Bellstop - Trouble

Cell7 - To Tha Rim

Halleluwah - Blue Velvet

Kira Kira - Leave A Light On

Kaleo - Pour Sugar On Me

Jara - Eyes Of Moonlight

Love & Fog - Army Of Lovers

Lockerbie - Snjóljón

Lára Rúnars - Beast

My Bubba  - Island

Myrra Rós - Kveldulfur

Pétur Ben - Pieces Of The Moon

Oculus - Give it up

Ramses - Er Ég Fer Að Emsíast

Ragga Gröndal - Bangsi

Svartidauði -Flesh Cathedral

Skepna - Hungur

Sísý Ey - Aint Got Nobody

The Wicked Strangers - Elephant and Castle

The Mansisters - Jennie's Diner

Útidúr - Vultures

Samúel Jón Samúelsson Big Band  - Afrómars

In The Company Of Men  - Steini Milljón

Have a listen to the amazing artists slated to play Iceland Airwaves 2013! For more information on the line-up and how to get yourself a ticket go to www.icelandairwaves.is

Marius Ziska (FO) - While You Were Dreaming

Kjurr - You

Jakob Juhkam Bänd (EE) - Enemy's Kitchen

Strigaskór nr. 42 - Armadillo

Sumie Nagano (SE) - Show Talked Windows

Since the first edition was held in 1999 (in an airplane hangar), Iceland Airwaves has become one of the premier annual showcases for new music – Icelandic and otherwise – in the world. It's made a heap of friends and won many fans along the way, and been lavished with praise pretty much everywhere they write about music. Example: Rolling Stone magazine called it "The hippest long weekend on the annual music-festival calendar."

Some of the world's most exciting artists have performed there, too. The Shins, The Rapture, TV On The Radio, Florence and the Machine, Klaxons, Hot Chip, Flaming Lips, Wolf Parade, Bloc Party and Fatboy Slim have made the short hop from Europe or North America to share the stages with Iceland's finest talents, including bands such as Sigur Rós, FM Belfast, GusGus, múm, Singapore Sling and Dr Spock, to name but a few. And when the live bands have done their thing, top DJs from all over the world spin across the city until the crack of dawn.

But there's more to Airwaves than music. Reykjavík is quite possibly the perfect festival city – small enough to be welcoming, sophisticated enough to offer cultural, historical and nightlife diversions to rival cities ten times its size. Maybe twenty. Who knows? And it's surrounded by some of the most unique and astonishing natural beauty you're ever likely to see (this is a grand statement, but you should just see it).

Roll out of bed, hose the party remains out of your hair and hop on a bus. Before you can remember what you did the night before, you're looking at geysers, waterfalls, lava fields – all the best that a volcanic island has to offer, including the world-famous Blue Lagoon, favorite soaking spot of the international hung-over glitterati. Mmm! You can really taste the hipster! 

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