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Icelandic Musicians Unite For Gaza Charity Album
Nineteen Icelandic bands and artists have donated tracks to a new compilation from the Iceland-Palestine Association. Entitled Fyrir Gaza (“For Gaza”), the album features tracks from some of Iceland’s most notable acts, such as GusGus, Sin Fang, Ólafur Arnalds and Mugison, with all the…
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Future Islands Fucked Me Up
I have a confession to make: I had only heard that one song Future Islands played on Letterman before I went to see them play Reykjavík Art Museum yesterday. For all intents and purposes, I expected a synth-driven indie pop band with…
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No Usual Suspects
Árstíðir dj flugvél og geimskip Fufanu Júníus Meyvant Kaleo Kiasmos Low Roar M-Band Óbó Rökkurró Samaris Skálmöld Sóley Sólstafir Tonik Ensemble Vök Ylja Young Karin These are the eighteen Icelandic artists and bands confirmed for Eurosonic 2015, the Dutch ‘festival of…
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This Is Icelandic Indie Music (Vol. II)
Despite the name, this sampling of Record Records’ roster carries some of the most prominent bands in the country, and like its predecessor, travels through folk, rock, dance, and even reggae. “Indie music” and “Icelandic music” are pretty synonymous; if you’re making…
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Parties Of The North
Following a tremendously successful All Tomorrow’s Parties festival (ATP), the organisers have announced the headliner for next year’s fest, indie stalwarts Belle and Sebastian. We were lucky enough to see them the last time they visited Iceland, when they rocked the packed…
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Testes Not Required For Metal
For the rockers and metalheads of Iceland, the second weekend of July is a religious holiday, road trip and family reunion all rolled into one. It marks the annual Eistnaflug festival (“Flight Of The Testes”), held in Iceland’s eastern-most village, Neskaupstaður. During…
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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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A Successful Solstice
Reykjavík’s first Secret Solstice festival brought 10,000 people to Laugardalur for 72 hours of fun in the sun. With 150 artists performing on five stages, it was impossible to take it all in, and judging by all of the inspired dance moves…
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Akureyri: Home Comforts And Cosmopolitan Culture
Akureyri, located on Iceland’s longest fjord, Eyjafjörður, is often referred to as Iceland’s second city, or “the capital of the North.” With a population of just under 18,000, “city” is probably pushing it a bit, but Akureyri is a thriving and charming…
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ATP Music Festival Artists’ Update!
The organisers of the All Tomorrow’s Parties have announced a number of seminal artists added to their line-up.According to a statement from the organisers, amongst the foreign guests coming to our fair shores to perform are Mogwai, Slowdive, Shellac, Low, Portishead, Interpol,…
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Mammút Wins Big At The Icelandic Music Awards
Mammút takes home the prize for Best Song and Best Rock and Pop Music Album at last night’s Icelandic Music Awards, reports RÚV. Salt won Best Song and Mammút’s album Komdu til mín svarta systir won Best Rock and Pop Music Album. Hjaltalín’s Days of Grey won Best…
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Very Solid! – Iðnó pt. 1
It was an early start at Iðnó on Saturday. The band Vigri went on stage just after seven o’clock and played extremely melodic and well crafted electronic music. The vocal arrangements were nothing short of dazzling and complemented their keen sense of…
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Azerrad’s Report: Wednesday
Noted music writer slash Grapevine’s guest of honour Michael Azerrad goes wild at Iceland Airwaves 2013, wandering between venues, listening hard and taking notes. For his Wednesday report, he digs on Mammút and Emiliana, and has some words of advice for Retro…
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Vök Storm The Scene At Harpa
First impressions: the venue is really slick. Extremely open, good viewing angles, clean, consistent, clear sound. If we had to lose NASA to get this, well, it still sucks but we got a damn nice venue out of it. This was my…
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Stealing The Headlining Band’s Thunder
On an otherwise normal Thursday in October, I enter Gamli Gaukurinn for a line-up previously unimaginable in this den. The place is normally associated with straight-up rock ‘n’ roll and metal gigs, but since coming under new ownership earlier in the year,…
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Mammút Announce Third Album
Mammút have announced that their long awaited third LP, “Komdu til mín svarta systir”, will get an Icelandic release on October 25th, via Record Records. There’s a taster of what’s to come below, and there’s another track streaming over on the Airwaves…
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River Gods
Hold the phone. Iceland is over indie-rock? As the night went on at The Reykjavík Art Museum, I noticed that I could have been doing jumping jacks, the venue never filled, and the infamous queue was non-existent. The stormy weather earlier may…
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Sykur Stole The Show
The day is Wednesday, the place is Harpa Silfurberg, and the time is 20:00. Day one, let’s dig in!
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Mannheim Outlingers Do It Waaaay Better!
ORPHIC OXTRA Bob: Yup the Balkan klemzacore of Orphic Oxtra. That first song was rather long wasn’t it? Sindri: Well they have an hour set so they’re taking their time aren’t they? B: Where is that piano though? I can hear piano…
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"Twee As Fuck!"
When Mammút hit their stride they feel like a force of nature, washing over their audience like crashing waves of sound. Katrína Mogensen’s voice floats on the music like an arctic tern in a storm.