Only four months after Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Rós announced an indefinite hiatus, frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s debut solo album go finds the ethereal singer releasing his best work in five ...

Go his first solo album, he envisioned a record that would provide a home for some of the songs he’d written over the years that were never quite right for the band. Jónsi originally imagined it would ...

Jonsi is the nickname of Jon Thor Birgisson, the enigmatic Sigur Ros singer. In Sigur Ros, his music is ethereal, sprawling and mysterious — it's even sung in a language of his own devising. But Jonsi ...

As the openly gay frontman of groundbreaking Icelandic band Sigur Rós, Jón Thor Birgisson — who goes by Jónsi (pronounced Yónsi) — provided warmth and an ethereal quality to the band’s already ...

With the release of his 2010 solo debut "Go," Jonsi graduated from impenetrable frontman of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, who sometimes sings in the made-up language of Hopelandic and generally makes ...

For his solo debut "Go" (XL), Jonsi overturns a lot of what succeeds with his band Sigur Ros. First off, he sings mostly in English instead of the mix of Icelandic and made-up language he usually uses ...

Last year, Sigur Rós frontman and multidisciplinary artist Jónsi Birgisson released Shiver, the long-awaited follow-up to his 2010 solo debut Go. Now, Jónsi has swooped in with a surprise third album: ...

When Sigur Ros went on hiatus after 2008’s Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, frontman Jonsi made an ambient album with his partner Alex as Riceboy Sleeps and then launched a solo career with ...

Icelandic group Sigur Rós may be taking a break, but frontman Jónsi will be quite busy in 2010. On April 6th, he’ll issue his debut solo LP, Go (on XL). He’s also got a North American trek set up.