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The Reykjavík Grapevine presents Icelandic music news along with new Icelandic albums and/or tracks.
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Art Being Consumed At The Grapevine Office This Week
We’d be preaching from an ivory tower if we didn’t have boots on the ground, ingesting and processing the cultural events we love to tell you about. This week, we’ve got two theatre and one concert review in stock. For aspiring theatre-lovers,…
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Music Being Played At The Grapevine Office This Week
You might imagine our office as a European wonderland, with espresso machines and turtlenecks and sophisticated furniture. As a street paper, we keep our overhead low. So during the week, many of us have massive headphones on, blaring our music of choice.…
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Music Being Played At The Grapevine Office This Week
You might imagine our office as a European wonderland, with espresso machines and turtlenecks and sophisticated furniture. As a street paper, we keep our overhead low. So during the week, many of us have massive headphones on, blaring our music of choice.…
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Music Being Played At The Grapevine Office This Week
You might imagine our office as a European wonderland, with espresso machines and turtlenecks and sophisticated furniture. As a street paper, we keep our overhead low. So during the week, many of us have massive headphones on, blaring our music of choice.…
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Music Being Played At The Grapevine Office This Week
You might imagine our office as a European wonderland, with espresso machines and turtlenecks and sophisticated furniture. As a street paper, we keep our overhead low. So during the week, many of us have massive headphones on, blaring our music of choice.…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Ólöf Arnalds, Andervel & More
With a new issue of the Grapevine this week, we celebrate the impactful selflessness of Iceland’s Search and Rescue teams — specifically honouring the memory of Sigurður Kristófer McQuillan Óskarsson, who died during a team training session. Gracing the music pages are…
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Track By Track: Act I By Bríet
Bríet’s Life Is A Movie After completely owning the Icelandic music scene since the release of her 2020 Esjan, Bríet — to the great surprise of her fans — turned towards writing music in English. Back and forth between Nashville, Tennessee, and Iceland,…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Bríet, Symfaux, Róshildur & More
After the Iceland Airwaves madness last weekend, some might think we’d take a break on covering music this week. Those nay-sayers wouldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, artists tend to use the festival as a publishing date, using the festival…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Ómar Guðjónsson, Joey Christ, Björk & More
As the snow disintegrates equally fast as it appeared, Reykjavík reaches an equilibrium. This is the mundane environment in which capital area residents grow up in, constantly battling half-thawed puddles, aggressive rain, and a general sense of despair. I guess that’s why…
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Track By Track: Í Hringi By Woolly Kind
Warm, fuzzy folk rock Self-described fuzz-folk troupe Woolly Kind, spearheaded by local musician Einar Karl Pétursson, released its first — and perhaps last — album on September 26. Right after its release and subsequent concert, the performing band disbanded, leaving Einar to figure out…
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Track By Track: Alveg By Benni Hemm Hemm & Páll Óskar
Brought together for the TV programme Hljómskálinn, neither Páll Óskar nor Benni Hemm Hemm suspected that this one-off opportunity would take further flight. As their collaboration progressed, more and more demos started springing up. Before they knew it, they were making an…
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Track By Track: Örvar Þóreyjar Smárason Explains múm’s History Of Silence
Experimental outfit múm celebrate their first LP in 12 years Acclaimed experimental band múm explore silence, play, and muted sounds. However soft, múm surprise listeners with dynamic shifts in tone and intensity throughout their songwriting. Their first LP since the 2013 Smilewound,…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: KUSK & Óviti, Páll Óskar & Benni Hemm Hemm, & More
Every day, I check the forecast for the cooling signs of autumn. Still, the oracle manages to surprise me with double-digit temperature, leaving us all in a state of desperation for that crispy air. After a few months of not compiling the…
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Track By Track: QUACK By Gugusar
Electronica artist gugusar is a production powerhouse Five years since gugusar’s critically acclaimed debut album was released, the young artist has used this time well. Honing her craft, gugusar has turned herself into a one-woman production powerhouse, writing, producing, and mixing her…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, Bríet, Moses Hightower & More
Even though it’s almost the middle of July, that doesn’t stop the Icelandic sniffles. Currently writing this with a sore throat (what is this, February?!), the summer has not delivered like May promised it would. Whatever, just dress for the wind, cold,…
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Track By Track: Drop P By GRÓA
Faster than lightspeed There are fewer bands active in Iceland truer to their craft and ethos than GRÓA. Whether it’s dropping a huge SXSW showcase opportunity in support of Palestine, or letting all tethers loose during their live performances, GRÓA’s energy is…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Of Monsters And Men, Hoym, Benjamín Gísli & More
It’s print day here at Grapevine HQ, with our recent cover feature exploring the wonderful intricacies of the Icelandic Ring Road. If you’re on the road yourself, why not treat yourself to a hand-crafted curation of Icelandic summer tracks — a callback…
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Grapevine New Music: Amor Vincit Omnia, Eydís Evensen, JóiPé & Króli, & More
In a world becoming increasingly unstable, there is but one, sturdy pillar lifting the spirits here at Grapevine HQ. That pillar is the prolificness and quality of new Iceland music coming out. When article deadlines burden us, and geopolitical tensions run high,…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: múm, GRÓA, Elín Hall & More
Our latest issue is now out on the streets of Reykjavík. In a cover feature illustrated by visual artist Baldur Helgason, writer Alma Mjöll Ólafsdóttir covers the increasing importance of alternative media such as podcasts and the parallel rise of the Brosphere.…
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Track By Track: The Water, The Lover By Néfur
Néfur collaborates with Icelandic glaciers on her latest release The Water, The Lover Have you ever wondered how co-writing an album with a glacier might be? Would they be more of a Lennon or McCartney type? Would they provide the music to…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Bríet, Virgin Orchestra, Creature Of Habit, & More
There’s a certain something to be said about summers in Iceland. You won’t hear me say it here — wait for our cover feature out June 6. The 24/7 sunlight, people manicly emptying the shelves of Ríkið… I’m getting ahead of myself here.…
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Track By Track: Á Floti By Gosi
Gosi’s latest album Á floti puts the ‘sea’ in ‘catchy’ On his latest album Á floti, Ísafjörður-based musician Andri Pétur Þrastarson shares his musical odyssey. Zooming in on the adventures of a sailor, the album explores a whole host of adversaries —…
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Grapevine New Music: GusGus, BSÍ, Farao & More
If this ain’t a heatwave, I don’t know what is. With so much quality music out this year — and it’s only May — it doesn’t matter whether the summer will be warm or cold. These tunes are primed to bring the heat into…