Sigur Ros and GYBE are hitting the peaceful town in Cleveland within the same week. An article in Cleveland Scene sums it up quite nicely in a boxing-like Tale of the Tape.
Some highlights:
Appropriate venue for listening
GYBE: Prison.
SR: That magical Teletubbies fairy land where the sun’s, like, this baby’s face.Degree of pretension
GYBE: Jesus, dude, it’s orchestral rock, not Black Flag. Ideologically, band constantly combats age-old “We are fiercely anti-capitalist but must employ capitalism to sell records and thus fund our coffee-fueled anti-capitalist rants” self-loathing.
SR: Astronomical. No real album title, no song titles, no lyrics. A conceptual art-damaged mind fuck on par with Kangaroo Jack. (full story)
The rest of the article is worth your reading time as well. Go.