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What would we do without Björk? While nothing could ever top the Icelandic singer's epically fugly swan dress (Oscars 2001), this purple concoction comes really, really close. The musician thrilled fashion police around the globe this week ... Read more

 

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Bjork and Ennio Morricone have received this year's Polar Music Prize. The Polar Music Prize was founded by ABBA's manager and lyricist Stig Anderson in 1989.

Robyn performs Bjork's 'Hyperballad' at the 2010 Polar Music Prize Awards.

Along with Ennio Morricone, Bjork was handed $136,000 and presented with a trophy at the ceremony of Sweden's most high-profile music award.

Sweden's new prince Daniel Westling is really settling into his regal role following...

Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have received the 2010 Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have received the 2010 Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have received the 2010 Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have received the 2010 Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.

AP - Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have received the 2010 Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Reliving the Emmy surprises we'll always remember, like Ellen DeGeneres' Bjork-inspired swan ensemble

Icelandic popstar Bjork has recorded a song for the upcoming animated 3D film Moomins and the Comet Chase. Titled “The Comet Song,” the track will also be available as a digital download on Sept. 6th, with proceeds going to UNICEF’s children’s charities in Pakistan to help flood victims. [Thelineofbestfit.com] Songwriter George David Weiss died on Aug. [...]

Didi Conn, the actress best known for playing Frenchy in "Grease" and for voiceover work showcasing her distinctive tones, is just one of the many celebrities to have a home in the Snedens Landing area of Palisades, New York. Some of the celebrities that have lived in the area include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Al Pacino, Lorraine Bracco and Bjork.

Conn and her husband, David Shire, a composer, bought the home from actor Bill Murray. Murray built the home in the 1980s. The guest quarters currently used as a music studio was built around the actual firepole used in the Ghostbusters movie. The home is on around two acres of land. The house itself is an eclectic charmer with an open floorplan that includes a beautiful sunlit great room. There are six bedrooms including two master suites. The colorful folk art in the home complements the classic American style. This home is listed at $2.9 million.



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Singer-songwriter Björk Gudmundsdottir is spearheading a push to put foreign energy takeovers to referenda if enough people oppose the deals

The singer, as widely known for her eccentric outfits and behavior as she is for her voice, is easily the most famous Icelander in the world. Inspired by childhood adventures walking among lava fields, Bjork's music is full of stories about pitch-dark forests and tiny sparks that live within them. Her music may prove challenging to listen to, but there are always moments of beauty and transcendence.

This lady is known for her weird and wonderful fashion choices, but can you guess who's under this jolly green dress?

Join us as we count down the weirdest fashion choices of one very bravely styled celebrity.

Icelandic singer Bjork, who has launched a campaign against a bid by Canada's Magma Energy for an Icelandic geothermal power company, said the group wanted to buy up all the island's energy sources.

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Looking like a chick on the morning after her prom in 1987, bizarre Icelandic pop star Bjork showed up to a premiere in Finland yesterday ... wearing a backwards emerald green "Dynasty" gown and some blue ink-stained hose. The 44-year-old's infamous… Read more

From digital divide to digital equity: Learners' ICT competence in four primary schools in Cape Town, South Africa Greta Bjork Gudmundsdottir, Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway Abstract This study explores factors influencing the digital divide in four schools in Cape Town, South Africa.

BJORK has written an open letter to Britain's Financial Times in a bid to raise awareness about an environmental battle she is spearheading in her native Iceland.The All...

Bjork asks Icelandic parliament to reconsider the sale of a geothermal energy company to Canada.

A good twenty years before Björk and the Sugarcubes put Iceland on the international music map, the tiny island nation had already produced its first super-group. Trúbrot was formed when m...

The Detroit singer Dwele. This New York electro-pop band consists of identical twins, Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, and a compatible outsider, Benjamin Curtis, who, until recently, was better known...

New releases by School of Seven Bells, Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemingway, Dirty Projectors and Bjork and Dwele.

Making music can sometimes be an awkward affair, especially when trying to create dreamy pop music designed to take you somewhere else.

For the creators, it may be all good and well prancing around in a studio, but getting that over to the audience is a different manner. Muchuu are another one of those bands whose sound is unconventional, but still easy to access.

Sounding somewhere in the middle between Bjork, Lykke Li and The Flaming Lips, the duo known as Milky and George offer fluffy beats that don’t sound machine processed, like they were created out of pots, pans and other metal objects. Soft…

Daniel Johnston: Beam Me Up!**** Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics, £11.99

Daniel Johnston: Beam Me Up!**** Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics, £11.99

Daniel Johnston: Beam Me Up!**** Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics, £11.99

Which Musical Collaborations Are You More Excited About? – Bjork teaming up with The Dirty Projectors for a split EP, or Weezer giving Ryan Adams the guitar and a song-writing credit on their newest album? Think carefully, this decision is what every hipster will judge you on for the next ... More

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Today in culture - Switzerland's best-kept secret. Sophie Hunger is a Zurich songwriter whose album "Monday's Ghost" reached No 1 in the Swiss chart. She's not just your typical daydreamer-with-a-guitar. She's Laura Marling, Beth Orton and Björk in one folk-rocking package.

Timbaland is changing direction because everyone copied him.The megastar producer - who has previously worked with stars including Madonna and Bjork - is now planning...

