About Me
Steintryggurs album Trappa is available at http://www.smekkleysa.net
Svefn-g-Englar by Sigur Rós is available at http://www.smekkleysa.net
Smekkleysa SM/Bad Taste SM, was established in Iceland in 1986, by a group of young artists and musicians, who had been active since the Icelandic punk explosion in the early eighties. Part of their world domination or death manifesto, was to create a pop band with The Sugarcubes which in turn became the backbone for Smekkleysa SMs activities over the next few years.
The company has since grown from being an experimental cultural organization into a fully active record company. It has developed and worked with some of Icelands most interesting artists, e.g. The Sugarcubes, Björk, Sigur Rós, múm, MÃnus, Ghostigital, Curver, Ske, slowblow, Kimono and Jan Mayen.
More recently Smekkleysa SM opened its first shop in Iceland alongside their online shop www.smekkleysa.net The shop is a museum at the same time and hosts the traveling exhibition, Lobster or Fame two decades of Bad Taste. This is the only existing exhibition about Icelandic popular culture and includes historic moments in the culture that the Sugarcubes and the movement of Icelandic artists around them initiated 20 years ago.
We have opened our new site and shop at www.smekkleysa.net
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My Blog
Reykjavík Grapevine: Nature Issue
As we are all preparing for Náttúra this Saturday, we are thrilled that people seem interested and curious for more information about Nature and the changes we face. As we mentioned yesterday, t...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:15:00 PST
Smekkleysa on YouTube!!!
We are happy to announce that our YouTube page is up and running.Here you will find some of our favourite music videos and interviews by Smekkleysa artists past and present. Visit us at http://www.yo...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:07:00 PST
Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Sigur Rós will release their fifth lp "Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust" june 23rd. We will have it available for you at our webshop at http://www.smekkleysa.net and also at our shop on Laug...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:45:00 PST
Náttúra: Björk & Sigur Rós free outdoor concert!
We are pleased to announce an outdoor concert featuring Björk, Sigur Rós, Ólöf Arnalds. The concert will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, on the June 28th. It will be held in Laugardalur, in Þvottala...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:24:00 PST
Steintryggur - New album Trappa, Icelandic tour, and Interview!
Steintryggur is embarking on a small tour of Iceland in middle May.They will be promoting their new CD Trappa, which took 4 years to complete and was recorded in a variety of locations with performanc...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:13:00 PST
Bad Taste 4Ever hits Belgium on April 30th!
We are are heading out to Belgium for a Massive one day festival at Bozar Art Centre. Make sure that you can be there on the 30th of April. EDGY EVENING of BAD TASTE The art scene in Iceland is notor...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:49:00 PST
Ghostigital & Finnbogi Pétursson fá fjórar stjörnur í Morgunblaðinu
Ghostigital & Finnbogi Pétursson fá afar jákvæðan fjögurra stjörnu dóm í Morgunblaðinu í dag fyrir tvískífuna Radium I & II. Hægt að næla sér í eintak á CD og MP3 hér. Hér er dómu...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:25:00 PST
New digi shop and new Sigur Rós
Hello,it has been a while since our last post. We at Smekkleysa took down our website and started redoing our site. And now we have launched again our site as a digital download site. We will be addin...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:30:00 PST
Vatn úr myllu Kölska
Vatn úr myllu KölskaTónleikar í Vatnasafninu í StykkishólmiLaugardaginn 07.07.07, kl 20:30Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson - ásamt Einari Arnaldi Melax.Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson er þekktur fyrir gítarl...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:22:00 PST
Tónleikar: Samúel Jón Samúelsson Big Band
Fnykur fær góðar viðtökur Hljómplatan Fnykur með stórsveit Samúels Jóns Samúelssonar fær góðar viðtökur. Platan fór beint í 11. sæti tónlistans og situr í 7 sæti yfir mest seldu plöturnar í skífunn...
Posted by smekkleysaSM on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:10:00 PST