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The Foreign Resort: Rocking the streets of Reykjavík

The Danes arrived to Reykjavík uncertain if anyone in Iceland had ever heard of them. They changed that with just one day of rocking out. By Steffan Lykke Møller They describe their music as The Cure meets Sonic Youth with a ...

by Rebecca Louder

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BREAKING NEWS: Django Django Cancelled!

Bummerino! Scottish jangle-rockers Django Django have had to cancel their official Airwaves gig tonight at Harpa. Their drummer has fallen ill and is unable to play. This is truly unfortunate and we wish the man a speedy recove...

by Rebecca Louder

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Friday Night Taken By The Collar

It's safe to say that despite it’s ever-thriving music scene, Reykjavík doesn't exactly have a rapid thoroughfare of touring acts. In fact, if you want to hear live music in one minority genre or another, you’d be better o...

by Bergrún Anna Hallsteinsdóttir

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FM BELFAST ARE BACK AND TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS!

Words by Rebecca Louder / Photos by Alísa Kalyanova / Photoshoot wardrobe courtesy of Kormákur & Skjöldur Last Airwaves, there was a gaping hole in the lineup of Icelandic bands that didn’t ruin the festival (not by f...

by Rebecca Louder

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Apparat Organ Quartet by Rúnar Sigurður Sigurjónsson

BREAKING NEWS: Jóhann Jóhannsson Leaves Apparat Organ Quartet

Revered Icelandic analog-electronic band Apparat Organ Quartet have announced that founding member Jóhann Jóhannsson has left the band. According to a press release sent today by their management, Jóhann’s decision to leav...

by Rebecca Louder

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Iceland Airwaves: Thursday – A Clash Magazine perspective

Words by Matthew Bennett & Joe Zadeh. Photo by Birta Rán. As Anglo-metropolitan muppets, our start in Iceland couldn’t have been much more of a birth of fire. Or more aptly; wind. Fierce wind that could slice your face l...

by Rebecca Louder

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WINDY DAY TIDBIT! Musicians & Their Pets!

Stay inside, get some milkbones and catnip and cuddle up with a furry-friend! Compiled by Rebecca Louder & Bob Cluness While being a touring musician and a pet owner can’t be easy, there’s one thing that’s...

by Rebecca Louder

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Chilly Winds Don’t Blow

“Holy fucking Christ,” I said without hearing myself say it, the words sucked right out of my mouth. It was not just the wind—violent, subarctic, merciless—that assailed me from all directions and angles, rendering it e...

by Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir

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Beats, Rhymes And Life: Faktorý Downstairs

I don’t do drugs (often), but if I did I would do them while listening to artists like Thizone. Oops, I’ve fallen down a K-hole and I can’t get up! Then again, it’s sort of nice down here… Thizone serves up tracks...

by Kirsten O'Brien

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TONIGHT! Bands Sing Songs By Other Bands At KARAOKE101

Because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! As previously reported, the bar Bakkus is celebrating its swan-song week with its final instalment of the B-Waves festival. Amidst all the madness they’ll be hosting in the...

by Rebecca Louder

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Back On The Stage With Rökkurró: We Just Had To Play Iceland Airwaves

Their first show in over a year Rökkurró are back for Iceland Airwaves with new energy and an acoustic set, but with the future yet to be decided By Steffan Lykke Møller / Photos by Pat Moriearty Recently, you haven’t ...

by Rebecca Louder

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Youth Is Wasted On The Young…

It was halfway through the evening‘s music when I kept thinking of two pieces published by our paper. The first being last week's news item on a report that Iceland’s youth was becoming “more conservative,” the other be...

by Bob Cluness

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UPDATE!: SWANS Trapped By Tropical Storm Sandy, Cancel Their Airwaves Gig!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! In what might be officially the worst news of the festival so far, the much anticipated performance by experimental legends SWANS has been CANCELLED! Unlike the last sudden band cancellation, this ...

by Rebecca Louder

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Iceland Airwaves Kicks Off! Changes Made To The Airwaves Schedule!

Scrap all your plans! Lose your shit! Start again! Just kidding… After the extreme drama that was Poliça-gate (the band cancelled their Airwaves gig at the last minute, in case you missed it), the diligent team of festival o...

by Rebecca Louder

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ON THE PATH OF PUNK: The Reykjavík Punk Walk Starts Today!

Taking a tour through the local movement’s key locations and turning points with historian Unnur María Bergveinsdóttir. (Photo still from ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’.) Iceland was a very different place in 1980. Most ...

by Rebecca Louder

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Video: Good Moon Deer – “Blur”

Video by Alísa Kalyanova / Words by Rebecca Louder Happy Airwaves-Eve! We are impatiently listening for the jingle of free beer and the roar of internationals to arrive (hopefully our North American guests will make it through...

by Rebecca Louder

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The Foreign Resort: Rocking the streets of Reykjavík

BREAKING NEWS: Django Django Cancelled!

Friday Night Taken By The Collar

FM BELFAST ARE BACK AND TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS!

BREAKING NEWS: Jóhann Jóhannsson Leaves Apparat Organ Quartet

Iceland Airwaves: Thursday – A Clash Magazine perspective

WINDY DAY TIDBIT! Musicians & Their Pets!

Chilly Winds Don’t Blow

Beats, Rhymes And Life: Faktorý Downstairs

TONIGHT! Bands Sing Songs By Other Bands At KARAOKE101

Back On The Stage With Rökkurró: We Just Had To Play Iceland Airwaves

Youth Is Wasted On The Young…

UPDATE!: SWANS Trapped By Tropical Storm Sandy, Cancel Their Airwaves Gig!

Iceland Airwaves Kicks Off! Changes Made To The Airwaves Schedule!

ON THE PATH OF PUNK: The Reykjavík Punk Walk Starts Today!

Video: Good Moon Deer – “Blur”

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