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A GRAB-BAG OF GUITAR-ROCK
Hello, Airwaves. Having arrived at the festival a day late thanks to a certain big storm on America’s East Coast, I was treated to an evening of mostly homegrown talent at Amsterdam. Like a lot of Icelandic bands I’ve seen, these ones…
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Something Old, Something New: From Country To The Cutting Edge
Ladies and gentleman, come on in. We have quite a spectacle here at Kaldalon this evening. On drums, we have the polar opposite of Keith Moon! This man hits the drums like no other: he’s never bruised a skin. He is indisputably…
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Doldrums Steal The Show: Iðnó, Night Two
They sing about crack cocaine, coke, being broke and drinking whiskey without an air of satire or wit, any insightful experiences that may inform these songs lost in irritatingly trite lyrics.
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Beats, Rhymes And Life: Faktorý Downstairs
I don’t do drugs (often), but if I did I would do them while listening to artists like Thizone. Oops, I’ve fallen down a K-hole and I can’t get up! Then again, it’s sort of nice down here… Thizone serves up tracks…
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Ups And Downs At Gamli Gaukurinn
There may be gale force winds trying to blow festivalgoers towards the sea tonight, but there’s not a lot that the weather can do to dampen spirits. The sky’s clear, the northern lights are glowing and there are some seriously good sounds…
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Moments Strung Together On A Thread Of Other Moments
It’s Wednesday night and it’s all beginning. The wind is blowing like it doesn’t blow anywhere else and I am almost pushed from my bike on the way down to Harpa, body forcing against the brute strength of it. But I prevail,…
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Come Get Yr Fill: Deutsche Bar, Night One
Myrra Rós makes the kind of music that makes you want to close your eyes. Not because the band is terrible looking (they’re all cute!), but because it’s the sort of blissed out, mellow folk pop that causes people to stand, maybe sway…
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Is Lára’s Moment Here?
Hi Lára! Sorry to be bothering you with all these questions right before the Airwaves festival starts (you are surely pretty busy getting ready for all those shows you’ll be playing), but we heard you have a new record on the way…
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Extreme Chillin’
There is a constant underlying agitation in Jafet Melge’s set. It surfaces, but for the most part it comes out either attacking or barely stifled in the end of segment, and all of this is wonderfully entwined with some nice backdrop videos.
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A Night Of Confounded Expectations
Unlike many of the other venues – including Deutsche Bar across the road – there is no queue at Amsterdam for the first night of Airwaves, but that doesn’t mean it’s not the place to be. An extremely mixed, inclusive line-up is…
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Sykur Stole The Show
The day is Wednesday, the place is Harpa Silfurberg, and the time is 20:00. Day one, let’s dig in!
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A Truly Incredible Opening Night
Experiencing FM Belfast closing up a very effective snapshot of homegrown talent is a glimpse for me, an outsider, into that moment where music and place become synergous. The band’s energy bounces around the room, back and forth between the stage and…
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Keep It Simple
The small, dingy space of Faktory’s downstairs venue lent itself well to both the tranquil and the frenetic, as three varied electronic acts brought their own definitions of minimalism
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JFM Is An Icelandic Legend – Here’s Why
For some of our international Airwaves guests, the name Jakob Frímann Magnússon might not ring a bell (don’t be afraid, we’re about to ring that bell for you, so long as you read on). However, every single Icelander knows the Jakob Frímann…
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Sample Bedroom Community’s Latest Signing At Sruli Recht’s Store Launch
Award-winning designer Sruli Recht has a thing for making controversial-slash-gorgeous products (for instance: wallets and shoes made out of tanned minke-whale penii). He is a self-described cross-disciplinary artist, “caught somewhere between product design, weapons manufacturing, corroded tailoring and shoe making.” Sruli has…
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Poliçagate: “…sometimes circumstances occur in life that make a happy ending impossible.”
As we reported yesterday, Minneapolis hipstergazewave newcomers Poliça (finally learned to make that weird ‘c’ thing!) have cancelled their anticipated appearance at Iceland Airwaves 2012 with but a week’s notice, drawing the ire of the festival’s organisers as well as Iceland’s “hip youth demographic” with…
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POLIÇA Just Up And Cancel Their Airwaves Show – Airwaves Crew “NOT AMUSED”
From out of the blue, Minneapolis hipstercore merchants Poliça have cancelled their scheduled Iceland Airwaves appearance, a mere week before they were set to headline Thursday night at the Art Museum. While the reasons for their late cancellation are still unclear (we sent…
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Postcards From The Edge – Sudden Weather Change
Our semi regular Airwaves series POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE is where bands who are currently touring and travelling to all sorts of fun places across the world (picking up several gutter diseases along the way) decide to send us a note going…
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Carl Sagan Pop Cosmology – The 1860 Interview
1860 do some mean folk pop, are fans of Jusup Wilkosz, and think Cradle Of filth are for kids. True story! [pullquote_left] “It would definitely fill us with murderous rage if someone were to dismiss us as a “happy…
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A Full On Sonic Immersion Experience: The Heavy Experience Interviewed
The Heavy Experience don’t want your love. Just your ears. And your soul. By Bob Cluness You can’t rush musical five-piece The Heavy Experience. Rushing them would only cause a major upset to your senses, or a fraying at the edges…