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DLX ATX AND THEN SOME!

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There are all these nice krútt bands around, but evil also lurks in Reykjavík’s cutesy music scene. There are dark…

Everyone Loves Sudden Weather Change

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Everyone loves Sudden Weather Change. At least everyone who loves their music sprinkled with fuckloads of guitar noise, triple harmonies…

For A Minor Reflection Are Comin’ To Gitcha!

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It’s all in the name. At least in the case of For a Minor Reflection. We dare anyone to imagine…

Endless Dark Are Not Like The Other Bands

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Endless Dark are one of the many young Icelandic bands performing at Iceland Airwaves for the first time this year….

Bárujárn Are Just What We Were Waiting For

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Bárujárn have been busy reinvigorating the Icelandic music scene for over two years now! This band of anarchic surf rockers…

kimono Do Not Play Math Rock

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Operating out of Iceland for the greater part of the last decade, kimono have long been your classic band’s band,…

You Need To See Go Go Darkness

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The Go-Go Darkness are a creative vehicle for the combined forces of Singapore Sling mastermind Henrik Björnsson and his spouse,…

Efterklang: You Know You Want To

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“It will be our first concert in Iceland. That’s enough accomplishment for us.” Hi Efterklang! Tell us a little bit…

It’s My Responsibility To Focus on Unknown Bands

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Parisian filmmaker Mathieu Saura, better known as Vincent Moon, catapulted to fame after shooting The Arcade Fire playing in an…

Sour Grapes and stuff

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GRAPEVINE AIN’T GOT LEGS To whom it may concern, It is with a heavy solemn sorrow I draft to you…

Iceland Airwaves Warm-Up

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For years, the staff of the Iceland Airwaves festival has worked tirelessly to promote the festival abroad as an exciting…

Economist: Ministers Could Have Reduced Damage

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While the Prime Minister has contended that none of the four former ministers recommended by a parliamentary committee to be…

Cinephiles Rejoice

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Summer is nice and all, with all its sunshine and what not. But there is something missing. Films in particular….

Farewell, but not goodbye, to the House band from Hell…

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I love free shit. If there is something that I can get for nothing, then my grasping mitts are all…

Bjarnfreðarson

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Georg Bjarnfreðarson is a fucked up, middle aged lunatic. And he’s in prison for murdering a woman. But, after Georg…

ENTER THE HANGOVER

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The summer of 2010 has been one of festivals and parties. Every goddamn weekend has been dominated by a three-day…

Bubblicious!

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The collapse of the Icelandic financial system in October of 2008 did not only squash any dreams Icelanders had of…

Grand Old Aunt Björk

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ON THAT WHOLE MAGMA ENERGY/ HS ORKA THING -What, in your view, is the Magma deal all about? It is…

Barefoot Iceland

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Iceland: a veritable cornucopia of textures. Soft snow, smooth ice, squishy moss and a whole lot of hard rock. During…

Civilisation?

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I just returned from a little jaunt to London. It was my birthday and my brother, in his infinite generosity,…

Shit From An Old Notebook (Mostly)

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It is sometimes said about Akureyri that it is the most delightful place in Iceland – until its inhabitants wake…