About Jan Mayen

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...