Jan Mayen

“Jan Mayen is so much better than your normal life. They are loud but pretty. They make noise like you have never heard before but still stay in touch with the Scandinavian pop culture. Jan Mayen just wants to get everybody high. And the thing is, they do.”
- Bob Bergström

Jan Mayen appeared in the Icelandic music scene in late 2003, when they released a five-song EP. Then the full-length album “Home of the Free Indeed” appeared 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 new Jan Mayen album is in the making and will be out there in 2006. The first single from that album will hit the radio-stations this summer.

Songs and more info on Jan Mayen can be found at:
www.myspace.com/janmayen