Iceland
The Megaphonic Thrift, Bloodgroup & The Lines are playing the BrooklynVegan pre-SXSW party in Brooklyn (and other dates)
DOWNLOAD: Bloodgroup – My Arms (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Megaphonic Thrift – Candy Sin (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Lines – El Matador (MP3)
This year’s SXSW festival is a month away and some of you may be sick of hearing about it already…
an interview with Sam Amidon (at Big Ears)
Sam Amidon @ Big Ears Fest (more by Andrew Frisicano)
Sam Amidon sung the very first note at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville on Friday. Overshadowed on the festival’s bill by the likes of famed rock bands (The National, Vampire Weekend) and legendary composers (Terry Riley), many of the badge-wearing festival attendees didn’t know what to expect when the tall, flannel-wearing Vermont-native’s strange voice filled the Knoxville Museum of Art…
Seabear is here from Iceland w/ a new album, Via Tania & Soley, played SXSW & by:Larm - pics, video, MP3s & tour dates
DOWNLOAD: Seabear – Lion Faced Boy (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Soley – Theater Island (MP3)
Seabear was one of the bands I made sure not to miss when I ventured to Norway for the by:Larm festival in February, but I came away with mixed feelings about the band whose leader Sindri Már Sigfússon has been called the Icelandic Beck…
Olof Arnalds played the Whitney, Rockwood Music Hall (pics)
FlavorPill: So you don’t have any plans to move Stateside?
Olof Arnalds: Not now. Maybe in a few years it would be great. I have a son who’s one and a half years old, and there’s so much life quality in Iceland when it comes to having children because it’s so safe…
Mum & Sin Fang Bous @ Le Poisson Rouge in NYC - pics
Like Broadcast and Atlas Sound, Mum and Sin Fang Bous were on a larger national tour that happened to hit NYC during CMJ. To be specific, the Icelandic groups played Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday night (10/24)…
múm - new album, 2009 North American tour dates (LPR)
Iceland Music: When did you start recording this album – and who was involved this time around?
Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason of múm: I guess we started recording last summer, maybe before that…
Jóhann Jóhannsson - 2009 tour dates (2 NYC shows)
Iceland’s Jóhann Jóhannsson was scheduled to play a free River to River show at the World Financial Center last summer, but he had to cancel…
Olof Arnalds - Scandinavia House pics, Bjork tonight
Iceland Review: Your sound on that album is acoustic, folksy and quite unique. Is that a style you’re going to stick with?
ÓA: When I was making and writing the songs I wasn’t thinking in styles…
Ólöf Arnalds - a new album, an MP3 & 4 NYC shows
DOWNLOAD: Ólöf Arnalds – Við og Við (MP3)
Ólöf Arnalds @ South Street Seaport (more by Chris La Putt)Ólöf Arnalds has just finished recording her second solo album which was once again produced from Sigur Rós…
Bjork - Nattura documentary & Housing Works ticket info
The Icelandic environmental documentary Nattura-Summer 2008 released exclusively on iTunes on March 10 (One Little Indian) via an exclusive digital distribution partnership with E1 Entertainment Distribution U…