Author: Florian Zühlke
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Sódóma – Sunday
by Bogi Bjarnason, Þórður Ingi Jónsson, Florian Zühlke and Aðalsteinn Jörundsson
Photo by Hvalreki [For whatever reason, we had the hardest time getting people to review Sódóma that Sunday night. It…
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Risið – Thursday
Photo by Páll Hilmarsson Like a relaxing alternative programme Risið had a line-up that consisted of laid back singer songwriters…
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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…
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For A Minor Reflection
by Sindri Eldon and Florian Zühlke
With all the rock being recorded in Iceland, you’d think we’d have found one producer who can make it sound…
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Ólafur Arnalds
by Florian Zühlke and Sindri Eldon
If you’ve ever witnessed Ólafur Arnalds perform, you know that his music has an almost magical aura. I recently saw…
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Why It Pays to Quit Your Day Job
Svavar Knútur, singer of Icelandic folk-outfit Hraun, toured Germany a few weeks ago. It was his second visit this year…
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Dr. Zühlke and Mr. Eldon
by Sindri Eldon and Florian Zühlke
Although it occasionally shows glimpses of intimacy and honesty, All Over The Face is for the most part too bland,…
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Dr. Zühlke and Mr. Eldon
by Sindri Eldon and Florian Zühlke
Although they have retreated slightly into the inferior pop shallowness of debut Breathe, We Are Shadows at times beautifully retains…
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Dr. Zühlke and Mr. Eldon
by Sindri Eldon and Florian Zühlke
Carving a smooth line from the cutesy, sweet-toothed openers into darker territory towards the end, Alltihop’s eventual slide into depression…
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Muck
The Vultures EP is the début offering from a very young Reykjavík band, Muck, whose members barely seem to have…
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Sudden Weather Change
Within seconds, Sudden Weather Change’s (not that) new recordings catch me. The way the five seem to break every genre…
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Dälek
Since forming in 1997, Dälek has mixed traditional hip-hop with drone and rock elements, gaining attention from audiences far beyond…
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ZU
I guess ZU make it even harder to categorise their sound than Dälek – also on IPECAC records – do….
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Elín Ey
On her debut album, Elín Ey presents her energetic voice very fittingly to the sounds of her fragile guitar play….
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Sin Fang Bous
As Sin Fang Bous is the solo-project of Sindri from Seabear, you will quickly notice the comfortable voice and welcoming…
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Fm Belfast
FM Belfast definitely will make some friends, and not just because they are such a sympathetic live band and generally…
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Þingvellir On 38 Inch Tyres – Florian Zühlke Drives A Super Jeeps And Lives To Gloat About It
One thing that hits you once you get acquainted with Reykjavík’s cityscape is the abundance of big-wheeled, so-called called “Super…
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Reykjavík!
There are very few live bands around Iceland that are celebrated at their shows like Reykjavík! The second album of…
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The (International) Noise Conspiracy
The (International) Noise Conspiracy today have been around much longer than their preceding hardcore-punk band Refused ever was. However, it…
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Bob Justman
The two faces of Bob Justman: in one moment “Happiness and Woe” is a shy and subtle, scarcely orchestrated singer-songwriter…
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Jeff Who?
Quite confidently, Jeff Who? published their sophomore album self-titled. Again, it provides everything the band got famous for with the…
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Candy from Trolls
Grapevine visits the play “Let’s talk Christmas”The basement of the restaurant Tabasco’s has been transformed into a small theatre, where…
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A Short Trip to Hopeland
I was expecting a special Sigur Rós show this night. For one thing, the band had just finished their recent…
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Beatmakin Troopa
Despite his young age, Beatmakin Troopa has quite a moved history in Iceland’s Hip Hop scene. After being part of…
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Ghostigital, Finnbogi Pétursson & Skúli Sverisson
To get things straight right at the beginning, this is not an ordinary Ghostigital album. “Aero” is not even an…