This year 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others just formed last month. In the remaining weeks before the festival we are sifting through them, ten at a time.
This year 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others just formed last month. In the remaining weeks before the festival we are sifting through them, ten at a time.
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others just formed last month. In the remaining weeks before the festival we are sifting through them, ten at a time.
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others just formed last month. In the remaining weeks before the festival we are sifting through them, ten at a time.
This year over 50 bands are making their Iceland Airwaves debut. Some have been on the scene for decades, others just formed last month. In the remaining weeks before the festival we are sifting through them, ten at a time.
The final installment of our guide to the 50 Icelandic bands making their Airwaves debut at the 2016 festival.
“When the new moon comes, I’d go under, like a submarine,” Björk explains, motioning up and down with her arms. “On a full moon it all comes out. Then I’d descend back down toward the new moon."
Forging your own way doesn’t always take you down the most comfortable path, but it’s always a scenic one. And DJ Gunni Ewok has seen a lot.
The centre is named after the historic Höfði House on Borgartún, where in 1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev famously met and shook hands, helping to bring about the end of the Cold War.
Born out of the remnants of the legendary drum and bass club night breakbeat.is, along with the Fótafimi (Juke/Footwork) and Lagtiðni (Bass, Grime) DJ groups, the minds behind Plútó comprise the most comprehensive knowledge tank of dance and electronic music in Iceland.
Alvia Islandia has a way of exhibiting darkness and lightness not as opposites, but as complements. She’s a total tomboy and rosy-pink pretty girl in one picture perfect package. In June of this year she released the six-track album ‘Bubblegum Bitch’, a little bit trap, a little electronic, a lot rap, and a lot don’t-bother-classifying, it’s Alvia Islandia—just go listen to it.
Designers notice thing that many of us don’t. Design pervades our lives: good design improves our entire existence, bad design gets stuck under our fingernails.
Twelve years ago, Hrönn Marinósdóttir started RIFF as a school project. For her master’s thesis at Reykjavík University she decided to research what it would take for Reykjavík to host a major international film festival.
It’s not just the films that make RIFF an international film festival. Every year tens of interns and hundreds of volunteers from all across the globe coalesce at the RIFF headquarters in downtown Reykjavík.
Graphic Designers Loki Björnsson and Elsa Jónsdóttir's new typeface display: the exhibit opens on September 30 and features nine fonts developed over the past two years.
When I told the waitress that I was looking for something interesting to do in Þorlákshöfn, she expressed condolences. It’s not exactly the reaction one hopes for when writing a piece about a town.
With a title like ‘Yarn: The Movie’, it is not difficult to discern what Compass Films’ latest documentary is going to be about. So let’s start with what it is not about.
“In a Late Night with Conan O’Brien interview, our own musical sweetheart Björk described the Icelandic music scene perfectly – a bunch of isolated people hearing the music coming from abroad and misunderstanding it in a beautiful way.”