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For A Minor Reflection Are Comin’ To Gitcha!
It’s all in the name. At least in the case of For a Minor Reflection. We dare anyone to imagine what music made by a band called For a Minor Reflection would sound like, and then comparing that to band’s music. Chances…
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Endless Dark Are Not Like The Other Bands
Endless Dark are one of the many young Icelandic bands performing at Iceland Airwaves for the first time this year. Lots of things set them apart from your ‘typical’ Icelandic Airwaves act: they hail from tiny Snæfellsbær in the Icelandic countryside instead…
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The Importance Of Being Indie
If you run an independent music enterprise, it’s probable that at some point you’ll realise you’ve become something of a geek. The music industry is vast and complicated, with so much to learn that a nights-and-weekends project can quickly become an all…
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Bárujárn Are Just What We Were Waiting For
Bárujárn have been busy reinvigorating the Icelandic music scene for over two years now! This band of anarchic surf rockers that don’t at all surf (neither did Brian Wilson) somehow manage to embody everything that makes the Icelandic music scene great, while…
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Your Airwaves Experience on Live Project
For the first time, Airwaves festival goers will be able to stream their concert videos and photos straight from their mobile phone to a new real time video and photo blog, liveproject.is. “The idea is that you can be in a concert…
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The Good Doctor’s Guide to Surviving Airwaves
While Airwaves is a rather fun and fabulous time for most, it’s possible that at one stage or another you, or one of your friends, might find yourselves at the wrong end of a flying elbow or taking a dive after one…
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Apótekið – Wednesday
Photo by Morgan Levy Why is it that as soon as people start to get all cocky about the weather and start going on about how long its been since it rained, the heavens open? Uhm. Hurling myself out of the rain…
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NASA – Wednesday
Funny how an artist can convince you their music is good just by the way they move to it. Premiering the festival’s (and NASA’s) lineup on Wednesday night, Eleni Tzavara of Athenian foursome Film did just that—tactfully writhing on stage, arms upraised…
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Polipe Will Prove A Nice Surprise
“At the age of 14 we began to play together and let go all that bullshit. The drummer joined us later in that particular friendship as we opened up our minds together on different cultures, philosophies, drugs, and of course: sounds.” Tell…
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Pascal Pinon: “Be there or be a chair”
Pascal Pinon are truly something. Comprised of twin sisters Jófríður Ákadóttir and Ásthildur Ákadóttir, these girls have been writing and performing sweet, soothing, melodic and incredibly ambitious music since they were at the tender age of fifteen. That was last year, by…
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The Chamber Choir of South Iceland at Iceland Airwaves
Kammerkór Suðurlands (The Chamber choir of South Iceland), introduce their latest CD of sacred music at Landakotskirkja, Reykjavík’s Catholic Church, today Thursday 14th. Coinciding with Airwaves, the concert will feature four works from the CD ‘Iepo Oneipo’ (Sacred Dream) as well as…
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Venue – Wednesday
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson and Morgan Levy Venue was an excellent start into this year’s Airwaves as its first day’s programme offered – just like the festival does on a bigger scale – a wide variety of music from folk to post-punk,…
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Faktorý – Wednesday
Photos by Hvalreki Pétur og Úlfurinn started their set with a long minimal drone intro, later layered with smokey vocals. A solid song with minimum compositional effort but works perfectly. Sadly this was also the best song of their set. This bands…
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Amsterdam – Wednesday
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson As I sit down to accept the gauntlet of tonight’s bands, I pause to consider the price of the alcohol that is being served to me. Although we have published that Cafe Amsterdam is a place to get…
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Sódóma – Wednesday
Sódóma got the musical ball rolling nicely on Airwaves Wednesday, with a strong line-up that pulled a solid crowd and provided to good times for all. Hurrah! One thing that was quite surprising about the evening was how packed the place was…
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Three Punk Rock Things To Do Whilst In Reykjavík
Morðingjarnir is the Reykjavík Grapevine’s favourite local punk rock band. It probably should be your favourite Icelandic punk rock band, too. They are excellent live, they make great records and their lyrics are great (unfortunately for you, they write their lyrics in…
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kimono Do Not Play Math Rock
Operating out of Iceland for the greater part of the last decade, kimono have long been your classic band’s band, meaning that most of the musicians performing at Airwaves count kimono as their favourite local band (the guitar bearing ones anyway). That’s…
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You Need To See Go Go Darkness
The Go-Go Darkness are a creative vehicle for the combined forces of Singapore Sling mastermind Henrik Björnsson and his spouse, the lovely Elsa María Blöndal. Together as Go Go Darkness, they wrote, recorded and self-released their very excellent eponymous début last year.…
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Efterklang: You Know You Want To
“It will be our first concert in Iceland. That’s enough accomplishment for us.” Hi Efterklang! Tell us a little bit about yourself: who you are, what you do, why you do it. Remember: Hype is for PR departments, honesty is for musicians.…
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Grapevine’s Picks For Tonight!
It’s on! My is it on! How fun! How fresh! Yes! To help y’all get started, we decided to pick some picks for y’all to check out tonight, if you have no idea what you’re into or what you want to see.…
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Kick Off Your Airwaves Experience With A Splash At Vesturbærjarlaug
In a unique start to Airwaves proceedings, German electro troubadours Hundreds will kick off the festivities this evening with a performance in the quirky setting of Vesturbæjarlaug swimming pool. (Hofsvallagata, 107 Reykjavík) The concerts, which are open to the public as well…
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Stuff You Might Want to Know
For all you new-to-town-ers, here a little something we put together to hopefully make your stay, ehrm… make a little more sense. Airwaves. Five days of music, magic and utter madness at (almost) the top of the world. If this is your…
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The Young Composer’s Guide To Reykjavík Dining
Why the respectable Reykjavík Grapevine magazine would ask a non-eating, 58kg workaholic who would go for the pill—if there was one to replace all food consumption—to write a guide on Reykjavík dining baffles me. This request came, however, at 4am at Kaffibarinn,…