It’s the band’s second album, the follow-up to Conditions, and the first as a five-piece, after Joseph Greer got involved in the band as a permanent member.

The release is compiled of live recording of their very intimate show at Bull & Gate in London which took place back in February.

The first single off the record will be She’s So Mean to be released in June. Other songs to be featured on North include Overjoyed and Put Your Hands Up.

Sigur Rós are holding an exclusive event today, May 17, called Valtari Hour. That means the Icelandic band’s upcoming album will play in every timezone at 7pm.

The announcement came in form of a blog post from Chris himself in which he promises he’ll be sharing a video blog every two weeks.

Legendary soul bassist has passed away in his sleep in a Japanese hotel room on May 13 after playing two shows previous night with his friend and former band mate Steve Cropper.

Band’s new track off the album, Trembling Hands, debuted on Spin.com two days ago, alongside a behind-the-scenes video.

2 leaked demos, Have It All and Come Back, sound great. Come Back is actually much shorter than the final version that ended up on One By One.

Nigel Godrich is well known as producer of numerous bands, from Radiohead to Beck, also being part of Thom Yorke’s other band, Atoms For Piece.

Aside from confessing about having a secret project at Third Man Records of launching a vinyl record player into outer space, White also shed some light on why did The White Stripes split up.

The video was shot and recorded (yes, recorded, it’s all live) at Rixmixningsverket, a new studio in Stockholm build by Benny from Abba.

Friday (As It Starts) / It Is Not Dying single was out on May 7 and both tracks are available for your pleasure, both for streaming and free download.