By Ari Freyr Ísfeld Óskarsson
When you grow up here in Iceland the outside world either thinks that you are an Eskimo and that you live in an igloo or that you are an art freak who does nothing but spend his days listening to the crazy rantings of Björk or the peculiar music of Iceland’s most famous band SigurRós. The weird thing is that there is not a lot of Icelanders who actually listen to their music.
In Iceland there are a lot of good bands who are looked past because they are not as "different and eerie“ as Björk and SigurRós. Bands like Ampop, Jeff Who?, Eberg, Dikta, Hölt Hóra, Mugison, Dr.Spock, Changer, I Adapt and last but not least Mínus are not as famous as they should be because their sound is too "mainstream“ for the people of the world.
Two of these bands have been showing up more and more in Britain in the last years. Radio 1‘s Zane Lowe started playing Ampop a few years ago and Mínus have been on tour there to follow up on their latest album "The Great Northern Whalekill.“ Eberg has also been showing up in the US with his single "Inside Your Head" being used in an iPhone commercial and it has been used in the shows Veronica Mars and the OC. I also urge you all to listen to all of the bands that I pointed out earlier in this blog.
Last but not least I would like to point out the band Evil Banana from Outer Space who I predict will be the next big band. They are brand new but their electro-punk sound is really something.
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