bits and pieces from the northern island.
Only a few days before Reykjavík Music Mess 2011 starts. Sódóma has been added to the venues and will be hosting its own event on Friday night. The official program has been released and I suggest you to take a look at it because the music acts are many and if you plan on attending … Read the full article →
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 →
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 →
The sea murmuring in the distance, the ever-searching eye of Gróttuviti scanning the darkness from afar: it almost feels like being at world’s end. From the outside, the gloom of the wintry season makes the Norðurpóllinn’s semi-hidden structure look like a rundown industrial leftover with just enough of a presentable appearance. But as you get … Read the full article →
We already had occasion to express our concern and sadness for the events that led to HAVARÍ’s — temporary! — closing. It perhaps wouldn’t be appropriate to express contempt towards the people responsible of this situation and I’m not as informed about the whole matter as I should be to talk about it more extensively. … Read the full article →
The Society of Icelandic Composers presents Myrkir Músíkdagar 2011 (Dark Music Days is the event’s name in English). This is one of the many events taking place in the lively city of Reykjavík during the winter season. The festival, scheduled every two years, was born in 1980 to bring together Icelandic composers and people interested … Read the full article →
Many months ago, my friend Fish, who was staying in Iceland to complete his book, told me about a shop where music was cheaper than anywhere else in Reykjavík. I had seen the shop in question, but I still hadn’t visited it. I had passed its windows many times going to my guesthouse to the … Read the full article →