Some Hollywood stars often find themselves on the dreaded worst dressed list sporting a see through dress or a hideous pattern that would even make Bjork laugh. There are a handful of stunning ladi...

You know you're doing something right when your die-hard fans include post-rock pioneers Tortoise, Björk and "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening. Such is the case of Konono No.1, the Congo-based legend that is revered internationally, but largely overlooked in its own...

Amy Winehouse still looks like hot death, of course. [Socialite Life] The five best Paul Rudd dance sequences. [Pajiba] Heidi Montag tries to make a “sad pose” but just looks robotic. [Go Fug Yourself] Gisele in Boston with baby Ben and puppy Vida. [Pop Sugar] Lagerfeld gave Claudia Schiffer an afro & darker skin. [CoverAwards] Bjork is still crazy. [INFDaily] LeAnn [...]

Check out Bjork at the closing of Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present hosted by Givenchy at The Museum of Modern Art last night, you guys. She looks like a shiny candy wrapper strategically folded into a golden masterpiece. Click through the gallery to see the rest of the gothically glam dressed celebs in attendance. And for more fashion wonderment check out our coverage at Fashion FAILs & FTWs.

Even in my wildest trip I'd never thought I'd ever write that headline. EVER. I previously thought that the only way I'd ever type those words is if Courtney Love roofied my Easy Mac, strapped me to a chair and forced me to type that shit out with my tongue or else she'd read her Twitter rants out loud to me. But I have to give credit where credit is due.

For once, Courtney doesn't look like she was plucked out of a fishing net, dipped in used glitter lube and then dried off with the farts from a hippo's ass. Courtney actually looks clean! She even has a calm look on her face like a rabid gorilla who was just shot up with sedatives and is about to fall into a deep sleep. It suits her!

And will somebody please call that crazy bitch Courtney to tell her to wipe the saliva off my own keyboard, because it's bothering me and she won't listen.

Here's more of Court at the closing gala for Marina Abramovic's show at MOMA in NYC last night. Court was joined by: Bjork (don't question that gift wrap fuckery on her body), Liv Tyler, Michael Stipe with Patti Smith, Christina Ricci and Ciara.

Artists and art lovers turned up to the closing of Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" hosted by Givenchy at The Museum of Modern Art...

Marina Abramovic sat for her 700th and final hour at MoMA on Monday. With her exhibition The Artist Is Present, and its much-talked-about interactive performance marathon, all wrapped up, Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci and a host of Abramovic's longtime collectors threw a party in her honor at the museum last night. "I like that Marina gets a reaction, that she pushes the envelope and tests the boundaries," said Tisci. "I am humbled by her."

With the high-profile crowd (James Franco, Björk, Christina Ricci, and Liv Tyler included) and an ululating solo from Serbian vocalist Svetlana Spajic, this definitely wasn't your run-of-the-mill art gala. MoMA's director, Glenn Lowry, joked, "No exhibition has affected human resources like Marina's did," and then acknowledged the museum's head of security, Tunji Adeniji, who received not one but two standing ovations. When it was curator Klaus Biesenbach's turn at the mic, he started by saying, "I thought Marina was in love with me—biggest misunderstanding of my career," and ended by declaring his own love for her.

The speaker who got the biggest laughs, though, was Abramovic herself. "I look really decent," she said, thanking Tisci for her Givenchy jacket. "It's made from 101 snakes, which I'm sure died a natural death." Pointing out that things have changed a lot since her early days, she said, "Fashion was out of the question. There was no fashion for artists in the seventies. But I love vanity, I love fashion, and I don't have shame to tell you." Another sign of progress? "You don't have to sleep with a curator to get a show."

—Derek Blasberg

Björk at Marina Abramović's "The Artist Is Present" on Day 58. [MoMa Flickr Feed] More »

Some things are always ill-advised. Singing Björk at karaoke. Invading Russia with winter approaching. Sometimes it's like you can hear a voice yelling "Don't!" Dating a married man is necessarily on this list, but his ex might disagree. More »

Along with Italian composer Ennio Morricone, Bjork will be handed with the special honor by Royal Swedish Academy of Music later this year.

Ennio Morricone, seen in Rome in 2006, is the latest winner of Sweden's Polar Music Prize.

Björk is awarded Sweden's most prestigious award, the Polar Music Prize.

Eccentric Icelandic singer Bjork has been awarded the 2010 Polar Music Prize, along with Italian composer, arranger and conductor Ennio Morricone, organisers announced on Monday.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have won the 2010 Polar Music Prize.

Eccentric Icelandic singer Björk has been awarded the 2010 Polar Music Prize, along with Italian composer Ennio Morricone.

Icelandic singer Bjork and Italian composer and conductor Ennio Morricone on Monday won the 2010 Polar Music Prize for their contributions to music, organisers in Sweden said.

The winners will receive one million kronor (104,000 euros, 128,000 dollars) each at a ceremony in Stockholm hosted by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf on August 30.

The prize committee hailed Bjork for "her deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice," which "has already made an indelible mark on pop music and modern culture at large."

Icelandic singer Bjork and Italian composer Ennio Morricone win the 2010 Polar Music Prize.

AP - Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have won the 2010 Polar Music Prize, the prize committee said Monday.

AP - Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have won the 2010 Polar Music Prize.