Reykjavík Grapevine - 09.07.2004, Blaðsíða 14

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THE NEXT BIG THING
WONDERINGS
Plays a type of music
that´s very hard to de-
fine but apparently goes
well down in Japan and
recently played at the
Sonar festival in Spain.
He´s an actual one man band, which must cut down on
touring costs. He currently resides in Ísafjörður, where
he´s working on further masterpieces. His wrote the
soundtrack to upcoming movie Niceland.
Have a sideband called the God Damn Skunks, of which
one review began: “The evening began with forty minutes
of feedback, interrupted briefly when the drummer stood up
and beat a drum a couple times, then wandered off saying
he needed his drugs.” Big in New York, apparently. Their
next album, My Life is Killing my Rock and Roll, comes
out at the end of July.
Actually a one man band by
Barði Jóhannsson who plays
with various combinations
of sidemen. His cover of
Stop in the Name of Love
by the Supremes was played
a lot on MTV in France, and he´s been spending a lot of time there
lately. He says his version is much better than the Supremes. Ap-
parently the French seem to agree.
After punk, Icelandic music suddenly became something that was taken seriously on the interna-
tional stage. The Sugarcubes made it. Then, about a decade later, came Sigurrós. Who´s next?
m u g i s o n
More blatantly rock than anyone has dared to be since Guns n´ Roses, and probably sp
orts more tattoos than all other
Icelandic bands put together. Which probably says a lot about their music. They´re oft
en away touring in Europe
these days, perhaps because they´ve exceeded their credit limit in Bar 11. They may or
may not be working on another
album.
The President likes them. So
do Central European duch-
ess. If they can get their own
brand of stripping down and
throwing smokebombs to
appeal to the handclapping,
as opposed to the jewelrat-
tling classes as well, they´ve
got it made. Their latest al-
bum, Trabant at Bessastaðir,
is available in 12 Tónar at
Skólavörðustígur 15.
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