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Ish’s Saturday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: A Successful Grapewaves, A Successful Airwaves
My Airwaves day starts earlier today, taking in all the sounds of Grapewaves from start to finish. First up is BKPM, who play post-punk while adorned in construction vests. Their raucous sound instantly draws a crowd and toddlers stand with their…
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Alexander’s Friday Night Airwaves Diary: Kicking Up The Energy
There’s something uniquely captivating about Finland: the landscape, the music and the atmosphere all carry a vibe that’s hard to find anywhere else. I start my Airwaves Friday with three bands from there. First up are Rosettes. The air feels thick with…
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Grayson’s Friday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: Off-Venues & Blown Minds
I started off my second day with a visit from the Ghost of Airwaves Past. Milkywhale burst onto the scene as a festival favorite in 2015. By that, I mean that I (and at least one other Grapeviner) literally went to see…
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Ish’s Friday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: I’d like to welcome to the stage….
I start my Friday night of Airwaves at Grapewaves, and I arrive just as Snorri Helgason is taking to the Lækjartorg tower stage. Always earnest — even more so in this stripped-down setting — Snorri’s music is thoughtful and I deeply enjoy…
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Iryna’s Friday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: Welcome To Finland
Punk music is blasting from a tiny tower on Lækjartorg. Passersby stop and ask what’s going on, tourists exchange small talk between each other: “…and they were telling me our venue was small. Let me send them a photo of this.” “I…
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What’s Your Best Iceland Airwaves Memory?
Looking back at Grapeviners’ stand-out festival moments It all seems to blur into one, probably due to the drinking. In order to attend the festival as an underage visitor, some creative — however dubious — ways were implemented to loophole the venues’…
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Alexander’s Thursday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: Thorough Enjoyment
I get my wristband after work and head next door to Nasa 2.0 for the Virgin Music / Alda Music Airwaves party. Lynks is spinning a smooth DJ set, and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. After some light schmoozing, I make my way…
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Grayson’s Thursday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: Fusing Tradition & Floating Home
I eased into my first official day of Airwaves with Andervel at Lucky Records. The Iceland-based Mexican-born musician has crafted a unique brand of folk that fuses together the traditions of two very different places, with the dreamy and ethereal harmonies of…
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Iryna’s Thursday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: Stormy Beginnings And Good Vibes
The wind is whistling and rumbling as I watch my balcony almost being blown away. This is how the first day of Iceland Airwaves 2024 begins for me. After years of living here, I should be accustomed to the weather and have…
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Irina’s Thursday Iceland Airwaves Diary: Guitars of all Shapes and Sizes
Occasional predictions signposting the disappearance of guitar bands have been pervading the music landscape since the late 60s. One who attends Iceland Airwaves on Thursday is assured the format is alive and kicking. Guitar collectives thrive in Iceland where craving for the…
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Ish’s Thursday Night Airwaves Diary: Looking For A Soul-filling Pick-me-up
On my first day of Airwaves, I’m unfortunately already a bit exhausted. It’s been a hell of a week, and it’s bitterly windy. Earlier, I had been literally knocked down by the wind in front of a Hreyfill taxi, so my palms…
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Oyama Makes A Comeback With “Everyone Left”
Go With The Flow In April 2020, Icelandic independent mavericks Oyama released their EP Opaque Days — a title that accidentally outlined the themes of the subsequent pandemic and the band’s hiatus. In the respite between lockdowns, Oyama’s songwriters Úlfur Alexander Einarsson…
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In This Economy!? Get The Airwaves Light Experience
As should be abundantly clear from all of the Iceland Airwaves coverage sprinkled generously through this issue of the magazine, we are nuts for the annual music festival. It’s an absolute treat every year to slide on our wristbands and venture out…
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Rock ‘N’ Roll Revivalists Spacestation Are Fed Up
Positively Pessimistic Crowding a leather couch in a purple-lit recording studio, the five members of Spacestation take turns sniffing powdered tobacco — a habit usually reserved for geriatric sailors. Boisterous, yet courteous, the quintet are working on their forthcoming album while preparing…
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Iceland Airwaves Celebrates 25 Years Of Staying Alive
The Fateful Hangar Much of Iceland’s cultural output depends largely on enterprising spirits. Throughout Iceland’s young entertainment history, ambitious go-getters with limited resources have set the tone for the creative sector’s unruly operations. That’s partly how Iceland’s biggest music festival, Iceland Airwaves,…
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Grapevine New Music: Laufey, Kælan Mikla, ADHD & More
You heard it here first — I’m running for a new platform for Alþingi, working title “The Cool Party”. We emphasise securing schoolchildren with swanky outfits, the ambition to wear sunglasses inside, and cigarette-rolling starter kits. It’s the only way we can…
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Grapevine New Music: Árný Margrét, Floni, Virgin Orchestra & More
There’s an e.coli outbreak among preschoolers, Bjarni Ben is saying racist shit, Iceland reached its highest-ever murder count, and the world is burning: are you sure this is the future our grandparents worked for? We can at least console ourselves with the…
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Track By Track: Gimp By Juno Paul
Juno Paul brings slacker rock and grunge apathy into the 21st century Reykjavík’s top slacker has no warm feelings for the city. Breaking out from Músíktilraunir last year, Juno Paul caught the eyes and ears of the Grapevine with his Cobain-esque theatre…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Logi Pedro & Elvar, Sunna Margrét, Oyama & More
If it isn’t my dear old friend Friday. Nice to see you. I take it you’re doing well? Marvellous. With every new Friday that our solar-powered calendar rolls in, that means we at Grapevine HQ have got a new list of fresh…
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Lúpína Gets Transparently Honest On MARGLYTTA
Debuting under her artist moniker Lúpína with the 2023 ringluð, Oslo-based Nína Solveig Andersen presents her innermost thoughts and emotions through a Scandi-pop fusion on her latest album MARGLYTTA. “I’m trying to be more confident on stage,” is the first thing Nína…
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Grapevine New Music: Sykur, Exos, Róshildur & More
Fall. Autumn. Whatever you want to call it, Reykjavík’s got it hard. With the first snow hitting the capital earlier this week, residents are formally swapping out their summer wardrobe for their winter attire — donning various shades of beige and earthy…
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CYBER Is SAD :’(
Electronica duo CYBER resolve their troubled teenage years on their latest album To label CYBER simply as a hip-hop duo would do its members Salka Valsdóttir and Jóhanna Rakel — Joe — a great disservice. While certainly drawing from the well of…
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State Of The Art Festival Mixes The Modern With The Traditional
Do the properties of a classical composition change when performed at a car repair shop in Kópavogur? What’s the best type of dance music and why is it 18th-century baroque? These are only some of the questions posed by the State of…