Last weekend we got our first listen of Björk‘s new single Crystalline, which is taken from her upcoming new album Biophilia. Today we get to check out the single cover artwork for Crystalline as the song has been released for sale on iTunes. Click below to see the cover photo for Crystalline … and take another listen of the amazing track itself.

Earlier this month we got our first tease of Björk‘s new single Crystalline, the first from her upcoming new album Biophilia. As you may recall, Björk released a video of her driving in Iceland with her song playing thru the speakers. Today we get to listen to Crystalline in full! Click below to check it out and hear what Björk has in store for us all with her new iPad-inspired album.

Back in March we learned that visionary musician Björk announced the release of a new album titled Biophilia. Inspired by and created with iPad technology, Björk promised that her new album would be offered in a very inventive way. Today we learn that Biophilia will be released via 10 iPad apps in addition to a conventional album release. Additionally, Björk has released a teaser video that gives us our first listen to the album’s first single Crystalline. Read and listen below for more.

Back in March we learned that Björk named her upcoming new album Biophilia and today we get what is rumored to be out first look at the album cover for the new disc. Björk‘s official website has been revamped entirely to promote Biophilia and a You Tube page has been launched with video clips that tease audio and images from the album. Click below to see the presumed logo for Björk‘s new album and check out a short video that appears to show what the album cover for Biophilia will look like.

Back in January we got to check out a very cool video of Björk performing a karaoke cover of the Joy Division song Love Will Tear Us Apart at an event orchestrated to raise funds to support Iceland’s natural resources but today we learn that Björk has announced the release of a new album which she has titled Biophilia. In addition, a 3-week residency of concerts has also been announced where the songs from Biophilia will be introduced to the world. There is new Björk music on the way, y’all!!

David and I spent a quiet night at home last night. I toyed with the idea of going out but I recently picked up a LOAD of great LP records so I thought it would be fun to just stay home and listen to some of them. Homogenic by Björk is one of my all-time favorite albums so I was thrilled to find it on vinyl. I also indulged my hair metal sweet tooth with Def Leppard‘s Hysteria and my inner-goth child with the Bauhaus single Bela Lugosi’s Dead.

Björk was on hand to kick off a 3-day karaoke marathon (which was orchestrated in an effort to boost support for a referendum on foreign ownership of Icelandic natural resources) at The Nordic House in Reykjavík, Iceland and she blessed the assembled audience with a beautiful rendition of the classic Joy Division song Love Will Tear Us Apart. Björk performed other songs at the event but it is the Joy Division cover that is getting all the attention.

I’ve just been given the opportunity to give away a pair of tickets to attend the LA screening of the new Björk DVD concert film Voltaïc: The Volta Tour at the Montalbon Theater tonight! I will be attending tonight’s screening of the film and I’d love for YOU to attend as well:

If you live in the LA area and you’d like to attend all you have to do is send me a message on Twitter HERE and you will be entered into the drawing (make sure your tweet messages include @trentvanegas so that I’ll get the message). I’ll select a name at random and that person will be allowed to bring a guest to the screening tonight. The screening will take place at the Montalban Theater at 7pm. If you’d rather purchase tickets for tonight’s screening you can do so HERE. I realize this is extremely short notice but I’m sure there are a few Björk fans out there who’d love to attend tonight’s screening of Voltaïc. Send me your tweets now!! Hope to see you at tonight’s screening.

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Earlier this week we got to see the photos from Björk‘s appearance in the new issue of Interview magazine and today we learn the AMAZING news that Björk‘s new concert film Voltaïc: The Volta Tour will be screened at theaters across the country in the coming weeks. The concert film will also be included in the Voltaïc box set which is due for release here in the US on June 30 but unless you were at the Paris concert where the film was shot, this will be your only chance to experience the show on the big screen. Here is some info and the list of screening dates from the press release:

As you may already know, Björk’s very special DVD/CD/VINYL recording Voltaic, is being released in the U.S. by Nonesuch Records on June 30 (One Little Indian in the UK, and Universal worldwide.)

This June and July, the Paris concert from Voltaic: The Volta Tour will be screened nationwide in the U.S. Beginning on June 17 the more than 15 screenings will lead up to Voltaic’s release. Below are the confirmed screening dates.

