Win a copy of the Rokk Í Reykjavík soundtrack!
One copy of the new reissue of Rokk Í Reykjavík from Arena Rock will be given away to a paid subscriber.
Earlier this week I wrote about the fascinating, jam-packed soundtrack to Rokk Í Reykjavík, the 1982 documentary about the Icelandic music scene. It’s filled with punk, post-punk, and new wave bands that were creating a music scene out of thin air, in an enclave far from the pop epicenters in the US, the UK, and Europe. The film happened to catch a particularly fertile explosion of talent and ideas that was happening in Reykjavík in the early ’80s, and the soundtrack contains all of those performances—many of them captured live—and more.
Ned Lannamann
Original copies of the double LP are quite rare, but Portland label Arena Rock Recording Company has finally brought it back into print on vinyl. And we’re giving away one copy to a lucky subscriber on our paid tier. Big, BIG thanks to Arena Rock for providing this copy to a lucky reader.
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