Taking us into the rainy Reykjavik night is a hard-hitting set live at KEX Hostel from Icelandic psych-rockers Singapore Sling. Though the band was formed in 2000, founder Henrik Björnsson had been writing their songs for years before. He made some 8-track demos on his own, and then put the band together in order to record those songs. Since then, the band has released eight studio albums, from their 2002 debut The Curse of Singapore Sling, to 2015's Psych Fuck. Their sound is fuzzy, Jesus and Mary Chain-esque, and perfectly raucous.
Clad all in black, Singapore Sling pushed past the tightly packed crowd waiting for their much-anticipated set. Opening with screeching feedback and bright, surfy guitar licks, Singapore Sling was setting us up for a rip-roarin' good time. At a different venue, one can imagine a mosh pit quickly forming, few could resist moving during a set like this. Henrik Björnsson's gravelly disaffected voice cuts through fuzzy, distorted guitars like a hot knife. Singapore Sling's dark, moody rock 'n roll was landing just right, and the crowd was loving it. Their set spanned a fair bit of their discography, from "Heart of Chrome," from The Curse of Singapore Sling to "Nuthin's Real" from their 2014 release The Tower of Foronicity and "Let it Roll, Let it Rise," from Psych Fuck, and Monday's KEXP Song of the Day.
Join us at 01:30PM PST/ 04:30PM EST on air, online, or on Facebook for a set from seminal garage band The Sonics, live from KEX hostel at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival.
Rounding out an unbelievable first day of KEXP’s Iceland Airwaves broadcast live at Kex Hostel are garage rock legends The Sonics. Formed in Tacoma in 1960, The Sonics are widely regarded as the first garage and first punk band, and have had a wide-reaching influence on the course of garage, punk, …
In a town as small as Reykjavik, densely packed with so much talent and collaboration, the term "supergroup" gets thrown around so much that it starts. That being said, Icelandic electronic band Gangly is a true supergroup. The band is a collaboration between three Icelandic powerhouse musicians: S…
