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Wednesday Airwaves Photos
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Like A Bat Into Hell…
Cancer Bats have been making music as dark as their name suggests—angry, post-punk, post-hardcore metal that just raises just an occasional eyebrow to more mainstream rock—since 2004, when singer Liam Cormier and guitarist Scott Middleton met in Toronto, Canada, and decided to…
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Share with Us Your Tidings, Good Airwavers!
Chew on this: Attending Airwaves is, in many regards, like working a 9-5 job. Okay, just bear with me for a second and consider the facts: You’ve got your co-workers (a few thousand attendees); minimum job requirements (must know how to party…
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Eberg
Who are you? What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? I´m Eberg, and you can expect me in more electric mood than usually at Airwaves. In general, you can expect a soft,…
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You’ve got to hoooold on!
“Everything is live! No playbacks, no karaoke, great musicians and me in pink outfit with a lot of energy! It can’t fail!” says Berndsen, selling his upcoming Airwaves performance to everybody out there still unfamiliar with this new kid on the block.…
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Batterííð – Wednesday
Word. Or whatever. Batteríið was the place to be for hiphop fans (particularly Icelandic hiphop) on the opening night of Airwaves, boasting a full line up of local street poets. The night started somewhat inauspiciously with the cancellation of Poetrix‘s set, disappointing…
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Kimono
Who are you? What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? We are Kimono, an Icelandic-Canadian band formed in Reykjavík in 2001. We’ve been a trio for two years now, but we’ve released…
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Sheer Magic
Shit. I mean, wow. Where to begin? Can mere words even do justice to the emotion KK and Árstíðir evoked during two too short hours at Fríkirkjan? For starters, we’re in a church. Being cramped up on those typical too-narrow church benches…
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Grand Rokk – Wednesday
Yes. Clarinet. Single most awesome instrument of the type you blow through. I was impressed by the clarinet. How it played with the melody; the build up, the construction how it took melodies and changed into leads that changed into solos. Beautiful…
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Jacobsen – Wednesday
The electronic music scene in Iceland has probably never been stronger. It seems every night a new band, a new collective or a new club night is born. It’s simply the most promising scene in Iceland right now and, hey, the kids…
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NASA – Wednesday
Except for a hive of photographers up front, NASA was largely empty as Me, the Slumbering Napoleon took the stage. I know 19:30 is early people, but this is a festival, and sometimes the real diamonds are hiding in the rough. The three…
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Sódóma – Wednesday
Led by Icelandic folk star Þórir (of My Summer as a Salvation Soldier, Gavin Portland, Deathmetal Supersquad) , melancholic trio Bummer started the night, striking some intensively sentimental tones. In some ways, the band bore a rather righteously coined moniker, ‘cause what…
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First Night Down
So our first night of music and mayhem is behind us, pretty much. It’s been good. We’ve been around. We went dancing at Retro Stefson (Sódóma – KIMI night), we moshed through Me, The Slumbering Napoleon, we slack-jawedly gazed at Pascal Pinon…
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Airwaves Blog #1!
O.M.F.G. you guys!!! I just strapped on my day-glo fluorescent yellow wristband and hooked my strap onto my press pass. I picked out my shows and got the okay from the Editor Boss-Man. I am about to hit Airwaves 2009! You don’t…
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Airwaves Revisited
Photographer Ojay L’eroe has come to Iceland Airwaves almost as long as the festival has existed. He has seen the festival grow in size and scale and captured the progression of some of Iceland’s most notorious acts as they flourished. He has…
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Dynamo Fog
Who are you? What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? Mostly, we’re just Dynamo Fog. There seems to be this weird hype that we’re some kind of fist fighting britpop-esque supergroup that…
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Moto Boy
Moto Boy! Give us a short introduction of yourself! Why should we check out your show? Well, I’m not going to sweet-talk myself and sell the show with the usual promo stuff. Let’s just say I’m the greatest singer since Julio Iglesias,…
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Agent Fresco
Who are you? What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? My name is Arnór Dan Arnarson and I am the singer of the band Agent Fresco. With me I have three very…
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Weapons at Iceland Airwaves
Who are you? What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? My name is Óli Dóri, and I play bass for the band Weapons. What you can expect from our appearance is that…
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There’s Also Icelandic Metal! Check it out!
The Airwaves festival is a good thing. Bunch of bands, amalgam of styles and genres. Couple of great bands, bunch of good ones, healthy dose of meh-bands and then there are the selected annoying, pretentious and pathetic bands. And I wouldn’t want…
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The Jet Korine Guide To Buying Fashion During Airwaves
Jet Korine is a Reykjavík based fashion designer, stylist and costume designer. She hails from the Netherlands, although she has been in Iceland long enough for folks to call her an Icelander. She is without doubt one of Reykjavík’s smartest dressers, and…
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One With The Wolves
I first came across Ben’s music right around when Theory of Machines was released. Like most genres, electronic/experimental music can be very dull at times. On the cover of his record I found the musician suspended from what appeared to be a…
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Moto Boy
Mozzer—were you in Sverige 20-odd years ago? We think you were… If Morrissey was a little less of a miserable, arguably racist posing old foppish shit-haired wannabe light entertainment Tony Blackburn-show type buffoon, and if he spent less time waving flowers about…