Category: Icelandic Music

Iceland Airwaves 2017: Einarindra bringing the smooth

Einarindra makes that certain sort of smooth electronic music with a synth sound that I can’t get enough of. He’s been getting good attention over the last couple of years from Iceland and beyond for his two E.P.s “Stories” and “Unravel” which are both well worth checking out. I actually decided to finally try to […]

Pink Street Boys, “Being Loud Is Very Important To Me”

What do you mean it’s only two weeks until Iceland Airwaves 2017? Where did the time go? Obviously this blog been busy watching the Icelandic football team but it’s fair to say that iceblah needed to be woken up. There is no more effective band to be woken up by than The Pink Street Boys, […]

Last year’s heroes Milkywhale – back for more and with new sparkly shoes

I really try not to feature the same artists two years in a row, but I was really keen to make Milkywhale an exception. They got such great reaction from so many people at Iceland Airwaves 2015, and many people can’t wait to see them again. I’m sure people would love to hear about what […]

Reykjavíkurdætur are better than the cream in your Oreo

Reykjavíkurdætur have been very hard to ignore over the last two or three years. An all-female collective with the sound and beats to easily get past the early novelty value, they will be high up on a lot of must-see lists for Airwaves again. I’ve been hoping to chat to them since 2014 so I’m […]

FM Belfast – so pretty, not smelly.

FM Belfast – so pretty, not smelly.

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Oh how I love FM Belfast. Surely everybody loves FM Belfast. I was going to call the Iceland’s finest party starters, but actually they are probably better described as party finishers – there’s nowhere to go once FM Belfast have finished with you other than home in a happy and sweaty daze. They’ve been doing […]

Stroff will try to keep you up all night

Stroff will try to keep you up all night

Stroff are an excellent indie-sounding guitar band, they’ve been around since 2012. They feature, as is fashionable, members of various other excellent bands. I thought it was about time I had a chat with them. Beware though, this interview features the devastating news, to me at least, that the logo which I had presumed to […]

Major Pink requires your sweat…

So I have just interviewed Major Pink and, to be honest, I still have no idea if he is real or not. But it doesn't matter, it's been a lot of fun and I am convinced enough to place them on the 'must see' list and I suspect you might feel the same in a […]

As far as I know, Kreld (the solo project of Kristján Eldjárn of Sykur) has only released one song, but what a song it is. On "Way Low" Kristján duets with the amazing Jófríður Ákadóttir of Gangly, Pascal Pinon and Samaris, and the song is an ice-cold elctro treat. Press play on the video below […]

I'll be honest, and I don't want to diminish the art or the brilliance of a lot of Icelandic music, but I've always been a sucker for a funny band name. It is true that I heard the name "Krakk & Spaghettí" before I heard their music – but I was very ready and willing […]

Every year I try very hard not to plan too far ahead of the first band of the first night and then see what happens from there. Cryptochrome play in Hurra before it's even 8pm on the first night of Iceland Airwaves 2016 so I suggest you join me in checking out their hard to […]