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MUGISON, SUDAVIK, ICELAND -

THE ICELANDIC BECKPhoto AriMagg Equipped with a guitar and a laptop, former Icelandic fisherman Mugison stitches together heavy-metal screams, electronic pop hooks and blues melodies in a way that has earned him the nickname the Icelandic Beck. Born Örn Elías Gumundsson, he acquired the Mugison moniker from singing karaoke in...

Something's Wrong - Bang Gang are a perfect example of what Icelandic alternative music is all about - the chilly atmospherics, the disregard for conventional rock and roll song structures and postures, the haunting melodies - it's all found on the group's debut album "Something Wrong". Even though they operate under a group...

Benni Hemm Hemm -

Benedikt Hermannsson is at the helm of supersized Icelandic brass-rock band Benni Hemm Hemm. Unlike 2007’s weighty Kajak, Murta St. Calunga is often pretty or cute and occasionally sung in English. It’s befitting too: the lyrics “We’re whaling in the North Atlantic,” the refrain of the album’s second track, means...

Hafdis Huld - Kongulo (Single) -

Let's get a little of the press release information out of the way as this might explain things a little bit certainly better than I could:"'Kongulo' is the Icelandic word for spider. The song is about Frenchman Alain Robert, known as the 'human spiderman' famous for climbing skyscrapers using just...

Sigur Rós Announce North American Tour - Sigur Ros have announced a big set of dates for North America and Japan, in support of the newly hatched alnum Me su eyrum vi spilum endalaust. They're streaming the album right now from their web site via their Dt thing. It's the fifth album for Sigur Ros, and they've...

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