It’s hard to believe it’s been six years since Cell7’s lasts album, the soulful and fun Is Anybody Listening? The single “City Lights” was quite popular, but for me the B-side opener “Peachy” was the apex with it’s self-affirming refrain “I’m doin’ fine / I’m doin’ peachy” sending an empowering message and providing the perfect […]
Month: November 2025
Godchilla – “Psionic Dreams” (2025)
Godchillar are OGs of the Icelandic music scene. Their first album, COSMATOS, came out a decade ago, and they got a cool write-up by VICE a year later in 2016, back when VICE was both still relevant and tuned into the underground. I know I caught them live at least once during a past Iceland […]
Egyptian Lover – “Platinum Pyramids” (2006)
Egyptian Lover put out Back From The Tomb, his sixth full-length album, back in 1994, then went dark for about a decade. The Lover had (almost) always put out his music on his own label Egyptian Empire Records, and the label too was mostly quiet for that entire period. Then in 2006 he re-emerged, an […]
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 3
I realized earlier this week that I never posted about the final day of Iceland Airwaves 2025, which was a serious oversight on my part because a few really cool things happened. We opened the day at Lucky Records just after Noon. Why, you ask? Oh, I don’t know, maybe because I kinda-sorta was scheduled […]
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 2
The weather remained perfect for the second day of Iceland Airwaves. Sure, it was chilly – it’s November and the country has “ice” in its name. But it was also sunny for much of the day, so it stayed dry, and the was only a bit of a breeze, not the normal take-your-breath-away wind we’ve […]