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Iceland Airwaves Begins: Hear Our First GrapeWaves Daily Podcast Now
by John Rogers
Airwaves is off and running! As well as our journalist team at-large, this year we’re joined by American radio host…
Airwaves Sunday Super Review: Thunder, Lightning, And All The Feels
And it feels like as soon as the festival has begun, it’s already gone. Airwaves 2017, we barely knew thee….
Sónar Preview: Synth Auteurs And Feminist Rap
This year’s edition of the Sónar Reykjavík festival features some high-profile international headliners, from Ben Klock and Fatboy Slim to…
Newer, Bitier Species Of Midge Discovered
The tiny, rash-inducing biting fly that has plagued campers across North America has finally made its first appearance in Iceland,…
A Trip Hop Legend
BonoboSimon Green’s alias, Bonobo, took formal shape in the late ‘90s with the release of the 1999 song “Terrapin,” which…
“Good Work, Gang!”
This evening Lára Rúnars gives the sense of a pop star ‘dressed down’ with a loose fitting dress and brandishing…
Rangling And Raving at Faktorý Upstairs
At times throughout last night at the Faktorý upstairs stage, it felt less so a case of how amazing the artist was, but more which period of Aphex Twin’s career the artist most respected. At other times it felt like a flat out knees up rave. Aside from standout act Rangleklods, the lineup offered IDM, acid house, drum’n’bass, grind’n’bass, acid, acid’n’bass, throb’n’bass, acid’n’acid, or in one case “topless dance party gacked on acid’n’bass.”
Eistnaflug 2012 Saturday REVIEW
by Bob Cluness
As Saturday dawned and our final musical journey began, the combination of three days of illegal hard liquor, scorching sun…
Eistnaflug 2012 Thursday REVIEW
by Bob Cluness and Rex Beckett
“Hey Eyþór! What’s that strange shiny thing up in the sky there?” “I don’t know man, but it’s doing weird…
Faktorý – Friday
Well what a difference a year makes. Grand Rokk, a place where hope and good music went to die is…
Full Metal Racket!
by Bogi Bjarnason, Bob Cluness and Ragnar Egilsson
The annual sweaty moshfest that is the Eistnaflug metal festival descended upon the tiny Eastfjords village of Neskaupstaður like a…
Faktorý – Friday
by Bob Cluness
Photo by Hvalreki Well what a difference a year makes. Grand Rokk, a place where hope and good music went…
S.H. Draumur (1982 – 1988): Kicking Against The Pricks
by Dr. Gunni
In 1982 I had been in bands for three years with basically the same guys in Kópavogur. Myself on bass…
Brasilia Is Meaty, Hearty, Heavy
If you’ve walked past Brasilia (Skólavörðustíg 14) then you know it’s not shy about its ethnicity. Proudly engulfed inside and…
Chasing Monsters in East-Iceland
Like most small towns in Iceland, Fellabær (pop. 350) seems to be little more than a random collection of houses…