Of Monsters And Men have been globetrotting these past years in support of their debut hit album My Head Is an Animal. They were building a rehearsal and work space back in Iceland when this interview took place in february. Arnar Rósenkrans Hilmarsson and Kristján Páll Kristjánsson took time out[…]

On a Friday night, in the heart of Reykjavík, you’d be hard pressed to find a venue that better embodies the raw sexual magnetism that a good rock show exudes, than Gamli Gaukurinn. The tension that trickles in the air of this dark, smoke-filled venue is unavoidable. Anticipating the evening[…]

The Sónar festival is one of the biggest international festivals of advanced music and new media art. For the common bloke that means the art of electronic music, the big world of genres that have been advancing the artform of music since electricity and computers came along. Since Sónar was[…]

Reykjavik Folk Festival is an annual music festival, now in it’s fourth consecutive year dedicated to folk music and all of it’s various offsprings. The festival seeks to portray a wide selection of icelandic musicians from different generations and from different sections within the icelandic music community. The founder of[…]

It´s been long since Hallur Ingólfsson started making music. Having composed and produced scores and original soundtracks for dozens of theatre plays and films and produced music for contemporary dance shows, Ingólfsson has also made his mark on the Icelandic rock/metal scene with bands such as XIII and the more[…]

Taking on a record, such as “Kill ´Em All”, takes character, courage, talent and above all; a lot of balls! Something that Iceland´s, Melrakkar (e. Arctic Foxes), seem to have enough of. Hailing from diverse, yet iconic corners of the Icelandic rock/metal scene, the band consists of Sólstafir´s Aðalbjörn Tryggvason[…]

One of the biggest festival for visual art and music, the Punto Raya, was held in Reykjavik on the last weekend of January. Held in Harpa concert hall, you could feel the new art floating in the air. Here people wanted to see something new, something progressive. They got what[…]