The Icelandic trio – made up of frontman Jónsi, bassist Georg Holm and multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson – are set to revisit their breakthrough album with a special 20th anniversary edition ...

The list of accomplishments by Sigur Ros, Iceland’s most successful band of all time, keeps growing, 31 years after its ...

Talking about Sigur Rós’ music is difficult at best. Most have either a love or hate relationship with the Icelandic quartet: Those who are fond of the music enjoy the band’s crescendo-prone dynamic ...

If you think American rock bands face long odds chasing success, consider the improbable tale of Sigur Ros. The five-piece band from Iceland makes spacey progressive music, with often-indecipherable ...

ONE of the talking points surrounding the fourth album (in stores Sept. 13) from these doggedly ethereal Icelanders is that they’re willing to be more accessible this time around. Not by adding catchy ...

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 ...

Returning to their roots as a four piece, the standard bearers of Icelandic rock and all things ethereal and moody opted Thursday started in musical darkness and gradually allowed light to seep in ...

Sigur Ros is not easy to describe. In their 12 years together, the Icelandic band has left hordes of journalists in its wake. A sampling of the graveyard of well-intended, overwrought metaphors yields ...

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Takk… , the title of Sigur Rós’ new album, means “thanks” in Icelandic. Perhaps it signifies gratitude to fans for not falling asleep over the course of ...

“You can’t be friends with everybody,” goes the old adage. But after meeting the charming, completely disarming Jonas ‘Jónsi’ Thor Birgisson, you really have to wonder. There’s nothing even remotely ...