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 ...

A Google search this week for the name of the Icelandic rock band Sigur Ros with the word "ethereal" came up with 396,000 results. So clearly that's the place to start when describing the band. It ...

"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 ...

Sigur Rós tour the furthest flung corners of their Icelandic homeland through a series of free, unannounced concerts. On their way, they visit ghost towns, outsider art shrines, national parks, small ...

Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's album Valtari. The idea is to bypass ...

In the years since “OK Computer” was released in 1997 Radiohead has garnered immense critical praise for being daring and innovative. There has also, predictably, been a backlash, by people who just ...

Sigur Rós are an Icelandic postrock band from Reykjavík who have been active since 1994 Known for their ethereal sound frontman Jónsi Birgissons falsetto vocals and the use of bowed guitar the bands ...

Sigur Rós have confirmed a November 6 street date for two separate but related releases: a DVD called Heima and a double CD set titled Hvarf / Heim. Both will be issued in the U.S. on the XL label.

Sigur Rós’ sixth studio album, Valtari, closes with eight minutes of crawling, pointillistic ambience called “Fjögur píanó” (translated in English to “Four Pianos”), a track built almost entirely on ...

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” ...

There’s always been a symphonic grandeur implied in Sigur Ros’ music throughout its 27 years of recording — and more fully realized on recent projects such as the soundtrack to “Odin’s Raven Magic” in ...