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Live Music Review: Reykjavík Folk Festival Provides Shelter From The Storm
On a weekend in the middle of March, the historic Iðnó stands within a snowy storm. Warm inside, the guests of Reykjavík Folk Festival enjoy acoustic harmonies woven into rich storytelling. It’s the second year the festival’s been held since a hiatus…
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Grapevine Playlist: Tómas Welding, Ægir, Aron Can, Countess Malaise & More!
We’re sorry about the lack of TS10 yesterday, but hopefully these tracks can make up for it. Tómas Welding – Here They Come Tómas has always had that unique ability to sing three simple words such as “We say goodnight,” and imbue…
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Grapevine Playlist: Birnir, AAIIEENN, Hekla, BleachKid Funi, Saga Nazari & more
Like a skulk of hangry arctic foxes prowling into your living room, here’s the new Grapevine playlist, including more hip-hop, soothing screeching and more. Birnir – Dauður (Feat JFDR, Arnar) Just when you thought, “Yet another hip-hop track?” the answer is yes,…
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Whirlwind, Heat & Flash: Airwaves 2016 In Pictures
We all had a wonderful time at this year’s Iceland Airwaves music festival, as these photos attest. We couldn’t possibly post all the photos our intrepid photographer took during this remarkable festival, but below you can see our hand-selected photos from each…
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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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Melodica Festival: “Couchsurfing, With A Stage”
Iceland’s summer season is filled with festivals. So many festivals. Some take place in small and remote fishing towns. Others are spread out over larger settlements. And yet others take place in the city. The festivals, they come in all shapes and…
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Lights! Camera! Winter!
Reykjavík’s Winter Lights Festival commenced yesterday. It seems like a fun event, with lots of nice stuff going on. Like tonight’s Museum Night, which involves basically every Reykjavík museum staying open, for free, until midnight, with special events scattered all over. Tomorrow, there’s the…
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Third Jæja Protest Urges Hanna Birna’s Resignation
This week’s Jæja demonstration saw an estimated 1,000 people gather to protest, focusing this week on Minister of the Interior Hanna Birna’s refusal to step down due to her ministry’s leak of false information about Nigerian asylum seeker Tony Omos. The crowd…
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Why Don’t You Kids Just Keep Debating That Airport?
Last week gave a lesson on the utility of noise as an antidote to critical thought and solidarity. 1. The airport: still no noise restrictions Last Thursday, the Progressive party’s members of Alþingi, all but the party’s ministers, officially proposed that organizational…
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4,500 Protest Government At Austurvöllur
Around 4,500 people attended a general protest against the government this afternoon, almost completely filling the parliamentary square. This marks it as one of the biggest demonstrations this year. Singer-songwriter Svavar Knútur had a short address at the beginning of the event,…
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At Austurvöllur, Icelanders Once More Protest Their Government
A group describing itself as “concerned citizens” will engage in peaceful protest outside of parliament today at five PM. Gaining steam on Facebook over the past few days, the event was reportedly initially inspired by a status-rant from singer-songwriter Svavar Knútur about…
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A Secret Show In A Secret Place
“Hey, you guys want to come to my show this Thursday? I can put you on the list.” This was the secret password to score entry into a Sofar Sounds secret show, which I attended last night at a University of Iceland…
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Glaumbar Is A Two-Faced Bastard
Glaumbar can be a very good concert venue, but it also can totally suck. On this Airwaves Friday I could see both sides of the coin. The small dancefloor in front of the stage and the huge bar in the middle of…