Sigur Ros

Sigur Ros Doc "Heima" to Take Over YouTube Homepage

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 6, 2008 - 9:07am.

Los Angeles - The homepage of Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube tomorrow will be taken over by the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, whose feature-length documentary "Heima" will be offered for streaming in its entirety. The rest of the page will feature the band's selections of the 10 best entries in its "Minn Heima" competition, which asked fans to create their own version of the film -- which features the band performing in far-flung locales in their home country of Iceland -- using audio and video clips posted online. The online screening is the first full-length music DVD to be featured by YouTube.

Pre-release Album Streams Posted by Grizzly Bear, Sigur Ros

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 6, 2007 - 12:14pm.

Los Angeles - Continuing the recent trend of artists and labels offering full-album streaming previews of records before their physical release dates, upcoming albums from Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear (Warp Records) and Iceland's Sigur Ros (EMI) have been posted on MySpace and AOL's Spinner.com, respectively.