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Top 5 After-Hours Hangouts
It’s an acknowledged and loathed snag, the confusion that takes over during Iceland Airwaves when the concert schedule has been concluded and you’re all too sweaty, horny and psyched up to call it a night. It’s even so common that the carnival…
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Everything Everything Have Never Read Naomi Klein
“I grew up without a TV in the middle of nowhere and was always encouraged to use my imagination, I learned some instruments and downloaded a really crap sequencer and just spent all my time making music. I kept playing because it…
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Vuk Will Probably Enchant You
“I’ve been making music all my life, wherever I’ve been. I do it for love and because it’s the most natural, honest form of expression I know.” Tell us a little bit about yourself: who you are, what you do, why you…
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Árni Rúnar’s Fabulous Gear Guide To Airwaves
Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson is one hell of a guy. When he’s not making music with FM Belfast or some of his numerous other projects, the good man is busy building, fixing or remixing instruments, electronic gadgets and computers. He’s really smart with…
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An Autodrone Shaped Bloodstain On Iceland
“Well we are Autodrone, we come from New York City and we make the only kind of music that we are capable of making.” Hey Autodrone! Tell us a little bit about yourself: who you are, what you do, why you do…
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The Icelandic Electronic Odyssey
It’s been a good summer for electronic music in Iceland. At least three interconnected electronica collectives have been wreaking havoc in Reykjavík’s music venues: Electric Ethics, Extreme Chill and Hljóðaklettar. These three superpowers, in collaboration with the Icelandic Airwaves festival, will join…
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Your Handy Guide For Airwaves 2010
We are always hanging out in downtown Reykjavík (it’s where most of us work and live, you know), so we are fairly familiar with the venues that will be in use for Iceland Airwaves 2010. Lucky you, then, that we would bother…
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Airwaves Off-Venue 2010
Grapevine’s Most Fun Shop of 2010 sure lives up to its reputation during this years Iceland Airwaves music festival. The epicenter of off-venue fun, Havarí have about twenty bands performing on their daytime festival extravaganza. Everything from avant garde noise to sophisticated…
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Icelandic Metal Is [insert Eyjafjallajökull pun here]!
Don’t be lame. Subject yourself to Icelandic metal. Trust me, it will pull you in all sorts of directions ‘cause our bands steer clear of sloppy seconds. They are dynamic, diverse, and bloody good a lot of the time… Members of the…
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Kraumur and Backyard at Iceland Airwaves
Icelandic music documentary Backyard, will be screened at Bíó Paradís over the Airwaves festival this coming weekend. The film, which features top Icelandic bands múm, FM Belfast, Hjaltalín, Reykjavík!, Borko, Sin Fang and Retro Stefson, will be screened daily starting Wednesay, with…
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S.H. Draumur (1982 – 1988): Kicking Against The Pricks
In 1982 I had been in bands for three years with basically the same guys in Kópavogur. Myself on bass (and sometimes guitar), Steini on guitar and Haukur on drums. The first band was an unfocused early teen band called Dordinglar (“The…
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The Annual Iceland Airwaves Editorial
I will come right out and say it: I have been in love with the Iceland Airwaves festival ever since I was a teenager. There’s just something about it. Something in the air. I can’t really define it. I guess it’s some…
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Amiina: puzzle
Amiina venture into new musical horizons with ‘puzzle’, their second full-length album. The male infusion of Magnús Tryggvason Elíassen on drums and electronic artist Kippi Kaninus brings a notably bigger, gutsier sound, progressing from the lighter, string based arrangements many might be…
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Life Outside The Mainstream (1982–1985)
Bubbi Morthens and Utangarðsmenn hit the dull sugarcoated Icelandic pop scene in 1980, spreading raw excitement in their wake. Almost overnight all the seventies pop stars seemed passé. In 1981, the new rock scene exploded with bands such as Þeyr, Purrkur Pillnikk,…
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Iceland Airwaves Warm-Up
For years, the staff of the Iceland Airwaves festival has worked tirelessly to promote the festival abroad as an exciting option for a weekend get-away destination for young people on both sides of the Atlantic. As a part of this effort, Iceland…
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Spark
SPARK is a platform for various design projects with a focus on projects that involve collaboration between designers and other professions. Phone: 552 2656 Website: www.sparkdesignspace.com/designspace/ Address: Klapparstíg 33, 101 Reykjavík Show On Map: click here
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Árnesinga Folk Museum, Eyrarbakki
The museum is located in one of Iceland’s oldest buildings, built in 1765. Merchant families lived in the House for almost two centuries during which the House was the centre for art and European culture in Iceland; fashion, music and literature spread…
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Akureyri Museum
The exhibitions provide the visitor with ample information concerning the history of the fjord from settlement era as well as the history of Akureyri and its development since the 19th century. Permanent exhibitions all year and additional temporary exhibitions in summer. Don’t…
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ART67
ART67 is a small and colourful art gallery, offering a selection of modern art, paintings, ceramics and glass made by Icelandic artists Phone: 5116767 Address: Laugavegur 67, 101 Reykjavík Website: Facebook page Show On Map: click here
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Jónas Viðar Gallery, Akureyri
Jónas Viðar Gallery was founded 2005 by Jónas Viðar, an artist in Akureyri. It´s located in the Cultural Center of Akureyri featuring exhibits by Jónas himself, as well as guest exhibitions. Address: Kaupvangsstræti 12, 600 Akureyri Phone: 866 5021 Website: www.jvs.is/jvgallery.htm Show…
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Bíó Paradís
The old Regnboginn cinema was closed since June this year, but has reopened with a new program and a new name: Bió Paradís. This alternative cinema concentrates on screening the latest in world cinema, classical/repertory cinema, documentaries, shorts and experimental films with…
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Esja
This stylish bar is located in the centre of Reykjavíks party mile. If you like it elegant and chilled – this is your place. There is a dress code and a 25-year age limit, though, so dust off the snazz and bring…
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Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður
Skaftfell was founded in the year 1998 by a group of art enthusiasts in the town of Seyðisfjörður . The centre is situated in a grand old house, built in 1907. It serves as a residency and an exhibition space. On the…