The Hardcore Kid’s Guide To Reykjavík Sightseeing
By Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson often plays in bands, most notably Bisund, Stjörnukisi, I Adapt, Gavin Portland, Celestine and Hellvar. These days, though, he
The Old DJ’s Guide To Shopping
By Pan & Óskar Thorarensen You know what they say—families that play together, stay together. Combining forty years of musical experience into one down-tempo chill duo are S
All Eyes on Iceland
By Þórir Bogason There are a lot of Icelandic acts performing at this year’s Iceland Air
Lighting Up Airwaves
Marcos Zotes blurs the lines between music, art and architecture by Arit John / Photo by Jon Oskar Hauksson If you were in Reykjavík last February during The Festival of Lights,
Michael Gira And The Ever-Changing Goal For Joy
The SWANS bandleader talks about performance and the pushing of soundOccasionally when you import music into your iTunes, it will aggravatingly insert the genre name as ‘Unclassi
Video: Sin Fang – “Walk With You”
Video by Alísa Kalyanova / Interview by Rebecca Louder With exactly three weeks to go until the festival, we’ve decided to kick our preview coverage up a gear and get [&hell
Self-Indulgent Brotherhood, Atomic Wedgie Law: Interview with Kiriyama Family
By Rebecca Louder / Photo by Þórir Ingvarsson There are twenty guitars, nine synthesizers and one bass guitar between the five members of the Kiriyama Family. The group h
The Grapevine’s Airwaves Survival Guide!
Navigating your way through Iceland’s biggest five-day party By Rebecca Louder While some may think of Iceland Airwaves as a festival of locals and Iceland devotees
WTF ICELAND AIRWAVES!? Pt. II: Advice for getting through your first (or fifth!) festival experience
My husband and I are festival bound this year for the first time and couldn’t be more excited. We have been trying to pick up some simple Icelandic phrases to […]
The Young Composer’s Guide To Dining
By Anna Þorvaldsdóttir The “Young Composer’s Guide To Reykjavík Dining” is a bit of a tradition at The Grapevine, with past Airwaves issues featuring recommendations from
Old Band On The Dock: GusGus are the champions of Airwaves!
By Rebecca Louder It was a (presumably cold and rainy) October in 1999 when one famous foreign artist and three super-hip Icelandic bands—Thievery Corporation, Toy Machine
Making Solar-Powered Music
As his Iceland Airwaves performance of Solaris with Ben Frost nears, Daníel Bjarnason walks us through the process of recording the piece By Thomas L. Moir A tall and [&hel
In With The New: Þoka play their first Airwaves ever!
By Rebecca Louder In the final acts of this year’s Icelandic Battle of the Bands, a surprisingly different kind of band took the stage. Lush and demure, the room […
MUST SEE COVER ARTISTS
If you are holding one of four editions of this year’s Airwaves issue, featuring one of four musicians—Ásgeir Trausti, Gísli Pálmi, Skúli Sverrisson or sóley—that we thi
The Pleasure In Neverending Anger: The Angist Interview
If you want to get some serious dancing, thrashing and moshing under your belt during your airwaves jaunt, then you should do yourself a favour and pop over to Café […]
WIN WIN WIN!! Take part in our special Reykjavik Rocks competition!
If you’ve seen our recent piece about the totally awesome Reykjavik Rocks bus tour that is happening during Airwaves, then you know that it sounds like a great way to [&helli
All Aboard The Special Rock Bus!
A special tour on Iceland’s musical history is on its way to Airwaves! Dear Airwaves visitor, chances are you’re going to have several dozen drinks, eat a bunch of [&hel
Last Year’s Most Awesome Airwaves Story Contest Winner!
1st Place! By Davíð Arnar Baldursson Hello Grapevine! I’ve got one Airwaves story for you guys. It is absolutely true, not my imagination. This happened at last years I
Talking Heads
Sóley composes music for “Breaking News,” a play starring puppets by Arit John Television. Radio. Newspapers. Computers. People are constantly bombarded with news from every d
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