Mika Levy and her Shapes released one of the best British albums this year -- a debut, no less -- although you wouldn't know that from the Mercury Prize. Or its nominee list. No, for that sort of championing of... CONTINUE READING NEW MICACHU & THE SHAPES VIDEO - "TURN ME WELL"»
Posted on September 9, 2009 in Video (4 comments)
Tags: Björk | Micachu And The Shapes | Phoenix
What started as a mutual admiration uncovered by Dirty Projectors' cover of "Hyperballad" for Enjoyed crystallized into an unforgettable evening of Bitte Björka at Housing Works Bookstore in SoHo on Friday. Our very own Brandon Stosuy worked tirelessly to conceive... CONTINUE READING BJöRK & DIRTY PROJECTORS @ HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE, NYC 5/8/09»
Posted on May 11, 2009 in Concert, MP3, Photo (13 comments)
Tags: Ólöf Arnalds | Björk | Deradoorian | Dirty Projectors | Kurt Weisman
The show's officially sold out, but a very limited amount of tickets were held back and go on sale for $50 at Housing Works Bookstore this coming Wednesday (4/15). They'll be sold in pairs by lottery at noon that day.... CONTINUE READING THERE ARE A FEW REMAINING TICKETS FOR BJöRK & DIRTY PROJECTORS»
Posted on April 10, 2009 (0 comments)
Tags: Björk | Dirty Projectors
In mid-October we posted about Björk's Náttúra," a song that included extremely ambient vocal noises from Thom Yorke and prominent drums from Lightning Bolt and "Dull Flame Of Desire"'s Brian Chippendale. As mentioned then, and as you likely already know,... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK - "NáTTúRA (SWITCH REMIX)"»
Posted on April 9, 2009 in MP3 (3 comments)
Tags: Björk | Switch
We told you about the Björk and Dirty Projectors collaboration taking place on May 8th at Housing Works. On 4/15, a very limited number of $50 tickets will be available at Housing Works Bookstore in SoHo and two Brooklyn locations... CONTINUE READING CHEAPER BJöRK & DIRTY PROJECTORS TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA LOTTERY»
Posted on March 31, 2009 (2 comments)
Tags: Björk | Dirty Projectors
We'll pass along the rest of the information soon, but for now we wanted to announce the most relevant details because we're excited (and tired of keeping it a secret): Björk and Dirty Projectors are joining forces for a one-time... CONTINUE READING LIVE FROM HOME: BJöRK WITH DIRTY PROJECTORS»
Posted on March 26, 2009 (13 comments)
Tags: Björk | Dirty Projectors
This week's SNL featured music guest TV On The Radio and host The Mean Guy In Wedding Crashers. Over the course of "Golden Age" and "Dancing Choose," TVOTR sounded like they could have used more time soundchecking, but the video... CONTINUE READING TV ON THE RADIO, LONELY ISLAND, FAKE BJöRK LIVEN UP SATURDAY NIGHT»
Posted on February 9, 2009 (7 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Björk | Kristin Wiig | Pictureplane | Popo | Saturday Night Live | The Lonely Island | TV On The Radio
Björk sounds great on her new single "Nattura." Thom Yorke (that guy from Radiohead) adds smeary, windy way-ambient backing vocals, but the most prominent ingredient is Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale's dark, heavily tribal percussion. (He also brought that amazing... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK (FEAT. THOM YORKE) - "NATTURA"»
Posted on October 14, 2008 (18 comments)
Tags: Björk | Lightning Bolt | Radiohead | Thom Yorke
If you recall, there was a fan-made video contest for Björk's "Innocence." Well, turns out there was more than one winner: The contest's three runners up were called back to help with the video for "The Dull Flame of Desire."... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK (FEAT. ANTONY HEGARTY) VIDEO - "THE DULL FLAME OF DESIRE" »
Posted on September 15, 2008 in Video (3 comments)
Tags: Antony And The Johnsons | Antony Hegarty | Björk | Brian Chippendale | Kanye West | Lightning Bolt | SXSW | The Decemberists
In a note titled "Time To Put It Right," Björk sets the record straight about who did what on Vespertine. She posted the message at her site on Friday after reading a story in Iceland's English language paper The Grapevine... CONTINUE READING BJöRK SUGGESTS JOURNALISTS LOOK AT ALBUM CREDITS, THEIR OWN LATENT SEXISM»
Posted on August 25, 2008 (31 comments)
Tags: Björk | The Wrens
