Author: Parker Yamasaki
Becoming Canon: Electronic Artists Pay Tribute To Biogen
In music, canon is the technique in which a single melody is overlaid with imitation melodies at different intervals. The…
The Remote And The Vital: Connecting California’s Desert With The Iceland
The California desert is a land based in contradiction. A place where the feeling of impending apocalypse mingles closely with…
A Way To See The Sun: ICEVIEW Looks At Iceland In A Different Light
On a park bench in Taiwan, KT Browne is watching. She is watching the embrace of the searing East Asian…
New Nordic Cuisine On The Floodplains Of South Iceland
It’s been over a decade now since René Redzepi and the crew sat down to dish out the Manifesto for…
Space In Time: The Reykjavík Museum of Photography
I feel like a surfer. Torn between pride and secrecy, wanting desperately to blab about how great my local spot…
In The Time Of If: Siggi Odds Brings Back the Runes
“If I hadn’t been in design, I would probably be an archeologist,” says Icelandic designer Siggi Odds, “out there digging…
Music News in Brief (All Caps Edition): JFDR, AUÐUR, GANGLY & More
Gone are the days of A-sides and B-sides, we’re in the world of track by track. Listeners are often seduced…
Morbid Curiosity: Exploring The Dark With Filmmaker Erlingur Thoroddsen
Stephen King, the contemporary father of horror and science fiction, has an interesting theory about why we enjoy watching horror…
The Marshall House Opens!
Grandagarður 20 is a stunning building. On sunny days it stands stark against the blue sky, four stories of chipped…
The Certainty In Wind: A Tempestuous Trip To Vík
Our trip started on a piece of graph paper. Five dates, each with its own column. Each column with…
Be Still, My Beating Art: A Guide To Reykjavík’s Small Galleries
There are plenty of routes to get familiar with a city’s cultural scene, but some are easier than others. Easy:…
Playing It By Ear: The Musical Universe of Kosmodod
Samaris is not a secret. The hazy electronic trio has been garnering attention from record labels, press, and, of course,…
Unbeautiful: The Photography of Þórsteinn Sigurðsson, AKA xdeathrow
For some, seeing is more than a sense—it’s a sensation. “It’s painful to be somewhere, see something amazing and not…
Let There Be Dark: Dark Music Days Happening This Week!
Going to the symphony, attending a classical concert. There is an aura of sophistication and tradition that floats around the…
The Shape Of Things: Icelandic Design In 2016
Even in Iceland, design is not an island. There is an inherent function associated with “design” that allows it to…
It’s The Winners Of The Fifth Annual Grapevine Music Awards!
What do they have that you don’t? It’s the fifth annual Grapevine Music Awards. Which means that it’s the fifth…
Album of the Year: ‘Black Lights’ by Samaris
We’re riding on Segways. It’s the first time I’ve met Jófríður, Áslaug and Doddi of Samaris and we’re weaving through…
Sónar Reykjavík: RBMA Bring On The SónarComplex Stage
When it comes to scouting and presenting emerging beatsmiths, Red Bull Music Academy has gained our trust. Since 1998 RBMA…
Music News In Brief: Cryptochrome, Sigur Rós, The Kraumur Awards and more!
Mysterious melty-faced trio GANGLY are pros at testing our patience, releasing one…killer…steady…track…at…a…time. This past week they put out their third…
Congratulations 2016 Kraumur Music Award Winners!
We’re halfway through the end of the beginning. Or the beginning of the end. Or anyways, we’re halfway through. It’s…
Otherworldly, More Human: Cryptochrome Complete Their Year-Long Video Project
Earlier this year Cryptochrome released their second album, ‘More Human,’ an elaboration and enhancement of their original cyber-blasted, hip-hop and…
Rendered Useful: A New Line Of Reindeer Products By Alvara
Each permitted hunter is allowed one reindeer. There are around 1,200 permits issued through a lottery system during reindeer hunting…
Sigur Rós: North American Tour 2017
Come to Iceland! Come to Iceland! No, no wait. Stay there. We’ll bring Iceland to you. The Icelandic post-rock dreamscapers…
Music News In Brief: Airwaves 2.0, Meira From GKR, Emilíana Torrini and more!
When Iceland Airwaves was started in 1999 the festival organisers were looking for a platform to bring in the tourists…
Books In The Back: Iceland’s New Art Book Space
“It’s such a big and small world!” Steinunn Önnudóttir says of the art book community. She’s standing in the newly…