![Playlist for Photogmusic LIVE [April 1, 2013]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4864476_lg.jpg)
Happy first of April (April Fool's Day) and Easter Monday. I was suppose to have a phone interview with one member of Purity Ring on my radio show . But due to rehearsing for the start of the tour, the interview didn't happen. So I had to scurry to make a load whack of songs to play for the one hour. If you missed the show today, have a listen ! Part one: Part two: Part [...]
![Playlist for Photogmusic LIVE on CHUO FM [April 1, 2013]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4871250_lg.jpg)
Happy first of April (April Fool's Day) and Easter Monday. I was suppose to have a phone interview with one member of Purity Ring on my radio show . But due to rehearsing for the start of the tour, the interview didn't happen. So I had to scurry to make a load whack of songs to play for the one hour. If you missed the show today, have a listen ! Part one: Part two: Part [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: James Blake, Sigur Ros, Radiohead Song: Phoria - Red [download here ] What's so good? Is this song stunning, [...]
Frank Yang Even though Sigur Rós' show at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night was announced back in November , I was on the fence about attending, rationalizing that I had seen them twice just last August , and as much as I enjoyed the atmospheric charms of last year's Valtari , I didn't know that I needed to see it live again. Then word came that not only would the staging of the show be different this time, thanks to the shift in venue from [...]
![Review of Sigur Rós @ Scotiabank Place [March 29, 2013]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4861487_lg.jpg)
I didn't shoot the show but it was amazing to experience their music!! I wasn't expecting on going to this concert on March 29th. But thanks to a friend who had connections, I got to see Sigur Rós play at Ottawa's Scotiabank Place . The last time the band played in Ottawa was 2005 at Bronson Centre. That was a show you couldn't miss back then. Now jump ahead to 2013 with six albums under their belt and a seventh album going to drop on June 13th. The [...]
Iceland have been pumping out some pretty great acts recently. OF MONSTERS AND MEN raced to the top of this year's Triple J Hottest 100 , and BJORK, well its bloody BJORK ! But one of Iceland’s best exports is the always ethereal, SIGUR ROS . If you’ve ever layed in a hammock at sunset, or walked through a field of snow on a winter’s morning, you’ll know what SIGUR ROS feel like. They feel more like a state of mind than just a mood. You [...]
Sigur Ros hasn't let losing bandmate and multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson affect their artistic progress; the Icelandic band will be releasing a new album, 'Kveikur', later this year. Here is the video for their 8-minute opus 'Brennisteinn', which sees the band expand from their usual experimental prog stylings into metal. Watch it below. Click here to view the embedded video.
Long Days? We've all had 'em. If you're working away this Good Friday you'll doubtless be only too aware of that fact though here to haul you through are Belgian duo I will, i swear . Comprising cotton candy-soft voiced Fien Deman and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Van Landegem, the pair find themselves at the forefront of a new tide of Belgian talent prompted by the international prominence afforded Jarri Van der Haegen's Disco Naïveté , I don't doubt. They've a couple tracks up on Unday Records' SoundCloud the second of which, Sleep, recalls the muted grandeur of Sigur [...]
Halfway through "Festival," a track that initially waves gently to and fro, Jónsi crescendos an "ooooooooh" then lets it fade away. At Boston University's Agganis Arena, that slipping towards stillness was sung past the point of absurdity. Surely there must have been a peddled effect that extended the note, surely that was the case. Or, some unseen sprite must have echoed the haunting vowel past the point of lung capacity. Yet, whatever Íslenska magic formed this surreal tremolo everyone knew what was about to happen- from this momentary silence, a throbbing bass line punched the ethereal into celebration. I've often wondered if Sigur [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Sigur Ros, Depche Mode, Stevie Nicks Song: M83 - Oblivion (Ft. Susanne Sundfør) [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Thoughts on Shows by Todd Harrington The Scene: A gganis Arena 03/27/13 Boston, MA LAST NIGHT - As the sun set over the Boston skyline, the crowd queued outside the Agganis Arena [...]
Thoughts on Shows by Todd Harrington The Scene: A gganis Arena 03/27/13 Boston, MA LAST NIGHT - As the sun set over the Boston skyline, the crowd queued outside the Agganis Arena were abuzz with [...]
![[Listen] Sigur Rós: "Hryggjarsúla" / "Ofbirta"](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4856000_lg.jpg)
Cuando Sigur Rós comenzó a dar pequeñas pistas sobre la potencia que manejaron para la creación de su nuevo álbum, me resultaba un tanto dificil imaginar el cómo se estarían adaptando las míticas figuras de ambient como Tim Hecker a la hora de presentarse en lugares como el Madison Square Garden; sin embargo, después de escuchar los dos tracks que no forman parte del tracklist oficial de "Kveikur", pero que si aparecen en el EP que lanzaron la semana pasada junto con la increíble " Brennisteinn ", me quedo la impresión de que Sigur Rós [...]
Sigur Rós performing a new song, "kveikur" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon .
photos by Dominick Mastrangelo Sigur Ros @ MSG 3/25/2013 They started the show with a giant screen draped over them, casting a giant silhouette of Jónsi towing away with his bowed guitar. Looking like he was the wizard of oz of MSG, he has all of us instantly transfixed. When the screen dropped, the band seemed to take it as a cue to take things up a notch. This was because the band (now a 3-piece) was backed up by a large [...]
A bunch of quick, cursory reviews of some songs and albums I wanted to touch down on, featuring a slew of different artists. WATCH THE REVIEWS
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Daft Punk, Sun Airway, Sigur Ros Song: M83 - StarWaves [download here ] What's so good? As if a [...]
Icelandic band Sigur Ros have performed the title track from their upcoming album "Kveikur" on US TV. Watch their performance of "Kveikur" below. Follow / [FACEBOOK]
Frank Yang Show cancellations are pretty much part and parcel of the Canadian Musicfest experience, particularly when you're most keen on the international acts who've been duped coerced into playing the fest, but it's especially disappointing when it's a) one of the bands you most wanted to see, b) they were one of the very first acts confirmed for the fest in November , and c) it happens just hours before showtime. But things like lymph node infections do happen, and with Efterklang singer Casper Clausen out [...]
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