I'll never use aluminum foil again after watching the film "Nattura" featuring Bjork, Sigur Ros and other famous icelandic artists. The musicians used their international clout to bring awareness to the environmental devastation happening to their green isle by holding a concert and making this documentary.The film starts with aerial views of the stunning and complicated natural features of ic...
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What I would give to be five and play dress-up in Bjork's closet. The "Where It All Began" The "Not Another Poor Little Bird!" The "Mandarin" The "Genghis" The "Monarch" The "Horton Hears A Who" The "Olympic" The "My Crayolas Just Attacked" The "This Is Me On A Mellow Dress Day" The "Silly String" The "Little Red" The "Wanna Be Startin' Something"
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Bjork just announced that "The Dull Flame of Desire" will be the next single available from Volta. Remixes by Modeselektor and Mark Stent are also on their way plus a remix of "Innocence" by Sinden! AND, a new video is in the works from 3 different directors, featuring Bjork and Antony Hegarty (of Antony & The Johnsons). The single, written and produced by Bjork, will be available September 2...
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The Icelandic artist Björk and Sigur Ros will play a free gig in Reykjavik, Iceland on June 28.The gig is being organized to raise awareness of environmental issues in the artists' home country. The exact location of the show will be announced nearer the time. ??Bjork??A message from Björk on the Björk.com reads: "Neither me or look at ourselves as experts on nature, or as politicians, but we d
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This Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, Robotspeak in San Francisco is hosting the masterminds of unique musical instruments known as Percussa Audio Cubes. AudioCubes and Reason 4 Arpeggiator Demo: Robotspeak describes the "cubist controllers" thus: Audio Cubes are a modular live performance instrument. They let you shape sound, create music and perform live through hands-on interaction with wireless int...
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How is your skeleton? Scorch and flirp? Reindeer uprising of 2012? The costume! Here's a little laugh amongst all the Grammy write-ups. Kristen Wiig's impersonation alone deserves an award.Careful Wiig, Bjork's been known to bite when she's not home brushing the tails of her my little pony collection.
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Bjork has always been outspoken about her beliefs and her most recent album directly expresses her political opinions. Throughout her world tour, she has performed "Declare Independence" from Volta and used it as an opportunity to show her solidarity for oppressed people around the globe. However, she recently chose to support oppressed communities while performing in the territory of the opp...
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Music fans, politicians, officers of the law and freedom fighters are divided this week over issues raised by a Bjork concert in Shanghai last weekend. As I reported earlier this week, Bjork ended her concert in China with "Declare Independence" off her latest album, then chanted, "Tibet! Tibet!" Since then, there has been heavy news coverage, negative comments from fans and statements from b...
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In June Bjork played an eco-conscious concert in her homeland (Iceland). The event was dubbed Nattura and raised awareness for the singer's Nattura Campaign. Today (October 27th, 2008) Bjork released the one-off single "Naturra" (see a pattern here?) digitally everywhere. The song is quite angry, despite backing vocals from soft-spoken Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, and, according to the Nattur...
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Bjork is cooking up some special treats in her electronic kitchen! I mentioned awhile back that there were remixes in the works for "Declare Independence" including one by Matthew Herbert and one by Ghostigital. Well, Bjork has baked up a super Special Limited Edition Pack that is available in her own shop now, but not available anywhere else. The Pack comes with 1 record, 1 CD and 1 DVD all...
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Bjork's website has the deets today about all kinds of ways anyone can enjoy her new 3D video for "Wanderlust" without resorting to the flat version. Apparently there are 6 different techniques ranging from making your own pair of 3D glasses to finding stores with kiosks that show the 3D video and give away free pairs of glasses for viewing. But it's the 6th option which is especially delicio...
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China might not want her, but the UK loves Bjork! The tiny singer is confirmed for the headlining spot of Wild In The Country - her only UK festival performance in '08. The event takes place in Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire on Saturday July 5th and features performances by Bjork, Battles, The Field, Booka Shade and more. The lineup thus far:BjorkPendulumFoalsBooka ShadeBattlesLate of the P...
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Yesterday, I posted about public reaction to Bjork's support of Tibet and Kosovo at recent concerts. Sometime shortly after, she made a statement on her website about the issue. The story received high-profile coverage yesterday, notably from BBC news (where I learned of it), and Bjork must have been contacted by numerous organizations for a statement. Here is what she replied: i have been a...
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In further Icelandic news, Bjork keeps adding shows to her 2007 tour. She's touring until the end of the year throughout South America, Mexico and 2 more westcoast US dates.Bjork Winter Tour:10-26 TIM Festival, Brazil10-28 TIM Festival, Brazil10-31 TIM Festival, Brazil11-04 Teatro Gran Rex, Argentina11-07 Teatro Gran Rex, Argentina11-10 Santiago, Chile11-13 Vertice del Museo de la Nacio...
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Bjork is scheduled to perform an unnamed song off of Volta on Late Night with Conan O'Brien next Thursday, September 27th. She didn't say whether she would talk with Conan on the air or not. Meanwhile, the October issue of Dazed and Confused magazine has a photo spread of Bjork "frolicking about in the Icelandic wilderness" with the ladies of Wonderbrass and Bernhard Wilhelm. She also chats ...
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