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Grapevine Events: Happy 22nd Birthday To Us!
Sun’s out, and today’s Grapevine’s 22nd birthday! We’ll be celebrating at our birthday party, but we’ve got some ideas for…
Grapevine Events: Norwegian DJs, A Birthday Party, Fisherman’s Day & More
It’s Friday and, as always, Grapevine’s got your weekend plans covered. Whether you’re looking for art or music, in Reykjavík…
Grapevine Events: Concert Series Galore And Some Openings
We just printed a new Grapevine last night, so we’re ready to hit the town and celebrate! Our plan is…
Grapevine Events: Two Noise Fests, Smátíðni, Reddingakaffi Repairathon, Exhibition Openings & More
Reykjavík hit a scorching 10°C yesterday, setting a new April record. But today? April snow and hail — because of…
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…