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Bjork Unveils New Video

Enjoy 'Dull Flame Of Desire' (featuring Antony) below. Visit Bjork on MySpace.

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Bjork Tune Covered By Ugandan Children For Benefit LP

Official word is as follows: *Bjork's song "All Is Full Of Love" is covered by Ugandan children and youths on an album by a organization called Bitone (meaning "talent"). Their mission is to restore the lives and hopes of children between 8 and 18 years old in Uganda, whom have been traumatized by the death of their parents or loss of their home due to disease, war, or economic hardship. The program was founded by Branco Sekalegga and Hassan Kayemba with the vision of "Restoring Hope By Nurturing The Body And Spirit". Bitone youth are provided with basic food and shelter, a nurturing environment, an academic education, and counseling. Through learning traditional African music, dance, folklore and theater, the children build self esteem, become self reliant and contribute to creating a peaceful future for the next generations of Ugandans and others worldwide. The record was recorded with a laptop and one microphone in the center's living room.*

Learn more & sample tracks here.

MP3: Bjork - I Miss You

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Bjork Clarifies Journalistic Misconceptions

She criticizes Pitchfork & Grapevine amongst others.

Read the full diatribe here.

Visit Bjork on MySpace.

MP3: Bjork - Pagan Poetry (Live)

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Bjork Chats With Icelandic Magazine

The article is titled 'The Machine Is Deaf'.

Read snippets from it here.

Visit Bjork at her official site.

She recently collaborated with Sigur Ros in Reykjavik.

MP3: Bjork - Hope

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Bjork Duets With Sigur Ros At Icelandic Benefit Gig

Enjoy a snippet from last night's tremendous performance of 'Gobbledigook' below.

MP3: Sigur Ros - Untitled 8

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Bjork + Sigur Ros + National Geographic Equals

Saturday, June 28th @ 3pm EST.

Log on and enjoy!

Learn more about their upcoming benefit gig here.

MP3: Sigur Ros - Staralfur

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Bjork & Sigur Ros Team Up For Massive Iceland Gig

The socially conscious show will take place in Reykjavík on June 28th. Bjork shares the following statement with Morgunbladid newspaper: *“Sigur Ros & I are neither environmental experts nor politicians, but we travel around the world a lot and we have seen how far behind Iceland is in conserving our environment. For example, I was in South America for two months and you could see all these impoverished people recycling. We can’t be 30 years behind but we need to be in the forefront.”* Bjork MP3 at bottom of post.

For further info, head here.

MP3: Bjork - Earth Intruders

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The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #638

Bjork vs. Fischerspooner - Emerge Full Of Love

'All Is Full Of Love' VERSUS 'Emerge'

For more mash-ups by Immuzikation, head here.

Visit Bjork at her official site.

MP3: Bjork vs. Fischerspooner - Emerge...

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The New York Times Profiles Bjork's 'Wanderlust' Clip

Writer Melena Ryzik talks to Bjork and the directing team (Encyclopedia Pictura) about the making of the latest video lifted from 2007's opus, Volta. Watch the complete feature here.

Visit Bjork at her official site.

MP3: Bjork - Pagan Poetry (Live)

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Bjork Premieres 'Wanderlust' Video Tonight

Be sure to head to Yahoo this evening for the stunning clip (her fourth from 2007's Volta). A 3-D version will be available on Bjork's official site sometime later this week!

Greet the Icelandic vocalist on MySpace.

MP3: Bjork & Thom Yorke - I've Seen... [alt link]

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The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #556

Bjork - Isobel (Portishead Remix)

A gigantic reinterpretation of the Post single.

Visit Bjork at her official site.

Learn about Portishead's Third here.

MP3: Bjork - Isobel (Portishead Remix) [alt link]

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Bjork: Music Can Solve Things

She shares the following quote with Smart Shanghai: *"I do believe that music can solve things. Probably a bit naïve, but I think sometimes it's better just to go out on a Saturday night, have a few drinks, just go and thump your feet for a few hours and you wake up the next day & you've solved a couple of things."* Visit Bjork at her official site.

MP3: Bjork - I Miss You

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Retro Clip: Bjork Visits Leno, Circa '01

Enjoy a dazzling take on Vespertine's 'Cocoon' below. Visit Bjork at her official site.

MP3: Bjork - Army Of Me

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The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #491

Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat Mix)

Visit Bjork at her official site.

Give a shout out to Ratatat on MySpace.

MP3: Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat Mix) [alt link]

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Bjork Discusses What It Means To Be A '2008 Person'

She tells The Australian: *"I think I am a very Icelandic person in every way. But, then again, I think my position as an Icelander was to go out and meet people. I also think that, with globalisation and everything, being from one country and having that particular one sound of whatever your nation represents is not true. There's no such thing any more. To be in the moment, to be a 2008 person, it's more of an international affair, especially sonically. You hear the radio in a taxi, and go to an Indian restaurant and hear Indian music. You're hearing everything. I think you can still be from where you are, and be truthful about that, but you are still a person of the world."* Read the rest of the piece here.

MP3: Bjork - I Miss You

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Bjork Cancels Big Day Out Performance

Her official site explains: *We regret to announce that Björk will not be able to perform at the Sydney Big Day Out on January 25th. The decision was made following her performance at the Opera House last night. Doctors have advised Björk to rest due to swelling of the vocal chords. Björk and the producers of Big Day Out hope for a swift recovery in anticipation of a continued Australian tour.*

MP3: Bjork - Hyperballad

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Bjork: President Bush's Antics Are 'A Pain In The Ass'

She shares the following with The Age: *"Things are very conservative in the Bush years. Unfortunately, the older I get the more I realize that the President does have a lot of influence culturally across the world. It's a pain in the ass but it's true. I'd like to see Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix walk down the red carpet at the MTV awards but I think they would just be ridiculed. There's no room for this when it's so conservative."* Read the full article here.

MP3: Bjork - Nature Is Ancient

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Bjork Attacks Photographer, Again

Yikes! Don't mess with Ms. Guomundsdottir. Here's the story, courtesy of The NZ Herald: *Bjork, who is in Auckland to perform at the Big Day Out on Friday, tore photographer Glenn Jeffrey's shirt in half, after he photographed her arriving at 7.50am yesterday. Jeffrey, a news photographer of 25 years, said Bjork was accompanied by a man who asked him not take photographs. "I took a couple of pictures and I got about three or four frames of her ... and as I turned and walked away she came up behind me, grabbed the back of my black skivvy and tore it down the back. As she did this she fell over, she fell to the ground."*

He was asking for it! Read the rest of the article here.

MP3: Bjork - Who Is It? (Vitalic Remix)

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Bjork Shares Insight Into Her Subconscious

Holy Moly brings us the most fabulous quote of the day: *"I come from a country where, from the age of 15, you drink a litre of vodka every Friday, straight from the bottle. I watched my grandparents doing that and it's been my pattern, just like it has been my family's release for a thousand years. Alcohol is how people in Iceland lose themselves, switch their conscience off and run riot. It's the same for me with my music - to me it stands for freedom."*

MP3: Bjork - I Miss You

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