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Your Guide to This Summer’s Releases
This year’s highlight is obviously Sigur Rós’ announced release of their first studio album since 2005’s Takk. But wait, that’s…
Reykjavík – the Insiders Guide
Summer is on – again, which means the streets of Reykjavík are crowded with tourists – again. Like an invading…
Sour Grapes Issue 04 2008
Dear ladies and gentlemen, a friend told me Iceland girls look like fairies. Do they? Kindest regards, Yacine Azzouz Dear…
Björk
Did she just say what I thought she said? That was the question on the lips of my fellow revellers…
Last Call: Sirkus is Closing
“Of course I’ll miss this place. I mean, where else can you find such a good vibe on a Sunday…
When Reykjavík Visits Rotterdam
It is cold, but serenely clear tonight. The atmosphere feels transparent, as if Rotterdam is opening up its sores to…
Airwaves Highlights
Art Museum – Thursday: Jenny Wilson introduced her track “Bitter” by quoting its lyric “I love to complain”; the songwriter…
Folk and Frost
Despite having a capital city that sits a snowball’s throw away from the North Pole and boasts a population smaller…
Elves in Cultural Vocabulary
Terry Gunnel is a professor of Folkloristics at the Unicersity of Iceland. He recently initiated a survey to explore how…
Airwaves Special: Ben Frost
by Nick Candy
Ben Frost originally studied music in Melbourne, Australia, and began making a career as a sound artist in the great…
A Buffet of Quality Icelandic Designs
The interior design exhibition and trade show ‘Home and Design’ takes place for the second time at the new Laugardalshöll…
Countdown to Airwaves: 4 Weeks
The Iceland Airwaves web site, at www.icelandairwaves. com, is a great resource in this respect, as it lists all of…
Confessions of an Art-Terrorist
Let’s take it from the top. When did you start playing drums? That’s a story to tell. From a young…
How Did You Like Iceland?
I The other day I was flipping through Hugleikur Dagsson’s “Avoid Us,” the English translation of the one-line Icelandic comics…
Spreading the Love
The Icelandic Love Corporation is celebrating its 11-year anniversary with an extensive retrospective inside the Reykjavík Art Museum on Tryggvagata….
All Things in Life – Not for All Though
The town of Akureyri, considered to be the northern capital of Iceland, is known for its charm and calm beauty….
Sour Grapes
Re: On Advertisement When I was 18, I was a communist. I’m not really sure why, the whole thing just…
Toys for Tourists
by Zoë Robert
Choosing that perfect souvenir to send home can be difficult when stores sell pretty much the same the world ‘round….
Rafskinna
Rafskinna, Iceland’s first magazine in DVD format, is a beautifully packaged, attractive collectible. Beyond the 2½ hours of (mostly unseen)…
Are We Ever Going to Find the Next Björk?
In the late eighties, The Sugarcubes became closer to what can be called international stardom than any Icelandic band before…
How do you like AIR?
They’re veterans, AIR. They’ve been doing the album-tour-album-tour format for almost a decade now, squeezing in the occasional festival gig…