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For Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson, songwriting is often a family affair. The Icelandic musician, who goes by the mononym Ásgeir, is the son of a poet—Einar Georg Einarsson, who has also worked with ...

Ásgeir Trausti finds himself in a rather curious situation. There's a buzz around him as a 'new artist', but he released in his home country of Iceland in September 2012. He's destined for huge things ...

Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson is set to be the next internationally known band from Iceland, following in the footsteps of Björk, Sigur Rós, and Of Monsters and Men. He rewrote and recorded his 2012 debut ...

Icelandic folk singer Ásgeir (pronounced like Oscar), has been something of a sensation in his native country for some time now. His debut record Dyrd í dauðathogn is the highest-selling debut album ...

“I was 12 or 13 when I discovered Johnny Cash and that was very important,” says Asgeir, who arrives in Australia next week for a short tour and an appearance at this year’s Splendour in the Grass ...

Online, you can find a list of France’s 1,000 biggest-selling singles of all time. For anyone not conversant with the French charts over the past 60 years, it’s like something compiled for a joke by a ...

Ásgeir has debuted the second taste of his new album ‘Time On My Hands’. Listen to the sweeping new track ‘Limitless’ premiering exclusively with NME, below along with our interview with the Icelandic ...

Ásgeir has announced details of a new album and shared the first taster from the record, ‘Snowblind’. ‘Time On My Hands’, which is the Icelandic artist’s fourth, is released on October 28 via One ...

Iceland's Ásgeir hasn't been to Australia since he was here for Bluesfest and a string of theatre shows in 2018. Thankfully, we won't have to wait long, as the revered folktronica artist today ...

A painfully shy Icelander singing complex songs in his native language in near-darkness might not be the obvious recipe for an evening of rip-roaring entertainment. Even so, the hotly tipped ...