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Þórir Georg: It’s Always The Quiet Ones
Þórir Georg is the first to admit that he’s not much for interviews or self-promotion of an kind. Although he’s enjoyed a diverse, overly active career as a musician over the past decade-plus, driven by a strong work ethic that’s resulted in…
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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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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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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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You Can’t Always Force It
I swear, I wanted to party last night. When I saw my work schedule for this week I said to myself, and everyone around me, “Well, I’ll just have to go all out on Friday night.” That was my plan. So why…
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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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Kælan Mikla: Someone Please Help Them Break Out
I’m not normally into touting local bands to the wider world as being in need of breaking out and making it big. Mostly because I don’t pretend to know enough about music to consider myself a good judge where that’s concerned. But…
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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…
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Kælan Mikla’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
dj. flugvél og geimskip – Landbandsbankinn Austurstræti (off-venue) at 15:00 Starting the day off with dj. flugvél og geimskip’s horror-space pop is definitely going to cure all the hangover. 16:30 GKR – Laundromat Café (off-venue) at 16:30 You can get some food…
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OMG SECRET FANCY GRAPEVINE PARTY 4 U TOMORROW
Holy eff! What an amazing time Iceland Airwaves 2015 is turning out to be. We want to celebrate. We are throwing you a party. A secret party. There will be beer. There will be Brennivín. There will be some of the best new bands…
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Auður Is Young, Sexy, Wonderful, About To Take Over
Auður is just about to hit the stage at Tjarnarbíó. That young fucker just up and appeared from out of nowhere a few weeks ago, full-fledged, and with some wonderful music to his name. We were impressed enough to splash him on…
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Milkywhale-Watching Tour, Day 2
Today’s sighting of the ever-lovely Milkywhale was as majestic as ever. Yesterday, she managed to turn Laundromat Café into a dance party, and while that clearly stems from her seemingly infinite reserves of energy, I couldn’t help but wonder if it also…
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The Silence Between Airwords
Silence is more than just the thing that happens at the end of a song and before the beginning of the next one. It’s also the thing that happens between words. As much as we all love talking and yelling and listening…
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Airwaves Day Two: Contrasts Aplenty
Reykjavík is so swollen with Airwavesgoers that just walking down Laugavegur can be difficult—there are so many conversations to listen in on, so many people obviously walking in the wrong direction, so many snapping that tourist shot of those damnable two-metre-tall trolls……
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IN PICTURES: Sykur & The Mystical Crowd At Airwaves Day Two
Our photographer Art Bicnick continues frantically capturing through the magical medium that is photography. Without further ado, we present to you: Art Bicnick’s Fresh Shots From Airwaves Thursday! Check it out!