Björk hasn’t performed on TV in 8 years and this, as anyone who’s seen clips of her shows will tell you, is a real shame. After biding her time for nearly a decade, perhaps spending this period fully considering the ways in which studio lights reflect off glitter paint and plumes of costume feathers, the Icelandic…
In May 1968, Johnny Cash released Live At Folsom Prison, a recording of a raucous, emotionally charged performance before a group of grateful inmates that went on to top the country charts, completely reinvigorating Cash’s career. Folsom wasn’t the first successful live album, obviously, but it quickly became a…
There was too much to listen to in 2017—not just albums, of which there were once again thousands, a barrage of releases from major-label veterans and SoundCloud up-and-comers alike, all vying for your attention. There was just too much of everything: a persistent, buzzing storm of push notifications and free-floating…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
“In Luca Guadagnino’s sensitive, sensual Call Me By Your Name, a bright teenage boy living in the picturesque Italian countryside falls into a passionate summer fling with an older man, the American graduate student who’s come to study for the season… Paced like an especially lazy summer, the film sidesteps conflict…
Björk finds her way back to love on Utopia, while Sufjan Stevens serves up lovely Carrie & Lowell outtakes on his Greatest Gift mixtape. These, plus Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds in this week’s notable releases.
After decades of producing some of pop music’s most challenging works, Björk gave us perhaps her most difficult record in 2015 with Vulnicura. It traced in painful detail the dissolution of her 13-year relationship with artist Matthew Barney, with leaden string arrangements and Björk’s spirit as black as the lake at…
As 2017 winds to a close, after a year that’s seen the release of thousands of albums—an unusually large number of which are quite good!—it seems almost unthinkable that November would still have more to give. But with new records from the likes of Björk, Angel Olsen, Shamir, Sharon Jones, and more still in the…
The wave of disclosures from celebrities regarding times they were sexually harassed or assaulted shows no sign of breaking, given that virtually every woman has such a story (as do many men and non-binary folks). Icelandic artist Björk joined the chorus of voices that have been speaking out against those abuses of…
Inspired by the people coming forward with their stories about sexual assault in light of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Björk decided to share an account of the harassment she faced during her brief foray into the acting world. Björk explained that she was working on a project with “a Danish director” who made it…
With Hollywood still getting rocked by the fallout from the New York Times and New Yorker stories about Harvey Weinstein’s long history of alleged harassment, Björk has come forward with a story of her own about a different man in the movie industry who abused his power. Björk laid it all out in a Facebook post today,…
The average Björk song tends to take the listener on a journey through a world of magic and fairies, and this video for new single “The Gate” makes that sort of literal. It opens with Björk on a windswept hill of some kind, playing a flute for some weird, amorphous Pokémon, and then it drops into a world of darkness…
Björk, art pop’s whimsical patronus, announced a new album last month, one that’s kind of like being on Tinder, in that it’s “definitely about that search—and about being in love. Spending time with a person you enjoy on every level is obviously utopia, you know? I mean, it’s real. It’s when the dream comes real.”…
In August, Björk announced a new album that she later explained is a “Tinder album” in the sense that it’s about searching for love, and now she has announced the still-untitled album’s first single. Titled “The Gate,” the track’s pre-order page says it as “essentially a love song,” but Björk adds that she means love…
Earlier this week, enigmatic art pop pixie Björk announced her latest album, a still-untitled effort that’ll act as the follow-up to 2015’s Vulnicura. Today, we’ve got some more details on the album, courtesy of a new cover story from Dazed magazine (along with a photo suggesting Björk hasn’t been keeping up with the…
It’s been a mere two years since Vulnicura, a pittance compared to the usual three-to-four-year waits to which fans have grown accustomed. And yet, today on her Facebook page, Iceland’s most enigmatic export has confirmed it: Gork is releasing a new album.
Bjork is no luddite, but she wants you to step away from the computer and experience the wonder of the outdoors. Pitchfork spoke to Bjork for a variety of reasons, including the upcoming release of a songbook featuring sheet music of her work. However, it was her VR project, Bjork Digital, which opens in Los Angeles…
Nobody other than Björk could ever actually be Björk, but she’s preparing to release a new career-spanning songbook that could bring you closer than ever before. As reported by Pitchfork, the collection of sheet music is called 34 Scores For Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, And Celeste, and it will include arrangements for…
From numerous soundtrack reissues and questionable spin-offs like Christmas In The Stars to miscellaneous releases like 1977’s gold-selling The Story Of Star Wars, the Star Wars franchise is no stranger to record store shelves. But that wasn’t enough for digital artist Steven Lear. At his incredible, eye-deceiving…
Considering we’re only almost to July, 2015 has seen an abundance of musical riches so far. From new albums by old bands to great albums by new bands, there’s plenty of great material to queue up just from the past six months. Below, The A.V. Club runs down a bunch of our favorite stuff, from Sleater-Kinney to…
