Music

Sigur Rós Announces N. American Tour Dates

Published

11 years ago

November 12, 2012

Icelandic band Sigur Rós have announced a string of dates in N. America that will see them start playing March 24th in Washington D.C. and finish playing April 17th in San Francisco. The band has also announced that every ticket purchased will net the buyer a new three-track EP that includes new and unreleased music. You can sign up for presales here and check out all tour dates below.

Also, if you haven’t seen it, a fan made video for “Varúð” that is one of the best zombie stories I’ve seen in a long time can be seen below. Seriously, it’s astonishing.

World Tour
11-13 Perth, Australia – Belvoir Amphitheatre
11-15 Adelaide, Australia – Thebarton Theatre
11-17 Sydney, Australia – Harvest Festival
11-18 Brisbane, Australia – Harvest Festival
11-21 Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan University Stadium
11-23 Singapore, Singapore – Fort Canning Park
11-25 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Urbanscapes Festival

Europe Tour
02-13 Porto, Portugal – Coliseum
02-14 Lisbon, Portugal – Campo Pequeno
02-18 Jesolo, Italy – Palazzo Del Turismo
02-19 Milan, Italy – Mediolanum Forum
02-21 Amsterdam, Netherlands – HMH
02-22 Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
02-23 Munich, Germany – Zenith
02-24 Basel, Switzerland – St. Jakobshalle
02-26 Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
02-27 Paris, France – Zenith
03-02 Glasgow, Scotland – Secc
03-03 Manchester, England – Apollo
03-04 Manchester, England – Apollo
03-05 Wolverhampton, England – Civic
03-07 London, England – Brixton Academy
03-08 London, England – Brixton Academy
03-09 London, England – Brixton Academy

N. American Tour
03-24 Washington, DC – Patriot Center
03-25 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
03-26 Boston, MA – Agganis Arena
03-27 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
03-29 Ottawa, Ontario – Scotia Bank Place
03-30 Toronto, Ontario – Air Canada Theatre Bowl
04-01 Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre
04-02 Chicago, IL – UIC Pavilion
04-03 Minneapolis, MN – Roy Wilkins Auditorium
04-06 Denver, CO – 1st Bank
04-08 Dallas, TX – Verizon Theatre
04-09 Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
04-10 Austin, TX – Cedar Park Center
04-12 Phoenix, AZ – Comerica
04-17 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic

Japan Tour
05-14 Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan
05-17 Osaka, Japan – Kobe World Memorial Hall

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…