Author: Parker Yamasaki
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Happening Tonight: Cycle Music and Art Festival Begins!
The fluorescent aisles of Bónus aren’t often sought as a sanctuary for creative output that say, a mountaintop at midnight,…
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 5: What’s New and Who’s Who
Here it is! The final instalment of our guide to the 50 Icelandic bands making their Airwaves debut at the…
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All That Shines And Shivers: Björk On VR & The Female Star
In Björk’s ideal fantasy life she spends all of her time writing music, cued by the cycles of the moon….
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 4: What’s New and Who’s Who
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others…
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Happening This Week: Video Release by Godchilla
Like the suburbs, like the smiling baby doll, like Christmas. There is something inherently creepy in that which is all too…
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 3: What’s New and Who’s Who
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others…
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 2: What’s New and Who’s Who
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others…
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Happening This Weekend: JEFF the Brotherhood at Húrra!
Nashville, Tennesee is a city synonymous with musical legendaries. J.J. Cale, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Earl Scruggs. Kelly Clarkson. Miley…
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DJ Of The Issue: Gunni Ewok
Forging your own way doesn’t always take you down the most comfortable path, but it’s always a scenic one. And…
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Höfði Reykjavík Peace Center Opens
As a society, we are driven toward balance. Take the axioms “first as tragedy, then as farce” or “illness is…
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 1: What’s New And Who’s Who
It’s tough to set your schedule up for Iceland Airwaves. Over the festival’s five days, there are 150 bands in…
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Higher Frequencies: In The Studio With Plútó
We move quickly. Rúnar is behind schedule picking up Haukur and Siggi. There’s no time to get beers. We swoop…
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Music News In Brief: Q4U, Auður, and Björk and Björk and Björk…
Flashback: in 1982, the dark synth-punk outfit Q4U releases their first and only album, ‘Q1’. Shortly after they are featured…
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Alvia Islandia’s Top Five Albums
She was born in the summer but she loves the winter. This makes perfect sense. Alvia Islandia has a way…
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Happening This Week: Fest Afrika Reykjavík
Reykjavík is a small city. Attend one of the many music festivals, join in a summer art residency, or just…
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Iceland Airwaves 2016 Schedule Announced
Do you have your Moleskine planner/Google calendar/coffee-stained napkin/whatever is closest ready? Because it’s time to start planning. The official Iceland…
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Just Announced: Björk To Play Airwaves 2016
There’s a running joke that the only thing people know about Icelandic music abroad is Björk or Sígur Rós. Iceland…
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Grapevine Playlist: September 2016
by John Rogers, Parker Yamasaki and Sveinbjörn Pálsson
GANGLY – Holy Grounds So this is a bouncy bass thing for you luxuriously soundsystemed car, but at the same…
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Happening Tonight: Sin Fang and Tilbury at Húrra!
Last we saw Sin Fang, he was spewing flowers on the cover of his highly acclaimed 2013 album ‘Flowers’. Since…
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The Third Annual Icelandic Design Awards
Let’s talk about fruit stickers. Why should every piece of fruit have to wear its own tiny, gummy, frustratingly delicate…
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Music News In Brief: Sin Fang, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Exos, and more!
Sweet thang Sin Fang released his fourth full-length album on September 16. The album, titled ‘Spaceland’, blasts listeners into the…
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What It Takes: Hrönn Marinósdóttir, Founder and Director of RIFF
Twelve years ago, Hrönn Marinósdóttir started RIFF as a school project. For her master’s thesis at Reykjavík University she decided…
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From Within: A Look Inside The RIFF Office
It’s not just the films that make RIFF an international film festival. Every year tens of interns and hundreds of…
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Get It Twisted: Graphic Designers Loki and Elsa
Loki Björnsson and Elsa Jónsdóttir were walking by Pósthússtræti 13 when they noticed the empty space on the ground floor….
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New In Town: Kaffi Laugalækur
It is easy to forget that Reykjavík extends beyond Austurvöllur on one end and Hlemmur on the other. Hörður Jóhannesson…