All Is Weill With Sigríður Thorlacius
Café Rósenberg is to music what Bíó Paradís is to movies. It is somewhere the enthusiast can go to really enjoy his or her preferred art form, rather than have […]
Við Djúpið, Fortissimo!
A fishing community of 2,600 inhabitants may seem an unlikely hub for music, but as it turns out, the inhabitants of Ísafjörður can handle the violin bow just as well […]
Awkward Times at Innipú inn
To be perfectly honest, by day three of Innipúkinn, I was hardly thrilled to be heading to another night of music at Iðnó. It wasn’t the music that was problematic. [&hell
A Powerhouse Climax With Four Songs!
Nine o’clock on a summer night is just about dinner time for many Icelanders, which could very well explain how shockingly (or maybe not so shockingly) sparsely populated Iðnó
The Hawaiian-Shirted Man Stole The Night
Welcome to the eleventh annual Innipúkinn festival, a musical event held at the Iðnó theatre aimed at all those Icelanders who wish to avoid sleeping in stuffy, airless tents in
Eistnaflug 2012 Saturday REVIEW
As Saturday dawned and our final musical journey began, the combination of three days of illegal hard liquor, scorching sun and the occasional head butting of a lighting bollard ha
Eistnaflug 2012 Friday REVIEW
Waking up, last night’s events come back in fog and static, interspersed between moments of flat black. This wasn’t due to alcohol, but my body adjusting, apparently by wiping
Monsters Spread The Clap
Consistent droves of Icelandic families flushed through Fríkirkjuvegur in anticipation of the free outdoor concert at Hljómskálagarðurinn. This Saturday night included more tha
Summer Solstice Filigree Folk
The first time I heard Ólöf Arnalds play live was at the Aldrei fór ég suður music festival in 2010. Though I had been a fan since first hearing ‘Við […]
Tight Like A Bumblebee’s Ass
What was supposed to be an anal, sharp and critical review of Botnleðja’s first comeback show at Gaukurinn quickly turned into an open fan letter. You object? That’s probably
Rock Me, Sexy Jesus
Let me just say this right off the bat: it’s not Bryan Ferry’s fault he’s old, and I am in no way insinuating he should retire. He’s made a half-dozen […]
Prog ‘Til You Drop
When Manfred Mann’s Earth Band takes the stage, they open, not unsurprisingly, with Bruce Springsteen’s “Spirit in the Night.” The Earth Band formula is quite simple. Take
Requiem For A Scene
As Nasa is closing its doors on June 1, it was with great grief that I walked through the lobby of the soon to be demolished concert venue to see […]
Delay-And-Reverb-A-Go-Go At The Inaugural Stopover Gig
Harpa’s architecture is all the more fascinating in the dark—approaching it at night feels almost surreal, a sensation that persisted when I stepped into Kaldalón Hall for the
Good Vibrations
Chick Corea was only remotely familiar to me the moment I stepped into the dim red glow of Harpa’s Eldborg concert hall. He is a big name in the jazz […]
Away From The Scorching Sun
As spring finally begins to break in Iceland, Svartidauði grace us with their malign presence at Kaffistofan. Once inside, however, we forget about the sun and instead bask in the
Black Metal Coffee Evening
“Do you have any tea?” “Sorry we don’t have any tea bags. We only have coffee.” Damn… I really don’t like coffee. I hate its overly bitter taste and I […]
Be There Or Be Square
When I learned that a young artist that I had never heard of was putting on a show exclusively for the residents of a tiny hamlet I didn’t remember ever […]
Music Battle Royale 2012!
Since 1982, The ÍTR, Reykjavík’s sports and youth council, has put on The Battle of the Bands (Músiktilraunir) as a massive search for the best new acts the nation has [&h
A Dry Account Of A Juicy Event
15:00 – 21:00 Kaldalón Hall I arrived about ten minutes late. I wasn’t sure if I had missed conductor Ilan Volkov’s opening remarks to this sound installation so I sat [