Gróa are back, and I couldn’t be happier. Call them indie, call them punk, it doesn’t matter. Gróa defies conventional genre labels. They aren’t here to make things easy for you. They’re here to make the noises they want to make, and if you don’t like it, well, that’s too bad for you I guess. […]
Tag: Indie
Biggi Maus & The Bigital Orchestra – “Dead Pigeon Society” (2025)
It feels like many, if not most, Record Store Day “limited edition” releases are put out in quantities that way exceed their actual demand. This is evidenced by how many shops have RSD “remainder” sections, often bursting at the seems with “limited” releases that no one wants. Look – I’m not a RSD hater. I […]
Curver – “Haf” (1994 / 2024)
Karolina Fund is kinda-sorta the Icelandic version of Kickstarter – a place where you can post your project and seek financial contributors to help make it a reality. I’ve supported a handful of projects on that platform over the years, from a book on the 25th anniversary of the music-video-arts collective Gusgus to the vinyl […]
Lada Sport – “Spegill Spegill” (2024)
Lada Sport are back! You will be forgiven, of course, for never knowing they were gone, as they haven’t released much – an album, Time And Time Again, back in 2007, and a 7″ three years later. That’s it. Why should you care about these indie rockers from Iceland? Well, because they have a cool […]
Baula – “Heavy Heart, No Tears” (2024)
Baula are the Swedish/Icelandic duo of Karolina Thunberg and Ísak Ásgeirsson. Their debut EP Drought came out in 2019, a four-song indie-rocker that announced the pair’s talent, though it would be five years until we heard from them again with their first full-length album Heavy Heart, No Tears. Right from the first chord of the […]