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Jan Mayen

So Much Better Than Your Normal Life

About Me

Jan Mayen apeared in the Icelandic music sene late 2003 when they released a five-song EP. Then the full-lenght album Home of the Free Indeed apeared a year later on Smekkleysa (Bad Taste Records) and was nominated for three awards at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2005. Their music has been described as a combination of loud rock with pop and noise influences and critics have said their music sound something like Sonic Youth, Minute Men, The Strokes, The Ramones, The Rapture, Pretty Girls Make Graves and Liars. ---------------- A brand new Jan Mayen album is out now: SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR NORMAL LIFE available through www.smekkleysa.is/

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Music:

Member Since: 1/2/2006
Band Website: jan-mayen.com
Band Members: Agust-Guitar,Sveinn-Bass,Valli-Guitar & Vocals,Viddi-Drums
Influences:
Sounds Like: The antidote, a breath of hope, you´re hanging on to every note.
Record Label: Smekkleysa / Bad Taste
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Great review in Grapevine...

From Grapevine Magazine:Jan Mayen came out in late 2003 with an outright buoyant and breakable yet catchy and melodic self-titled EP. 2004 brought to light their debut full length, an album that shoo...
Posted by Jan Mayen on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:59:00 PST

Fréttablaðið elskar okkur

Tekið úr Fréttablaðinu 15. ágústFyrsta stóra plata Jan Mayen, Home Of The Free Indeed, sem kom út fyrir þremur árum var frábær rokkplata sem vakti verðskuldaða athygli. Nú er arftaki hennar loks komin...
Posted by Jan Mayen on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:12:00 PST

New Album August 14th

Our new album, So Much Better Than Your Normal life, will be in stores August 14th......more info to come.-Jan Mayen
Posted by Jan Mayen on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:55:00 PST

So Much Better Than Your Normal Life

Ok people here is the deal.Our new album "So Much Better Than Your Normal Life" is ready and will be in stores early August. A new song called "Joyride" has been posted on our profile. The album is pr...
Posted by Jan Mayen on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:08:00 PST

Something's goin' on

We are actually going to record new songs in a few days. We'll be @ Airwaves Friday the 20th of October alongside Wolf Parade, Jeff Who? and others...
Posted by Jan Mayen on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:02:00 PST

Upp, upp mín sál

...Up and running. Jan Mayen has not been out much lately. We've been stuck in a small room full of amps and equipment working our asses of making new songs. The result of this is a new album wich wil...
Posted by Jan Mayen on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:47:00 PST