"ágætis byrjun was an album that came literally out of nowhere and seemed to tug at the heartstrings of those who least expected it. no one expected an album by an unknown band of four shy icelandic men in their early twenties, singing in icelandic, would become the worldwide music phenomenon it became. the record label projected the album to sell 1500 copies - it has to date sold several million copies."»
Yes, rejoice fans of Iceland and music from the isolated island nation. Icelandic national radio have selected their 100 best Icelandic records, and the results are in.»
Iceland's finest reveal that a new album is on the horizon.»
Here's a selection of videos that have bought light into our dull March days, and hopefully will do the same for you.»
In case you hadn't noticed, DiS has been on holiday for a few weeks. Well, now we're back and raring to go. Here's our pick of the music news (and some sad goodbyes) from our time away»
In case you hadn't noticed, DiS has been on holiday for a few weeks. Well, now we're back and raring to go. Here's our pick of the music news (and some sad goodbyes) from our time away»
DiS has a pair of tickets to give away to the splendid La Route Du Rock festival, held in Saint Malo, France, with Foals and Fuck Buttons»
Iceland’s ambience mongers Sigur Rós have revealed their new single was heavily influenced by the politically potty Eurovision»
Zing! It sounded dodge acoustic at Glasto but Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Dance Wiv Me’ (video) is new at one on the singles chart proper this week, after topping the downloads last week»
DiS is very excited to have teamed up with Iceland Music Export to bring you a competition that we think is pretty amazing»
Remember when we had Grinderman talking about this year's Latitude Festival? Well here's funny man Bill Bailey answering the same questions»
A run-down of what's been on the site this week... »
Aussie trio also receive personal invitation from Sigur Ros to appear at Sydney gig»
The new Sigur Ros album is streaming from Last.fm in its entirety from today, and will be for the next fortnight until its release proper on the 23rd of June»
Icelandic quartet Sigur Rós will release their new studio LP Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (translation: With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly) on June 23 via EMI»
Icelandic glaciers Sigur Rós have a new album out in the future. It might even be that it arrives in the near future i.e. this summer, but we don’t know because we can’t understand a damn thing they’re saying. Still – they’ve had the decency to communicate what might happen visually, in the form of this video»
Connect Festival has announced some of the band’s to fill its bill this summer»
Spain’s the place to be this summer, it seems, as an impressive array of acts are freshly confirmed for this year’s Benicassim festival»
Rumours are circulating that Sex Pistols and Sigur Ros are planning to collaborate onstage at this year’s Electric Picnic after the pair of acts were confirmed to headline the Irish festival»
The initial details of this year's Latitude festival were announced tonight (19 Mar)»
Mugison, one of Iceland's premier music exports, has announced details of the annual I Never Went South Festival»
Sigur Ros will become the latest act to takeover YouTube tomorrow (7 Mar) and will use the opportunity to stream their feature-length documentary Heima in its entirety»
Leona Lewis might be sitting pretty at number one for another week, but we're most interested to see Whitney Houston laying off the everything long enough to see a best-of collection rise to the album chart's top end»
Q Awards: people win, no-one dies...»
Sigur Ros have announced details of a new compilation album to be released in November.»
Icelandic post-rockers are to follow up their acclaimed Takk... LP of 2005 with a book this summer. Not a record. A book. With pages and everything...»
Icelandic men Sigur Rós are working on their sixth long-player, the follow-up to the Planet Earth-scoring Takk...»
The line-up for this year's Coachella music festival, held in California across April 29th and 30th, has been revealed by NME.com... »
Sigur Ròs' breakthrough EPs, Svefn-g-Englar and Ny Batteri, have been re-issued...»
For those of you who haven't already broken the law and spoiled the excitement by downloading the new LP from a peer-to-peer service, Icelandic post-rock beauty-mongerers Sigur Rós have made their entire new album available for listening on Myspace.
As previously reported alongside our announcement of their tour dates, Sigur Rós will release Takk... on September 12th through EMI...»
Venerable Icelandic post-rock beautymongerers Sigur Rós return this November for a string of 'proper' UK dates, following their limited appearances earlier this month.<»
Three dates over the next week for icy gods Sigur Ros and an album that sounds like Korn.»
Sonic saviours, Sigur Ros, are to embark on a short European tour, taking in one English and one Scottish date.»
Rejoice! The Rós are making a new pile of strange gems... a new Sigur Rós album?»
Shock! Shock! Shock! Icelandic sleep-walkers Sigur Rós win at pop awards...»
It is with a heavy heart that we bring you the following statement regarding the Sigur Rós and Múm shows... 'FatCat Records & Foundation are sorry to announce that due to circumstances beyond our control, the two FatCat events scheduled for 1st and 2nd August 2003 at the Union Chapel have been postpone»
We went, we saw, we got sunburnt and we've just returned... Well what a weekend that was. Despite sunstroke, hangovers and being under the impression that the last train home on Sunday was at 1am (not 9:20 or something silly!), it was great. Very low crime. Apparently very few fence-jumpers, but I dunno ho»
The finest electronica and off-kilter label in the land reaches year six and celebrates with a shindig at Union Chapel, and a retrospective compilation... Anyone with a morsel of knowledge about music at the moment loves and/or respects the wonderous world of Brighton-based label Fat Cat Records, ho»
Firebombs at the ready, someone thinks it's clever covering Sigur Rós in their homeland! The eNMEy have reported this shocking news. If it wasn't enough that Coldplay are signed to one of the biggest companies in the world and go on about Fair Trade through the utterly pathetic means of scribbling a»
Its not even Xmas yet, so that means you know what to ask for for Xmas...
Yes, yes, those pixies with their post-rock and sparse, tingly musicial texturing, Sigur Rós have announced two likely to sellout very soon, not to be missed, life-changing dates for 2003.
February
11TH @ BA»
Icelandic post-rock artists, Sigur Rós return to the UK and Ireland this autumn as park of their European tour. As well as appearing at V2002 this weekend, Sigur Rós are to grace the following venues with their unique, moody sounds: October 1st - Royal Festival Hall, London»
After the win of the first Shortlist prize Icelandic four-piece, Sigur Ros are to follow up their last album, the critically-lauded Ágætis Byrjun. The band are said to be planning to head to an indoor swimming pool that has been converted into a recording studio in Reykjavík, Iceland. Georg H»
Sigur Ros does not want to be on a TV near you Sigur Ros have already turned down numerous requests for the use of their songs in television programmes/adverts. One2one wanted to use a Sigur Ros clip in their new tv advert but the band turned down their offer. Other companies that»
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