Video: Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros (Live on Later)

Sigur Rós are often called a post-rock band, and they were certainly out in full-on rock mode at Friday night's show at UC Berkeley's Greek Theater . The band performed as a four-piece (absent the string and brass players from recent tours) in a guitar-oriented configuration that allowed the band to explore the darker, prog rock-tinged aspects of its often ethereal catalog. The stage design—epic green backlighting, smoke and saturated high-contrast close-ups of instruments—perfectly set the mood; not to mention lead singer/guitarist Jónsi Birgisson's dark-prince-from-the-future costume and tortured, spastic bowing. When rain came down late in the set, [...]

Posted by Andrew: I've been pretty excited about a lot of things lately. Finally seeing The National live at Coachella this year, seeing pictures of Elisha Cuthbert in a bikini on a beach in Hawaii last weekend, Jack beating the living crap out of Ben at the end of the third season of "Lost", the new Indiana Jones movie, that MNBC news anchor Sue Simmons dropping an F-Bomb on live TV last night (google it, it's fantastic, she seems like a friendly person), Face To Face coming to Calgary for V-Fest in June, [...]