Heima (at home)
I started blogging a little over two years ago and around that time Sigur Ros was on tour in the states, supporting Takk. I saw them once by myself at the Boston Opera House and then a second time, same tour, at the Orpheum Theater, this time with a companion - my girlfriend of almost two years now. So when I saw this trailer for their upcoming DVD, Heima, which stands for “homeland” or in Iceland it actually stands for “at home”, I couldn’t help but get a little sentimental.
To be honest, putting the sentimental value aside, the footage and overpowering energy in this trailer alone makes the hairs on my back stand-up. I said it two years ago and I’ll say it again today, Sigur Ros will no doubt go down as one of our generations most inspirational artists. Watch the trailer below.
You can catch Sigur Ros state side when they play at this years New Yorker Festival on the weekend of October 5th. This won’t be a traditional show where you have a huge screen in the back and crazy lights and sounds blaring down on you for 2 hours straight. They will be both playing music and talking to John Seabrook from the New Yorker.
Just being introduce to Sigur Ros? Well - (Buy their albums) (Visit myspace) (Visit official site) (Find some tracks on Hype Machine).
Enjoy your weekend.
The Budos Band - Tonight in Boston
- Myspace
- Daptones Site
- Buy Albums
- MP3 - “Chicago Falcon”
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If you’re a hip hop fan, the only gift given to us from Staten Island has been the kung fu loving group - Wu Tang Clan. If you’re a teeny bopper who loves girl power, then Christina Aguilera is the only gift this special Island has dished out. If you’re a bar crawling girl from Queens looking for a good time, the only gift from Staten are guys like this. But now another demographic has been given a gift from the half landfill half lost NYC borough - Afro-Funk fans.
The Budos Band started out playing together in a community center band and eventually were asked to leave for what reason we can’t even begin to imagine. But thankfully they did leave as the band reached out to their neighboring city and added a few more members (there are 11 total in the band) and joined the likes of Sugarman Three on the Daptones label and things just started to climb from there.
Now two albums later and one recently released album (just yesterday), The Budos Band are coming to Boston. And they’re coming at you tonight.
No better place to put this eleven piece Afro-soul funk outfit then the Calderwood Courtyard at the Museum of Fine Arts. If you’re looking to, in the words of Little Joe Cook, “Shake your booty cutey“, then you need to waste no more time and buy tickets online or head to the MFA box office ( 465 HUNTINGTON AVE - Wed-Fri, 10 am-8:30 pm). The show is $25 and starts at 7:30 pm.
