Iceland might only have a population of 318,000 but the number of inhabitants on this oddly-shaped Nordic island is constantly growing. Iceland's artistic output is also expanding. The cliché goes something like this: Iceland is a small nation and therefore constantly striving to prove itself to the outside world. So far its countrymen and women have conquered many facets of society and culture with Oscar nominations, a Nobel Prize, Olympic medals, the first female president and eh, strong men and beautiful women. As for music, Iceland has Björk and Sigur Rós . The end. Right? No sir. [...]
Last Friday I was planning on having a nice night at home, when my roommate, Adam, convinced me that I had to go to this concert with him. Luckily, I rallied and went because it turned out to be amazing. The concept is to bring some of the best music from sister cities of Reykjavik, [...]
Það er ekki á hverjum degi sem jafn ljúf og góð tónleikadagskrá sést hér á landi. Næsta fimmtudagskvöld verða haldnir tónleikar á Faktorý með Lay Low , Rökkurró og Of Monsters And Men . Efri hæðin opnar kl. 21:00 en tónleikarnir hefjast stundvíslega kl. 22:00. Aðgangseyrir er 1000 kr sléttar. Engin forsala, miðasala í hurð, mætið tímanlega! Lay Low - By and By Related posts: Útgáfutónleikar Rökkurróar Skúli mennski [...]
So you know what? It is difficult to find pictures of stuff with seven assorted "things". I've used from toes to frogs to The Count and even Jim Carrey to help celebrate the number seven in the past. I have decided that the new hotness is the number eight. Why have seven songs when you could listen to eight ?! Check that out, it's an eight legged frog. Check out eight songs that have [...]
Feb 8, 2010, 4:22pm
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Lay Low ~ " By and By " views: 6,696 It's been a while since I have posted anything out of Iceland. Lay Low (aka Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir) is about to release her US debut album, Farewell Good Night's Sleep , on March 9th. I have heard Lay Low referred to as the "Icelandic Patsy Cline ", so we'll go with that. Bonus: "By and By"(mp3)
The Fall is Norah Jones's fourth album and her first for two years(since Not Too Late in 2007). It was released on 16th November and consists of 13 tracks.A very high profile album and Norah plays guitar on the songs,as opposed to the piano on the previous two albums.She also has a new MOR style [...]
Lay Low , a.k.a. Icelandic singer/songwriter Lovisa Elisabet Sigrunardottir, will make her North American debut on March 9, 2010, with the release of Farewell Good Night's Sleep on her own Loo label. Recorded and produced in London by Liam Watson (White Stripes, Holly Golightly, James Hunter) at his analog mecca Toe Rag Studios, the album features eleven new songs (ten penned by Law Low, plus a Lefty Frizzell cover) with backing from the following first-call musicians: Carwyn Ellis (piano), Ed Turner (guitar), Rupert Brown (drums), Matt Radford (bass), Jason Wilson (bass) and BJ Cole [...]
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