Jun 23, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar)

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was out of town last Thursday to this Monday in Washington, DC, covering Awesome Con. So, this week’s Songs of the Week is supersized and incorporates tracks from the last two weeks. More

Jun 15, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Yesterday, Iceland’s Sigur Rós announced that their previously teased new album would be titled ÁTTA and was due out digitally today. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. More

Jun 15, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have announced that their previously teased new album will be titled ÁTTA and is due out digitally tomorrow. A physical release will follow on September 1 via BMG. The album includes “Blóðberg,” a new song the band shared on Monday via a music video. More

Jun 12, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have shared a new song, “Blóðberg,” via a music video. The band is about to embark on a sold out tour performing with a 41-piece orchestra in both North America and Europe. More

Mar 16, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have announced a new tour in which they will be performing with a 41-piece orchestra in both North America and Europe. They have also teased the release of a new album. More

Oct 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have announced a 20th anniversary reissue of their 2002 album (), which will be out digitally on October 27 and physically on November 25. The band have also shared a previously unreleased demo version of the album’s “Untitled #7.” More

Feb 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have announced a world tour, which will begin this spring and summer in North America. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local time. More

Oct 29, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós is surprise releasing his third solo album, Obsidian, tomorrow via Krunk. The release coincides with the premiere of his new art installation, which is on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City from October 30 to December 17. More

Feb 10, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Alex Somers has announced two new albums, Siblings and Siblings 2, sharing the lead singles from each respective album, “Deathbed” from the former and “Sooner” from the latter. Both albums will be out on March 19 via Krunk. More

Jan 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós released his first solo album in 10 years, Shiver, last fall via Krunk. Now he has shared a strange video for a new song, “Mold.” Like Shiver, “Mold” was co-written and co-produced by Jónsi and A. G. Cook (of PC Music). More

Oct 02, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós has released his first solo album in 10 years, Shiver, today via Krunk. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, yesterday we posted our review of the album. More

Sep 30, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós is releasing his first solo album in 10 years, Shiver, this Friday via Krunk. Now he has shared another song from it, “Salt Licorice,” which features Swedish pop singer Robyn. Jónsi co-directed the disorientating video with Rene van Pannevis and it includes the singer cutting his own hair. More

Aug 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós is releasing his first solo album in 10 years, Shiver, on October 2 via Krunk. Now he has shared another song from it, “Cannibal,” which features Elizabeth Fraser (formerly of Cocteau Twins). Jónsi co-directed the video with actor/director Giovanni Ribisi. More

Jun 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós has announced his first solo album in 10 years, Shiver, and shared a new song from it, “Swill,” via a video for the track. Shiver features guest vocals from Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser and Robyn and was co-produced by A. G. Cook (of PC Music). More

Jun 18, 2020 By Samantha Small

Ambient musician Julianna Barwick has shared the video for “In Light,” the newest single from her forthcoming album Healing Is A Miracle, due out July 10 on Ninja Tune. More

May 21, 2020 By Samantha Small

After a four-year hiatus, Julianna Barwick has announced her new album Healing Is a Miracle. Along with the announcement, Barwick shared a music video for the (much-needed) meditative track “Inspirit.” More

Apr 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós has shared a new solo song, “Exhale,” via a video for the track. Jónsi co-produced the song with A. G. Cook (of PC Music). More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

May 01, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jónsi of Iceland’s Sigur Rós has teamed up with Stockholm-based visual artist/electro-acoustic composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff as Dark Morph, a one-off ambient project. They have announced a self-titled album and shared one of its tracks, “Beka Yalo.” More

Apr 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Acclaimed best selling authors Nick Hornby, Dave Eggers, and Michael Chabon have teamed up for the new charity project Setlists for Young Voices, where they are auctioning autographed setlists by R.E.M., Mitski, Wilco, Janelle Monáe, Sigur Rós, Better Oblivion Community Center, Death Cab for Cutie, Jim James, Patti Smith, More

Mar 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have announced a deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of Ágætis byrjun, which was released in 1999 and was their second album. The reissue is due out June 21 on Krunk and comes via a 7-LP box set featuring demos, rarities, and Live at Íslenska Óperan 1999. They have shared one of those live tracks, “Flugufrelsarinn (Live at Íslenska Óperan).” More

Feb 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2019 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on Saturday, April 13 and just in case you don’t already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

Oct 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Orri Páll Dýrason, drummer with Iceland’s Sigur Rós, has left the band after being accused of sexually assaulting Los Angeles-based artist Meagan Boyd in 2013. More

Jan 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have shared two new songs, “Match” and “End.” Both are taken from the soundtrack to Black Mirror, Netflix’s acclaimed science fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. More

