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Paradise Found: Our First Day Of Summer Adventure

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Thursday, April 20 07:18 “Are we going somewhere?” — our phones buzz with a notification at dawn. It’s sumardagurinn fyrsti,…

Two Avalanches Fell on Neskaupstaður in East Iceland

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Two avalanches fell in the town of Neskaupstaður in East Iceland early this morning, with the first narrowly missing infrastructure…

What If… Icelanders Had Colonised North America?

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What if? It’s a pretty open-ended question and one friend of the Grapevine Valur Gunnarsson is applying to eight relevant-to-Iceland…

Grapevine New Music Picks: Xiupill, Sóðaskapur & More

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We celebrate this Friday with a brand new issue of The Reykjavík Grapevine and surprisingly warm weather. Who needs Tenerife?!…

How It’s Made: The Sense of Wonder in Fischersund No. 23

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“Smoke in the air and tarred telephone poles, tall freshly mowed grass, and tobacco leaves. Dead flowers bow to the…

In The Beginning Was The Word: Halldór Ragnarsson Searches For Meaning Through Repetition

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“Do you see a paintbrush here?” artist Halldór Ragnarsson asks. He is buzzing around his studio in Skeifan, seemingly fuelled…

Track By Track: ‘Ekki Treysta Fiskunum’ By Ólafur Kram

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Ólafur Kram consider their latest album release ‘Ekki treysta fiskunum’ to be a culmination of everything that followed their win…

Airwaves 2022 Saturday Super Review: All-Powerful Go_A, Comfortable Axel Flóvent, And Arlo Parks Brings Us Home

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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

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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

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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: Pre-Opening Night Review

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Iceland Airwaves is here baby! Chances are high you’ll live off energy drinks and ginger shots to survive the next…

Shesaid.so Community For Women In Music Launches In Iceland

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Shesaid.so is an international community for women and gender-based minorities with the goal of connecting and empowering those groups that…

Cats Getting Trapped In Mink Traps All Over Iceland

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A housecat who went missing was recently found dead in a mink trap placed in the small boats harbour in…

Track by Track: ‘Everything I Know About Love’ by Laufey

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Laufey’s star is rising so fast we can barely keep up. From being lauded by Billie Eilish to performing on…

Watch Partial Solar Eclipse Visible On Tuesday Morning

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Around nine o’clock on Tuesday morning, a partial solar eclipse will be visible from Iceland, reports RÚV. If the weather…

Residents Of Vogar Celebrate Love

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Residents of Vogar are encouraged to celebrate love during the month of September, reports RÚV. They hope it will increase…

Helping People Who Can’t Help Themselves: The Volunteers Keeping Iceland Safe

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In a second-floor room in a nondescript industrial building by Grindavík’s harbour—notable only for a handful of red and neon…

Grapevine New Music Picks: Markéta Irglová, Brynja, Snorri Helgason, & Ultraflex

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You know those Fridays when time seems to go by super slowly? No? How about now…Yes? Perfect, now you have…

Missing Swimmer Found Dead

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A man who was searched for outside Langasandi near Akranes since yesterday night was found dead, reports RÚV. The man…

Grapevine New Music Picks: GusGus, Jónsi, Plasticboy

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Whether you’re celebrating pride, gazing at the new volcano, or both, our new music picks are the perfect accompaniment. With…

Dead Person Found In Skrið Is Most Likely Missing German Tourist

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A Coast Guard helicopter found a dead person yesterday evening in the area known as Skrið, west of Skjálfand and…