders that don't want to make the long trek to one of the big music festivals like Lollapalooza, Coachella, or Bonnaroo: Michigan is getting it's own music festival! Australia's Laneway Festival will make it's first appearance in the United States this September 14 in Rochester Hills, MI.

Atlanta-based indie rock band Deerhunter staked claim to the penthouse of Dallas' Good Records' Top 20 list with Monomania , the band's sixth studio album.

Icelandic rock act Sigur Ros and Brooklyn-based indie rockers The National lead a lineup of 20 rock, pop and hip-hop artists at St.

New Jersey-based quintet, Owel, have premiered the music video for "Once The Ocean" on Artist Direct today.

FOR the third year running, Cornwall will be represented at international new music festival, The Great Escape in Brighton.

It is hard to think of things "The Simpsons" haven't covered after 26 years on the air...or maybe they've just covered everything American.

When Icelandic art-rock band Sigur Ros was on a short hiatus, their members were busy, either spending time with their babies or presenting world premieres.

Let's start with the lead up to the show: driving over forty minutes north of downtown Austin to the Cedar Park Center, just to sit in a ridiculously long line of parking, fork over $15 for a spot nestled waaay back in the lot, then stand in another enormous and slow moving line outside in the cold at Will Call for a ticket.

With frontman and singer Jonsi Birgisson playing his familiar bowed guitar, Georg Holm on bass and Agust AEvar Gunnarsson masterfully beating the drums, the trio provided the packed Bowl audience with a preview of their newest album, Kveikur , due to be released in early June.