Iceland Airwaves 2012
The Reykjavík Grapevine’s coverage of Iceland Airwaves 2012
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UPDATE!: SWANS Trapped By Tropical Storm Sandy, Cancel Their Airwaves Gig!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! In what might be officially the worst news of the festival so far, the much anticipated performance by experimental legends SWANS has been CANCELLED! Unlike the last sudden band cancellation, this is not of their own volition and the blame lays…
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Iceland Airwaves Kicks Off! Changes Made To The Airwaves Schedule!
Scrap all your plans! Lose your shit! Start again! Just kidding… After the extreme drama that was Poliça-gate (the band cancelled their Airwaves gig at the last minute, in case you missed it), the diligent team of festival organisers have gone ahead…
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Breaking The Sine Waves – The Rafwaves Festival Starts Today!
A few days ago, we reported about how Bakkus Bar was breaking away and going it alone with their own festival, independent of the events that were surrounding the Iceland Airwaves music festival. Well it seems that they are not the only one doing their own thing for…
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ON THE PATH OF PUNK: The Reykjavík Punk Walk Starts Today!
Taking a tour through the local movement’s key locations and turning points with historian Unnur María Bergveinsdóttir. (Photo still from ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’.) Iceland was a very different place in 1980. Most of the population were born after World War II and under…
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Proceed With Caution
‘Varúð’ exhibit channels the airy non-gravity of the ‘Valtari’ cover art by Arit John / Photo by Alísa Kalyanova The cover of Sigur Rós’ ‘Valtari’ album features a photo of a large ship floating over a grass green ocean. There are no…
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Video: Good Moon Deer – “Blur”
Video by Alísa Kalyanova / Words by Rebecca Louder Happy Airwaves-Eve! We are impatiently listening for the jingle of free beer and the roar of internationals to arrive (hopefully our North American guests will make it through FRANKENSTORM!) But anyway, it’s starting…
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Going Their Own Sweet Way – The Bakkus B-Waves Festival 2012!
While Reykjavik soaks in the Airwaves atmosphere, Bakkus Bar will be again going it alone with their own festival – for the last time… Iceland Airwaves is a time when music, musicians and, the city’s cultural venues are very much united as one to provide some decent…
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When Social Media And Music Collide – The Iceland Airwaves Tweetup!
The internet and social media. Pah! If we’re honest, for most people it means chatting to friends you know already, while at the same time deluging them with pictures you’ve seen on 9GAG, LOLcats, and videos of their babies saying their first words. You know who they are. But if…
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Going Into Withdrawal: Interview with Halldór Ragnarsson
The Seabear and Mr. Silla band-member new art exhibition opens as a fun Airwaves party event Among the many great things about Iceland Airwaves is the fact that, along with all the great music, there is also a mass explosion of cultural…
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This Is Not A La-la-la-la Lovesong : The Hanne Kolstø Interview
You might have noticed the continuously strong Scandinavian representation at Iceland Airwaves through the years. And the 2012 edition is no exception, as you’ll find perusing the programme (we’ve already given you the low-down on Denmark and Finland, click through to learn more…). One artist you really…
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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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ANOTHER WONDERFUL FREE MUSIC ALERT!! The Ultra Fancy Crunchy Frog Airwaves 2K12 Compilation!!
Wow, we are spoiling you airwaves people rotten with the tons of top quality free music we are literally throwing in your faces! Yesterday we gave away the truly aweXsomez FANCY GRAPEVINE AIRWAVES 2K12 COMPILATION, truly a compilation of monolithic beauty. Personally I’m not…
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Videos From The Edge – Muck Still On tour!!
It’s….. baaaaaack! After the success of their first video posting, we received another message (carried to us by a rabid crow) from those pesky scamps from MUCK. the message contained the good news that they’ve just made the latest instalment in their European tour video diary! In part…
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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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Postcards From the Edge – Goddamn Reykjavík!
Postcards From the Edge is our cheeky little Airwaves feature where bands who are currently on tour outside of Iceland, send us short tales of where they are and of the great shows they’re playing at. they also like to indulge in tales of rock and…
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Why Won’t You Dance?
by Arit John If I’ve learned anything about Icelanders, it’s that it takes a lot to get them to dance at a gig. I mean really dance. Not the disinterested head bobbing you see accompanying house music, but the reckless hip shaking…
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WARNING! Less Than 900 Tickets Left for Sigur Rós!
Hey everyone! This is important: we just got tipped off that tickets to the special Sigur Rós’ special Airwaves performance are close to selling out. According to their management firm, there are less than 900 spots left to the show and given…
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WTF ICELAND AIRWAVES!? Pt. III: Advice for getting through your first (or fifth!) festival experience
Dear Grapevine, I’ve heard rumours that getting into the more well-known bands’ shows will be really difficult and I may have to wait in line for a long time. Is this true? I’m just trying to see as much music as possible…
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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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sóley’s New Video Is A TOTAL BEAUT! Checkitout!
Oh hey wow! The one and only sóley, who many of you might know from one of her NINETY FIVE MILLION YOUTUBE HITS that her most awesome solo stuff has gotten (not to mention from her being part of Iceland’s answer to…
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Move Your Feet To the Reckless Beat – The Crunchy Frog Records Interview
Denmark’s Crunchy Frog Records are bringing the rock action to the festival that’s held on an even bigger piece of rock action! By Bob Cluness At the Grapevine, we love our rock and roll, and expect it to be true of spirit…
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IT’S HERE! IT’S FINALLY HERE! Grapevine’s Fancy Airwaves 2K12 Compilation Is Here!
FANCY THIS, EVERYONE! IT’S HERE! IT’S FINALLY HERE IN ALL ITS 512 MEGABYTES OF GLORY! Yup, as we promised in our last issue (which contained a pretty rad Airwaves-pullout, for all you Airwaves enthusiasts to enthuse over), we’ve compiled you a wonderful,…