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Sigur Ros Wow Massey

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 23, 2008 11:00 am
Icelanders Parachutes opened Monday's show and, unfortunately, their set was just plain boring because they tried too hard to be like their countrymen in Sigur Ros and failed. They also have a lot to learn from Iceland's greatest export (other than Vikings and Bjork) in terms of musicianship. Hell, their frontman even sounds like Jon Thor (Jonsi)...
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Sigur Ros — Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 24, 2008 10:28 am
Sigur Ros are obviously no strangers to experimentation and have been playing with different types of instrumentation since their 1997 Von debut. Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (which is Icelandic for "With a buzz in our ears, we play endlessly") integrates a few newfound acoustic elements to the band's trademark atmospheric, soaring post-...
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Sigur Ros — Hvarf/Heim

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) November 5, 2007 2:18 pm
Well, it only took two excruciatingly long records, but Sigur Ros may have finally figured out that brevity is the key to their future success. It's a sure thing that ( ) would have been a classic on par with Agaetis Byrjun if it had come in at six tracks instead of nine (sounds absurd, but the disc still would have clocked in around 43 minutes)...
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Sigur Ros Fail To Beat Their Recordings

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By Pras Rajagopalan (CHARTattack) May 15, 2006 4:00 pm
For whatever reason (being out of town, being strapped for cash, or not being aggressive enough in hounding the Ticketmaster site), I had never made it to a Sigur Rós show. So naturally I was ready to witness in a live setting the extraterrestrial grandeur that had so often illuminated many a wakeful 3 a.m. morning. I was certainly satiated...
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Sigur Ros — Takk...

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 13, 2005 4:31 pm
It feels weird calling Takk a comeback record for Sigur Ros, but when you follow a universally-acclaimed record with a meandering 80-minute album with no titles and one repeating lyric — let's just say some things are what they are. It doesn't take long to figure out that the quartet are way more focused. "Glosoli" is on par with...
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I Read The News Today... For May 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 10, 2011 4:23 pm
30 Seconds To Mars say they're going to take a hiatus after their current tour and probably not do anything for "10 years." Aka... they're done. Billy Corgan says he's writing a "spiritual memoir" about his time with the Smashing Pumpkins. He's sounding more and more like the bald version of Jeff Martin these days... Bjork's launched a trippy new...
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I Read The News Today... For July 26, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff July 26, 2010 11:05 am
Gorillaz became the first British band to play a show in Damascus, Syria this weekend, performing at an 11th century palace. —NME Jimmy Eat World will tour North America this fall in support of their new studio album, Invented. —jimmyeatworld.com Elvis Presley's autopsy tools are no longer being auctioned. Sorry, creeps; you...
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Sigur Ros Sampled On New Crystal Castles Record

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 12, 2010 2:38 pm
We had our copy of Crystal Castles' self-titled sophomore album on the office stereo this morning and were giving it a spin, when we heard a pretty familiar voice coming out of the speakers. No, it wasn't Alice Glass. It sounded a hell of a lot like Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi. Curious, we checked the liner notes and discovered that, yes, "...
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Sixty-Plus Ways To Describe Jonsi, A Friday Afternoon CHARTattack Game

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By Kate Harper and Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) April 9, 2010 2:04 pm
The fever for Sigur Ros singer Jonsi is running pretty high in certain segments of the CHARTattack office, so in the hopes of triggering some sort of cathartic blow-off, we gave writers Phil Villeneuve and Kate Harper a timed challenge: come up with as many words or phrases to describe Jonsi as you could before 3 p.m. ET on Friday. Here's what...
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Jonsi — "Go Do"

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By CHARTattack Staff March 26, 2010 2:54 pm
Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi shot live sessions for three tracks from his upcoming Go solo album with composer Nico Muhly, and they're making their way around the Internet. They feature both men sporting make-up, while Jonsi's also got features on his shoulders (hopefully not a nod to Brandon Flowers) and there's peacocks running around. Go is out...
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Jonsi (From Sigur Ros) — "Go Do"