Nov 21, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Iceland’s Sigur Rós previously announced Norður og Niður, a new festival at Reykjavik’s Harpa venue from December 27 - 31. The band will perform four shows in Harpa’s main hall, Eldborg (which has a capacity of only 1,500 per show), on December 27, 28, 29, and 30. Now they have announced some rare limited vinyl releases that will be available at the festival and have shared a previously unreleased (and untitled) song by frontman Jónsi. More

Sep 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Iceland’s Sigur Rós previously announced Norður og Niður, a new festival at Reykjavik’s Harpa venue from December 27 - 31. The band will perform four shows in Harpa’s main hall, Eldborg (which has a capacity of only 1,500 per show), on December 27, 28, 29, and 30. More

May 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have announced Norður og Niður, a new six-day festival at Reykjavik’s Harpa venue from December 26 - 31. The band will perform four shows in Harpa’s main hall, Eldborg (which has a capacity of only 1,500 per show), on December 27, 28, 29, and 30. More

Apr 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Jónsi, frontman for Iceland’s Sigur Rós, has released a new solo song, “Simple Gifts.” It’s taken from the soundtrack to The Circle, a new film that stars Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Karen Gillan, John Boyega, Patton Oswalt, and Bill Paxton. More

Jan 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Iceland’s Sigur Rós are performing three concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on April 13, 14, and 15. Now they have announced that some notable musicians will be providing guest string arrangements for the shows: Dan Deacon, Owen Pallett, Anna Meredith, and Nico Muhly will all be taking part. More

Dec 12, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Iceland’s Sigur Rós have announced some new 2017 North American tour dates. They go down next April, May, and June. They will performing without a support act, doing two career-spanning sets separated by an intermission each night. More

Jun 21, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday Iceland’s Sigur Rós shared a mysterious new teaser trailer that was streaming in a loop and announced that something was happening at 5 PM EST. Then that something was revealed to be a live 24 event the band dubbed a “Slow TV” broadcast that aired via Iceland’s nationwide TV channel RÚV 2 and streamed on YouTube. More

Jun 20, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Earlier today Iceland’s Sigur Rós shared a mysterious new teaser trailer that was streaming in a loop and announced that something was happening at 5 PM EST today. Well that something is a live 24 event the band is dubbing a “Slow TV” broadcast that is airing now via Iceland’s nationwide TV channel RÚV 2 and streaming on YouTube below. More

Jun 20, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Sigur Rós have shared a mysterious new teaser trailer that’s streaming in a loop. It shows slightly distorted images of a landscape and ends with the promise that something will be revealed at 5 PM EST (or 2 PM PST, 10 PM U.K. time), ending with this message: “sigurrosrouteone begins 21.00 GMT.” More

Apr 04, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Icelandic experimental rock band Sigur Rós have announced a North American tour this Fall. This time will be extra special as for the first time in the band’s existence they will be touring without a support act. Instead audiences will be get two sets (+ intermission) starting from 8:30pm sharp at each show. More

Nov 24, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Sigur Rós have announced some European tour dates for summer 2016 and have promised that they will be playing some new music on the tour. In a statement on the Icelandic band’s website when announcing the dates they write: “All we can say right now is it’s going to be different, with new unreleased songs, a new show and maybe some other *new* things. More

Aug 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we previously reported, Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason, two thirds of Sigur Rós, have partnered with Icelandic composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós touring guitarist Kjartan Holm (also Georg Holm’s brother), to record the score to the BBC documentary film The Show of Shows. More

Jul 22, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we previously reported, Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason, two thirds of Sigur Rós, have partnered with Icelandic composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós touring guitarist Kjartan Holm (also Georg Holm’s brother), to record the score to the BBC documentary film The Show of Shows. Their soundtrack is being released under the title Circe on August 21 via Sigur Rós’ own label Krunk. Now they have shared the first track from Circe, “Lila,” via a hypnotic and haunting video featuring mainly grainy black & white footage of vaudeville performers dancing, likely footage filmed in the first half of the 20th century. It even features a woman who dances while holding a wooden chair in her teeth! More

Jul 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason, two thirds of Sigur Rós, have partnered with Icelandic composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós touring guitarist Kjartan Holm (also Georg Holm’s brother), to record the score to the BBC documentary film The Show of Shows. More

Jun 12, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Today is the 16th birthday of Sigur Rós’ acclaimed breakthrough album Ágætis byrjun and in honor of that today at 5 PM EST (2 PM PST) the Icelandic band will be streaming the audio of the full concert they played on the day the album was released, June 12, 1999. More

Apr 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night in what was only the second episode of its highly anticipated four season, HBO’s Game of Thrones delivered plenty of standout moments. More

Apr 03, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Dare you not to geek out about this. Not only will Sigur Rós make an appearance on season four of Game of Thrones, the Icelandic band will also cover “The Rains of Castamere.” More

Jan 16, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Trentemøller, The Knife, Sigur Rós, and When Saints Go Machine have all been long-listed for the third annual Nordic Music Prize. More

