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Sigur Ros | Inni

XL (2011)
The Icelandic quartet's last album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, came out three years ago, and besides one new instrumental tacked on at the end, the songs here are nothing we haven't already heard (and obsessed over) for years now.
By RYAN REED | November 08, 2011

Light Pollution | Apparitions

Carpark (2010)
Light Pollution unabashedly endorse marijuana use: “How many glass pipes can you find in this picture?” the band ask under a press photo posted on their MySpace.
By CARRIE BATTAN | June 24, 2010

Jónsi | Go

XL (2010)
To the Sigur Rós fans still weeping over the band’s decision to scrap their latest full-length and take an indefinite paternity leave: dry your tears with Jónsi’s uplifting solo debut.
By CARRIE BATTAN | March 23, 2010

Bands of brothers

'Hislopalooza' is a family affair
I'm living the most local life I've ever lived right now in Dorchester," says Chris Hislop, bespectacled guitarist in the long-running Boston band Piles.
By MATT PARISH | March 10, 2010

Crash proof

Arms and Sleepers are more than just a hard drive
I've never trusted music that's too engineered, too perfect. Headphones on the drummer and a hundred tracks running off a laptop? Most bands practice and practice to get things just right, but it's that threat of the unexpected that makes a show worth seeing.
By MATT PARISH | September 29, 2009

Music Seen: Seymour

Seymour at Zero Station, April 27, 2009
Seymour's gentle, mellifluous sound is the type that quiets a chattering room.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | April 29, 2009

Dance, Monkey!: Rob Crean

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat
Rob Crean has secret talents
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | February 10, 2009

2008 Listravaganza!

An absolute glut of cruelly reductive Top 10 lists from our dedicated staff of tirelessly enthusiastic writers
We are not at all sick of bands with animal names yet and seem to have a soft spot for Erykah Badu that we kept very hush about all year.
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | December 31, 2008

Sonic youth

California Smile bring the noise
After a pair of successful record-release gigs at Firehouse 13, Cali Smile will join an indie-rock bill on Friday (the 21st) at URI with locals the Coming Weak, the Noise Campaign, and Warwick's Dorado 30, to name a few — all for only $4 at the door.
By CHRIS CONTI | November 19, 2008

Steps . . . and more steps

Boston Conservatory and BoSoma make dance work hard
Martha Graham’s Steps in the Street doesn’t look anything like a dance of the 21st century, but at the end of Boston Conservatory’s fall program last weekend it fit right in.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 17, 2008

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Going on sale: July 4, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
James Dewees of Reggie and the Full Effect, Icy Demons, the Wedding Present and more.
By GOING ON SALE | July 02, 2008

Sigur Rós

Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust| EMI
Here, as on 2005’s Takk, Sigur Rós have chosen to distill their rapture epics into shorter, more accessible bursts of swelling beauty.
By SHARON STEEL | July 01, 2008

Drear as folk

The bleak interiors of Damien Jurado and Jeremy Enigk
It’s that feeling of overwhelming sorrow tempered by the faintest sliver of hope that’s evoked by the music of two veteran Pacific Northwest songwriters and long-time friends who share a bill at Great Scott this Saturday night.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | May 28, 2008

Screaming Masterpiece

Sort of crap
Magnússon’s film fails to illuminate what this declaration of independence meant or how it was carried out.
By WILL SPITZ | February 06, 2008

Benni Hemm Hemm

Kajak | Morr Music
The language of twee-dom knows no borders.
By DAVID DAY | June 26, 2007

Avant gardening

'Brainwaves’ invades the Regent
A Web site that’s hosted everyone from the Dresden Dolls to Diamanda Galás and Tortoise brings an international festival to Arlington.
By DAVID DAY | November 13, 2006

Boston music news: November 3, 2006

Notes on the Rock and Art Auction
Drop a 10-spot, walk into the Opera House this Wednesday at 7:30 pm, and you’ll find almost the entire line-up of headliners that played Bank of America Pavilion last summer.
By JIM SULLIVAN | October 31, 2006

Sigur sounds

Nature's soundtrack
Sigur Rós’s albums have always sounded like film soundtracks, so downloading the music sans video from their upcoming EP/DVD Sæglópur isn’t much of a stretch.
By ADAM GOLD | July 18, 2006

Beast masters

Mogwai celebrate 10 years of loudness
“I think that what we do very naturally as a band is quite predictable,” says Mogwai guitarist and de facto leader Stuart Braithwaite.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | May 10, 2006

Going on sale, March 10, 2006

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Sigur R ós, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Miller, P.O.D., and more
By WILL SPITZ | March 08, 2006

Sigur Ros at the Orpheum

Stylized soundscapes
Well, having done the research, I’m warming to this Jonsi Birgisson — gay, blind in one eye, loves Iron Maiden, plays the guitar with a cello bow, and sings, when the mood takes him, in a made-up language called “Hopelandic.”
By JAMES PARKER | February 15, 2006