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Company Leads Tourists On Snowmobile Tour On A Glacier, Requiring Rescue From Storm
39 tourists, including several children, needed to be rescued from atop Langjökull glacier yesterday, RÚV reports, when their snowmobile tour…
Icelanders Nervous On Social Media Over Storm Forecast
Icelanders have been talking endlessly about the coming storm on Twitter. It’s all over Vísir, Rúv, and other news media…
The Outsider: Countess Malaise Claims Her Throne
In the Icelandic rap scene, there’s Countess Malaise and there’s everyone else. Since the the dark monarch debuted three years…
Ruling Coalition Decreases By One Left-Green
Andrés Ingi Jónsson, a member of Parliament who was elected as a Left-Green Party MP in 2017, announced on November…
Fishrot Files: Samherji In Damage Control, But Investigations Continue
Management of Samherji—the Icelandic fishing giant currently embroiled in a scandal involving bribing Namibian officials for fishing quotas, and using…
A Picture As A Thousand Words: The Birth Of The Icelandic Comics Society
While comics are a popular medium in Iceland, and there are certainly comic artists and authors in this country, a…
Two Icelanders Arrested By Israeli Forces While Helping With Olive Harvest, Later Released
Two Icelandic women, former Reykjavík City Councilperson Björk Vilhelmsdóttir and Tinna Eyberg, were taken into custody by Israeli forces while…
Horror-Scopes: The Drawing Of The Taurus
by Hannah Jane Cohen and Lea Müller
In Horror-Scopes, Grapevine’s dedicated team of amateur astrologists breaks down your upcoming weeks based on shit like what Mercury’s up…
Edda Recap: The Poem of Völundur
The Poem of Völundur In this series, I illuminate the individual poems of the Edda—that most famous, epic masterpiece of…
Music News: Tangerine Dream, Airwaves, & Björk
by Valur Grettisson, Sam O'Donnell and Lea Müller
One of the biggest icons of electronic music, Tangerine Dream, has painted stadium-sized soundscapes for no less than half a…
Grapevine Playlist: Sin Fang, gugusar And Björk vs Fever Ray
Alexander Jarl – Marbella Alexander Jarl announces himself in classic Jason Derulo-Style and then takes us on a trip to…
Björk, The Knife And Fever Ray – An Experiment
by Lea Müller
In a musical exchange, Icelandic icon Björk Guðmundsdóttir and Swedish artists Fever Ray and The Knife remixed each other’s songs….
Take A Dive: A Trio Of Visual Artists Bring The Work Of Snorri Magnússon To Light In This Joyful Documentary
It is an old cliché that reality is stranger than fiction, and this was certainly the case for directors Hanna…
Artist Playlist: Lift Off With Plútó
Eleven-member DJ group Plútó comprise the most comprehensive knowledge tank of dance and electronic music in Iceland, essentially like an…
Police Respond To Unnecessary Force Allegations
After police criticism for using unnecessary force at summer festivities, chairman of the Reykjavik City Human Rights Council, Dóra Björt…
New Icelandic Music: Countess Malaise, SiGRÚN, sideproject ++
Like waking up with nine extra arms that have been tidying up your house and doing your taxes while you…
Everything Will Be All Right: K.óla On Her New Album & Playing With Björk
K.óla is Katrín Ólafsdóttir, a 22-year-young artist who just released her anticipated new album ‘Allt verður alltílæ.’ It features seven…
Deff Becomes Her: A Shemanic Trance Falls Over Pride
by John Rogers
Deff is a powerful presence in the Reykjavík drag scene. The alter-ego of Neville J. Ingley, Deff delivers energetic, fast…
DJ Playlist: Z Is An Icelandic DJ Who Listens To The Gods
by John Rogers
Óskar Þór Argrímsson—who performs as Z—is one of Reykjavík’s most eclectic DJs. His sets can contain anything from unfamiliar Eastern…
Editorial: Of Monsters And Men—A Gateway Drug To Icelandic Music?
by John Rogers
During the making of this issue, it came as a bit of a surprise to us in the Grapevine office…
Making Of An Artist: Smoke, Carbon, And A Love Supreme With Úlfur Hansson
by Úlfur Hansson and John Rogers
Úlfur Hansson is a Brooklyn-based solo musician, film composer and sound artist. He has released three albums—2008’s ‘Sweaty Psalms,’ followed…