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Heading Into Pleasure Valley With Kira Kira
Kira Kira’s Unaðsdalur Embraces Light And Truth Since the premiere of her debut film Grandma Lo-Fi at the Copenhagen International…
Making Waves: Meet The Four Most Exciting Airwaves Debuts
It’s time once again for Iceland Airwaves – the country’s biggest and most ambitious music festival. Also known as “the…
Iceland’s Most Productive Indie Band
Local indie band Supersport! recounts their latest release, writing about houses, and facing an identity crisis A charming underground art-pop…
The Indefensible Defence Of An Obsolete Industry
Examining the past, present and still uncertain future of whaling in Iceland “It’s been a crazy day,” Valgerður Árnadóttir says,…
To Hollywood And Beyond
With Truenorth Talent, Tania Zarak Quintana is expanding opportunities for Iceland’s creative powerhouse We meet Tania Zarak Quintana, VP of…
Holy Shit! It’s The 2023 Grapevine Music Awards!
What will 2022 be remembered for? If 2020-2021 were “the lost years,” where artists went insular and mused on solitude…
Airwaves 2022 Saturday Super Review: All-Powerful Go_A, Comfortable Axel Flóvent, And Arlo Parks Brings Us Home
Shed a tear, Airwaves 2022 is all over. Across the city, sleepy humans are slowly waking up and trying to…
Good Old Airwaves Is Back
Iceland Airwaves returns to Reykjavík after a 2-year hiatus It’s been almost three years since the last Iceland Airwaves festival…
RVK Newscast 199: Culture In Iceland
For this episode of RVK Newscast, Culture Editor Josie Anne is joined by Reykjavík Grapevine’s Listings and Events Coordinator Kim…
A Hub Of Activity: Reykjavík Arts Festival Hub Is Back With A Bold New Programme
“The most beautiful thing is when the events unfold. They’ve been in your phone and your excel sheet for so…
The Grapevine Music Awards 2021: The Winners Are Here!
Oh, you thought a pandemic would stop us? No way! It’s January, and that means the Grapevine Music Awards 2021…
The Evolution of Gyða: On Music, Multiple Dimensions Of Love, And Our Collective Future
Gyða Valtýsdóttir could be at once described as a cellist, composer, artist and mystic but categories are something she feels…
Logi Pedro Album Release – “My Iceland Is Colourful”
by Nico Borbely
Logi Pedro’s second album ‘Undir bláu tungli,’ meaning ‘Under the blue moon,’ is being released today, RÚV reports. It has…
Portrait of a City: Reykjavik Between Legend, History, and Tourism
by Nico Borbely
This article originally written in Italian for Il Giornale dell’Architettura (The Architectural Post) by Sofia Nannini was translated by Nico…
GusGus, The Impossible Band: 25 Years Of Intrigue, Drama And Music
by Sveinbjörn Pálsson and Hannah Jane Cohen
None of this was supposed to happen. GusGus was just supposed to be a short film, not a band. And…
Travel Like A Tourist: Journeying Through Iceland Like An Icelander
by Hannah Jane Cohen and Valur Grettisson
Presenting: The Ultimate Grapevine Travel Iceland Guide. Scroll down for our favourite places in the north, east, south, west and…
Airwaves Tipsters 2019: María Rut Reynisdóttir
María Rut Reynisdóttir is the project manager of Reykjavík Music City, which seeks to promote the city’s music scene and…
New Wave DIY: Meet The Post-dreifing Music & Arts Collective
by Rex Beckett
In a bright sunlit living room lined with antique furniture and tchotchkes, a group of friends are gathered around a…
The Icelandic Writers On The Reykjavík International Literature Festival
by Sam Daniels
Iceland has long had a love affair with the literary arts. The tradition is born from the warrior poet Vikings,…
Ísafjörður Never Goes South: The award-winning Westfjords festival Aldrei Fór Ég Suður Is back
Since 2004, April means one thing for the people of the Westfjords: the Aldrei Fór Ég Suður music festival. Named…
Happening In Reykjavík This Week: Our Event Picks!
by Sam Daniels
Spring may not quite have sprung as much as we had originally hoped, as the second coming of winter that…