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Tag: Iceland

If You Are Jealous and Boring, You Probably Won’t Go Far in Iceland

Music
By Barði Jóhannsson | June 2, 2021
By Barði Jóhannsson | June 2, 2021

If You Are Jealous and Boring, You Probably Won’t Go Far in Iceland

Barði Jóhannsson talks life and art on the Nordic isle.

A Cause Worth Fighting For: Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War

Film
By Jennifer Prediger | March 19, 2019
By Jennifer Prediger | March 19, 2019

A Cause Worth Fighting For: Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War

Jennifer Prediger attends a Jodie Foster-hosted screening of the new Icelandic film, and comes away a passionate advocate.

Why I Make Extreme Survival Movies

Film
By Baltasar Kormákur | May 30, 2018
By Baltasar Kormákur | May 30, 2018

Why I Make Extreme Survival Movies

Baltasar Kormákur on his Icelandic roots and pushing himself to the limits for films like Everest and his latest, Adrift.

Greg Fox (Guardian Alien, Zs, Liturgy) Talks Bathhouse & Sauna Therapy

Music
By Greg Fox | February 21, 2015
By Greg Fox | February 21, 2015

Greg Fox (Guardian Alien, Zs, Liturgy) Talks Bathhouse & Sauna Therapy

A well traveled drummer extols the healing pleasures of sweating it out in bathhouses and saunas around the globe.

Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Deathfix) Talks Múm’s Smilewound

Music
By Brendan Canty | September 18, 2013
By Brendan Canty | September 18, 2013

Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Deathfix) Talks Múm’s Smilewound

The Icelandic group Múm has made a bunch of records that I can really sink my teeth into. The records have a distant, lo-fi, found-sound quality...

Kitty Talks Emilíana Torrini’s Tookah

Music
By Kitty | September 12, 2013
By Kitty | September 12, 2013

Kitty Talks Emilíana Torrini’s Tookah

Emilíana Torrini has a voice like the edge of a perfect waterglass, or a single harp note. It is perfectly smooth, like white milk pouring gently...

Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) Talks Sigur Rós’ Kveikur

Music
By Kurt Wagner | June 18, 2013
By Kurt Wagner | June 18, 2013

Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) Talks Sigur Rós’ Kveikur

I hardly ever get high anymore. It must be a sign of old age, as my younger, higher-living friends suggest. But for some reason I thought it might...

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