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Kling & Bang Gallery Takes Over Icelandic TV Nights

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Leading Icelandic contemporary art organisation Kling & Bang are running an ambitious programme to spread video art over the TV…

#GVpics: The Week’s Best Instagrams Of Iceland

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Each week here at the Grapevine, we look through all the posts on Instagram that were tagged #GVpics. We get…

Iceland Whatever: Indie Label Aims To Break Icelandic Bands In US

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Bryan Riebeek is an imposing, bearded American fellow who might look familiar to those who like to paint the town…

Crashed Planes, Ancient Graves, Bounding Reindeer: A Kangerlussuaq Guide

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Kangerlussuaq, population 500, is a tiny town in West Greenland that’s built around its airport – a former US base…

Milkywhale’s Guide To Sónar 2016

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Our favourite emergent band from Airwaves ’15 was the all-singing-all-dancing party band Milkywhale, the project of dancer, singer, and loveable…

Airwaves Never Sleeps: PJ Harvey & More Announced For 2016

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The people behind the Iceland Airwaves festival haven’t been resting on their laurels this winter—they’ve been beavering away in the…

Future Aesthetics: Holly Herndon Pushes The Boundaries

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Holly Herndon’s ‘Platform’ is one of the most dense, dizzying, constantly surprising electronica LPs of recent times. Devoutly experimental in…

It’s Museum Night Tonight! Here’s A Brief Guide…

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Tonight is Museum Night in Reykjavík—an annual evening during which the city’s museums stay open late, with many hosting special…

Bára Gísladóttir’s Performances Are Full Of Surprises

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In a dimly lit, pin-drop quiet Mengi, young composer and musician Bára Gísladóttir lies onstage on her back, behind her…

Holly Herndon On The Excitement Of Live Performance

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Ahead of the forthcoming Sónar Reykjavík festival, we recently spoke at length to rising electronica star Holly Herndon, who’ll be…

Visit Sólheimajökull: A Glacier In Retreat

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As the dizzy heights of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier come into view, most people understandably feel a magnetic pull to the…

On Your Own: Six Spots In South Iceland

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The majestic Route One ring road threads down through the mountains from Reykjavík to Iceland’s southern coastline, passing an endless…

PHOTOS: Grapevine In Greenland – The Director’s Cut

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Last November, we took a one-week trip to Greenland, visiting the cities and towns of Nuuk, Kangerlussuaq and Sisimiut. Along…

Frontier Photography: Ásgeir Pétursson’s Amazing Greenland Pictures

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Ásgeir Pétursson is a 23-year-old photographer who’s just opened an exhibition at Reykjavík’s Greenland Centre, at the top of Laugavegur….

A Space Of Colour: Tonik Ensemble On Making The Album Of 2015

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Sometimes, “dance music” goes beyond its implied mission of moving people’s feet, and moves them in other ways, too. Grapevine’s…

Presenting: The Year 2015 In #Hashtags, #Gates & #Thrones

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Wow, 2015 went by FAST, huh. There was so much going on! The real world continued to turn, and to…

Sónar Unveil More Exciting Lineup Additions

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With the 2016 Sonar festival only four weeks away, the festival has released the final additions to the festival lineup….

Wow Air Puts California Routes On Sale

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WOW Air’s new California routes went on sale this morning, with limited one-way fares to Los Angeles and San Francisco…

Loving The Alien: Growing Up With David Bowie

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When I was six years old, one of my cousins recorded some fragment of a music TV programme on VHS…

Call It Magic: Enter The World of Kira Kira

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Kira Kira, aka Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, stands at the front of a low-lit lecture theatre. As music students file in,…

James Merry Embroiders Designer Clothing For Highlands Campaign

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Rapidly up ‘n’ coming embroidery artist James Merry—well known for his work with Björk, as both an assistant and collaborator—has…

I Love The Smell Of Fireworks In The Morning: New Year In Reykjavík

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Reykjavík rang in the new year last night with a customary bang. As well as displays in all of the…

Into The Wild: A Week Of Nature And Culture In Greenland

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The descent to Greenland begins suddenly, after four turbulent hours of flying through a constant storm. I squeeze down into…

Light Festival To Launch In Seyðisfjörður, Open Call To Artists

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The culturally vibrant town of Seyðisfjörður in east Iceland will be illuminated by a new small festival in 2016. On…

Happening Tonight: Bára Gísladóttir Album Release Show

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Bára Gísladóttir is a composer and a double bassist who recently successfully kickstarted a €3000 Karolina Fund campaign to create…