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Grapevine New Music Picks: Flesh Machine, KÁRI, Hylur & More
Last Friday was a bonanza of new Icelandic tracks, so we took a well-deserved break before presenting the crème de…
Friendships In Vesturbær Are At Stake
In the age of smartphones, our most personal secrets are often stored away in apps, folders, and notes on our…
Ask an Expert: What Influences the Strength of the Northern Lights?
The magical beauty of the northern lights draws lots of people to Iceland. In fact, a whole lot of people…
You Should Have Read This Music News
Artist Salaries Announced For 2023 Last month saw the publication of the list of artists who are to receive the…
Holy Shit! It’s The 2023 Grapevine Music Awards!
What will 2022 be remembered for? If 2020-2021 were “the lost years,” where artists went insular and mused on solitude…
In The Beginning Was The Word: Halldór Ragnarsson Searches For Meaning Through Repetition
“Do you see a paintbrush here?” artist Halldór Ragnarsson asks. He is buzzing around his studio in Skeifan, seemingly fuelled…
From Sagas To The Silver Screen: Icelandic Cinema Comes Of Age
I was walking home through downtown Reykjavík one day in April when I came across a large crowd blocking the…
Grapevine New Music Picks: Jae Tyler, Árstíðir, and Emíliana Torrini
Yeah yeah yeah! We have a new gem by Emíliana Torrini, a Gary Newman “Cars”-like single by Jae Tyler, and…
The Sigur Rós Machine: Kjartan Sveinsson On Rejoining The Band, New Music, Touring, And Adulting
Busy between soundchecking and the upcoming gig in Helsinki, Kjartan Sveinsson finds time for a brief call. These days, he’s…
Reykjavík Hot Chocolate Crawl
Decadent, indulgent, topped with marshmallows or whipped cream… There’s nothing like a cup of steaming hot chocolate on a cold…
Airwaves 2022 Saturday Super Review: All-Powerful Go_A, Comfortable Axel Flóvent, And Arlo Parks Brings Us Home
Shed a tear, Airwaves 2022 is all over. Across the city, sleepy humans are slowly waking up and trying to…
Airwaves 2022 Friday Super Review: Transcendent Altın Gün, Metronomy Madness And The New Cult Of Marius DC
OH BOY. Day two of Iceland Airwaves 2022 is already under our belts. Check out what our journalists had to…
Airwaves 2022 Thursday Super Review: Super-cool snny, Crowd-Pleasing gugusar, And Nation Of Language Divides Opinion
After being gently eased in by the pre-opening night‘s concerts, our super-review team hit it HARD last night and saw…
Airwaves 2022: Where To Cure Your Festival Hangover
We’ve all been there. Waking up after a night at a festival, feeling like absolute crap. The headache, the dizziness,…
Pool Stories: Director Jón Karl Helgason Explores Icelandic Bathing Culture In A New Documentary
“The Finns have their saunas, the British have their pubs, the French have their cafes. We Icelanders have our swimming…
Airwaves 2022: Pre-Opening Night Review
Iceland Airwaves is here baby! Chances are high you’ll live off energy drinks and ginger shots to survive the next…
Grapevine New Music Picks: Gudfinnur, VÉVAKI, Kári, and krassasig
Another Friday, another round of new, recently mastered, tunes! We could list many reasons why you should dedicate some of…
A Life, Curated: At 80 Sigurður Guðmundsson Is Just Getting Started
The artist Sigurður Guðmundsson is preoccupied with pouring a bottle of beer into a glass. He watches the rim intently,…
Watch Partial Solar Eclipse Visible On Tuesday Morning
Around nine o’clock on Tuesday morning, a partial solar eclipse will be visible from Iceland, reports RÚV. If the weather…
Foreign Committee Vice Chair Intends To Explore Options In Gylfi Þór Case
Njáll Trausti Friðbertsson, the vice chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, intends to discuss the case of Gylfi Þór Sigurðsson…
Terror Suspects Said To Have Plotted Against Labour Leader, Socialist Party Head
Amongst those that the two men currently in police custody under suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist attack had…