Video: Plastic Gods – “Burning Of The Midday Bowl”
Video by Alísa Kalyanova / Interview by Bob Cluness Our exclusive live video coverage in the run up to Iceland Airwaves 2012 continues apace with a very special video for y̵
Postcards From The Edge – Sudden Weather Change
Our semi regular Airwaves series POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE is where bands who are currently touring and travelling to all sorts of fun places across the world (picking up several [&h
The Science Of The Wub: The HaZaR Interview
The raw energy of HaZaR’s music is dragging Reykjavik’s dance scene into the NOW. By Bob Cluness Icelanders love their electronic music and have done for some time no
The Confessions Of A Misanthropic Musician: The Sindri Eldon And The Ways Interview
Here at the Grapevine we have writers who also like to moonlight as musicians now and again, whether the music be brassy ’60s pop, supercharged hardcore, or noise rock . Eve
Don’t Have A Ticket To Airwaves?
You can still take part in some of the awesome festival fun! By Anna Andersen Attention tourists who for some reason decided to visit Iceland at the end of October/beginning [&hell
Dreamland Regained – The Valgeir Sigurðsson Interview
The latest album from Bedroom Community founder VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON sees the composer beginning to stretch his music and ambitions, while marking the latest in a furtive year of cr
Getting The New Gang Back Together – The Mr. Silla Interview
If you’re the kind of person who keeps an eye on the Icelandic music scene, you will know that the social web of inter-band friendships and relationships here is often […]
Postcards From the Edge – Ólafur Arnalds
In the run up to Iceland Airwaves, we at Grapevine Towers often receive missives, intriguing data packets and other such stuff from artists who are away from the Motherland, lettin
Special Live Report: How Cheek Mountain Thief Fixed It For Me
In a special live review, writer and Drowned In Sound photographer Carmel McNarmara, tells of experiencing Cheek Mountain Thief at first hand in Holland, and how Mike Lindsay en
Great Airwaves Memories Plus One Virgin’s Expectations
Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone I have tons of great memories from past festivals. Like the time in 2005 when I lost a drunken bet (something to do with someone eating […]
The Troubadour’s Guide to Drinking
By Alexander Aron Guðbjartsson Whatever your opinion of them and their music, the trusty troubadour is for many people the mortar on which a great night is built. So for […
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