Highlights from the Iceland Film Festival:Hip Hop, Hora!
Swedish screenwriter and director Teresa Fabik’s film Hip Hop, Hora! (English title: The Ketchup Effect) tells the story of 13-year-old Sofie, who is willing to do anything to fi
Highlights from the Iceland Film Festival:Searching for Angela Shelton
Searching for Angela Shelton is a one-of-a-kind movie experience. The documentary had its international premiere at IFF in Regnboginn, with filmmaker Angela Shelton present. She de
Islands – Return to the Sea
With members sporting names as pretentious as Neil Diamonds and J’aime Tambour, one would have expected something a little more gripping from Islands, but they seem to be content
Fantastic Four – Original Melody
“Not too much stress…simple rhythms, nice melodies…just makes me feel good, you know what I’m sayin’?”…or so quoth an anonymous gentleman in a sample in t
Battlefield 2
It may not be the newest release on the market, but Battlefield 2 is one seriously hot game and as more expansion packs are in the pipeline it’s set to […]
French Kisses and Fucking Media People
At 30 years of age, I am easily in the oldest tenth percentile at most shows I attend. But not at Iggy and the Stooges. People in attendance were more […]
Sólstafir – Masters of Bitterness
Sólstafir present a somewhat outdated vision of metal with this, their first full-length album, with dissatisfyingly shallow sounds and chords, but still manage to convey their ch
Home Grown Record Shop
One of the score of narrow one-way streets crisscrossing the mighty Laugavegur is Vitastígur, and provided you’re looking for it, it would be rather hard to miss the large, some
Psapp – The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
Exactly what you’d expect from a pair of young women obsessed with cats, cheesy synthesisers and vapid sonic gimmickry: Awful. The beer goes to the only thing saving it from [&he
Austur-Indía Félagið
One of the problems you run into when trying to write a restaurant review is the fact that the best places can often leave you with very little to say […]
Miri – Fallegt þorp
Wordless progressive noise mixed with a surprisingly warm pallet of emotions and laced with intricate, mesmerising and often stunningly beautiful guitar work, Fallegt Þorp is a tr
Mugison – Little Trip
Mugison’s sonic companion to Baltasar Kormákur’s most recent attempt at filmmaking is rather like Ally Sheedy’s character in The Breakfast Club: Moody, tormented, dirty, unp
PSP for Business
As I approached a recent interview, and realized that after a lengthy cross-Atlantic flight I would be expected to hold a coherent conversation, I decited I needed a new method [&h
Highlights from the Iceland Film Festival:The march of the penguins
The March of the Penguins is one of France’s biggest box office hits of all time – surprisingly enough, considering it’s a documentary. Director Luc Jacquet spent 13 months i
Sigur Rós
Two and a half months after the release of Takk, and with their album making a range of best of 2005 lists, Sigur Rós returned to play the largest concert […]
Adem – Love and Other Planets
What a terrible name for an album. Oh well, at least it’s more interesting than the music on it. Bland, indecisive acoustic lo-fi folk sludge riddled with half-hearted sappiness,
Ókind – Hvar í Hvergilandi
Hvar Í Hvergilandi has a split personality. It is at times a focused, soaring and lyrically perceptive piece of apocalyptic rock blessed with the ability to veer from finely-craft
Jet Black Joe – Full Circle
Despite its tendency to veer towards insipid clichés and some very dumb lyrics, Jet Black Joe’s return to the studio is tight, powerful and inspirationally short, relying mostly
Good Morning, Mr. Spencer
It’s afternoon here, 9 am in New York. The man on the other end of the line is a regarded as a hero of rock music, as the man who […]
Summer Means Waxing
I am hairy. More so, in fact, than any other higher order primate. I imagine this quality is some sort of a Darwinian response to the harsh climate, or I […]
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls is a popular series of RPGs (role playing games) set in its own fantasy world, albeit one heavily based on a variety of other RPG universes that […]