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  • STRAUMUR: Four Songs That Washed Upon Our Shore

    STRAUMUR: Four Songs That Washed Upon Our Shore

    With the indie band Nóra on hiatus for the foreseeable future, singer/guitarist Egill Viðarsson has started a new band with his younger brother Bjarki, called Andí Svarthol. They released their first song this month, the cheekily titled “Írena Sírena,” a pop number…

  • The Choppy Line-Up

    Although I deeply respect and understand the urge to push boundaries, there is always an audience to consider. Doing something is not the same as pulling it off.

  • Moments Strung Together On A Thread Of Other Moments

    It’s Wednesday night and it’s all beginning. The wind is blowing like it doesn’t blow anywhere else and I am almost pushed from my bike on the way down to Harpa, body forcing against the brute strength of it. But I prevail,…

  • Kreatiivmootor Smash Music Into Joyful Sonic Non-Sequitors

    Harpa’s Kaldalón is a seated theatre, below ground level, that plays host tonight to a mixed bag of young Icelandic bands and esteemed visitors, including a solo set by Björk’s percussionist Manu Delago, and headlined by rising Estonian art-music collective Kreatiivmootor. The…