Iceland Airwaves 2010
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Bang Gang Can Do Everything
You know Bang Gang, right? Barði Jóhannsson’s project has throughout the past decade continually contributed to Icelandic music’s reputation abroad, and greatly enriched our musical output at the same time. Barði is a renaissance man if there ever was one; when he’s…
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Eating Pizza, Reading Books With MSAASS
My Summer as a Salvation Soldier is one of Þórir Georg Jónsson’s many musical projects. Þórir first stormed the 101 Reykjavík music scene with a fetching and ultra-sad cover of Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya’ back when that song was still relatively fresh. Since…
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The Lovely Crooked World Of Mount Kimbie…
In the big bad world of dubstep, there are followers and there are leaders. Mount Kimbie belong to the latter camp, for sure. Comprised of two guys, Dom Maker and Kai Campos, their debut album ‘Crooks and Lovers’ has been heralded as…
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Reykjavík Art Museum- Friday
Photos by Hörður Sveinsson and Morgan Levy. Chateau Marmont got right down to the point. Straightforward electro synth, indisputable as heartbeats; the music sounded at its best like a melding of Depeche Mode and Daft Punk. Indeed there were few frills to…
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Go See XXX Rottweiler Tonight!
So check this out. The last few days have been crazy, and we’re not gonna lie – tonight is going to be even crazier. Now we know y’all are probably gearing up for some crazy Robyn action – so are we –…
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Risið – Friday
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson I arrived at Risið to find a well-behaved crowd sitting in chairs listening intently to the evening’s first act, Soffía Björg. The band of five filled the venue with melancholy country, folk, blues. They played the kind of…
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NASA – Friday
Photo by Hvalreki Ljósvaki were first up, and from the off puzzled, then confused and then confused some more. There is just way too much going with this three piece. They push a part funk/part cabin-cruise jazz hands/part ‘90s pop sound, in…
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Ghostigital Welcome Y’All To Their Crazy Show Tonight
We met up with Ghostigital last night. And then we shot a little teaser for their epic gig tonight at Tjarnarbíó on our shitty ass phone camera. ‘Cuz we’re like that. See y’all at Tjarnarbíó!
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Iðnó – Friday
Photos by Hvalreki The evening started with a quiet, laid-back atmosphere at beautiful Iðnó when girl trio My Bubba And Mi took the stage. The slowly growing crowd took their seats on the floor, which, together with the atmosphere of the music,…
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Yeah, But Where’s Bedroom Community?
We keep getting e-mails from folks that are upset about Bedroom Community not staging an event at this year’s Airwaves bash. We e-mailed Valgeir Sigurðsson, Ben Frost and Nico Muhly to ask them: What’s up with that? So, why no BC concert…
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Reptile & Retard Fell In Love With Machines
“We both like rock, but there is something happening in the electronic genre that is not happening in rock. Electronic music evolves extremely fast at the moment and within this the possibilities of making something fresh and different are way bigger. This…
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Retro Stefson Welcome You To Kimbabwe!
Retro Stefson are responsible for some of the rocking-est, dancing-est, most joyous live shows this fine publication has ever had the good fortune to witness. The young gang of merrymakers has been an Airwaves staple ever since first playing the festival back…
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Tjarnarbíó – Friday
Emo-Hip Hop Two men on stage and no more than twenty people in the audience, this is how Friday night at Tjarnarbíó started. The name Epic Rain may suggest an emo-core band, but these guys were all emo-hip hop. One of them…
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Venue – Friday
Photos by Hvalreki and Hörður Sveinsson Moshi Moshi Records is a London-based indie label, which is responsible for releases of Bloc Party and Florence & The Machine, to name a few. Rabbi Bananas The “only skweee artist originating from Iceland” starts out…
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Faktorý – Friday
Photo by Hvalreki Well what a difference a year makes. Grand Rokk, a place where hope and good music went to die is no more. Instead, like a phoenix from the ashes, we have Faktorý. Gone are the slot machines, angry belligerent…
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Sódóma – Friday
Photo by Hvalreki As there is a notable metal scene in Iceland it makes sense, that this genre gets an adequate place in the line-up of the country’s most popular music festival. This night Sódóma was dedicated to metal (and its family)…
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Special Airwaves Discount To Transaquania – Into Thin Air
Flash your Airwaves wristband to get half-off tickets to Icelandic Dance Company’s “Transaquania – Into Thin Air,” which shows on Sunday at the Reykjavík City Theater. It’s the last scheduled showing of this piece. “It started with a performance in the Blue…
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Apótekið – Friday
Photo by Hvalreki Being a performer is often ridiculous. Many venues an artist is made to perform at are all kinds of awful. But most of them are apparently heaven compared to what dance musicians performing at Apótekið are faced with. All…
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The Antlers Are Open To Interpretation
“I started playing when I was six years old. I stopped playing for a while to explore some other things but I needed to come back to it. It’s pretty much what I’ve always wanted to do.” Do you have anything special…
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Screaming Masterpiece?
After a decade’s worth of editions of the Iceland Airwaves festival, the event has finally been captured for the big screen. The documentary Where’s The Snow?! directed by Bowen Staines and Gunnar B. Guðbjörnsson was shot on the spur of the moment…
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Grapevine’s Picks For Friday
Wow. So it’s day three of Iceland Airwaves already. And we’re not even remotely tired of music, life, alcohol, fun times and friends (perhaps we will sing a different tune come Monday – who knows!). It’s been intense and fun, and we…
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Introducing Everyone’s Favourite Venue Of 2010: Tjarnarbíó
So we’re two days into Airwaves-frenzy, and it’s all been going splendidly up until now! Great times! Fun bands! Wet beer! And folks have been talking a lot, too. We like to troll or listen in when folks are saying interesting things…
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Arnljótur’s Picks For Friday
Arnljótur is a member of Ojba Rasta, Sin Fang and Berndsen. He also plays solo as Arnljótur, and you can often see him on stage with a bunch of other bands. He is highly involved with the local music scene, and he…