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  • Grapevine Playlist: Goose Bumps And Some Solid Rock

    Grapevine Playlist: Goose Bumps And Some Solid Rock

    Bistro Boy – evolve Bistro Boy is definitely our boy. He just released a new EP called ‘evolve,’ and boy, has Bistro Boy done just what the title says. The album is a beautiful ambient-fused electro with a lot of soul. He…

  • Track by Track: Bistro Boy – Píanó í þokunni (‘Piano in the Fog’)

    Track by Track: Bistro Boy – Píanó í þokunni (‘Piano in the Fog’)

    Bistro Boy – ‘Píanó í Þokunni’

‘Píanó í þokunni’ (‘Piano in the Fog’) is Bistro Boy’s third LP. The album is a dreamy tribute to Bistro Boy’s long-lasting relationship with his piano; a musical journey from past to present. “On this album I…

  • Tonik Ensamble’s Airwaves Highlight Of The Day

    Tonik Ensamble’s Airwaves Highlight Of The Day

    John Grant and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra – 20:00-21:30 at Harpa Eldborg There are symphony arrangements and then there are symphony arrangements. This is the kind that complements and elevates music into exploding-head-epic-ness. But if you did not get ticket for Eldborg, fear not.…

  • Jón Ólafsson & Futuregrapher’s Airwaves Highlights

    Jón Ólafsson & Futuregrapher’s Airwaves Highlights

    Since the locals are more familiar with the goings-on at Airwaves, we asked two local artists what acts they’ll be doing when their not playing. Their names are Jón Ólafsson, a talented composer and pianist, and Árni Grétar (aka Futuregrapher), an electronic…

  • Iceland Airwaves Complete 2015 Lineup With Huge 120-Band Announcement

    Iceland Airwaves Complete 2015 Lineup With Huge 120-Band Announcement

    Iceland Airwaves have completed the festival’s 2015 lineup with a bang, announcing no less than 120 new additions to the already packed programme. Watch their fancy new announcement video (made by the one and only Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir): The best known name in…

  • Rivers & Poems

    Rivers & Poems

    A collaboration between Frosti Jónsson and Japanese ambient drone artist Nobuto Suda, this four-and-a-half track suite falls deeply into the territory of epictronica. It all begins with the water-trickling, expanding pad sounds of “Flumine,” the music yawning awake as a brand new…