Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

The Icelandic Roundup: Rental Market in Crisis

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On this week’s episode of The Icelandic Roundup, Grapevine editor-in-chief Valur Grettisson and culture editor Josie Anne Gaitens are joined by…

Grapevine New Music Picks: Prins Póló and Moses Hightower, Foreign Monkeys, and Gustaf Ljunggren with Skúli Sverrisson

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The sun is shining, the birds are singing, there are finally little leaves on the trees. Hark, is that the…

Reykjavík Grapevine’s 18th ‘Ask Me Anything’ Online Now!

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Valur Grettisson (Editor-In-Chief) Andie Sophia Fontaine (News Editor) were joined by Youtube and High Five Club members on Friday for…

RVK Newscast 184: Pussy Riot In Iceland

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It’s RVK Newscast time! Editor-in-chief of The Reykjavík Grapevine Valur Grettisson is in downtown Reykjavík to go over the latest…

Icelandic Circular Economy in Action: ORF Genetics | RVK Futurecast

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In this episode of The Futurecast, Start Up Iceland founder Bala Kamallakharan talks with Björn Lárus Örvar about the new…

Grapevine Event Picks: Eurovision, Of Course (And Some Other Things).

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This week is shaping up to be a big one in the Icelandic calendar, what with both the elections and…

RVK Newscast 183: Cat Party And Zelensky Speaks In World’s Oldest Parliament

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Hello and welcome back to RVK Newscast. In this episode, Valur Grettisson, editor-in-chief of The Reykjavík Grapevine, brings you around…

The Icelandic Roundup: Cats Running For Town Council And Independence Party in Trouble

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On this week’s episode of The Icelandic Roundup, Grapevine editor-in-chief Valur Grettisson and culture editor Josie Anne Gaitens were joined…

Grapevine’s 18th ‘Ask Me Anything’ This Friday

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This Friday, May 13th, at 14:30 Icelandic time, the Reykjavík Grapevine will hold its eighteenth Ask Me Anything (AMA). You,…

Icelandic Circular Economy in Action: HS Orka & Blue Lagoon | RVK Futurecast

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In this episode of the Futurecast, Start Up Iceland founder Bala Kamallakhram talks with Dagný Jónsdóttir at HS Orka and…

The Icelandic Roundup: Horse Head Curses & Russian Blacklists

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Grapevine’s editor-in-chief Valur Grettisson and culture editor Josie Anne Gaitens are back with all of the latest Icelandic news: Georgian…

Grapevine Event Picks: Radical May And Loads of Art

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This week we’ve got a bumper arts edition of the events roundup for you! But if you prefer music and…

Grapevine New Music Picks: Kvikindi, BSÍ and Sk-Ar

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Friends, we have made it. It’s officially the last Friday of the month — a third of the year of…

RVK Newscast 182: Kyiv Square and Icelandic Netflix

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Welcome back to another episode of RVK Newscast! Grapevine’s Editor-In-Chief Valur Grettisson brings you all the latest news from Iceland,…

RVK Newscast 181: Election Fever On The Streets

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On today’s RVK Newscast, editor-in-chief, Valur Grettisson is out getting heckled on the streets of Reykjavík! Election season has started…

The Icelandic Roundup: Dagur B. Eggertsson, The Mayor Of Reykjavík

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In episode seven of The Icelandic Roundup, news editor Andie Sophia Fontaine and editor-in-chief Valur Grettisson are joined by Dagur…

Grapevine New Music Picks: LÓN, Ári Arelíus, Between Mountains & Jónas Sig

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It’s officially summer now, and while the weather might still be decidedly cool, The Reykjavík Grapevine have got the hottest…

Grapevine Event Picks: Record Store Day, And More!

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IT’S FRIIIDAAAY! Make the most of your precious days off before you return to slogging it for The Man by…

RVK Newscast 180: First Day Of Summer!

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Happy first day of summer! Reykjavík Grapevine’s Culture Editor, Josie Anne, is in Laugardalur to find out why exactly Icelanders…

RVK Newscast 179: Underwater Volcano On The Cards

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Spring is here! Editor-in-chief Valur Grettisson and Chief Morale Officer Pollý are out enjoying the sunshine in Reykjanes, as well…

The Volcano: A Memoir – Part Two

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On the 19th of March 2021, a new eruption started in the Southeast corner of Iceland, on the Reykjanes peninsula….

Grapevine Picks: Posters, Pop… and Rock, Paper, Scissors

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Don’t have plans for the long weekend? Now you do! Here’s Team Grapevine’s picks of what’s hip-hop-happening over the next…

Grapevine New Music Picks: UMBRA, Ultraflex and Inga Björk

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It’s Easter! But before you go off and gorge yourself on chocolate eggs laid by rabbits or whatever, we definitely…

RVK Newscast 178: Union Leader Fires Her Entire Staff

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In today’s Newscast, editor-in-chief of the Reykjavík Grapevine, Valur Grettisson, treats Chief Morale Officer, Pollý, to a trip to her…

Reykjavik Grapevine’s 17th ‘Ask Me Anything’ Online Now!

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Valur Grettisson (Editor-In-Chief) Andie Sophia Fontaine (News Editor) and Josie Anne Gaitens (Culture Editor) were joined by Youtube and High…