Posted on 31 August 2010. Tags: Björk, Concert Event, Damien Rice, iceland airwaves, Iceland Concert, Iceland Inspires, Iceland Music, Inspired by Iceland, Music Event, Seabear, Sigur Ros
The upcoming concert event in Iceland, Iceland Airwaves, is set to attract thousands of music lovers to the northernmost music capital in the world, Reykjavik; and with most of the line-up already announced, this years’ Airwaves will be as spectacular as ever.
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Posted in Culture, General, Iceland, International, Leisure, Lifestyle, Music, Travel
Posted on 25 August 2010. Tags: culture, history, Iceland, music, recording
This week marks 100 years since the first Icelandic-language music record was released. The occasion has been celebrated in various ways, including concerts and a second-hand records fayre.
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Posted in Culture, General, Iceland, MBL, Music, Technology
Posted on 20 August 2010. Tags: clothes, cosmetics, Denmark, expenses, paris to berlin, rafn, supreme court, tax
A Danish pop star has taken her quest to get a full tax deduction for clothes and make-up purchased for on-stage performances to the Supreme Court. Lina Rafn, who sings with the band Infernal and won international notoriety for her vocals on Paw’s Paris to Berlin song, is this week at the country’s highest court to contest a previous ruling.
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Posted in Denmark, General, Lifestyle, MBL, Music
Posted on 15 August 2010. Tags: Iceland Music, Icelandic Music, jazz event, jazz musicians, mezzoforte, Reykjavik
The Reykjavik Jazz Festival 2010 went live last night. This is Iceland's biggest yearly jazz event and beside local jazz musicians there are artists coming to the country from the Nordic countries, France, Austria and the USA.
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Posted in General, Iceland, Lifestyle, MBL, Music, Society
Posted on 31 July 2010. Tags: Iceland, leisure, music, summer, travel, verslunarmannahelgi
The first Monday is August is always a public holiday in Iceland and Verslunarmannahelginn (literally the tradesmen's weekend) has become the country's biggest travel and festival weekend of the year.
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Posted in General, Iceland, Leisure, MBL, Music, Travel
Posted on 20 July 2010. Tags: Björk, business, Energy, geothermal, hs orka, Iceland, magma, music
The famous Icelandic singer, Bjork held a press conference yesterday in Reykjavik where she discussed her fears about Canada's Magma energy purchasing HS Orka, an Icelandic geothermal company.
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Posted in Business, Canada, Energy, Environment, General, Iceland, International, MBL, Music, Politics, Society, Technology
Posted on 17 July 2010. Tags: art, culture, festival, Iceland, LungA, seyðisfjörður, youth
Young people from across the globe are taking part in the LungA festival in Seydisfjordur, East Iceland this weekend.
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Posted in Art, Culture, General, Iceland, International, Leisure, MBL, Music, Travel
Posted on 10 July 2010. Tags: fancy toys, Iceland, jazz, ragga gröndal, Reykjavik, rósenberg
British duo The Fancy Toys (and their band) are nearing the end of a mini-tour of Iceland during which they have been playing with Icelandic jazz/folk singer, Ragga Grondal.
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Posted in General, Iceland, Leisure, MBL, Music, United Kingdom
Posted on 08 July 2010. Tags: daGeek, Einar Sigvaldason, Recommendations Website, Red Herring, social networking, TellMeTwin
Social Networking and recommendations website,
daGeek is encouraging its users to make money through personal pages by strategically placing sales links from Amazon, Clickbank or Google Adsense in between written content. Profile owners can then receive up to fifty percent of all sales revenues generated by those links put in place.
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Posted in Culture, General, Iceland, International, Leisure, Lifestyle, Music, Society, Technology
Posted on 05 July 2010. Tags: Damien Rice, Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland Concert, Iceland Inspires, Iceland Music, Inspired by Iceland, Tourism Campaign
The ‘Iceland Inspires’ concert held in Reykjavik on Thursday 1st July, featuring Damien Rice, proved to be a huge success as the live web cast, via the
Inspired by Iceland website, received over seventy thousand visits from fifty-two countries, RUV reports.
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Posted in General, Iceland, International, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Music, Travel