Icelandic Music Finds a Home on Amie Street
Despite the isolation and the small population, bands like Bjork, Sigur Ros, Mum, GusGus and Emilana Torrini have given the small island of Iceland a big reputation in the Indie music scene. And in the past couple months more than 25 up-and-coming Icelandic bands have started selling their music on Amie Street.
The Icelandic artists Original Melody or Mystik One are influenced by the American hip hop scene and the instrumental hip-hop group, Beatmakin Troopa, has earned a great reputation on Amie Street. Steve Sampling and Dj B-Ruff are newly registered on Amie Street and they are very promising.
If you like Pop music you can find lot of young bands from Iceland. Vafurlogi plays simple acoustic music. Binni P is an excellent troubadour and is also in the band Cellar Door, which plays nice pop-music with a female vocalist. She has a great voice and they have been very successful on Amie Street. The electronic diva Beautiful Chaoz is also gaining popularity on Amie Street along with the band Worm is Green and Get Down For Glory.
If you are in to rock music, check out the Telepathetics and Tony the Pony, who play a mixture between pop and rock. Nogl is an interesting band playing progressive rock and Shima plays alternative rock reminding many on NIN and Tool. Royal Fanclub and Koda play indie rock. Sun Temple is a side project of the drummer in Jakobinarina, they play experimental rock. Bob is also doing experiment in their music, their record dodbobqoqpop, got a great review in Iceland.
Something a little heavier is Ashton Cut, as well as some Icelandic punk, Mordingjarnir and Ponkbandid Fjolnir. Members on Amie Street can even get Icelandic Blues; Johnny and the Rest is an excellent blues band.
Buy and REC some Icelandic music today!
February 20th, 2007 at 1:34 am
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February 20th, 2007 at 1:34 am
February 20th, 2007 at 1:36 am
okay HTML is disabled here so heres the link http://WWW.GETRVK.COM
when you sign up it will be emailed to you every thursday. Good Stuff
February 20th, 2007 at 5:45 am
goodshit!
March 4th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Mmm, glad I switched to Linux