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By CHARTattack Staff February 9, 2010 1:13 pm
Jonsi's (real name Jon Thor Birgisson) first solo music video for "Go Do" finds the Sigur Ros frontman dressed in tattered clothes and make-up, making him look like some kind of experiment between a parrot, Boy George, Adam Ant, a mummy and a psychiatric patient gone really wrong. He's all about setting cockatiels, macaws and pigeons...
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Sigur Ros On Hiatus, Frontman Prepping Solo Album

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 27, 2010 3:01 pm
Don't expect a new Sigur Ros album any time soon. Frontman Jon Thor "Jonsi" Birgisson plans to release his Go debut solo album on March 22, and told Spinner that contrary to recent whisperings on the internet, Sigur Ros haven't finished another album and have gone on a "break." "We haven't got another album ready,...
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Sigur Ros Contribute Songs To The Boys Are Back

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) November 25, 2009 5:29 pm
If we had a dollar for every time a record reviewer called Sigur Ros "cinematic," we'd have our own yachts. Still, there's merit behind the description — and it was only a matter of time before they lived up to it. According to their website, the Icelandic post-rock quartet have contributed eight tracks to Clive Owen's latest film, The...
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Sigur Ros Cookbook Released

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 7, 2009 4:03 pm
Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi Birgisson and his partner, Alex Somers, released an album as Riceboy Sleeps last month, but they're not stopping there. The couple have written a cookbook dubbed The Good Heart Recipe Book. It was at first just a 2007 holiday gift for their friends and family, but they've now made it available for free in PDF format on...
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Sigur Ros' Riceboy Sleeps Spinoff Coming

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) April 24, 2009 2:45 pm
Riceboy Sleeps, the side project of Sigur Ros singer/guitarist Jon Thor "Jonsi" Birgisson and his boyfriend Alex Somers, will release their self-titled debut album through Parlophone/EMI on July 20. The nine-track, 68-minute album was recorded in Iceland and performed entirely on acoustic instruments. It includes contributions from...
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Sigur Ros And Radiohead Split Sides

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By Craig Clark (CHARTattack) April 17, 2009 11:09 am
Sigur Ros and Radiohead created the music for a 2003 dance performance series called Split Sides that's now available in a two-DVD set. The DVDs feature the 45th and 46th performances of the show, which involved 14 dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at New York's Brooklyn Academy Of Music. It was divided into two 20-minute parts —...
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Sigur Ros Prank Coldplay

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 1, 2009 12:43 pm
Sigur Ros fooled many of their fans into thinking singer/guitarist Jon Thor "Jonsi" Birgisson and keyboardist Kjartan "Kjarri" Sveinsson were working on the new Coldplay album with an April Fool's message posted on their website today (Wednesday). "we are now happy to announce that kjartan (keyboards) will be writing and...
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Sigur Ros Album In British Newspapers

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By CHARTattack Staff January 30, 2009 5:29 pm
Sigur Ros will give away a CD titled We Play Endlessly in copies of U.K. newspaper The Independent on Saturday. But non-subscribing or non-British Sigur Ros completists shouldn't get too hung up on not being able to get a copy, as there's no new music on the record. The Icelandic band, in association with Britain's Q Magazine, compiled nine songs...
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Pumping: Sigur Ros — Takk

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) January 23, 2009 11:28 am
Quite infamously, two Chart editors once fell asleep at a Sigur Ros show because they were so boring. Looking across the office and seeing the stupified faces in the editorial department while this album played, it's clear that instinct to nap remains. 
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Wolf Parade On Top

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 16, 2008 1:48 pm
In previous years, the top 50 chart has been pretty quiet in July — kind of like that Porgy And Bess song where they sing, "Summertime, and the living is easy." But not this year. Like the recent rain storms that have plagued parts of Canada, the top 50 chart continues to be deluged by new albums. Wolf Parade's At Mount Zoomer remains...
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