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The Berry Picking Winners Of This Week’s #GVPics Are Here!
According to this week’s photo entries with Monday off for most of us, it’s been a long weekend of travelling, sunbathing and sight-seeing. Many beautiful and colourful photos this week but as always, there can only be one winner! Check out the…
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Witchcraft and Hypnagogia in Hildur Yeoman’s World of Fashion
Having dressed Reykjavík’s residents in patterned designs and jeweled finery for the past several years, Hildur Yeoman has slowly but steadily become one of Iceland’s leading fashion designers. We met the designer in her workshop as she was putting the finishing touches…
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Artist Talk: Páll Ivan frá Eiðum
The prolific Páll Ivan frá Eiðum makes paintings and music, characterised alike by his unique wit. His colourful paintings vary from life-sized to hand-sized and can be purchased personally from his Facebook page. Páll’s art is playful and often triggers laughter; with…
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Track by Track: ‘Vagg & Velta’ by Emmsjé Gauti
Since the release of his third solo album ‘Vagg & Velta’, Emmsjé Gauti has been packing venues and selling out of merch. Catch the phenomenon for yourself at Innipúkinn Festival, Iceland Airwaves and more. Here are his thoughts on ‘Vagg & Velta’:…
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Sunna’s Top Five Fav
Sunna Margrét is a born performer. She traveled the world as the frontperson of electro-pop band Bloodgroup, and since the band’s dissolution, she’s been studying visual arts as well as DJ’ing around town. Sunna will continue her art studies this fall at…
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DJ Of The Issue: SURA
Þura Stína or SURA is Reykjavík’s hip-hop DJ queen. Known for her killer sets, performing with Reykjavíkurdætur and keeping the crowd jumping, SURA was an easy choice as this issue’s DJ. Find SURA playing sultry R&B and funky hip-hop at Loftið on…
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Freeing It In This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Competition
Colours, the sun and all things nice in this week’s Instagram competition. Iceland is exceptionally green this time of year, making landscape photography a lot of fun. Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your pictures with #gvpics for a…
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Glowie’s Next Chapter: “No Lie” Music Video Premiere
Glowie has become one of Iceland’s most famous pop stars in only a year. Her first single, “No More,” was the most popular song of 2015 on radio station FM957, and she was the opening act for Jessie J last September. Since…
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Happening Sunday: Grapevine Grassroots At Húrra
The summer’s second Grapevine Grassroots is here! A free concert celebrating Reykjavík’s up-and-coming music and arts scene. The programme starts with an improvisation from young aspiring actors. Up next is Krakk & Spaghettí, Reykjavík’s coolest rap kids; Blakkát, performing their feel-good music;…
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Happening Now: ‘The World Is An Enigma’ At Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri
Pierre Coulibeuf, a French visual artist and filmmaker, exhibits four magical video installations focusing on the often opaque relationship between an individual and the world. The video pieces, made between 1995 and 2008, are inspired by various artistic collaborators, in fields from…
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Reykjavík’s Cool Kids In This Week’s #GVPics
The colourful and sunny entries from this week’s Instagram competition are bound to put a smile on everybody’s face. Go outside and enjoy the sun but first, check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your pictures with #gvpics for a…
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Stranded In Flateyri: Ólafur Arnalds And The Making Of ‘Island Songs’
I arrive at Reykjavík’s small domestic airport early on Midsummer’s Day, for a morning flight to Ísafjörður. I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to join the composer and musician Ólafur Arnalds, and his crew, on a trip to the Westfjörds. Our…
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Artist Of The Week: Kristín Dóra
Kristín Dóra is a visual artist studying at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. She recently returned from an exchange program in Sweden, garnering attention for her outspoken window art. Her pieces are interesting takes on social matters and she is a…
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Davíð Roach’s Five Favourite Albums
Davíð Roach is a vital figure in Icelandic music culture. For many years he and his friend Óli Dóri have specialised in music coverage as Straumur. Through their website and regular column for the Grapevine (see page 28), they’ve reported on new…
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Electro Powerhouse: Brilliantinus And His Upcoming Album
Kormákur Jarl Gunnarson is the electronic mastermind behind Brilliantinus. In only a year he’s become a prominent name in Reykjavík’s music scene, performing at festivals including Secret Solstice, Iceland Airwaves and Sónar. He is currently producing Kött Grá Pjé’s album, to be…
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Track By Track: ‘Vittu til’ By Snorri Helgason
Singer-songwriter Snorri Helgason is a veteran of the Icelandic music scene. His fourth solo album ‘Vittu Til’ was recently released, with one of its singles, “Einsemd,” in heavy rotation on the national radio station. Here are Snorri’s thoughts on the album. [bandcamp…
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The Festival That Never Sleeps: LungA 2016
Welcome to the seventeenth LungA art festival, located in the beautiful Seyðisfjörður. LungA aims to bring together people from all around the world for a week of creating, partying and spending time together in the beautiful natural surroundings of the fjord. One…
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DJ Of The Issue: Young Nazareth
Arnar Ingi Ingason, better known as Young Nazareth, is one of Prikið’s resident DJs and a member of Sturla Atlas. Despite his young age, Nazareth is known for attracting the city’s most turnt hip-hop devotees and keeping them jumping till dawn. Don’t…
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The Winner of This Week’s Sunny Instagram Competition
Beautiful sunny weather makes for beautiful instagram entries. These are amazing guys, you rock! Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your pictures with #gvpics for a chance at becoming next week’s champion! The runners-up: Lord Of the Rings, the…
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Premiering Tonight: The Greatest Show in Iceland Starring Björk Guðmundsdóttir*
“It’s sort of like reality TV on stage, exaggerated and eye-catching,” says Vilhelm Neto, one of the actors in The Greatest Show In Iceland, Starring Björk Guðmundsdóttir*. The theatre production is performed and created by Krass, a group consisting of theatre students…
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Salka Valsdóttir’s Five Favourite Albums
Salka Valsdóttir is a rapper from Reykjavíkurdætur famous for her flow and sick rhymes. The 101-based cool cat was raised in the theatre, with her father and siblings being actors and her mother a set designer. She knows her way around the…
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Artist Talk: Photographer Katrín Braga
Katrín Braga is an Icelandic photographer based in Vancouver. She started experimenting with film photography in secondary school, garnering attention for her colourful portraits of women. Katrín has since had her work published in publications such as Teen Vogue, VICE, Dazed, Indie…
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Track by Track: ‘The Truth the Love the Life’’ by Markús & The Diversion Sessions
“The Truth the Love the Life” by Markús & The Diversion Sessions came out in late 2015, after three years of recording in various places in Iceland. It was very much a collective effort, as lead singer Markús Bjarnason explains. “Without influences…
