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LOOK: It’s AMFJ!
Extreme noise artist AMFJ (Aðalsteinn Mother Fucking Jörundsson) is playing at Airwaves for the third time, and he promises an entertaining show tonight at Harpa. He says that when he plays, he channels a variety of emotions, including anger and disappointment into…
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LOOK: It’s Thus Owls
The Canadian-Swedish band Thus Owls is here, and they are playing tonight at Iðnó at 23:20! The band is centred around the husband-wife duo Erika and Simon Angell, who had their honeymoon in Iceland! Heck, Simon is such a big Icelandophile that…
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The Eye Of The Storm
This is Matthew Eisman. Matthew is a professional music photographer with work published in the likes of SPIN, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Brooklyn Vegan (not what it sounds like), and our dear humble Grapevine, to name a few. For…
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LOOK: It’s Momentum!
Local progressive metal champions Momentum have been going strong for eleven years. Tonight at 23:20, they’re playing their sole Airwaves gig at Gaukurinn, and as their live shows are the stuff of legend, you better make time for that. Momentum are the inaugural feature…
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Look At The Light
Six veteran Iceland Airwaves photographers have banded together to put on a special photo exhibit with 30 pictures from past Airwaves performances. Participating photographer Matthew Eisman says the idea behind the exhibit was born from Sigurður Ástgeirsson’s show last year at the City Center…
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Back To Basics
Although contemporary hip hop culture is undeniably global in its scope, most people wouldn’t think of Iceland as a hotbed for street dance, one of hip hop’s most recognizable and fundamental off-shoots. And honestly, it’s not. Today there are—at a generous estimate—maybe…
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Everybody Loves Ramen
This spring, Tsering Gyal and Kun Sung opened Ramen Momo, Iceland’s first Tibetan restaurant (although it should be noted that it’s not Iceland’s first Himalayan restaurant, which is the Nepalese restaurant Kitchen). Incidentally, Ramen Momo is also Iceland’s first dedicated ramen and…
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Selling Like Hot (Crab) Cakes
Located further afield than most of Reykjavík’s new brigade of food trucks, Walk the Plank—specializing in crab cake sliders from locally caught Atlantic rock crab—seems right at home in its harbourside location, tucked comfortably between working trawlers and whale-watching boats. Started in…
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When Dreams Become Realities
In early 2012, 49-year-old Ármann Einarsson, a music school principal with a potbelly that he frequently, fondly, pats, sent a Facebook message to Brogan Davison, his son Pétur’s girlfriend, who is also a choreographer and dancer. “It said, ‘Hæ, Hæ: This is…
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Great Grandma’s Recipe, With a Kick
Sceptics of Jungian psychology take note: the collective unconscious is most certainly A Thing here in Iceland. How’s that, you wonder? There are lots of good examples, such as the quickly passé, but briefly passionate fad for Tex-Mex-themed confirmation parties. But more…
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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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Into The Abyss: Þríhnúkagígur’s Magma Cave
“It’s a good thing you’re going underground,” our bus driver calls out as his windshield wipers work furiously to bat away the rain. I watch the drops race across my window, blurring the moss-covered lava field that surrounds us. We are headed…
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Iceland Pretty Progressive, Socially
According to a new report, Iceland is amongst the Top Three most sociallyprogressive nations in the world. The Social Progress Index operates on the premise that economic development is necessary but not sufficient for social progress and that a country’s overall level of development…
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PHOTOS: Björk, Patti Smith, Of Monsters And Men …
Here’s a gallery of images from the incredible ‘Stopp – Let’s Protect the Park’ benefit concert at Harpa. The entire evening was stellar, but Patti Smith’s powerful renditions of “Because the Night” and “People Have the Power” were personal highlights. Retro Stefson’s…