Last month DIMMA released the fourth album entitled Vélráð that contains hard-rock dark and dim but melodic material. It is arguable that this team presents itself on stage as one of the most powerful Icelandic bands and pays a lot of attention to visual elements during gigs. DIMMA regaled us[…]

The last day of Secret Solstice let festivalgoers to be witnesses of the summer solstice in Iceland and at the same time let them also experience how to lose absolutely sense of time when after the end of Schoolboy Q show on Valhalla stage the brightness was all around like[…]

The festival located in a charming green and peaceful recreation area of Laugardalur that can be translated as Hot Springs Valley is a lovely place to experience a day of the summer solstice. The second day of the first-ever Secret Solstice Festival put a gloss on the event both due[…]

The first impression after stepping into Secret Solstice Festival was ´it is so cosy´. A specially definite area at Laugardalur turned out to be not that large so exhausting running from one stage to the other was not required. The area was split into three zones – Asgard with a[…]

Iceland is tied up with the sea. A sea fishery has still a significant impact on economy of the country and it is possible to find in every family some member who worked at least once in the open sea. So there is actually nothing strange in the fact that[…]

It can be believed that blues music suits only dark and creepy whisky bars and is the only place where this music really sounds good. The place where musicians can bleed their hearts out and regular customers exactly understand their pain. Well, maybe it seems like the perfect surrounding but[…]

You don’t usually see many tigers in downtown Reykjavik, but last weekend they were on the prowl on bodies and on t-shirts for the ninth Annual Tattoo Convention at Bar 11. Needles were buzzing and so were all the convention-goers, from tattoo-covered artists to kids, elderly men, and even a[…]