Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival won’t announce its lineup until next week, but the organizers have been hinting at who might appear by posting ads on Chicago’s transit system. Those ads are usually a bit of plain text, featuring a lyric from a song that might belong to one of the acts playing the festival. As Conseq...

Sigur Ros will deliver their first studio album in 4 years on May 29th

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Icelandic band Sigur Ros, who have been admired by the likes of Radiohead and Coldplay, will release their first album in four years on May 29, marking the end of the band's indefinite hiatus, the band announced on Monday. The band's sixth album, "Valtari," is comprised of eight songs, runs 54 minutes and will be released on...

Just this morning, Sigur Rós confirmed details on a forthcoming LP Valtari. Amongst those details are a May 28th release date, a seven-song tracklist, and the band calling the material “floaty,” “minimal,” and “introverted.” This first single, “Ekki Múkk” is in fact serene and tear-jearky and floaty as hell, vee...

For a while now, we’ve been hearing scattered bits and pieces about the new album from falsetto-wailing Icelandic beauty-merchants Sigur Rós, the band’s first new studio LP since 2008. Talking to the press, various band members have used the adjectives “floaty,” “minimal,” and &#82...