Nov 04, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Earlier this year Icelandic experimentalists múm released their newest LP Smilewound, featuring the standout pop tune “When Girls Collide.” More

Oct 17, 2013 By Laura Studarus

“Rafstraumur,” a cut from Sigur Rós haunting most recent album Kveikur, has gotten a remix by Cyril Hahn. More

Sep 23, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

For those that don’t know the city of Paris sits on top of an entire network of ancient tunnels and mines, a portion of which includes its famed catacombs, holding the skeletal remains of some six million people. More

Sep 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Following their recent cameo on The Simpsons, Sigur Rós have revealed that they will be making a cameo appearance on the upcoming fourth season on Game of Thrones. More

Aug 06, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Sigur Rós have produced a new music video for their Kveikur single “Stormur,” crowdsourcing its visuals through fans’ Instagram videos. More

Jun 19, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Celebrating the release of their new album Kveikur, Sigur Rós have announced that they will play a selection of songs from the record live during a speical 360-degree interactive webcast of their show in Dresden, Germany. More

Jun 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

ext week Iceland’s Sigur Rós will release their new record Kveikur. More

Jun 06, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Sigur Rós has given fans a taste of the visuals in the live show in new video “Kveikur,” the title cut from their forthcoming album of the same name. More

May 20, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

As previously reported, last night Sigur Rós made a special guest appearance on The Simpsons. More

May 17, 2013 By Colby West

As we’ve previously reported, this Sunday (May 19), Sigur Rós joins the cast of The Simpsons as both a performer and new characters. More

May 03, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Sigur Rós have revealed that they will soon turn into four-fingered, yellow versions of themselves on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. More

Apr 25, 2013 By Laura Studarus

On June 18th Sigur Rós will release their new album Kveikur. Now thanks to the power of the internet, you can sing along with their new single “Ísjaki.” More

Apr 11, 2013 By Iman Mannie Saqr

Mar 25, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last week Icelandic natives Sigur Rós announced that would follow last year’s delicate epic Valtari with a more aggressive LP called Kveikur. More

Mar 22, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Less than a year since the release of their previous work Valtari, Sigur Rós have announced the arrival of their next LP, Kveikur. More

Feb 18, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Currently engaged in a massive tour in support of last year’s album Valtari, Sigur Rós have been previewing plenty of new songs in their recent live sets. More

Feb 13, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Today in news of the weird and (potentially good smelling): Sigur Rós has released a scented companion candle to Valtari album. More

Jan 25, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Yesterday Iceland’s Sigur Rós took part in an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit, answering fans’ various questions about the band, their work, and their upcoming tour. More

Dec 10, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

In a completely expected move Sigur Rós have announced that they will collect the videos of their artful “Mystery Film Experiment” as part of a special compilation release next year. More

Dec 06, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Sigur Rós may have saved perhaps the most high profile entry of their ongoing “Mystery Film Experiment” for their last. More

Nov 20, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Sigur Rós have premiered the second-to-last music video for their ongoing “Mystery Film Experiment.” More

Nov 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Sigur Rós have announced that next spring they will embark on their biggest tour to date through North America in support of their new album Valtari. More

Nov 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

On the 14th entry to their “Mystery Film Experiment” Sigur Rós continue to put the visual accompaniment of their latest album Valtari in very capable hands. More

Nov 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

This past weekend Sigur Rós performed in their homeland of Iceland for the first time in over four years. More

Oct 22, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Over a dozen video into Sigur Rós’ Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, the visual artistry of its selected directors still never fail to impress. More

Oct 18, 2012 By Laura Studarus

In support of their new album Valtari, Sigur Rós has hosted a “Mystery Film Experiment” where filmmakers were invited to create a video for each album track. Today, directors Anafelle Liu, Dio Lau, and Ken Ngan were declared winners for their take on “Fjögur piano,” which they call Skinned. More

Oct 09, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

For their “Mystery Film Experiment,” Sigur Rós approached a dozen filmmakers to create whatever visual accompaniment they wanted after listening to the band’s new album Valtari. More

Sep 24, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Nearing the end of their “Mystery Film Experiment” Sigur Rós have delivered a particularly interesting piece of work for their tenth installment. More

Sep 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

For their nineth entry in their still ongoing “Mystery Film Experiment,” Sigur Rós present fans with something a little different than in past installments. More

Aug 28, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Entering the last half of entries in their “Mystery Film Experiment,” Icelandic composers Sigur Rós have unveiled a new video, this time utilizing their Valtari track “Dauðalogn.” More

Aug 13, 2012 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day One of the Outside Lands, held in the historic Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA on August 10, 2012. The gallery includes photos of Dr. Dog, Father John Misty, Grandaddy, Passion Pit, Sigur Ros, Tame Impala, Thee O Sees, Yellow Ostrich and Zola Jesus. More

