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Track By Track: Frá Mér Til Þín By GDRN
Soulful Sass Guðrún Ýr Eyfjörð, known as GDRN, has been one of Iceland’s most celebrated pop stars in recent years. On March 22, the artist released her third solo LP. Characterised by thick bass, bouncy beats and infectious melodies, Frá Mér Til…
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Growing Pains: Special-K Discusses Her New Intimate EP ‘LUnatic thirST’
Special-K soars to new realms of musical, lyrical and emotional maturity in her latest avant-garde pop offering, ‘LUnatic thirST’. As she puts it, if her debut album “‘I Thought I’d Be More Famous By Now was a teenager’, this EP is an…
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Warm Is The House Band: Warmland Emerge With Their Debut Album ‘Unison Love’
Warm are most things that start close to home. Emerging pop duo Warmland are Arnar Guðjónsson and Hrafn Thoroddsen—both prominent figures in the Icelandic music scene. Arnar is a producer and the lead singer and guitarist of Leave, while Hrafn is a…
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1997: The Last Days of Rock
Yes, rock is dead. It is dead in the sense that punk is dead. Or classical. Punk by now belongs in a museum (you can find one on Bankastræti) and classical music can still be enjoyed at the Harpa concert hall, in…
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Go Native: The Secret Icelandic Acts At The Solstice Festival
Secret Solstice, the biggest music festival in Iceland, returns this weekend. If you’re dropping in from abroad, you’ll know Foo Fighters and The Prodigy already, but maybe not the local acts who really give the festival its personality. Here are a few…
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VIDEO: Benni Hemm Hemm Performs At Swimming Pool
As summer approaches and the days become brighter one can’t help but recall the times when winter depression harried. Now that Icelanders have gathered heat, Austrian video journalists, Sarah Brugner and Michael Luger of THEY SHOOT MUSIC, have decided to share their…
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Antimony Is Looser And More Confident – Warming Up For Sigur Rós
The gloomy synthpop band Antimony first sprang onto the scene a little over a year ago, and has spent the time since then reintroducing the slow tempo and melancholy vibe of the 80s to the denizen of Reykjavík. They recently announced that…
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Hildur On Striking Out On Her Own And Not Having To Compromise
Hildur is no stranger to making music. She’s been a part of Rökkurró for some ten years, performed with Cell7, Ólafur Arnalds, and more. Lately, however, she’s been working ardently on her new eponymous solo project that she is débuting at Sónar…
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A Band To Remember: The Superfun Reptile Returns
Risaeðlan was made up of kids that were keen followers of the great resurrection of Icelandic rock in the early 80s. Magga Stína (vocals/violin) and Dóra Wonder (vocals/saxophone—the sister of drummer Kommi from Taugadeildin and Oxsmá) had been inspired by Grýlurnar, the…
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BJÖRK’S FOLK MUSIC
Björk has a way of messing up our plans. We were all set with a February-feature when she surprise dropped her new album, out of the blue. And, you know, it’s a really goddamn great album. Sure, her albums usually are—even if…
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The Páll Óskar Exhibition Opening Today
An exhibition at the Icelandic Museum of Rock n’ Roll honouring Icelandic pop artist Páll Óskar will open its doors today in Reykjanesbær, reports Nútíminn. The exhibition will feature some of Páll Óskar’s most famous costumes as well as his collection of…
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From Sitting On The Floor To Raising The Roof
It’s hard to imagine a more incongruous set of opening acts for the headliners at this gig, unless you count the time Tom Jones opened for GG Allin at the 930 Club in Washington, DC in 1988. But I still feel as…