“A promise was made somewhere”
“Hereby we formally request an answer from the Independence Party and the Centrist Party regarding the truth of the claim that these parties have accepted a large sum of mone
Phileas Fogg Would Weep: Travel Around The World In Seven Days
Four star country resort Hotel Rangá has been a favoured local city escape destination for years. Only an hour out of Reykjavík, right off the ring road in the Southern […
Scuba Diving + Jeeps = F-U-N
Reykjavík Activity Center Tour This particular tour is very convenient for folks who don’t know their way around Reykjavík, as the good people of the Reykjavík Activity Ce
Otherworldly Creatures
Choreographers Erna Ómarsdóttir and Damien Jalet and visual artist Gabríella Friðriksdóttir created an emerging world, rising up from the milky waters of the lagoon, in celebr
What Will We Remember?
The annual Iceland Academy of The Arts show at Kjarvalsstaðir was another diverse range of innovative designs and artwork, divided into five sections: Fine Art, Fashion, Graphic D
The History of Icelandic Rock
The development of rock music was much the same in Iceland as in the rest of the world. First we had “early-American rock” copycats, then a bunch of Cliff and […]
A Reconstruction of Thoughts
“Parallax,” by the artist Elín Hansdóttir, will be showing at the Reykjavík Art Museum until the 19th of May. The show truly has its audience perplexed. Its simplicity in de
It’s Not Easy to Make a Mark
Painting is undoubtedly one of the most challenging media to be working in today, due to its massive baggage of history and competition. After all, it has been declared dead [&hell
Jarboe
Jarboe’s magnificent Hindu-apocalyptic concept album Mahakali is nothing short of spectacular in its gloom, hopelessness, and sense of impending insanity; although it could have
David Byrne & Brian Eno
It is amazing how two incredibly talented and interesting musicians can conspire to make something as inherently dull and commonplace as this. Middle age, it seems, has not only ca
Sparks
Sparks’ 21st studio album is not exactly a return to their seventies golden age values and energy, but it comes as close as the fifty-year olds are likely to get […]
Electric Six
Flashy is, frankly, anything but. After four albums of rollicking, spectacular cock-rock that have gone sadly unnoticed, Electric Six’s fifth studio LP in six years is little mor
Muck
The Vultures EP is the début offering from a very young Reykjavík band, Muck, whose members barely seem to have left their teens – at least judging by their appearance, [&helli
Sudden Weather Change
Within seconds, Sudden Weather Change’s (not that) new recordings catch me. The way the five seem to break every genre border between emo, punk, rock and even funk or danceab
Valgeir Sigurðsson
His music plays a big role in the documentary, and serves to emphasise its important message. To create the score, Valgeir drafted in the all-star Bedroom Community team with the [
Saving Iceland
Most of the major disputes of the past ten years have now been settled. The War in Iraq was a terrible idea. Neo-liberalism was a terrible idea. Privatizing the banks […]
Don’t Thank Icelanders For Iceland
Dreamland is the result of collaboration between documentary filmmaker Þorfinnur Guðnason and author, playwright and poet Andri Snær Magnason. It is based on the latter’s best
Our Big, Important David Lynch Interview
It was a rather amusing spectacle that played out in Háskólabíó last Saturday. Arriving late to the scene, I witnessed most of Reykjavík’s hipsters and, well, pretty much mo
Transcendental Meditation: Do it Right and You Might Even Fly!
Nothing beats relaxation and down time, and when such time is trademarked by a global corporation it must be the most superior rest period ever. Such is the case with […]
Hay-grinder of the greenpeace-kitten earth-channels of the desert-asphalt sugar-free beach-found transparent salt-Coke
When modernism in poetry shocked its way through Europe in the beginning of the last century, people’s main concern was how the hell to understand it. The modernists would often
Monsters and Mythical Beings: Grýla
Fittingly enough, the unlucky thirteenth instalment in our Hugleikur Dagsson illustrated series of Iceland’s monsters and mythical beings is about an evil old ogress called Grýl