Mugison (“Mugi,” apparently, to those in the know) is a big star in his native Iceland, where his latest record, “Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?” beat out Björk’s “Medulla” at the last Icelandic ...
Mugison ditches his nascent laptop experiments for a muscular rock & roll groove, and Icelandic anti-heroes Ham show they can still command respect with their nostalgic, driving ‘80s moshpit shtick.
is ambitious; you gotta give him that. The Icelandic musician, whose percussive, agitated experimental pop holds elements of both psych rock and folk, aims to go where no musician has apparently gone ...
-- Postpunk originators the Raincoats probably served as direct inspiration for something like half the bands on Kill Rock Stars, so itmakes sense that KRS will reissue the band's self-titled first ...
Mugison is Icelandic born singer songwriter and all round blues powerhouse Örn Elías Guðmundsson. Yes, not exactly a blues name is it. But trust me this man has blues running through his veins. The ...
Icelandic rocker Mugison (think Beck, but colder) will be playing a show in each of the five boroughs today, capping it with an 11 pm gig at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg. So to help get Mugison ...
Esquire music columnist Andy Langer runs through this week's new CD releases, including albums by Beck, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, and Mugison. Beck albums have alternated between his personas ...
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July 8, 2008 • Esquire music columnist Andy Langer runs through this week's new CD releases, including albums by Beck, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, and Mugison.
It's not every day that singer/songwriter Ben Harper lavishes praise on musicians he hasn't recorded with. Guess that means Iceland's Mugison must be feeling pretty good about himself. In a recent ...
If you dumped blues, power pop, psych rock and heavy metal into a transmogrifying machine, the machine would rumble mysteriously, then spit out a brightly colored block of a hitherto unimagined ...