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Grapevine New Music: Hildur, Low Roar, Benni Hemm Hemm & More
Well, well, well. If it isn’t the new year. I bet you’ve already failed your New Year’s resolutions — I know I have. But regardless of the empty promises we make to ourselves once a year, we can all unite in the…
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Music News: Glowie Signs Major Label Deal, New Björk Video, And More!
Icelandic pop singer Glowie, who was one of the nine emerging artists on the cover of our special Iceland Airwaves magazine last year, has signed a major label deal with Columbia Records/RCA. Glowie said, on Facebook: “Everything is possible if you just…
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Music News in Brief (All Caps Edition): JFDR, AUÐUR, GANGLY & More
Gone are the days of A-sides and B-sides, we’re in the world of track by track. Listeners are often seduced away from narrative storytelling and continuous threads by the Spotify temptress and the “new-here-now” workflow. But last month AUÐUR, one of Reykjavík’s…
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Kraumur Music Awards Announce Shortlist
It’s that time of year again, when the snow is on the ground, and everybody is getting very very listy. Kids are writing lists to Santa (or that evil child-chewing ogress or whatever the hell it is you write to here in…
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A Mr. Silla Sensation
The lights never went up in Harpa’s Silfurberg when Mr. Silla unleashed her set. She played in a fog of dim backlighting; a triangular silhouette cut by the sharp contours of black blazer crowned by tight hair bun. Her set was equally…
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Iceland Airwaves: Most Wanted
Downtown Reykjavík during Airwaves is something to see. Every shop seems to sprout a sound system, and live music is everywhere. Amongst the happy throng are the musicians making it happen, many playing the festival multiple times, running from venue to venue…
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Low Roar Start Off On A High Note
What: Low Roar / Mr. Silla When: August 15, 20:30 Where: Tjarnarbíó, Tjarnargötu 12 Admission: 2,000 ISK It began with one of the best album openers I’ve heard this year. Clocking in at over nine minutes when performed live, “Breathe In” slowly…
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ATP Iceland Portrait Series By Matthew Eisman
I wanted to try something different and challenging at ATP Iceland 2014 so I decided to shoot a series of backstage band portraits. I set up a portrait studio on-location at Atlantic Studios and shot as many bands as possible. For some…
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The Inexhaustible Indie Venue – Iðnó pt.1
The former half of Iðnó’s Friday line-up was interesting. The night started promptly at eight with a set from Jóhann Kristinsson. His music is in many ways conventional indie rock with creative songwriting performed very nicely. He started out playing alone on his…
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Friday Night Taken By The Collar
It’s safe to say that despite it’s ever-thriving music scene, Reykjavík doesn’t exactly have a rapid thoroughfare of touring acts. In fact, if you want to hear live music in one minority genre or another, you’d be better off starting the band…
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From Louder, With Love!
Seven Bands To Catch At Airwaves 2012! By Rebecca Louder Going through that little Airwaves booklet and trying to decide which bands to see can be a rollercoaster of excitement, confusion and surprise. I should know—I wrote all that band text.…