Author: Ragnar Egilsson - The Reykjavik Grapevine

The waitress was in a strange mood. She freely admitted that her humour was a little hit-and-miss, which it was…

The album lead-in is a raging ‘90s keyboard loop with promises of a record best experienced while wearing overalls and…

The year 2010 was one of transition, with too many bands shuffling around indecisively. This year seems it will be…

While America is awash in third generation entitlematon celebrity and other fruit of Satan’s loins and the UK drags fame-starved…

Sigurbjörn Þorgrímsson was an electronic musician best known under the name of Biogen. To many he was simply known as…

I know we Icelanders tend to think of Muslims as the people who only came here to steal our Westman…

On By The Throat, artwork and music unfolds like a Scandinavian thriller. On Ben Frost’s new album, artwork and music…

The core members of GusGus have ruled the Icelandic club scene for an obscenely long time (15 years?). And the…

I have no idea why I missed Jónas Sigurðsson & Malbikið Svífur’s set. OK. I know. I overslept. A lot….

With lines stretching into a soppy horizon, would-be Reykjavík Art Museum patrons balked and stumbled to join the packed crowd…

Another example of the proliferation of new electronic crews in Iceland, we saw local crew I [heart] RVK teaming up…

The electronic music scene in Iceland has probably never been stronger. It seems every night a new band, a new…

Iceland’s relationship with sweets has long been a strange one. For the most part it seems we tend to think…

A brief look at the bands that have been here THE FIRST The Kinks were here in ´65 and played…

The Icelandic comic scene up until recently has been as legless as a drunken worm. Mostly, the comic book culture…