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Culture Pick: Une Misère At Stúdentakjallarinn
Ready to get your face melted off by some mind-blowing metal? Look no further than Stúdentakjallarinn tonight at 21:00, where the one and only Une Misère will perform. “The sextet could easily be called the supergroup of the Icelandic hardcore scene and…
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Culture Pick: Experiencement At Gamla Nýló
If you’re in a musical mood today, you’d do well to go to Kex Hostel at 21:00 tonight for a very special event dubbed Experiencement. This is a concert series that promises “artists that produce music that is found in similar spheres…
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Never Gone: Elín Ey Is Back With A New Voice And A New Style
Elín Ey is hesitant as she attempts to explain the origins of her new EP, ‘Gone.’ Granted, it’s been 11 years since the songstress last released an album, and it’s clear that the interlude has been a time of growth and development.…
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Track By Track: ‘Ending Friendships’ by Laura Secord
‘Ending Friendships’ is a deeply personal, almost confessional album from Laura Secord. In this edition of Track By Track, songwriter Alison MacNeil explains the impetus behind each of these songs. Embrace When you start a new relationship, all the problems you are…
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Hildur Guðnadóttir Wins Oscar For Best Original Score
Hildur Guðnadóttir took home the Oscar for best original score for ‘Joker’. She is the first solo woman to take home this award for a dramatic composition, and the first Icelander ever to win an Oscar. Rachel Portman won best musical score…
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Grapevine Playlist: Goose Bumps And Some Solid Rock
Bistro Boy – evolve Bistro Boy is definitely our boy. He just released a new EP called ‘evolve,’ and boy, has Bistro Boy done just what the title says. The album is a beautiful ambient-fused electro with a lot of soul. He…
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Hildur Guðnadóttir Wins BAFTA Music Awards
Hildur Guðnadóttir won three trophies for ‘Joker’ at the 2020 BAFTA awards on Sunday evening. The homegrown musical genius continues to sweep the awards, making Iceland proud. In 2019, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie…
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Breakdown Of Engin Miskunn by Hatari
Larger than life Icelandic hardcore boy band Hatari released a new video yesterday, Engin Miskunn (“No Mercy”), to instant critical acclaim. But while the masses process what they just saw in just under four minutes, critics around the globe are furiously scratching…
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Grapevine Playlist: Retro Sadness And Alien Hip-Hop
Sunna Margrét – Art Of History EP Listening to this song is like turning on a radiator in an old house after hours spent in the cold outside. It starts off sparse, with just some interesting sounds to let you know it’s…
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Put The Soul In The Soul: Einarindra Artist Playlist
Iceland’s most soulful electro artist, Einarindra recently made a serious splash at the 2019 Iceland Airwaves festival. While we’ve been busy streaming Einarindra on Spotify (you should, too) we asked him to create a playlist of his favourite Icelandic music, and he…
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The Greatest Hits: The Grapevine’s Critics Pick The Best Of 2019
As 2019 draws to an end, we asked our music team for their personal highlights from this fabulously diverse year in Icelandic music. It’s impossible to talk about this year in Icelandic music without first mentioning one name: Hildur Guðnadóttir, and her…
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Track By Track: ‘Minn Almáttugur’ By GDMA
GDMA—the duo of Gabríel Werner Guðmundsson and Dagur Snær Elísson—serve up eclectic, inspiring hip-hop, perfect for parties or long drives through the winter snow. To learn more, we sat down with the artists to chat about their newest album, ‘Minn almáttugur,’ track…
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Music News: Icelandic Women Make A Splash, Hatari, And More!
Two Icelandic women are amongst those nominated for the 2020 Grammy Awards, setting a historic precedent for Icelandic music. Anna Þorvaldsdóttir (above) has been nominated for Best Engineered Album, Classical, for her album ‘Aequa.’ Hildur Guðnadóttir has been nominated for Best Score…
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My Five Albums of the Year: Moon Gardens, Sugar baths And Delusion Inducing Tunes
This year, starting my internship at The Grapevine, I got to finally experience Reykjavík’s hectic and opulent music scene. As a result, I’m starting to add some Icelandic artists to my book of favourites. Here are five Icelandic Albums and Singles, released…
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Music News: Maus’s New Album & Eurovision
Maus-‘In This Fraction of a Second I Am Floating’ Maus, the semi-punkish Icelandic answer to Pavement, has republished their second album, ‘Í þessi sekúndubrot sem ég flýt’ (‘In This Fraction of a Second I Am Floating’) for its 20th anniversary. The album…
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Elli Grill: Evil Suburban Kids
Over the past few years, Elli Grill has become an easily-recognized figure within the Icelandic music scene. From his early-days performing near-exclusively with hip hop collective Shades of Reykjavík, to participating in Iceland’s national selection-competition for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and…
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Kriki: “Sól Úti” Music Video Premiere!
Kriki is back with a double single featuring two new songs: “Sól Úti” and “Better Off Alone.” With a cosy drum beat and energy that walks the line between sleepy and strong, these are two tracks that will make you want to…
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Grapevine Playlist: Countess Malaise, Ásgeir, Sin Fang & More
The Grapevine Playlist provides you with your regular dose of brand new Icelandic music. This time music for: headbanging and car-cruising along with Bon Iver and Beatles inspired tracks. Young Karin – Floor (feat. Sturla Atlas) Young Karin’s‘Floor’ is an energetic, well-produced…
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Track By Track: ‘HYSTERÍA’ By Countess Malaise
Bow down, for the Countess of Malaise has arrived with her long-awaited debut album ‘HYSTERÍA.’ Coming First It’s self-explanatory. As a woman, you learn that you’re not supposed to cum or say what you like in bed. I just wanted to make…
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Dozing In The Haze Of The Drone: The Arctic Drone Festival Creates 24-Hours of Otherness
Arguably, drone is the root form of music; the first tonal noise, repeated. What that means is that, in essence, there are no key changes, just an ongoing jam on top of a nice root key. Drone was celebrated, in all its…
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Alyona Alyona Will Show You How To Find Your Power
A smiling, female, plus-size Ukrainian rapper grooves around the stage of a big European festival. She’s performing a song in Ukrainian. The crowd sways and jumps as the artist’s black and purple braids swirl around her. Now she’s in bumper cars, signing…
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Airwaves Tipsters 2019: MSEA
Canadian-born Reykjavík-transplant MSEA is known for her intriguing, textural electronica-and-voice music. In her short time in Iceland, she has become not only a well known artists, but also a celebrated tastemaker with her “can’t think just feel” music series at Loft. Here…
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Blood Pudding & Other Fun Things: Blóðmör Redefine Heavy Metal
A heavy distorted guitar riff. Subtle but pervasive bass. Drums keep a strict beat. A lyrical phrase repeated in rough vocals. This is the recipe Blóðmör (“blood pudding,” in English) uses to craft their music, and it is delicious. Yet, they still…