Author: Parker Yamasaki
Kexland X Airwaves X Your Hangover
Kex has got your back. Whether it’s an afternoon pick-me-up at the gastro pub, an into-the-evening off venue show, or…
Happening Tonight: Cycle Music and Art Festival Begins!
The fluorescent aisles of Bónus aren’t often sought as a sanctuary for creative output that say, a mountaintop at midnight,…
Airwaves Debutantes Part 5: What’s New and Who’s Who
Here it is! The final instalment of our guide to the 50 Icelandic bands making their Airwaves debut at the…
All That Shines And Shivers: Björk On VR & The Female Star
In Björk’s ideal fantasy life she spends all of her time writing music, cued by the cycles of the moon….
Airwaves Debutantes Part 4: What’s New and Who’s Who
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others…
Happening This Week: Video Release by Godchilla
Like the suburbs, like the smiling baby doll, like Christmas. There is something inherently creepy in that which is all too…
Airwaves Debutantes Part 3: What’s New and Who’s Who
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others…
Airwaves Debutantes Part 2: What’s New and Who’s Who
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others…
Happening This Weekend: JEFF the Brotherhood at Húrra!
Nashville, Tennesee is a city synonymous with musical legendaries. J.J. Cale, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Earl Scruggs. Kelly Clarkson. Miley…
DJ Of The Issue: Gunni Ewok
Forging your own way doesn’t always take you down the most comfortable path, but it’s always a scenic one. And…
Höfði Reykjavík Peace Center Opens
As a society, we are driven toward balance. Take the axioms “first as tragedy, then as farce” or “illness is…
Airwaves Debutantes Part 1: What’s New And Who’s Who
It’s tough to set your schedule up for Iceland Airwaves. Over the festival’s five days, there are 150 bands in…
Higher Frequencies: In The Studio With Plútó
We move quickly. Rúnar is behind schedule picking up Haukur and Siggi. There’s no time to get beers. We swoop…
Music News In Brief: Q4U, Auður, and Björk and Björk and Björk…
Flashback: in 1982, the dark synth-punk outfit Q4U releases their first and only album, ‘Q1’. Shortly after they are featured…
Alvia Islandia’s Top Five Albums
She was born in the summer but she loves the winter. This makes perfect sense. Alvia Islandia has a way…
Happening This Week: Fest Afrika Reykjavík
Reykjavík is a small city. Attend one of the many music festivals, join in a summer art residency, or just…
Iceland Airwaves 2016 Schedule Announced
Do you have your Moleskine planner/Google calendar/coffee-stained napkin/whatever is closest ready? Because it’s time to start planning. The official Iceland…
Just Announced: Björk To Play Airwaves 2016
There’s a running joke that the only thing people know about Icelandic music abroad is Björk or Sígur Rós. Iceland…
Grapevine Playlist: September 2016
by John Rogers, Parker Yamasaki and Sveinbjörn Pálsson
GANGLY – Holy Grounds So this is a bouncy bass thing for you luxuriously soundsystemed car, but at the same…
Happening Tonight: Sin Fang and Tilbury at Húrra!
Last we saw Sin Fang, he was spewing flowers on the cover of his highly acclaimed 2013 album ‘Flowers’. Since…
The Third Annual Icelandic Design Awards
Let’s talk about fruit stickers. Why should every piece of fruit have to wear its own tiny, gummy, frustratingly delicate…
Music News In Brief: Sin Fang, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Exos, and more!
Sweet thang Sin Fang released his fourth full-length album on September 16. The album, titled ‘Spaceland’, blasts listeners into the…
What It Takes: Hrönn Marinósdóttir, Founder and Director of RIFF
Twelve years ago, Hrönn Marinósdóttir started RIFF as a school project. For her master’s thesis at Reykjavík University she decided…
From Within: A Look Inside The RIFF Office
It’s not just the films that make RIFF an international film festival. Every year tens of interns and hundreds of…
Get It Twisted: Graphic Designers Loki and Elsa
Loki Björnsson and Elsa Jónsdóttir were walking by Pósthússtræti 13 when they noticed the empty space on the ground floor….