Iceage’s Elias Bender Rønnenfelt on Crime, Poetry, Symbolism of New LP If a little light has been allowed into the music . I hate that that automatically means that you matured somehow, singer says of Seek Shelter
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In the late aughts of the Denmark music scene, nothing was really making worldwide waves. That is, until 2011, when post-punk outfit Iceage emerged from Copenhagen with their debut album,
New Brigade: a loud, abrasive and slightly unsettling sound held together by Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s echoing vocals.
Controversiesfollowed, staining the band’s image in their early days and leading to accusations of sympathizing with far-right ideologies. In a recent
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Heating UpIceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt performs in Copenhagen on Sept. 4, 2020. The Danish punk band’s GCTV streaming gig, “Seek Shelter: Live From Copenhagen,” airs May 22.
Among the questions facing the live industry as it ramps up post-pandemic is how livestreaming, which exploded with physical touring offline, factors into a landscape where traditional shows have returned. A new partnership between an esteemed boutique agency and one of streaming’s buzziest platforms provides some hints.
Last month, Ground Control Touring, which represents a slew of indie artists such as Angel Olsen and Parquet Courts, teamed with the platform Mandolin, only a year old, to support GCTV. Under the new arrangement, Mandolin will host, produce and market select shows by Ground Control Touring artists – and non-GCT clien
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Let’s resist the urge to make jokes about the weather. We’re behaving ourselves here. But let the record show that Iceage have been described as an ‘oncoming storm’, their new album is called
Seek Shelter, and it features a track titled ‘Drink Rain’. Right? Moving on.
Seek Shelter is drawn from Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s journals, and explores romance and salvation, pain and poetry and deities. Lyrically, Rønnenfelt gets to the heart of the matter with a clarity that becomes a theme; given that this time the band worked with Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 to produce, it wouldn’t be surprising to find more psychedelia than usual on