As I approached the DeVos Performance Hall January 29th, I noted my drastic lack of formal attire. With my jeans, tennis shoes, and backpack, it wasn’t clear I was about to attend a symphonic concert.

If you heard the alien soundscape that Sigur Rós has crafted over the past few decades without knowing anything of the trio, it would not surprise you that its members hail from a distant outpost.

Sigur Rós are bringing the Wordless Music Orchestra on a U.S. tour. The Icelandic band and 41-piece orchestral outfit will bring Átta and more to life at concerts in September and October. (The lone ...

Ethereal alternative outfit Sigur Ros and famed 41-piece band Wordless Music Orchestra played a few shows together in 2023, but it looks like US-based fans will get to enjoy a more extended tour in ...

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 ...

"A good start" is not quite right. That's an accurate translation of the title Ágætis byrjun, and yet in precise terms it does not fit the album it belongs to. The LP that broke Sigur Rós and blew ...

Valtari’s evolution doesn’t suggest that it could be cohesive, or even convince as an album. Sessions for a follow up to 2008’s Með… began, but it was announced in 2010 that what’d been recorded was ...

Sigur Rós’ sixth studio album, Valtari, closes with eight minutes of crawling, pointillistic ambience called “Fjögur píanó” (translated in English to “Four Pianos”), a track built almost entirely on ...

Sigur Rós have been involved in an assortment of side projects since the release of ( ) in 2002. Iceland’s second best known musical export, now with a million record sales under their collective belt ...

Jón Þór “Jónsi” Birgisson’s voice is androgynous, and his made up “Hopelandic” language makes it seem like he’s singing folk songs of all cultures and none – almost as if he’s inhabiting a shared ...

Sigur Rós are a millennial band in the truest sense — not because they are inordinately popular with millennials compared to other demographics, though that might be somewhat true. Rather, Ágætis ...

Iceland has become known for churning out strange beauty in music, from Sigur Ros to Bjork and producer/composer Olafur Arnalds. Arnalds, who started off his career as a metal drummer, made the ...