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Faktorý
Faktorý is a colourful venue on two floors – music acts upstairs and a bar and DJ downstairs. Have fun! Address: Smiðjustígur 6, 101 Reykjavík Phone: 865-2360 Show On Map: click here Website: click here
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Hof Menningarhús, Akureyri
Hof is a cultural building designed for music and other performing arts. It has two auditoriums, one catering for 200 spectators and one for 500. The cultural centre recently opened in August 2010, hosting also exhibitions and conferences. Address: Strandgata 12, 600…
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Haffi Haff: Freak
Haffi Haff the man is probably a decent chap. However, Haffi Haff the stage character, with his overbearing, hypersexual “you can’t handle me. I’m on the edge of human experience” persona is as preposterous as he is tiresome. On his album ‘Freak’,…
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Momentum: Fixation At Rest
On Fixation at Rest Momentum offer more athmosphere than all of the sky combined along with a dozen LSD tabs of psychadelia and devastating slabs of wicked heaviness. The tracks amble and trudge at a slovenly pace whilst enthralling the listener and…
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Happy Up Here
They had me at “Alluu!”. With a burst of freshness not seen since the early days of spearmint gum, the five Greenlanders that comprise Nanook, hopped, skipped and jumped their way into local hearts at a packed auditorium in Reykjavik’s Nordic House…
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Markús and the Diversion Sessions: Now I know
Markús Bjarnason used to be a member of a most rockingly brilliant band called Skátur. However Skátur had to end and everyone went their separate ways into the ether. Now Markús is back with a debut album of sorts and it’s pretty…
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Happy Up Here
They had me at “Alluu!”. With a burst of freshness not seen since the early days of spearmint gum, the five Greenlanders that comprise Nanook, hopped, skipped and jumped their way into local hearts at a packed auditorium in Reykjavik’s Nordic House…
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Rúnar Magnússon: Options
You’ve got to hand it to the guys at Hjlóðklettar records. The pack for Rúnar Magnusson’s latest release comes on a USB stick with stickers, films, free noise tracks, a bar of soap (?) and pictures of a person that can only…
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Blastbeats Be Gone
Momentum want to welcome you to the genre of progressive doom. Never heard of the genre? Neither had I before their bass player Hörður sprang it on me. I find myself sitting down with Momentum’s bassist Hörður and guitarist Erling to talk…
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Farewell, but not goodbye, to the House band from Hell…
I love free shit. If there is something that I can get for nothing, then my grasping mitts are all over it. And when Iceland’s premier death metal monkeys, Severed Crotch, are having an album release concert that’s FREE, then it’s definitely…
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Jonsí is Way Out West
It is closing in on midnight in Slottskogen in Gothenburg and singer M.I.A. is the last act to take the big stage on a Friday night for the Way Out West music festival. Between her head-splitting bass and cocksure delivery, her dancing…
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Rip It Up and Start Again
Þeyr, an Icelandic musical phenomenon shrouded in a veil of mystery and deliberately obscure, recorded seven albums from 1980- 1983 and were undoubtedly the most progressive band of the Icelandic new wave/punk scene. The band employed experimental recording and composition techniques and …
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Dispatches From The Corpse-Painting Station
Just down road from the bruised, bloody, moshing mess of Eistnaflug’s main venue Egilsbúð was another den of depravity and darkness. Those who were brave enough ventured to Enter The Mayhemisphere… possibly never to return! Set up in Stálsmiðjan, an abandoned steel…
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Eight Weeks Until Airwaves!
Summer is over and school is back in session, which means the party is basically over. Well, not really, it’s just on a much needed hiatus before the biggest, wildest, messiest and most drunken five-day party of the year: the infamous Iceland…
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Insol: Hátindar
A collection of the atonal yammerings of a weird, deluded shut-in, Hátindar has mostly only novelty value. The songwriting is fairly formulaic and perfunctory, and the delivery method—one dude with an acoustic and a harmonica (except for the couple of songs which…
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Rökkuró: Í annan heim
Mrs. Burton Technically, Rökkurró makes no mistakes with tuning, rhythm and production; however, “Í annan heim” fails on a larger level. The album lacks musical intuition—every song sounds formulaic and bland. The finger-picked guitars never expand into something shimmering. Instead, the same…
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Valgeir Sigurðsson: Draumalandið
Divested of the enviro-politic moving picture of the same name, this ceases to be a soundtrack and transcends even the status of an album, because everything about this collection of feelings, emotions and resonant creative constructions is pretty much immaculate. The arrangements…
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Iceland Airwaves Warm-Up Show In Akureyri
A lot has happened since we last brought you news from camp Airwaves. The team has been hard at work booking and announcing dozens of local and international acts, while re-organising the festival to include a ton of new venues in town…
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ENTER THE HANGOVER
The summer of 2010 has been one of festivals and parties. Every goddamn weekend has been dominated by a three-day art or music or theatre or pottery or gardening extravaganza that you just can’t afford to miss. They all entail opening and…
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The Scientist of Sound
“When I listen to music, I very often don’t listen to the music; I just listen to the instruments. Otherwise, I get involved with an emotional situation, which is what we are all after; but in order to learn about the nature…
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Bárujárn: Bárujárn (EP)
This EP is incredibly frustrating. Not because of the songs—they are instant hip-shaking, gothabilly surf hits. Not because of the musicians—the instruments are sharp, dynamic and played with true soul. Not even the production—it’s drenched with distortion and reverb all the way…
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Various Artists: Dress Up
‘Dress Up’ is a two-hour compilation from new boutique label Hljóðaklettar meant to commemorate the day of Iceland’s independence from evil Danish furniture designers. Containing music from the leading lights of Iceland’s ambient/electronic/industrial scenes, ‘Dress Up’ also comes with a furry wallet…
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The Rise And Fall Of Kukl
The Icelandic rock movement associated with the ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’ documentary got yet another kick in the groin when the radio show Áfangar (“Phases”) was forcefully discontinued in the spring of 1983. The show had been on the air since 1975, feeding…