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Professionals, At The Top Of Their Game
While their fifteen years of experience explain the on-stage swagger, it’s remarkable to witness the influence GusGus have in the Icelandic club scene. GusGus recently released a kind-of manifesto where they urged for concerts in Iceland to start earlier. This decision was…
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Track of the Issue!
1…2…3… and RAWK! HAM are BACK! And they are as powered up and fist driving as they were when they released their last album – IN 19-FUCKING-89!!! In celebration of the release of their much, much, much overdue second album, we are…
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Plastic Gods: Plastic Gods
Can somebody please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD enable it so that the next Plastic Gods release has a good producer and a decent recording budget? We’ve all experienced the brilliance of their live show, and they have the ability and potential…
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Skúli Mennski: Búgí!
The opening tracks of this fine, strange album—‘Innsigling’ and ‘Leggir’—set up this LP as one containing the best doomy-blues songs that Nick Cave only wishes that he could have waved at as it passed his stupid, goth-y big head, gazing at a…
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Dr. Gunni’s History Of Icelandic Rock / Part 28
In 1980, the world was divided into two parts: disco and punk. In 1983, three thunderous years later, punks had become new-wavers, metalheads or ‘regular people’ and the disco gang now got its’ kicks from ‘new romantics’ such as Duran Duran and…
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Reykjavík Art Museum
Once a year the Reykjavík Art Museum is transformed into a concert venue like no other. The stark, white prison-like hall that inspires thoughts of madness has led to some of the craziest shows and wildest dancing the festival has seen. The…
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HE’S BACK!!!111!
It’s been a while since he last graced Icelanders with his presence (nine years to be exact)—now Sage Francis is finally returning to dazzle us with his veritable rhyming skills and some of the best indie hip hop money can buy (you…
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Track Of Issue – Stóriðjuverkefnið mig (title track of the film ‘Ge9n’)
This infectiously catchy song, ‘Stóriðjuverkefnið mig’ was composed and performed by Linus Orri Gunnarsson and Þórir Bogason (of Just Another Snake Cult) to lyrics from Jón Örn Loðmfjörð’s book of poetry ‘Gengismunur’, which was composed algorithmically from the text in the Special…
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Let’s Tango!
The soul of Argentina will be in Reykjavík for a festive four-day weekend! The Milonga, which features tango dance and music, will take place at Iðnó restaurant and the Kramhúsið multi-cultural dance studio. There will also be workshops with teachers from Argentina,…
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Daníel Ágúst: The Drift
Blues doesn’t get the appreciation it deserves. But if Daníel Águst has got anything to do with it, that’s gonna change, cowboy. And though the form itself is based round familiar chords and licks, in the hands of someone with something to…
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Deep Jimi and the Zep Creams: Better When We´re Dead
Start this album on track 7—‘Don’t Let Your Dreams Go’—which will tell you everything you need to know about the style, approach, personality and proper-rock-song attitude of the now-veterans. It’s an early-70s long-hair Zeppish rocker with a satisfying hint of desperation about…
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The Vintage Caravan: The Vintage Caravan
People will often give a bunch of kids that play wholly derivative genre music a free ride if they play said genre music well. And this applies wholly to The Vintage Caravan. Now the thing is, their self titled album sounds really…
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Track of the Issue – Steindi Jr. (featuring Ásgeir Orri): Djamm í kvöld
Comedy, music and social commentary are seldom strangers to each other. Randy Neuman often blended the three, as have countless punk rock bands. Comedian and musician Steindi Jr. has now done the same with this track, ‘Djamm í kvöld’ (Party Tonight). The…
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Manslaughter: Fuck life choose death
Things are actually starting to look rather healthy in the Icelandic hardcore scene right now. With the Grange Hill grindcore of Logn and the slightly bleak worldview of World Narcosis coming at you like a procession of gobby meerkat, we now have…
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Join Lay Low And Of Monsters And Men For A Good Cause
Two of Iceland’s foremost artists will be joining forces for the annual charity show at Faktorý to raise money for Nei!, a movement against sexual violence, on August 18. Lay Low, the winner of two Icelandic Music Awards including Best Female Singer,…
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Back To Root Of It All
The 30th edition of the Grapevine Grassroots concerts shows off some of the series’ favourite acts – Enkídú, Arnljótur, Ahma, Sóley, and Nóló. So this was the 30th Grapevine Grassroots concert? My god, has it really been that many? I could swear…
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Full Metal Racket!
The annual sweaty moshfest that is the Eistnaflug metal festival descended upon the tiny Eastfjords village of Neskaupstaður like a bearded raven of the Apocalypse. As Eistnaflug features more molten metal and noise than a dozen volcano eruptions, we sent our most…
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Spacevestite: Spacevestite
What do you do when you want to get stoned and lost on a beach in California in the sixties but you are stuck in Hafnarfjörður? I don’t know, but if the end result is the self-titled album by Spacevestite, I’d seriously…
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Dathi: Dark Days
Today the sun is shining, people are smiling and the birds are singing. But sod that, because the doom-meister from Dalvík is back! Dathi’s latest album continues where he left off at his last one, ‘Self Portrait,’ by ploughing the lonely furrow…
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Saktmóðigur: Guð hann myndi gráta
The first thing you notice about Saktmóðigur’s first album in thirteen years is not the music. It’s the rather fetching layout design. Opening up in the shape of a cross, it shows what can only be described as a bizarre initiation ceremony…
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Jón Jónsson: Wait For Fate
What is evident about Mr Jónsson is that he has absolutely impeccable taste. The title track’s acoustic spins on The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird,’ ‘Ocean Girl’ kicks off with the descending riff from the verses of ‘Dear Prudence,’ also by The Beatles of course…
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Track of the Issue!
Grapevine is glad today! And you know why? Yes, it’s because Grapevine’s favourite new Icelandic rock band, Ofvitarnir, has finally released an album! And because that album, ‘Stephen Hawking/Steven Tyler’ is just as great as the first tracks we gleamed at shows…
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Hearts Beating As Electronic Music
After a successful debut last year, the Extreme Chill Festival returns to the foot of the Snæfellsjökull glacier between August 5 and 7 to offer us a unique summer festival. At this year’s electronic extravaganza, which is being dedicated to electronic music…