Saturday in Reykjavik saw a convergence of four of the world's greatest things -- Sigur Rós, Björk, National Geographic, and free -- for a Náttúra concert to raise awareness about the ill effects of aluminum smelting on Icelandic topography. If... CONTINUE READING SIGUR RóS & BJöRK JOIN IN SERVING ICELAND SOME "GOBBLEDIGOOK"»
Posted on June 30, 2008 in Video (13 comments)
Tags: Ólöf Arnalds | Björk | Lily Allen | School Of Seven Bells | Sigur Rós | SXSW
Björk and Sigur Rós are playing a free, open-air concert tomorrow at the Botanical Garden on Laugavegur in Reykjavik, 7-10pm GMT (3-6PM EST). They're "raising awareness of the destruction of Iceland's natural landscape," we are raising awareness that National Geographic... CONTINUE READING STREAM THE BJöRK/SIGUR RóS SHOW, LIVE FROM ICELAND»
Posted on June 27, 2008 (2 comments)
Tags: Björk | Sigur Rós
When's the last time you want to an actual record store? Like where you have to walk through a door and can't just click "download"? Yes, we live inside a blog, but record stores are pretty great. Brandon worked at... CONTINUE READING TOMORROW IS RECORD STORE DAY»
Posted on April 18, 2008 (34 comments)
Tags: Björk | Built To Spill | Dead Meadow | Death Cab For Cutie | Deerhunter | Grizzly Bear | Interpol | Prurient | R.E.M. | Regina Spektor | Stephen Malkmus | SXSW | Tapes 'N Tapes | The Black Keys | The New Pornographers | Vampire Weekend | Young Widows
It's entirely possible you don't check Stereogum as often as we do, so drag your mouse to this link and click to download our tribute to Björk's Post. It's essentially a list of our favorite bands right now -- Liars,... CONTINUE READING ENJOYED: THE REVIEWS ARE IN!»
Posted on April 2, 2008 (40 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bell | Björk | Dirty Projectors | El Guincho | Evangelicals | Final Fantasy | Grizzly Bear | High Places | Liars | No Age | Pattern Is Movement | White Hinterland | Xiu Xiu
On this most Björk-y of days, Iceland's favorite daughter is also premiering her video for Volta's "Wanderlust." We've mentioned it previously, offering a few stills of the luxurious Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch-directed landscape (yes, of Encyclopedia Pictura, the folks... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK VIDEO - "WANDERLUST"»
Posted on March 31, 2008 in Video (16 comments)
Tags: Björk
Stereogum's complete 12-track Enjoyed comp is live and ready to be downloaded (for free). Yep, 12. Because No Age cooked up an excellent alternate take on "It's Oh So Quiet," which we wanted to keep a surprise until ... now.... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM PRESENTS... ENJOYED: A TRIBUTE TO BJöRK'S POST»
Posted on March 31, 2008 (0 comments)
Tags: Atlas Sound | Bell | Björk | Dirty Projectors | El Guincho | Evangelicals | Final Fantasy | Grizzly Bear | High Places | Liars | No Age | Pattern Is Movement | White Hinterland | Xiu Xiu
On Monday 3/31, we launch Enjoyed, our song-by-song tribute to Björk's Post. (Click here for complete tracklist.) When we asked her about about the 1995 album she told us: I was very aware of it at the time that I... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP VOLUME XXVIII: HEAR DIRTY PROJECTORS COVER BJöRK, WIN AN IPOD NANO»
Posted on March 26, 2008 in Giveaway, MP3 (13 comments)
Tags: Björk | Dirty Projectors
"Declare Independence" is undoubtedly one of the best tracks from Volta. Unfortunately, the technically complex Michel Gondry video fails to tap the track's emotional power, but when Björk performs the anthem live and does something as seemingly simple as give... CONTINUE READING BJöRK TALKS TIBET AND KOSOVO, RELEASES "WANDERLUST" VIDEO STILLS»
Posted on March 5, 2008 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Björk
This past weekend a couple Big Days Out took pace down under (Friday in Aukland and Sunday at the Gold Coast) with LCD Soundsystem, Björk, Rage Against The Machine, Battles, Kate Nash, Billy Bragg, Silverchair, and Arcade Fire, among others. Rage's set (along with Tom Morello's solo turn as the Night Watchman) was expectedly political, but doesn't sound like Win Butler was caught making Obama orations -- or, at least not in the clip we found of "Black Mirror." As far as Björk and Co., they kept the ass-kicking on stage. The next Big Day stop's this Friday in Sydney.
