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Gerðarsafn, Art Museum Kópavogur
Gerðarsafn is a art museum collecting and exhibiting modern and contemporary art. It is situated in an impressive building in Kópavogur, a town immediately south of Reykjavík. The museum is dedicated to the memory of the sculptor and stained-glass artist Gerður Helgadóttir.…
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Efterklang Inspires A New Generation Of Efterkids
Welcome to Efterkids, the brainchild of Danish super band Efterklang. The project, which out in February of this year, seeks to raise awareness around the issue of greater music education in public schools, as well as fundraise for increased access to music…
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Mokka-Espresso-Kaffi
Mokkakaffi was founded in 1958 by couple Guðný Guðjónsdóttur and Gudmundur Baldvinssyni and the place still in the same family. It is one of the oldest cafes in Reykjavik and the first cafes in Iceland to introduce Italian coffee making. Besides Italian…
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Kaffitár Café
Kaffitár on Bankastræti is a comfortable little café with a great selection of coffee, tea and baked goods on offer. Since Kaffitár is also a big-name Icelandic roasterie the caffeinated beverages on the menu are quality. The wi-fi makes this a nice…
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Players, Kópavogur
Players is a classical sports bar: a lot of TV’s transmitting all important sport events, pool tables for a little sport of your own, and well – there is also beer. Besides sports, there are also concerts held at Players. Address: Bæjarlind…
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Miri: Okkar
This is magnificent. It really is. Miri, the band who made the album in question, are almost purely an instrumental band, and when they use vocals they are used rather as instruments rather than to convey a meaning. The only song that…
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NASA – Sunday
Photo by Hvalreki The first band to play that night was Orphic Oxtra who helped get me over my intense anger (at NASA, they charged money for water) with their fun Balkan inspired ensemble. The band is great; they have a lot…
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Sódóma – Sunday
Photo by Hvalreki [For whatever reason, we had the hardest time getting people to review Sódóma that Sunday night. It seems everyone wanted to be at NASA (or at home, licking their wounds). Thus, we divided the night’s duties between the above…
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Mount Kimbie: Crooks & Lovers
Dubstep has grown from a small London niche to the predominant genre in electronic music. Alas this has meant that most stuff you’ll hear is often sub-standard techno DJs whacking an elephant anus-prolapse bass synth over tinny beats. Thank goodness that the…
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Second Coming
I didn’t expect to see fourteen musicians on stage, a mind-boggling array of instruments and an audience ranging from rock royalty to little old ladies, but that’s what I got at Amiina’s album release concert at NASA earlier this month. Debuting songs…
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Parties And Shows TONITE!
So Iceland Airwaves is really almost over. Thank the lord. This is SO TIRING. But it ain’t over yet, and we are busy getting ourselves all hyped up for tonight’s concert madness. One last night, then it’s off to rehab. Promise. So…
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Art Museum – Saturday
Photos by Hvalreki and Páll Hilmarsson a)Holy shit, this place looks awesome. It’s about time Iceland had a real pop/rock venue that is aesthetically pleasing as well as comfortable, and the Art Museum, bedecked in all its Airwaves finery (huge speakers, tasteful…
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Tjarnarbíó – Saturday
Photo by Hvalreki [Maleen Mohr took the first two acts at Tjarnarbíó so that Anna Andersen could go see her brother’s band, Just Another Snake Cult, play at Sódóma. Then she took over for the rest of the exciting evening. Enter Maleen]…
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Amsterdam – Saturday
Amsterdam is a bit of a mixed bag tonight with a reasonably mixed line up ranging from teenage spunk to old school screaming punk. As I rock up I’m relieved to see the building still standing after the apocalyptic events that went…
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Talking Out Of Phones
Dan Deacon is best known for two things: a profanity laden viral video and bleep-bloopy dance music that hipsters really, really love. The Baltimore resident is actually a conservatory trained musician with a degree in electro-acoustic and computer music composition who can…
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Iðnó – Saturday
Photo by Hvalreki Not very typically Airwaves-like, the first show of the day featured not a rock band but a young guy on a grand piano. Nils Frahm from Germany wasn’t wearing tails and bow tie but a comfy hoodie and designer…
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Faktorý – Saturday
Photo by Morgan Levy. Lazyblood show us how it’s done The night began awesomely well at Faktory on Saturday, with Lazyblood kicking things off in style. They played to an appreciative crowd, who gathered in a small group around the stage. No…
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Don’t You Know Who I am? I’m Nick Coxon, Music Journalist To The Stars!
I spent yesterday downloading the final episode of the BBC series, ‘Sherlock. I know, it may be illegal, but there was no way I was going to wait several months for RÚV (or god forbid Skjáreinn) to obtain the rights to show…
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Venue – Saturday
Photo by Hvalreki. The evening was cold and wet when I arrived at Venue. No lines had formed outside of the Art Museum (yet) and exactly three people had arrived before me eager to get this second-to-last night of Airwaves started. I…
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Risið – Saturday
Photo by Hvalreki Things weren’t looking so great when I walked up the stairs to Risið on Saturday and was one of eight people in the room, including the three bartenders and the bands that had arrived. It was precisely 19:10, when…
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NASA – Saturday
Photo by Hvalreki As Hellvar get ready to play their set, we look around to see that NASA is completely empty. Apparently some Swedish pop act is playing at the art museum tonight (The Cardigans?) and this means NASA is a ghost…
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Apótekið – Saturday
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson After last night’s disaster of a dance concert, my hopes for my third straight night at Apótekið are low. But, to hell with it all, I will do my best to enjoy the line-up, which seems like it’ll…
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Grapevine’s Picks For Saturday! + CONTEST ACTION!
WOW! Fuck. Huh? Yeah. So we’re on the second-to-last day of Airwaves. Are you tired? Because we are. But fuck that. Tired is for losers, we can sleep when were dead – PUMP ANOTHER BEER MOTHERFUCKER, WE ARE TAKING THIS THING TO…