Author: Rex Beckett
Final Airwaves Acts Announced – And This Time, WE MEAN IT!
by Rex Beckett
That’s it, folks! The Iceland Airwaves festival line-up is officially complete! The submission doors are closed, the IMX team has…
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On A Date With Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson: The Vegan Sausage King Of Iceland
by Rex Beckett
A large glob of water keeps dripping out of someone’s rain-gutter onto my head as I huddle in a doorway,…
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LET’S DANCE
by Rex Beckett
At the end of the month, our fair city will be inundated by performance. Since 2002, the Reykjavík Dance Festival…
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The Guy In The Fur Coat Shitting His Pants
by Rex Beckett
Diederik Peeters rejects the notion of being a minor cult celebrity in Iceland. Despite the fact that the claim was…
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The Wrong Kind Of Whale Watching
by Rex Beckett
“How mentally prepared for this should we be?” I asked our driver, Marvin Lee Dupree, as we approached the turn-off…
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I Dream Of Cheeses
by Rex Beckett
Two years ago, I made a Seinfeldian pact with a friend to go the entire month of February without consuming…
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12 Tónar Is The Number Two Record Store!
by Rex Beckett
The local record shop and label 12 Tónar has been named the number two record store to visit before you…
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Scream
by Rex Beckett
After several years of trying different steps and shapes, the festival that unites Iceland’s freelance dance professionals has found a…
Reykjavík Shorts&Docs Up For Prize
by Rex Beckett
The Reykjavík Shorts&Docs Festival is on the shortlist of entries up for the title of MovieMaker Magazine’s Coolest Short Film…
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Sigur Rós Make Rolling Stone’s List Of Greatest Live Acts
by Rex Beckett
Sigur Rós have come in at 47th place on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 50 Greatest Live Acts Right…
DJ Robbed Blind While Performing At Þjóðhátið
by Rex Beckett
Atli Már Gylfason had a nightmarish homecoming when he found his apartment ransacked and robbed blind after returning from performing…
New Artists Added To Airwaves Lineup!
by Rex Beckett
We’re less than three months away from the Iceland Airwaves festival and the organisers have gone ahead and announced FIFTY…
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The ‘Chop Stands Alone
by Rex Beckett
Once called “Nashville’s most fucked up country band” by Wilco’s Ken Coomer, Lambchop are one of the most complex and…
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The Case For Quietude
by Rex Beckett
On a cold, wet Sunday evening, if one has to leave the dry comfort of their living room couch, there…
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Track Of The Issue: Plúseinn – “Empire”
by Rex Beckett
The words say “take it easy now” but the tone says, “fuck, what a boring summer of bad weather we’re…
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Taste The Happy!
by Rex Beckett
It had only been open for three weeks when Ísbúðin Valdís was making 800 litres of ice cream every three…
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VIDEO: Grísalappalísa Get Bloody In New Video!
by Rex Beckett
So last year this cool new band got together with all these kids from other fun bands like Jakobínarína, Oyama…
Shit Gets Real For EVE Online Player
by Rex Beckett
The gaming world is in shock after an EVE Online lost a spacecraft worth $9000 USD (roughly 1,116,000 ISK), marking…
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Lay Low Signs To Record Records
by Rex Beckett
Icelandic singer-songwriter Lay Low, née Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir, has just signed to the local label Record Records. Her first release…
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Running Off With The Circus
by Rex Beckett
“This is the biggest tent, Eyjafjallajökull,” says Ilmur Dögg Gísladóttir, PR & Project Manager of the Nordic House, as we…
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Pre-Saturday Night Party Party
by Rex Beckett
I came away from ATP Iceland with a programme, a chopped wristband, unused bus tickets, a pop quiz sheet, an…
First Adoption By Icelandic Same-Sex Couple Announced
by Rex Beckett
Television personality Sindri Sindrason announced that he and his husband adopted a daughter last year, making them the first same-sex…
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On A Date With Cindy Gallop: Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
by Rex Beckett
“Bloody hell. Good god… It’s quite extraordinary, actually,” Cindy Gallop said mere minutes after walking into the Icelandic Phallological Museum….
Iceland Music Export Allocates Its First Grants
by Rex Beckett
The Iceland Music Export Fund gave out its first ever batch of grant money to local musicians looking to establish…
Icelander Sentenced For Smuggling Drugs Into Denmark
by Rex Beckett
Guðmundur Ingi Þóroddsson was sentenced yesterday in Denmark to twelve years in prison for smuggling a large quanity of drugs…