Posted on January 21, 2008 (0 comments)
We saw a lot of concerts this year! You probably did too, if you're the sort to be checking music blogs on your downtime over holiday break, so let's all trade notes. Stereogum's Amrit Singh kicks things off with a... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S 30 FAVORITE LIVE SHOWS OF 2007»
Posted on December 28, 2007 in Concert (82 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Antony Hegarty | Arcade Fire | Battles | Björk | Bon Iver | Boredoms | Chk Chk Chk | Cornelius | Daft Punk | Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | Dirty Projectors | Feist | Grizzly Bear | Jamie Lidell | Justice | LCD Soundsystem | M.I.A. | Man Man | Mastodon | My Morning Jacket | No Age | of Montreal | Panda Bear | Paul McCartney | Santigold | The Field | The National | The Police | The White Stripes
Well shit, this is pretty great. Michel Gondry tag teams with Björk for the seventh time (and first in a decade, taking it back to B's "Bachelorette" days) and he conjures a concept for the Icelandic queen and her army... CONTINUE READING NEW BJöRK VIDEO - "DECLARE INDEPENDENCE"»
Posted on December 6, 2007 in Video (10 comments)
Tags: Björk | Michel Gondry
After letting a fan conjure the atmosphere for mechanistic, hyper-percussive "Innocence," Björk enlisted old standby Michel Gondry to transform punky, flag-planting Volta standout "Declare Independence" into video form way out there in Long Island City. The French director, who's now... CONTINUE READING BJöRK "DECLARE INDEPENDENCE" VIDEO PREVIEW»
Posted on November 29, 2007 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: Björk | Michel Gondry
So Radiohead hosted a party yesterday (hosted, get it?). Everybody was invited, but not everybody could get in -- or get online, as it were. But here's some good news for those who found the party crashed due to tech/bandwith... CONTINUE READING IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: LAST NIGHT'S PARTY (FEAT. RADIOHEAD COVERING BJöRK)»
Posted on November 9, 2007 in MP3, Video (13 comments)
Tags: Björk | Radiohead
This week's SNL got off to a rocky start when a cross-eyed and painful-to-watch Ritchie Sambora lost his next-to-only line during host Jon Bon Jovi's monologue (Sambora smiling blankly, mouthing "Oh shit, I lost it." To his credit, intended or... CONTINUE READING FOO FIGHTERS, JON BON JOVI GET PUNCHED JUST BEFORE EATING (AND BJöRK & CHARLES BARKLEY DO ICONOCLASTS)»
Posted on October 15, 2007 (20 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Björk | Bon Jovi | Foo Fighters | Pat Smear | Saturday Night Live
Well we saw Björk's first US show in support of Volta (at Coachella -- SNL doesn't count), so it was particularly symmetrical of us to head uptown to MSG Monday night to check the last American date of '07.... CONTINUE READING BJöRK @ MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NYC 9/24/07»
Posted on September 26, 2007 in Concert (4 comments)
Tags: Antony Hegarty | Björk | Santigold
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