All Killer, Fuck All Filler….
Bob Cluness’ Seven Bands To Catch At Airwaves 2012! Even though it was probably the most inexplicable decision of their careers when the editorial team at the Grapevine made [
From Louder, With Love!
Seven Bands To Catch At Airwaves 2012! By Rebecca Louder Going through that little Airwaves booklet and trying to decide which bands to see can be a rollercoaster of [&helli
Something For The Pain – The Heavy Medical Interview
Heavy Medical have ways of examining the places of your body you didn’t know existed. When it comes to making music, sometimes you can have just too many [&hell
Echoes Of The White Ark
Reggae/dub big band Ojba Rasta released their debut album last Tuesday and it’s quite phenomenal. Sporting eight songs, hair-metal guitar solos, rapping, sci-fi synthesizers, Ice
Carl Sagan Pop Cosmology – The 1860 Interview
1860 do some mean folk pop, are fans of Jusup Wilkosz, and think Cradle Of filth are for kids. True story! [pullquote_left] “It would definitely fill us [&he
Cheek Mountain Thief: Cheek Mountain Thief
Mike Lindsay—also the frontman of UK folktronica band Tunng—has built up a mythology for this album in which he falls in love with an Icelander, drawing him to Húsavík and [&
Dreams Of Something Wild: The Blouse Interview
Sometimes Reyka vodka is good not just for drinking and for setting fire to random objects. It can sometimes be used to bring new and unknown artists to our collective […]
Superjack Soul Sisters: Sisý Ey Interviewed
Iceland’s new house group are gonna make you feeeeeeeellll…… If IDM is the brain of electronic music, and techno is its muscle, then surely house music is its sti
Chariots Of The Suomi – The Siinai Interview
Siinai are definitely a band that you would call wide-screen. From the thick synth drones of opening track “Anthem 1&2” on their 2011 debut album ‘Olympic Games,’ t
Beatmakin Troopa: If You Fall You Fly
I must admit my ineptitude: I didn’t know until relatively recently that “chill” was an actual genre name. Seemingly it is, and it implies something that I would’ve
Rokkjötnar 2012
A one-day festival event, Rokkjötnar, featured Iceland’s “Giants of Rock,” as the festival name suggests (…although “jötnar” is also an old word for “troll,” so y
Lone Riders On Electronic Horses
Harpa Kaldalón is not a venue I would normally associate with hot-and-heavy rock and roll action. True, the acoustics are great, bordering on excellent, but with its high slope an
Breaking Out Of His Old Skin – The Ólafur Arnalds Interview
“What happened was a table attacked me! We were being filmed pretending to fight each other in a scene, but the director didn’t think that we were being realistic enough. [&hel
The Human Perpetual Creativity Machine – Þórir Georg Interviewed
“It´s not a big concern for me that I will spread myself too thin.” Even in the world of Icelandic music, where musicians are almost expected to have numerous […
Goodnight Deer Jumping Over The Moon: Interview with Good Moon Deer
Designed for the runway, not the record press? By Rebecca Louder “It consists of a person playing on a computer and another playing drums. The person on the computer [&hel
The Record Label Connection: Interview with Asonat
Tiny puzzles of language and obscurity By Rebecca Louder After five years of living abroad, Fannar Ásgrímsson, moved back to Reykjavík in October 2010 and found himself f
Premier Division Men
“I don’t really do photo shoots. I let Jón Gnarr do them all,” jokes Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic music legend, councilman and one half of mentalist electronic duo Gho
The Insider’s Guide To Iceland Airwaves
We ask the people in the know on the inside track of Iceland Airwaves, so now you know too! So you’ve decided to take the plunge and book your […]
War And Uneasy Peace: Legend Interviewed
The undeniable truth is… Iceland needs more bands like Legend. And so do you. By Bob Cluness “I am the plague, I am the swarm. All your hurt […]
WTF ICELAND AIRWAVES!?: Advice For Getting Through Your First (Or Fifth!) Festival Experience
Dear Grapevine, I’ve been looking forward to Airwaves for ages. I got my ticket, a nice package flight, and am trying to get intimate with the bill beyond Sigur Rós […]
A Full On Sonic Immersion Experience: The Heavy Experience Interviewed
The Heavy Experience don’t want your love. Just your ears. And your soul. By Bob Cluness You can’t rush musical five-piece The Heavy Experience. Rushing them would only