"Hear a full concert by Iceland's ambient rock group Sigur Ros, recorded live from the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Md. The band's performance originally webcast live on NPR.org Sept. 11 as part of NPR Music's ongoing concert series from All Songs Considered." Listen here
Brooklyn-based guitarist/pianist/vocalist David Grubbs made a major impact on the indie music scene during a ten-year residence in Chicago. Originally hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, he was a member of Bastro, and Squirrel Bait before teaming up with Jim O'Rourke in Gastr del Sol. That band issued a number of critically acclaimed albums in the mid-'90s before O'Rourke split to pursue solo projects and focus on his Drag City boutique label Moikai. More
By accident I found some Sigur Ros MP3 files. Those of you, don't knowing about them, read what the nice people at epitonic have to they about them:
After the release of their second album (which coincided with an opening slot on Radiohead's Kid A tour), Icelandic art-rock ensemble Sigur Rós promptly became one of the most critically hyped bands in recent memory, garnering such ebullient characterizations as "the first vital band of the 21st century" and "music at its most basic, and most advanced." Then, naturally, there was the inevitable (though considerably smaller) backlash, which earned the band such vitriolic assessments of their music as this one, from the venerable Aquarius Records: "heavy-handed soundtracks to excessively melodramatic movies that patronize the audience with self-aggrandizing pseudo-philosophies and sub-Cocteau Twins vocalizing." [Read more at Epitonic.com]
Brooklyn-based guitarist/pianist/vocalist David Grubbs made a major impact on the indie music scene during a ten-year residence in Chicago. Originally hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, he was a member of Bastro, and Squirrel Bait before teaming up with Jim O'Rourke in Gastr del Sol. That band issued a number of critically acclaimed albums in the mid-'90s before O'Rourke split to pursue solo projects and focus on his Drag City boutique label Moikai. 