bits and pieces from the northern island.
It’s hard to explain to outsiders what a band like Amiina stands for, what their music suggests and how it affects the listener. For the easily distracted, they’re just a bunch of girls — wrong, there are also two guys as stable contributors to the band now — making cutely bizarre noises with their instruments. … Read the full article →
Have you got your tickets yet? Reykjavík Music Mess organizers finally announced the full lineup for this year’s festival that is going to take place on April 15 – 17. Reykjavík Music Mess is in its very first edition — but it already sounds like one of the grooviest independent music appointments in Iceland’s capital. … Read the full article →
Icelanders can be very kind and tolerant neighbors. It’s very rare to get in a fight with sober Icelanders over most things, probably because either they don’t care much about what goes on around them or because they are too absorbed in their own businesses — unlike what happens in other countries where speculating about … Read the full article →
The fifth edition of Sequences Art Festival is about to start in Reykjavík. From the 1st to the 10th of April, several galleries, venues and cultural spaces and institutions around Iceland’s capital will host exhibitions, lectures and performances of various genres. As the name suggests, Sequences is an event whose main field of interest are … Read the full article →
One of the hottest topics right now concerns the future of energy. As Lybia’s crisis revealed itself after the latest developments as another oil dispute among nations and post-Tohoku earthquake Japan is still struggling against nuclear dangers at Fukushima’s Daiichi, the public opinion is pressing for clear answers regarding present and future alternatives of energy … Read the full article →
From the 24th to the 27th of March 2011, the city of Reykjavík will host the annual DesignMarch festival, an event that takes place yearly in the capital area at the beginning of Spring since 2009. DesignMarch is the occasion to get in touch with some of the most interesting currents of contemporary Icelandic design, … Read the full article →
Attention please! Kimi Records, in collaboration with Norræna Húsið, Rás 2 and The Reykjavík Grapevine present: Reykjavík Music Mess, a new indie music festival that will rock Iceland’s capital this year for the first time. This not-to-be-missed event is going to take place at Norræna Húsið and NASA in Reykjavík on the 16th and 17th … Read the full article →
