The first new album from the Icelandic band Sigur Rós in a decade begins with something that will be immediately identifiable to fans of the band — the voice of Jónsi — but that familiar sound is ...
The album, which was just announced to fans this week and will be out on Friday, is called ÁTTA, which translates from Icelandic as eight. It's the band's eighth studio album, and it's coming out 26 ...
As the frontman for the band Sigur Rós, Jónsi has spent decades making atmospheric, monumental music. But he also has a life as a visual artist. In an interview with Q's Tom Power, Jónsi shared the ...
In his only Australian filmed interview, Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi opens his heart to Patrick Abboud, sharing details of his personal life not yet heard. At first glance, Jónsi appears to be painfully ...
WHERE on earth is Jonsi Birgisson? The Icelandic frontman of Sigur Ros, famous for his celestial falsetto, mini-mohawk and ability to make his guitar gently weep by playing it with a cello bow, has ...
Jonsi & Alex, the side project of Sigur Ros' Jón Þór Birgisson and Alex Somers, are busy in Iceland supplying music for their first TV series, WGN's "Manhattan." Read an interview with the duo. By ...
On a set that looked like the Museum of Natural History after a fire (trust me), a tight musical arc that fit the songs into one another like puzzle pieces, and gorgeous projections courtesy of London ...
Of all the “post-rock” bands that came to prominence around the turn of millennium, Sigur Rós‘ success is both the biggest and most surprising. Sharing the same commitment for majestic churn as the ...
Released earlier this week, Go, the debut solo album by Jónsi (aka Jón Þór Birgisson aka the violin-bow wielding singer of Sigur Rós) swoops and soars in wondrous, almost child-like ways - hear it for ...
Jónsi has always been a generous collaborator. He’s lent music by his heady Icelandic art-rock band Sigur Rós to TV shows like Game of Thrones and Black Mirror; as a solo artist, the countertenor and ...
Iceland are represented in Baku by Greta Salóme, a multi talented singer/songwriter and Jónsi, who himself returns to the Eurovision Song Contest stage eight years after representing his country in ...