To help fill the void of a year without Airwaves I am going over all my many videos from over the last 16 years and trying to find a few interesting things that I haven’t made public before. Starting today with what I think was the very first appearance by Of Monsters And Men at […]
Welcome to the (not very) grand announcement of the second annual poll for the best Icelandic album of the year! Last year, I couldn’t believe how many votes there were and Sóley was surely thrilled when her superb album "We Sink" pipped FM Belfast and Björk to the big prize (hmmm, there should be a […]
The annual competition for new bands in Iceland, Músíktilraunir, has an excellent track record of finding talent. Not least the winners from two years ago, a band called Of Monsters & Men, have had a little bit (A LOT) of international success. So it is kind of a big deal. Being the Icelandic music weirdo […]
Hey, look at those five cheeky kind of naked guys! That is not how my family behave. Anyway – Kiriyama Family are an electronic band with a freshly released debut album YOU are going to want to own by the end of Iceland Airwaves 2012. Just to make sure, they are going to play six […]
My Bubba & Mi are two ladies called Bubba and My (not Mi) who make gentle, sweet and irresistible songs and have been getting a load of ecstatic reviewers going crazy. I haven't ever seen them perform but I'm aiming to put that right next week. I am totally in love with their cover of […]
The annual battle of the bands competition in Iceland, Músiktilraunir, has a pretty good track record of finding good and lasting talent – Kolrassa Krókríðandi, Maus, Mínus, Mammút, Jakobínarína and more all won it in years gone by. So, with that in mind I thought it would be a good plan to check out the […]