Author: Parker Yamasaki
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Marshall House Opens!
Grandagarður 20 is a stunning building. On sunny days it stands stark against the blue sky, four stories of chipped…
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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…
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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:…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…