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  • Five Icelandic Christmas Songs That Don’t Suck

    Five Icelandic Christmas Songs That Don’t Suck

    Like we noted in last year’s Straumur Xmas Special, the holidays can be hard on the ears for folks who have a modicum of taste for decent music. It’s a well-known fact that most Icelandic Christmas songs suck pretty hard, but of…

  • Surf Gaze Tutu Metal

    Amsterdam, Sunday, the final night. Passable pub, can’t complain but for the 2k ISK double Jameson. Suggestion: use that money to fix your damn bathroom. Gang Related sported a front line of four with high-strapped electric guitars and one low-slung bass. Two…

  • A Night Filled With Promise – Gamli Gaukurinn pt. 1

    A Night Filled With Promise – Gamli Gaukurinn pt. 1

    Gamli gaukurinn is a bar with a small stage in one corner. It is in no way perfect, but with the addition of Harpa Concert Hall to the Iceland Airwaves list of venues, I do kind of miss going to shows at…

  • A GRAB-BAG OF GUITAR-ROCK

    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…

  • We Can Be Heroes

    We Can Be Heroes

    Tonight, I was once again surprised in ways I didn’t think possible. That stunning, dancing, ceaseless grip of what small-venue Airwaves can be came back to visit us tonight, and we welcomed it like the return of a lover from war. I…