Airwaves Saturday: It’s OK To Be Sad With sóley
Like a lot of fellow Airwaves attendees, I felt myself running out of steam yesterday. The constant waking around, grooving, standing, waiting, dancing, listening… it gets to
WOW! LOOK AT OUR #AMAZING SECRET #AIRWAVES15 PARTY!
Yesterday, we invited a bunch of our readers and friends and whatnot to a little get-together at Reykjavík Grapevine’s International HQ. It was #AMAZING. With loads of free
Airwaves & Chill: This Year’s Best Sex Music
Some artists, like James Blake and the Weeknd, are especially appreciated for their abilities to enhance (or maybe even initiate) some good sexy time with your favourite sexy perso
Airwaves Day Four: Good Music Doesn’t Care What Language You Speak
From the moment I heard of Bo Ningen, I was interested. A Japanese psychadelic acid punk four-piece? It sounded perfect! And, as I learned tonight, it is! Their sound went [&hellip
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 […]
Airwaves Saturday, Pink Street Boys Became One With Bar 11’s Basement
I can only imagine that organising a festival such as Iceland Airwaves must be a logistical nightmare. Not just in getting bands both local and from abroad to be able […]
Industry Minister Wants To Meet Björk
Minister of Industry Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir says Björk has gotten some facts wrong about the government’s plans for the Highlands, and wants to meet with her to disc
Gunnar Hansen Has Passed Away
Gunnar Hansen, probably best known in his role as Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, passed away yesterday. He was 68 years old. Gunnar was born in Reykjavík, and spent [
DÖPUR’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
We recommend when you wake up is to take a bath at the local swimming pools in Reykjavík. After you’ve cleaned yourself, you should venture out and get some vegan […]
Airwaves Day Four: Riding Kiasmos’s Wave
The queue to get upstairs at Harpa has tens of people, maybe even a hundred. As I climb those steps, I can feel the Airwaves flu settling in my sinuses—too many […]
You Can’t Always Force It
I swear, I wanted to party last night. When I saw my work schedule for this week I said to myself, and everyone around me, “Well, I’ll just have to […]
Airwaves, DAY THREE: Ten Perspectives!
The best show of the night was hands-down Ho99o9—the punked-out dark hip-hop performance turned the heat up and kept it at a feverish high throughout the wild ride. It had [&hell
Milkywhale – Watching Tour, Day 3
If you’ve been following my Milkywhale-watching tour (or stalking, whatever), you’d know I’ve been part of the dance parties they’ve started in a café and clothing shop. A
Airwaves Day Three: Meet Par-Ðar
Following advice from my colleague Paul Fontaine to just go into the unknown and see bands that I had never heard of before, I found myself in Harpa Kaldalón checking […]
Airwaves Day Three: Belgian Bands On Downtime
Airwaves draws a lot of international visitors (which is not to say…tourists), who have a limited amount of time between partying-drinking-music-dancing-fun-time and sleeping
IN PICTURES: Alex Weber’s Friday At Airwaves
Photographer Alex Weber has been doing his best to capture Airwaves, and a picture says a thousand words, so this is basically many words! Wow! Airwaves! So good! Milkywhale! Perfu
Bull Terrier Owners Will Appeal
The owners of the bull terrier, Cream, who was barred from entering Iceland, are taking their case to the Supreme Court. Vísir reports that Hilmar Egill Jónsson, who owns the [&h
Low Clearance Bar Strikes Again
The notorious low clearance bar at the Hvalfjörður tunnel has claimed another victim, which could have ended in disaster for many others. A truck bearing timber recently attempte
IN PICTURES: Art Is Alive – Day Three
Art Bicnick is out and about, capturing Iceland Airwaves in all its glory! Observe! His wonderful photos! #AMAZING
Nazi Acid Zombies Leave Icelandic Police Concerned
Local news outlet DV, enemies of corporate conflicts of interest and paragons of journalistic virtue, reports a wave of Nazi-themed hallucinogenics on the market that are causing e
Kælan Mikla: Someone Please Help Them Break Out
I’m not normally into touting local bands to the wider world as being in need of breaking out and making it big. Mostly because I don’t pretend to know enough […