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OKAY WTF JUST HAPPENED HERE? An #Airwaves15 recap.
So that’s that. With a lot of heat, whirlwind and flash, Iceland Airwaves 2015 has passed. Actually, not so much passed as hit the entire Grapevine writing team full on, leaving our bedraggled, mangled, booze-soaked, twitching, grinning bodies in its glitter-covered wake.…
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The Recent Iceland Airwaves Festival: The Definitive Straumur Statement
With that hectic Iceland Airwaves week still simmering in our hearts, we feel obligated to bring you a list of the top acts we saw at the festival. Here they are, in no particular order. LA Priest By Anna Domnick This one-man…
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#AIRWAVES15 DEEP ANALYSIS
Welcome to this, our second advent into text message reporting about Iceland Airwaves. In it, you may find words from the one and only Mr. Silla and Andri Snær Magnason! Great! Mr. Silla, aka Sigurlaug Gísladóttir, had this to say:
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Swimming Through Seasons: Jófríður Ákadóttir Unveils A Poetic New Project
Hidden deep amongst all the extravagant blowouts, grand orchestral performances, strobe-lit dance parties, blood-splattered metal shows and twitching, apoplectic broken-beat DJ sets of Airwaves, one small, humble, quiet show came close to topping them all. The preternatural Jófríður Ákadóttir, well-known for her…
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Airwaves Sunday: President Bongo – The Groove Never Ends
When I got to Kex Hostel last night, I had little idea what to expect. By that I mean I’m aware President Bongo creates what kids these days are calling “EDM,” but to look at the band area, you’d have a difficult time…
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IN PICTURES: QT, Reykjavíkurdætur, Lára, sóley @ Airwaves Day 4
Our boy Art Bicnick was all over the place at Iceland Airwaves this past Saturday night, doing his very best to capture the action so that we may relive it in perpetuity! Look!
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Airwaves, Day 4: 10 Perspectives
Although Kiasmos and Kött Grá Pje were great, Bo Ningen were the ones who blew my mind, with their eccentric and wacky stage presence, coupled with long and passionate shredding segments. The show was absolutely out of this world—I’ve never before seen…
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Milkywhale-Watching Tour, Day 4
My final Milkywhale report will be brief. Although I’ve tried to catalogue as many things as I’ve learned about the project and persona they’ve crafted into a beautiful reality, I ultimately like to leave a little mystery in the galaxy of Milkywhale.…
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Airwaves Saturday: It’s OK To Be Sad With sóley
Like a lot of fellow Airwaves attendees, I felt myself running out of steam yesterday. The constant waking around, grooving, standing, waiting, dancing, listening… it gets to you. My back hurt, my shoulders hurt, my feet hurt, and the healing power of…
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WOW! LOOK AT OUR #AMAZING SECRET #AIRWAVES15 PARTY!
Yesterday, we invited a bunch of our readers and friends and whatnot to a little get-together at Reykjavík Grapevine’s International HQ. It was #AMAZING. With loads of free Brennivín&Gull, and wonderful, intimate performances from some of our favourite local artists – Auður,…
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Airwaves & Chill: This Year’s Best Sex Music
Some artists, like James Blake and the Weeknd, are especially appreciated for their abilities to enhance (or maybe even initiate) some good sexy time with your favourite sexy person. These two each have radically distinct sounds from each other, but have a…
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Airwaves Day Four: Good Music Doesn’t Care What Language You Speak
From the moment I heard of Bo Ningen, I was interested. A Japanese psychadelic acid punk four-piece? It sounded perfect! And, as I learned tonight, it is! Their sound went from heavy and sludgy to fast and twangy, and their lyrics, well, I…
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Old As Folk: An Airwaves’ Off-venue Retirement Home With Svavar Knútur
Iceland Airwaves is special for a lot of reasons, not least its array of weird and wonderful off-venues. From private homes to dumpsters, you can hear and see lots of strange and magical things in strange and magical places this weekend. However,…
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Airwaves Saturday, Pink Street Boys Became One With Bar 11’s Basement
I can only imagine that organising a festival such as Iceland Airwaves must be a logistical nightmare. Not just in getting bands both local and from abroad to be able to put time aside to play one or more gigs over the…
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DÖPUR’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
We recommend when you wake up is to take a bath at the local swimming pools in Reykjavík. After you’ve cleaned yourself, you should venture out and get some vegan food (Both members of DÖPUR are proud vegans) and Icelandic beer. We…
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Airwaves Day Four: Riding Kiasmos’s Wave
The queue to get upstairs at Harpa has tens of people, maybe even a hundred. As I climb those steps, I can feel the Airwaves flu settling in my sinuses—too many late nights, too much partying, too loud music, and more beers than…
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Airwaves, DAY THREE: Ten Perspectives!
The best show of the night was hands-down Ho99o9—the punked-out dark hip-hop performance turned the heat up and kept it at a feverish high throughout the wild ride. It had the whole nine yards, and then some: costume changes, leaping performers, massive…
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Milkywhale – Watching Tour, Day 3
If you’ve been following my Milkywhale-watching tour (or stalking, whatever), you’d know I’ve been part of the dance parties they’ve started in a café and clothing shop. As I record my sightings of the this new whale species, I learn a little…
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Airwaves Day Three: Meet Par-Ðar
Following advice from my colleague Paul Fontaine to just go into the unknown and see bands that I had never heard of before, I found myself in Harpa Kaldalón checking out an Icelandic band that had escaped my notice: Par-Ðar. Right from…
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Airwaves Day Three: Belgian Bands On Downtime
Airwaves draws a lot of international visitors (which is not to say…tourists), who have a limited amount of time between partying-drinking-music-dancing-fun-time and sleeping to actually experience Iceland and The Nature and the Beauty That Is All Around. This can be pretty stressful…
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IN PICTURES: Alex Weber’s Friday At Airwaves
Photographer Alex Weber has been doing his best to capture Airwaves, and a picture says a thousand words, so this is basically many words! Wow! Airwaves! So good! Milkywhale! Perfume Genius! CIA! East of My Youth! Wow!
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IN PICTURES: Art Is Alive – Day Three
Art Bicnick is out and about, capturing Iceland Airwaves in all its glory! Observe! His wonderful photos! #AMAZING
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Pink Street Boys’ Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
– Wake up you slob! …it’s Saturday! https://soundcloud.com/gkrofficial 15:30 – GKR at Íslenski Barinn (off venue) A lot of people are talking about this dude. He has been on the rise in Reykjavik’s hip-hop scene. Will surely be fun to see what the fuzz is…