Available in five different physical configurations, Voltaic is a lovingly packaged celebration of the past two years of activities surrounding Björk’s Volta—her critically praised sixth studio album, which came out in 2007.

More info about Voltaic: http://bjork.com/special/voltaic

CONFIRMED SCREENINGS
June 17 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
June 19, 20 Anchorage, AK Bear Tooth Theater
June 20 Philadelphia, PA 941 Theater
June 23 New York, NY School of Visual Arts Theater
June 23 Los Angeles, CA The Montalban Theater
June 23 Madison, WI The Orpheum Stage Door
June 23-28 Oxford, MS The Amp
June 23-28 Lake Geneva, WI Geneva Theater
June 24 Minneapolis, MN The Trylon Microcinema
June 26, 27 Seattle, WA Northwest Film Forum
June 26, 27 San Francisco, CA The Roxie
June 26, 27 Bellingham, WA Pickford Film Center
June 26, 27 New Orleans, LA Zeitgeist Arts Center
July 20 Austin, TX Alamo Drafthouse Ritz

(more dates to be announced HERE)

I was very fortunate enough to attend the Volta Tour stop at Radio City Music Hall in NYC back in May ’07 but I am dying to see this performance from Paris, France. I am planning to attend the June 23rd screening in LA and I strongly suggest you Björk fans out there to attend screenings should they show near you. Björk‘s live performances are legendary … don’t miss this.

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Last week we got our first look at Björk on the cover of the new issue of Interview magazine … today we get to see the pics from her Interview photoshoot and read a portion of her coverstory article … behold:

To say that an artist has vision can mean any number of things. It can mean that they have foresight or that they have perceived something that the bulk of us might have missed. It can also mean that they quite literally have visions—psychedelically induced or otherwise. But in Björk’s case, it means that the artist—the one with the vision—has simply dared to imagine something that does not already exist. Which is why vision is as important for a musician as it is for a sculptor or a painter—and why it’s essentialto the art of being Björk. As an artist, one of Björk’s greatest assets has always been her innate understanding of what it means to have vision. What she does as a singer and a songwriter falls somewhere between making records and writing, directing, and starring in her own quasi-folkloric, semi-futuristic, pseudo-theatrical, musical performance-art epics. But embracing her individuality is an impulse from which Björk has rarely ever veered: from the singing that she did with her Icelandic ’80s band the Sugarcubes to her constantly evolving solo career (which began with the release of 1993’s Debut) to her starring role in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000) and her collaboration with her longtime partner, Matthew Barney, on the 2005 film Drawing Restraint 9, amongst a remarkably diverse array of other smart, inventive, and inspiringly far-flung undertakings. In fact, some of Björk’s work has been so extremely—defiantly—original, that attempting to explain it or analyze it would seem almost misguided. That’s because with Björk, there is no such thing as an extracurricular activity. Singing, acting, dressing, art-making, even cavorting on a boat in Central America, are all part of an intricately woven fabric that runs through a multitude of creative worlds, emotional worlds, brave new worlds, and sometimes otherworldly worlds. Of course, there is also such a thing as revision, and that process of reviewing and re-evaluating is one that Björk has undertaken in compiling her new two-CD, two-DVD box set Voltaïc (Nonesuch). The collection includes multiple live recordings of songs from her last two records—2004’s Medúlla and 2007’s Volta—along with assorted remixes and videos, but which are performed in different contexts: The first setconsists of a studio session Björk recorded before she began her tour to support Volta in late 2007; the second features renditions of the songs re-created in a church in her native Reykjavik; and the third captures a live performance in Paris near the end of the tour, exactly one year later.

The article/interview is a nice, long read and continues HERE but I’m sure it will only be interesting to those of you who are fans of Björk and her prolific body of work (trust me, if you are not familiar with Björk‘s work, you should seek her out IMMEDIATELY … her talents are just mindblowing). While I am thrilled that she is releasing the box set Voltaïc, I am really anxious to hear new music as well. I suspect that Björk will be releasing a new album very soon … in the meantime, I think her box set will do much to satisfy her fan’s burning desire for more Björkness.

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