Iceland remains one of the most mysterious and wonderful places on planet earth, so it's no surprise that some of the world's best music is also emerging from there. Between the huge success of Sigur ...
About 15 years ago, after he’d worked on the story for Disney’s animated “Mulan” and co-directed “Lilo & Stitch” but before he took on the “How to Train Your Dragon” trilogy, Canadian filmmaker Dean ...
A Google search this week for the name of the Icelandic rock band Sigur Ros with the word "ethereal" came up with 396,000 results. So clearly that's the place to start when describing the band. It ...
America's fascination with Iceland is a relatively new phenomenon. Beginning with the explosion of Björk and The Sugarcubes onto the international scene in the late 1980s, Iceland's rich musical ...
The music of Icelandic band Sigur Ros is hard to describe. The critics have tried, comparing it to ice floes drifting across the water and a hang glider riding the breeze to the edge of the sea.
Iceland Airwaves, billed as “the world’s most northerly new music showcase,” is also one of its best. Founded in 1999, the event has grown from a one-off in a Reykjavik Airport hangar to a sprawling, ...
DiS has been to Iceland! Actually, we've been to Iceland for the past three Airwaves Festivals, but this year one was really different. For a start it was the second excursion of 2006 after April's ...
Of Monsters and Men hasn't graced a Nashville stage in more than a decade. Music City's a far way from their home base of Reykjavík, Iceland, after all. But on Monday, Nov. 10, the indie-folk group is ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Iceland’s ...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Iceland’s popular Eurovision Song Contest entrant, Dadi og Gagnamagnid, will not perform live at the event after a member of the group tested positive for coronavirus, ...