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UNTITLED MUSIC COLUMN
When I turned thirteen, and consequently started smelling like shit, my mom decided to break it to me in an interesting way. Rather than confront me with the mind-bending horrors of puberty, she gently told me that although she wasn’t bothered by…
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Bob And Sindri Go Músíktilraunir!
Every year, Músíktilraunir (“Music Experiments”) are held to locate and reward the most innovative undiscovered bands in Iceland. To fully document this exciting and unique display of youthful talent and exuberance, the Grapevine sent two of its most refined and highbrow cultural…
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Come All Ye Faithful, But Other People Can Totally Come If They Want To
Not all artists are assholes. Some, in fact, can be quite friendly. While the Hallgrímskirkja Friends Of The Arts Society may not befriend artists, they are, as their name suggests, great fans of art, so an appreciation of artists would be implied;…
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RMM FINAL DAY: A PLEASANT DEATH
Sunday night marked the end and, for many, the high point of fledgling music festival Reykjavík Music Mess. And all the shows were pretty great, even those that took place in the bathroom! Read all about it below! THE NORDIC HOUSE ÉG:…
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Go North (Not South) For The Aldrei Fór Ég Suður Music Festival!
Conceived in 2003 by Iceland’s own Mugison with his father while they were drinking in London, the Aldrei Fór Ég Suður music festival will enjoy its eighth year in Ísafjörður this April. The festival’s name, which directly means “I Never Went South,”…
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RMM SATURDAY: WHAT A DAY! WHAT A DAY!
Reykjavík Music Mess Saturday was apparently a lot of fun, at least if you were part of the Grapevine’s elite team of reviewers and know-it-alls. What happened? Read on to find out! THE NORDIC HOUSE AMFJ: CHAINED-UP DANCING BEAR Arriving at…
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RMM FRIDAY: EVERY BAND REVIEWED!
The Reykjavík Music Mess kicked off with a… well not a blast… but it definitely kicked off on Friday! Read on to sort of find out what happened! THE NORDIC HOUSE PRINSPÓLÓ: BJARGMUNDUR GETS KNIGHTED Most libraries would make for an awkward…
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SPECIAL: Grapevine Gets Its Legs Back!
To celebrate that whole Reykjavík Music Mess mess we, your loyal friends at the Grapevine, are throwing a special music edition of ‘GRAPEVINE GOT LEGS’ (our awesome 101 walking tour we did every Friday last summer). It’s happening tomorrow, Saturday April 16,…
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For A Love Of Moisturiser And David Bowie
If you don’t know much about Deerhunter‘s music, you probably should. However, this interview might not provide much in the way of information. Bradford Cox of Deerhunter doesn’t like dissecting his music. He is far more interested in moisturiser, reversing the roles…
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Dare We Be Excited About Reykjavík Music Mess?
OK so there’s this ‘new’ music festival making the rounds in Reykjavík (you might have noticed—you are reading a special Grapevine supplement about it). We think it’s exciting (this is why we are co-promoting the thing). The month of April needs more…
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Reykjavík Gets Steamy with Blues Music
The frigid North Atlantic city of Reykjavík could not be any different than the birthplace of blues music in the swampy, steamy state of Mississippi. Despite the odds, the genre has made it all the way up here in full force with…
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RMM – Your Schedule
Reykjavik Music Mess is an independent music festival in downtown Reykjavik, with shows at Nasa, The Nordic House and Sódóma Reykjavík. It is held for the first time from the 15th to 17th of April. We have invited international acts such as…
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North Iceland Gets Jazzy
Tonak Jazz Orchestra and Matisand Jazz trio will be the last to perform in the JazzTA concert series at Götubarinn, a bar in downtown Akureyri tomorrow night at 21:00. Akureyri Music School and the Akureyri Jazz Club collaborated to start the series,…
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DOWNLOAD YR. RMM COMPILATION – 16 TRACKS!
By now, y’all are probably EXPLODING with excitement about the upcoming Reykjavík Music Mess bash that’ll be happening in less than JUST ONE WEEK! Yes! A week from now, you will be happily hopping along to some great performances by some very…
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Lower Dens: Two-Hand Movement
Sweeping through its thirty-odd minutes in a laid-back haze of introspective nihilism, ‘Two-Hand Movement’ is a rainy afternoon of twinkling guitars, confidently plodding rhythm and breathless, barely audible vocals. The euphoric ‘Truss Me’ is particularly potent, its calm defeatism so narcotic you…
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Aural Leftovers: Computer Lust
There’s no option but to bend over and take what’s on offer from our digital overlords. Offerings such as ‘Skywatchers’ from Yoda Remote, a rabid chipmunk duo who spent their school years making crazy 8-bit electronic tunes instead of learning algebra, or…
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Skúli Sverrisson: Sería II
When it doesn’t get too stupid and sappy (like one of those unbearable French films with a season, colour or a place in France in the title), this is actually a nice little piece of stringladen ambience that drifts along quite innocently.…
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RAVER MADNESS HITS REYKJAVÍK
Who: PartyZone DJs, RöXöR, FM Belfast, Booka Shade Where: Laugardalshöllin When: 26th march 2011 Despite arriving in a rushed state to Laugardalshöllin, I actually find I’m early, as the gig area isn’t ready and nobody can enter. To pass the time I…
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“We aren’t the Bee Gees or Justin Bieber”
Steve Austin is an infamous character in the heavy music world; a man who lends huge doses of brutal honesty and a terrifying, angst-ridden aura to the music he disseminates through Today is the Day (who are often referred to as ‘the…
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We Made God: It’s Getting Colder
Look at the CD design for We Made God’s second album, with its bleak monochromatic photography and rigid lettering. They’re basically saying: “We’re not fucking around here. This is music for serious depressives. We’ve even sampled the breakdown rant from ‘Network’!” Also…
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Melchior: 1980
Melchior is one of those prototype renaissance artist groups, consisting of multi-instrument-wielding folks performing music as a vehicle for poetry. Or is it the other way around? Sounds like a multitude of current indie/alternative groups that frequent these pages, right? Thing is,…
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Ferlegheit: You Can Be As Bad As You Can Be Good
Hot tip for you Icelandic bands with English lyrics: spell-check your motherfucking CD booklet… and learn English… and maybe get someone else to do your artwork… or, in fact, if your band is Ferlegheit, you should probably just get a new band.…
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England’s Mountain Green
Hurts, Dikta & Retro Stefson @ Vodafone-Höllin Sunday March 20, 2011 England’s fascination with campy, shticky, image-obsessed music has, after thirty years of cheesy Eurotrash, baby-faced boy bands, comeback careers from overweight middle-aged singer-songwriters, Christmas singalongs, Live Aid and all those fucking…