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Non-Icelandic music. WHAT???

There are two things to celebrate today. Firstly, you can now legally call your Icelandic baby Mark, the greatest of all names. Secondly, not content with being the continent's best football team (FACT), exactly three weeks from now Iceland will throw the world's best music festival, Iceland Airwaves 2014. I have a lot to do […]

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Krómantík by Sóley is out TODAY!

We all love Sóley don't we? That wonderful, haunting, enchanting and utterly engaging debut album, "We Sink", from 3 years ago (3 years already!) seemed to be universally loved and YOU dear iceblahers (?) voted it as the best record of 2011. All the shows at Airwaves have been very well attended indeed.   But, […]

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Grísalappalísa’s logical next step…

Grísalappalísa were the first band I saw at Iceland Airwaves 2013. I'd heard and fallen in love with their first record, the seven track 'Ali',  and I knew that this was a rare sighting of some former members of the legendary Jakobínarína (seriously, look them up if you don't know them already). The live show, […]

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Prins Póló – Sorrí

I love Prins Póló (or is it PrinsPóló? Read on to find out) so I'm pretty happy that they have just released a wonderful new record called 'Sorrí'. The herd, led by Svavar Eysteinsson, formerly of Rúnk and Skakkamanage, are in fine form as always. The album includes asome songs that are a little familiar already, […]

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Pollapönk !!!!!!!!

Pollapönk's Eurovision adventure provided SO MUCH FUN a few weeks ago. They became a social media sensation all around Europe when they got into the final with the very last announcement and then just carried on really, really, really enjoying themselves. It all gave people I know a chance to tell me they had seen […]

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A New FM Belfast album!!!

I was pretty lucky and excited to get a promo copy of the brand new FM Belfast album recently, it arrived in one of those square parcels with Icelandic postage on it that I so love to receive. This is their third album – if you discount that oddly premature but excellent ‘best of’ that […]

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Most of this is Rúnk’s fault and I love them
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The brief version of how I came to be this "crazy foreign person who loves Icelandic music" (said the airline Iceland Express, who later disappeared) is this… In 1987/88 I fell in love with this band called The Sugarcubes, you probably know them. Therefore when my Dad asked 14 year old me where I would […]

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Icelandic Album Of The Year 2013 – Results
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I do love an end of year list. This is the third time we've done a vote here for the best Icelandic record of the year. There were 61 voters this time, so we've lost 3 people from 2013 somewhere along the way. Each voter was allowed to vote for up to 5 albums, each […]

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Icelandic Album Of The Year 2013

It is December, so it must be end of year list time. This is the third time I have run this particular piece of fun. Last year, 64 of you lovelies took the time to cast your votes and we managed to get a bit of press attention too. The search for a worthy successor […]

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Iceland Airwaves 2013 – Grúska Babúska interview

"Grúska Babúska is a 4 piece all female band, with an out-of-space wonky, electronic, synth, melodic, acoustic and twisted icelandic fairytale sound" I'm not even going to attempt to better that description which you can find on Grúska Babúska's very fancy website. It does sum the sound up pretty nicely, plus I really like the […]

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