This Isn’t The 2009 Coachella Line-Up
Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Dallas VonKillbot in Idiocy, Internet, Music
A false poster for this year’s Coachella Music and Art’s festival was thrown into the comments of a Stereogum thread this morning, and the creators of the work in question did a great job giving every hipster and hopeful on the planet an instant boner. According to the fake poster, the headliners were The White Stripes, Daft Punk and David Bowie, with additional support from a monster cast of big shots like Mastodon, Muse, Kings of Leon, Sigur Ros, Snow Patrol and others. The planners over at [...]
Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of Band Of The Day: Surface of Atlantic
Posted on 01. May, 2008 by spencer in Band of the Day, Music
Every so often I find myself flipping through CDs in a jaded attempt to fins something, anything, with a little authenticity, originality or…well, something that doesn’t suck. It can be a tough job, actually. If only there were more bands like Surface of Atlantic, who really spoke out to me through the filter-less din of internet music. With softly uttered vocals, droning guitar repetition, swelling keyboards and minimalist electronica underpinning the unassumingly beautiful songs, Surface of Atlantic can easily knock the copy of Coldplay’s Parachutes or Death Cab’s Transatlanticism out [...]
Sigur Ros’ “Heima” Up in It’s Entirety on YouTube For One Day
Posted on 07. Mar, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Blog, Film, Music, Videos
Sigur Ros’ “Heima” a feature length film documenting their 2006 tour of their home country Iceland is streaming in its entirety on YouTube today:
‘heima’ is sigur rós’s first ever film, filmed over two weeks during the summer of 2006 when the band undertook a series of free, unannounced concerts in iceland. they hauled 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland for their debut venture into live film, to create something, well, inspirational.
on their way they went to ghost towns, outsider art shrines, national [...]
Sigur Ros Streaming Now!
Posted on 29. Oct, 2007 by Dallas VonKillbot in Art, Music
Post rock giants Sigur Ros are currently streaming their new album, Heim/Hvarf, on myspace. The Icelandic badasses also is releasing Heima, a live dvd of last summer’s tour in their homeland. Plans to release a CD/DVD of Odin’s Raven Magic, an “orchestral setting to the Icelandic poem Hrafnagaldr Óðins” has a possible January release date.
Kids in bands: these guys are better than you… unless you happen to be in Bear Hunter.
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