The Scene
The winter heats up in Reykjavik where festies spend the days taking in the wonders of the island and spending nights at the top clubs in the country. From hipster indie acts to geysers to after-parties, Iceland Airwaves remains a solid bet for a cold weather festival.
2012 Artist Lineup
- 1860
- Agent Fresco
- Angist
- Apparat Organ Quartet
- Asonat
- Atrum
- Bárujárn
- Beatmakin Troopa
- Ben Frost (AU/IS)
- Bendagram (FI)
- Beneath
- BENJAMIN (FO)
- Benni Hemm Hemm
- Berndsen
- Biggi Hilmars
- Bix
- bloodgroup
- Blouse (US)
- Boogie Trouble
- Borko
- BOY (CH/DE)
- Brain Police
- captain fufanu
- Caterpillarmen
- Celestine
- Cercueil (FR)
- cheek mountain thief (UK/IS)
- Contalgen Funeral
- Croisztans
- DanÃel Bjarnason
- Daughter (UK)
- DIIV (US)
- DIMMA
- Dirty Projectors (US)
- Dj AnDre
- Django Django (UK)
- Doldrums (CA)
- Dr. spock
- Dream Central Station
- Eldar
- Elektro Guzzi (AT)
- ElÃn Ey
- Eliza Newman
- Emmsjé Gauti
- Endless Dark
- EnkÃdú
- Epic Rain
- Ewert and The Two Dragons (EE)
- exitmusic (US)
- Fenster (DE)
- FM Belfast
- For a Minor Reflection
- Friends (US)
- Fu Kaisha
- Funk That Shit!
- Futuregrapher
- GabrÃel (w. special guests)
- GANG RELATED
- Geir Helgi
- Ghost Town Jenny (US)
- ghostigital
- Ghostpoet (UK)
- Gluteus Maximus
- Gone Postal
- Good Moon Deer
- GP!
- GUSGUS
- HAIM (US)
- Half Moon Run (CA)
- Halleluwah
- HAM
- Hanne Kolstø (NO)
- HaZaR
- Heavy Medical (US)
- Heflarnir
- Hellvar
- Hermigervill
- Highasakite (NO)
- Hudson Wayne
- I Break Horses (SE)
- Jack Magnet Quintet
- Jafet Melge
- Jamie N Commons (UK)
- Japanese Super Shift and the Future Band
- Jesuslesfilles (CA)
- Just Another Snake Cult
- Kindness (UK)
- Kira Kira
- Kiriyama Family
- kool thing (DE)
- Kwes (UK)
- Langi Seli og Skuggarnir
- Lára Rúnars
- Lay Low
- Leaves
- Legend
- Lockerbie
- Love & Fog
- Love Demons
- Low Roar (IS/US)
- M-Band
- Magnús Leifur
- Mammút
- Me And My Drummer (DE)
- Mikael Lind
- Mo Kenney (CA)
- Momentum
- Monotown
- Moonface with Siinai (CA/FI)
- Morning After Youth
- Mr. Silla
- Muck
- My bubba & Mi
- noise
- Nolo
- Of Monsters and Men
- Ojba Rasta
- Oyama
- Pascal Pinon
- Passwords (CA)
- Paul Corley (US)
- Pedro Pilatus
- Phantogram
- Philco Fiction (NO)
- Plastic Gods
- Prince ValÃum
- Purity Ring
- Puzzle Muteson (UK)
- Quadruplos
- Rangleklods (DK)
- Retro Stefson
- RetRoBot
- RUBIK (FI)
- RVK Soundsystem
- Sam Amidon (US)
- Samaris Band
- Saytan
- Shabazz Palaces (US)
- Shearwater (US)
- Shiko Shiko (FR)
- Sigur Ros
- Siinai (FI)
- Sin Fang
- Sindri Eldon & The Ways
- Sisy Ey
- Stereo Hypnosis
- Steve Sampling
- Swans
- SYKUR
- Tanya & Marlon
- Technical Kidman (CA)
- The Barr Brothers (CA)
- THE ECHO VAMPER (DK)
- The Eclectic Moniker (DK)
- The Foreign Resort (DK)
- The Heavy Experience
- The Vaccine
- The Vintage Caravan
- THEE ATTACKS (DK)
- THEESatisfaction (US)
- ThizOne
- Thor
- Thorunn Antonia