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Iceland Goes To Eurosonic: Högni, Valdimar, aYia & More To Perform
Iceland has a strong presence at the top European music industry festival Eurosonic this year. Held in the Groningen in the Netherlands from January 17-20th, it’s an annual get together for people who work with music, from booking agents to record labels,…
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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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ATP Iceland Add Goblin, Dirty Three, And More
ATP Iceland festival, held each year in Keflavik’s ÁSBRÚ area, has today announced some new lineup additions. In addition to John Carpenter, who’ll perform his soundtrack material, the festival will also see Goblin and Fabio Frizzi take the stage in the cavernous…
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YAMAHO’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
Kött grá pje at 15:00 at Hlemmur Square: A rapper with long hair… Need I say more? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgRv7XWJnZs Dr Gunni at 16:00 at Kaffihús Vesterbæjar or at 20:50 at Gamla Bíó: A man that writes a song about farts is not a…
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Straumur On Festivals: Believe The Hype
First things first: Sónar Reykjavík at Harpa was a gigantic audiovisual explosion in dolby digital and HD vivid colors. For a three-day weekend, Harpa transformed into humongous club on an Ibiza scale. The music spanned the range from ambient to EDM and…
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Icelandic Music Awards: Prins Póló Wins 2 Categories, Is Playing Our Show Tonight!
Full list of Icelandic Music Awards winners below. Prins Póló—Grapevine’s BAND OF 2014 and makers of THE SONG OF 2014—won two categories at last night’s Icelandic Music Awards; for making “Pop Album of 2014,” and with main man Svavar Pétur claiming the title of “Songwriter…
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Matt’s Fave Airwaves 2014 Shots
That Matthew Eisman sure was busy during Iceland Airwaves. In addition to shooting an absurd number of band portraits at our Hafnarstræti office throughout the festival, Matthew was also on staff with Iceland Airwaves, responsible for capturing live shows every night. He sent us an assortment…
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An Amazing Evening
You know how dogs sometimes spend so long with their owners that they start to resemble one another? John Grant and Iceland have a similar relationship going on. If there’s ever been a more convincing impression of a Reykjavik native done by…
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A Man Sings His Heart Out, The Dreaded Saxophone And More
Basically, I want to hear Högni and Sigga sing at each other for an hour. I’d pay good money for that.
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Fucking The Pain Away, Surf Punk And Nice Guys
On Saturday night, the salt was no longer thick in the air. Thank God. We had stopped fearing for our lives and the wind had calmed to a mere breeze. We could freely walk the streets without fear of decapitation by a…
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Something Old, Something New: From Country To The Cutting Edge
Ladies and gentleman, come on in. We have quite a spectacle here at Kaldalon this evening. On drums, we have the polar opposite of Keith Moon! This man hits the drums like no other: he’s never bruised a skin. He is indisputably…
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Trance With Me
It probably goes without saying that most everyone who came to Hafnarhúsið tonight was either coming to see Gus Gus, or intended to do so but petered out of energy after the first couple acts. This is easily forgivable, considering the line-up…
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From Sitting On The Floor To Raising The Roof
It’s hard to imagine a more incongruous set of opening acts for the headliners at this gig, unless you count the time Tom Jones opened for GG Allin at the 930 Club in Washington, DC in 1988. But I still feel as…