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Screaming Masterpiece?
After a decade’s worth of editions of the Iceland Airwaves festival, the event has finally been captured for the big screen. The documentary Where’s The Snow?! directed by Bowen Staines and Gunnar B. Guðbjörnsson was shot on the spur of the moment…
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Grapevine’s Picks For Friday
Wow. So it’s day three of Iceland Airwaves already. And we’re not even remotely tired of music, life, alcohol, fun times and friends (perhaps we will sing a different tune come Monday – who knows!). It’s been intense and fun, and we…
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Introducing Everyone’s Favourite Venue Of 2010: Tjarnarbíó
So we’re two days into Airwaves-frenzy, and it’s all been going splendidly up until now! Great times! Fun bands! Wet beer! And folks have been talking a lot, too. We like to troll or listen in when folks are saying interesting things…
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Arnljótur’s Picks For Friday
Arnljótur is a member of Ojba Rasta, Sin Fang and Berndsen. He also plays solo as Arnljótur, and you can often see him on stage with a bunch of other bands. He is highly involved with the local music scene, and he…
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Sonic Iceland Recommends
Sonic Iceland is the brainchild of two bloggers, Kai and Marcel from Germany and Ireland, who – being fascinated with Icelandic music ever since – decided to spend the whole month of June this year in Iceland. We conducted loads of interviews…
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DLX ATX AND THEN SOME!
There are all these nice krútt bands around, but evil also lurks in Reykjavík’s cutesy music scene. There are dark sinister bands out there, bands that play dark and sinister music. One of Grapevine’s favourite purveyors of evil are definitely DLX ATX,…
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HumanWoman Pick Five For Airwaves
HumanWoman is an excellent new local band comprised of the lovely hairdoctor Jón Atli Jónasson (AKA Sexy Lazer) and Gísli Galdur (of Trabant, Langi Seli & Skuggarnir and many other excellent bands). They are hepcats, they know their dance music and they…
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Amsterdam – Thursday
Amsterdam is somewhat of a surprising venue this year. It’s the home of sleazy regulars, and reeks of beer and sweat. A place one normally never goes to, except perhaps when the crowd across the road at Bakkus is overbearing and one…
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Reykjavík Art Museum – Thursday
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson Thinking I would be late, I burst in the side door of the Reykjavík Art Museum into total emptiness. Eva from Hundreds was chilling with a cigarette, the girls from Amiina were doing their makeup and the stagehands…
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Urban Psychedelia And Fiery Myths
Sometimes it takes a long time for bands to form. Childhood friendships, painstaking auditions and frustrating jam sessions until the perfect balance is found. For Yuni In Taxco, a five-piece band from Seattle, it happened very suddenly under the awe-inspiring force of…
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Tjarnarbíó – Thursday
Photo by Hvalreki Most of the people who had shown up at 19:10 for Kristín Bergsdóttir’s set at Tjarnarbíó were members of her big band. That is to say, there were about as many people in the audience as on the stage.…
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Like Drinking A Bottle Of Cough Syrup On The Beach
Photo by Jen McManus New York rockers The Vandelles are very likely the coolest band to hit Airwaves this year. With their mix of sixties surf, psychedelia and a noise laden wall of sound they’ve hypnotized crowds with something that has been…
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Sódóma – Thursday
Dressed in black, white and red wearing gelled quiffs and bringing an upright black bass along, the 59’s lived up to their name. Forming a classical rockabilly band (lead singer/rhythm guitar, solo guitar, bass and drums) the 59’s told their tales about…
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Iðnó – Thursday
Photo by Tomasz Þór Veruson and Morgan Levy Iðnó took a chill pill this Thursday night, with Biggibix, Klassart, Moddi, Moses Hightower, Lay Low and Seabear supplying the goods for a laid back night with a living room-type atmosphere. Given that it’s…
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NASA – Thursday
Photo by Páll Hilmarsson I have seen the pitiless black heart of Icelandic rock music and now my life is never really going to be the same again… All things considered I only have myself to blame. Spending an eternity of graft,…
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Everyone Loves Sudden Weather Change
Everyone loves Sudden Weather Change. At least everyone who loves their music sprinkled with fuckloads of guitar noise, triple harmonies and a sweet ‘90s spirit and weight that far too often seems missing from today’s music (think: Cap’n Jazz playing around with…
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Venue – Thursday
Photo by Morgan Levy At eight, the venue is as empty as one would expect at such an early hour. A shame that Original Melody are stuck with such a shitty slot, as I thought they’d climbed a wee bit higher up…
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Faktorý – Thursday
Photo by Hördur Sveinsson The women in the crowd were probably heart-warmed by the singer’s shirtless antics; Cities Between Us perhaps makes up for their stale, uninspired barrage of longhaired cock rock with a vigorous stage presence. Though they could have done…
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Apótekið – Thursday
Photo by Morgan Levy When you go to a music festival it is your ethical duty to do two things: 1) Check out unfamiliar music. 2) Dance. So, with the aim of killing two birds with one drum machine I went to…
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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 and folk-pop bands this evening. How fitting that people could sit at tables and listen to the concerts while having a nice…
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The Band That Came In From The Köld…
Ever since their debut EP ‘Til Vahallar’ was released in 1996, Sólstafir have been mainstays of the Icelandic metal community. But the release of their 2009 Album ‘Köld’ and heavy touring in Europe have seen them achieve significant success among the European…
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Psychedelia and Madness: The Klink Experience
Klink have the reputation for being one of Iceland’s most brutal live acts, a blistering force of metalcore. They quit for a while, but got back together in 2009. And now they’re looking to take the Klink experience to the next level…
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Morbidity And Contempt
The rise of Gone Postal within the Icelandic metal scene has been akin to something of a death metal juggernaut. Just one year ago I thought that these upstarts were, judging by their name, a bunch of crust-oriented politics spewing nobodies. Man…