Aug 13, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Over the halfway point of their twelve-part “Mystery Film Experiment,” Icelanic foursome Sigur Rós have come forth with a meditative video for “Varðeldur.” More

Jul 31, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing to match beautiful music with compelling visuals, Sigur Rós have unveiled yet another installment in their ongoing “Mystery Film Experiment.” More

Jul 16, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing their Mystery Film Experiment, Sigur Rós has premiered a new video for their Valtari track ”Ég Anda.” More

Jul 02, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Sigur Rós have premiered yet another installment to their ongoing “Mystery Film Experiment,” this time for their Valtari track “Rembihnútur.” More

Jun 18, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

This morning Sigur Rós have debuted a bizarre, sexually-charged music video for their instrumental ballad “Fjögur Píanó.” More

Jun 06, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With their album Valtari scoring the band’s first 10 album on the Billboard charts, Sigur Rós have debuted a music video for the cut “Varúð,” the latest entry in the band’s “Mystery Film Experiment” series. More

May 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The video for Sigur Rós’ Valtari opening track ”Ég Anda” at times feels less like the result of some artistic enterprise and more like a stylish public service announcement. More

May 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After debuting their new album Valtari in full through a time-zone traveling stream, Icelandic instrumenalists Sigur Rós have now offered the eight-track effort to the online community with more open-ended accessibility. More

May 14, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Leading up to their release of their new album Valtari on May 29, Sigur Rós have announced that a special listening event will take place on May 17 that will give fans the opportunity to listen to the LP in its entirety. More

May 11, 2012 By Laura Studarus

In addition to a big ol’ twist, last night’s season finale of The Vampire Diaries (warning, fans of the show may not want to read any further. Spoiler alert!) also delivered a new track from forthcoming Sigur Rós album, Valtari. More

Apr 30, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Poised to release their sixth studio LP Valtari on May 29, Sigur Rós have premiered yet another track off the album called “Varúð.” More

Apr 23, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Icelandic experimentalists Sigur Rós threw themselves into the Record Store Day fun with a special 7’’ of its Valtari single “Ekki Múkk.” More

Apr 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Sigur Rós has announced that the band will embark on a world tour starting this July in support of their forthcoming new album Valtari. More

Mar 26, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Wasting little time after announcing the release of their latest album Valtari, Sigur Rós have posted the record’s first single “Ekki Múkk” online to stream. More

Feb 08, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After a Wall Street Journal interview revealed that they were working on a new album set for release sometime this year, Icelandic post-rock experimentalists Sigur Rós have announced that they will be headlining this year’s Bestival music festival. More

Nov 09, 2011 By Mi Tran

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sigur Rós announced that they are currently working on a new album. More

Oct 14, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Sigur Rós have announced a series of screenings of their new concert film INNI. More

Sep 16, 2011 By Laura Studarus

After much teasing and fabric cutting, today Sigur Rós got specific about the details of their live album/DVD, INNI. More

Sep 08, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Sigur Rós released a mysterious video for “Klippa” today. We have the clip. More

May 22, 2020 By Dom Gourlay (As Told To)

I had to think about that quite deeply because it does change. People’s favorite albums don’t necessarily stay the same forever. You might have a favorite now but in 10 years you may have another one. The record I’m listening to quite a lot now—and I actually listened to quite a lot when I was a kid, even before joining Sigur Rós—is Wildflowers by Tom Petty. More

Jul 24, 2019 By Dom Gourlay

With seven albums under their belt and a list of artists citing their influence as long as the band members’ collective arms, Sigur Rós have inspired a generation. However, the album that many of those suitors keep coming back to would be Ágætis byrjun, the band’s second LP. More

May 08, 2017 By Matt Conner

Their ethos could be called mixed media. For as long as Sigur Rós has been recording and releasing music, since the mid-‘90s, the Icelandic band has complicated their craft, each album steeped in intensity and intimacy, heaviness and delicacy, darkness and light. More

Sep 06, 2013 By Matt Fink

In a rock canon littered with fame junkies, opportunists, and self-promoters, the members of Sigur Rós stand out for never seeming similarly interested in building a mythology befitting a band of their stature. More

Aug 06, 2019 By Mischa Pearlman

That the title of this second album by Sigur Rós translates to “a new beginning” is very appropriate—for while it was preceded in 1997 by debut full-length Von, that record was essentially made by a different band. More

Jun 14, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Sigur Rós’ seventh full-length starts with amiasma of thunderous crashes. A year later and one member fewer than the paper-thin whisper that was previous album Valtari, it’s almost as if the Icelandic trio is making up for lost time with sheer volume. More

May 25, 2012 By Laura Studarus

The good news is, with a Sigur Rós album, you know what you’re getting into. The bad news is…oh, come on, you thought there was truly any bad news associated with a new Sigur Rós album? More