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Hot Chip Remixes Daði Freyr’s ‘Think About Things’
Repeated Iceland Airwaves stars and long-time friends of Iceland Hot Chip have given us all a very special gift. The…
This Year’s Must-Hears: Grapevine’s Top Icelandic Tracks Of 2017, So Far
We at Grapevine have some diverse (some might say “complementary,” others “wildly incompatible”) music tastes. The office stereo regularly blares…
Straumur: East Of My Berlin—Icelandic Synth Stars On The Move
Electro-pop duo East of My Youth have been making international rounds in the past years. In the middle of September…
Óli Dóri’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
by Óli Dóri
Óli Dóri is a Grapevine music columnist a downtown DJ. He’s operations manager at Bíó Paradís and a host of…
Straumur: Poem Thiefs Dancing In The Disco Lights
Grísalappalísa, Iceland’s premier literate new wave band, just put our their first new song in like ages, and threw a…
Straumur: Power-Punk And Trippy Historic Sites
Icelandic-Brightonian punk-pop trio, Dream Wife, just put out the song ‘Fire’ and it sure has been blazing up music publications,…
French Masters Do Distortion Justice
In our last column we wrote about ‘Take Me Down,’ the first single from the upcoming EP ‘Unravel,’ by electronic…
Straumur: The Old And The Nu, With Black Pox, Par-Ðar, EinarIndra & More
The rapper Bróðir Big just released his debut LP, ‘Hrátt Hljóð’ (“Raw Sound”), and while there sure is a swelling…
Straumur: Anderson .Paak-robatics and kef LAVÍK Videodrome
First things first, the Secret Solstice festival that took place in Laugardalur from June 1518 was a monstrous blissful good…
Straumur: Juggling Pineapples With Smjörvi
Old favourites Bárujárn, who haven’t been active for quite a few years, returned last week out of the blue with…
Straumur: More Songs About WD-40 And Djammviskubit
An emerging electronic act with an eccentric name caught our eye recently: two guys who go by the names of…
Straumur: Mountains Between Mountains
Músíktilraunir, the annual Icelandic Battle of the Bands, was held a couple of weeks ago. The winning band was Between…
Straumur: Auto-Tuned Teenage Angst
by Óli Dóri and Davíð Roach
On the first of April we attended a concert at Húrra by kef LAVÍK: the band has a sense of…
Straumur: Autotuned Crooning & Organic Machines
by Davíð Roach and Óli Dóri
Everybody’s favorite autotune teenage crooner, Aron Can, just released the first single from his debut LP, ‘ÍNÓTT’ (“TONIGHT,” in English),…
Straumur: Joyful Dark Love
by Óli Dóri and Davíð Roach
Another month, another collaboration from Sin Fang, múm’s Örvar Smárason, and their Morr labelmate Sóley. After January’s “Random Haiku Generator,”…
It’s The Winners Of The Fifth Annual Grapevine Music Awards!
What do they have that you don’t? It’s the fifth annual Grapevine Music Awards. Which means that it’s the fifth…
Straumur’s Top 5 Icelandic Albums of 2016
#5 Samaris – ‘Black Lights’ On their third and most mature album Samaris deliver threefold on their early promise as…
Grapevine’s 2016 Playlist To End All 2016 Playlists
There was a veritable raft—nay, a FLOTILLA—of Icelandic bands doing great things in 2016. Aron Can, for example, racked up…
Straumur: Icelandic Hip-Hop, A Cinematic Journey and Sónar Reykjavík
by Óli Dóri and Davíð Roach
GKR, the rapper named “artist to watch” at last year’s Grapevine Music Awards, made good on his early promise last…
Straumur: Tipzy Kings
by Óli Dóri and Davíð Roach
Mugison, at first an indie darling, then the whole nation’s, just released his first album in five years. On ‘Enjoy!’…
Airwaves Debutantes Part 1: What’s New And Who’s Who
It’s tough to set your schedule up for Iceland Airwaves. Over the festival’s five days, there are 150 bands in…