The Sonics are in their own way responsible for one of the more odd situations wherein I’ve run into someone I know in an almost totally improbable place. And The Sonics own involvement was also improbable, making the entire incident improbable2. For a little context, The Sonics are a garage rock band founded just down […]
Tag: Iceland Airwaves
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 3
I realized earlier this week that I never posted about the final day of Iceland Airwaves 2025, which was a serious oversight on my part because a few really cool things happened. We opened the day at Lucky Records just after Noon. Why, you ask? Oh, I don’t know, maybe because I kinda-sorta was scheduled […]
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 2
The weather remained perfect for the second day of Iceland Airwaves. Sure, it was chilly – it’s November and the country has “ice” in its name. But it was also sunny for much of the day, so it stayed dry, and the was only a bit of a breeze, not the normal take-your-breath-away wind we’ve […]
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 1
The official schedule kicked off on Thursday and we were ready, catching seven artists ranging in styles from pop to punk to techo to chap hop. Yes, chap hop. It’s an actual thing. The performers were from Iceland and England and Wales and Denmark, performing solo and in duos an in five-piece bands. Guitars and […]
Iceland Airwaves 2025 – Day 0
And so it begins again, another Iceland Airwaves music festival. Thanks to the miracle that is modern travel it only takes seven hours for us to go from Seattle to Keflavik, Iceland’s major international airport. Door to door from our house to the front of our Reykjavik hotel? Just about 12 hours, give or take […]