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FILM: Relive The Action With Our Airwaves 2015 Short
During the joyful city-wide celebration that was the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival 2015, filmmaker Timothée Lambrecq caught up with Sóley and GKR during rare moments of downtime to discuss their Airwaves experiences. He also prowled the festivals various parties and halls, and…
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Þórir Georg: It’s Always The Quiet Ones
Þórir Georg is the first to admit that he’s not much for interviews or self-promotion of an kind. Although he’s enjoyed a diverse, overly active career as a musician over the past decade-plus, driven by a strong work ethic that’s resulted in…
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Learning To Love The Icelandic Rap Sheet
Icelandic rappers had been dotting my Spotify for some time, but until Airwaves 2015, I didn’t get what a socialist-leaning, generally-doing-alright country could rap about. But before you grab your rosaries or voodoo dolls or whatever, know that I’m a changed woman now.…
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You Can’t Always Force It
I swear, I wanted to party last night. When I saw my work schedule for this week I said to myself, and everyone around me, “Well, I’ll just have to go all out on Friday night.” That was my plan. So why…
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Cum 2 Rag On Ho99o9? Don’t Bother: My Interview With Ho99o9
The OGM aka BLUEFACE from punk-rap group Ho99o9 (pronounced “horror”) leans into the crowd, plaid boxer briefs peeking out of his blue boxer’s shorts. A girl caresses his sweaty chest and licks his nipple. Eaddy, the other part of Ho99o9, is loading imaginary…
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YAMAHO’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
Kött grá pje at 15:00 at Hlemmur Square: A rapper with long hair… Need I say more? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgRv7XWJnZs Dr Gunni at 16:00 at Kaffihús Vesterbæjar or at 20:50 at Gamla Bíó: A man that writes a song about farts is not a…
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Airwaves Day One: Terror In The Chest, Taking It In The Ass & Unexpected Horse Dick
So I’m just back from a four day trip around the south of Iceland, when I wake up from a deep ten-hour sleep, aching head to toe from walking and hiking and being in a car for a long period of time.…
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DJ Introbeats Offers A Warm-Up Mix For Airwaves
Introbeats is a constant presence on the Reykjavík music scene. Whether DJing in Prikið and Kaffibarinn, producing his own tracks a mixes, or scratching with Icelandic rap acts, he’s a very familiar face to anyone who spends time in 101 — especially…
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IMX To Host Music “Nonference” At Airwaves 2015
For each of the well-known and soon-to-be-discovered artists that flood into Iceland to play Airwaves each year, there’s also a behind-the-scenes crew. From a general manager who handles the band’s business affairs, to a tour-manager who handles the practicalities of being on…
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“Do you think we are all one?”: QT Interviewed
QT is an interesting recent appearance on the refreshments scene. Fronted by an American artist who asked for the purposes of this interview to be referred to only as “Quinnton”, the QT project first announced itself as a drink, using a mixture…
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Airwaves Homework: 5 New Tracks By Battles, Beach House, SOPHIE And More
As Airwaves ’15 closes in, we’ve been keeping a watchful eye on some of the incoming bands you might be interested in seeing. They keep releasing new music like there’s no tomorrow! But there is probably a tomorrow. So don’t worry too…
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Airwaves Brings Lyrical Wall Art Series To Reykjavík
Airwaves has announced a new public art element as part of the 2015 festival. In collaboration with Urban Nation Berlin, the Wall Poetry project paired a selection of Icelandic musicians together with street artists, who then created large-scale outdoor artworks using lyrics…
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Airwaves To-Do List: Join A Snake Cult
Icelandic acid-pop duo Just Another Snake Cult dropped a new video today, in which band leader Þórir Bogason runs through a Tron-like analogue 3D world, also multiplying into a big-band of long-haired clones. Says Thor, of the video’s retro sci-fi aesthetic: “The…
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6 New Icelandic Bands To Watch Out For At Airwaves
As well as being a monolithic highlight on the city’s festival calendar, Iceland Airwaves also functions as a kind of informal annual survey of what’s good in the Icelandic music scene. Unusually, native bands make up the majority of the lineup, giving…
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Wow Nice! Airwaves Is Coming! Epic 297-Track Mixtape!
With the full lineup announced and tickets selling fast, it’s now less than two months until the annual 101-wide party of Iceland Airwaves blows into town. We at the Reykjavík Grapevine are partnering once again with the festival in 2015, which means…
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Björk Cancels Airwaves & Other Festival Dates
Sad news for Björk fans came out today. The singer has cancelled a series of live dates, including the Pitchfork Festival in Paris, La Route Du Rock in France and Iceland Airwaves. The reason given for the cancellation was a scheduling conflict,…
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Airwaves Announce Mercury Rev, Arca And Lots More
This year is passing so fast, huh? A minute ago it was new year, and now we’re already past midsummer… With that in mind, the Airwaves festival will be here in no time, and today they unleashed another mouth-watering lineup announcement. The…
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Iceland Airwaves To Tour The Country This Week
Iceland Airwaves will go on tour to some of the country’s more far flung regions this week. DJ flugvél og geimskip, Emmsjé Gauti and Agent Fresco will hit the road from a string of dates that take them to the tiny towns…
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Hold On To Your Visa Cards… Björk Is Playing Airwaves
Björk has been announced to play at Iceland Airwaves 2015. If that’s all you need to know to go and buy a ticket, then yep, cool, we feel you. You can do that here. We’ll wait for you. No, really, it’s no…
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What? An Airwaves ’15 Announcement Already? Okay!
Hey you! Stop drinking that honey & lemon flu drink and pause your Friends marathon for the next one minute and ten seconds. Because even though it’s January and Airwaves ’14 feels like it just finished, the festival has already announced the…