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Azerrad’s Report: Wednesday
Noted music writer slash Grapevine’s guest of honour Michael Azerrad goes wild at Iceland Airwaves 2013, wandering between venues, listening hard and taking notes. For his Wednesday report, he digs on Mammút and Emiliana, and has some words of advice for Retro Stefson and Ojba Rasta
Metz! Metz! Metz!
by Árni Hjörvar
Metz are loud. They’re a noisy-post-hardcore-grunge group that consists of three Canadians from Toronto. Their painstakingly particular yet equally anarchic…
A Night Of Synths In All Their Forms
by Árni Hjörvar
First of all, I’ve got to give Metz an honourable mention. I ducked into Bar 11 to see them before…
Granted Divorce 37 Years After Leaving Her Husband
by Ingibjörg Rósa Björnsdóttir
A woman was granted a divorce in Reykjavík district court on Tuesday, 37 years after she last heard from her…
Boogie Trouble Bring Icelandic Disco Fans Out Of The Closet
For all those who think all Icelandic music has a twinkly, swooning kind of sound, the richness and variation of…
Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 16
Most awesome letter Dear Grapevine: I would like to thank for all the support and help I received during the…
Favourite Five: Muck
Kallí of Reykjavík noiseniks Muck tells us five bands he won’t be missing at Iceland Airwaves this year. AMFJ I’ve…
Search Called Off For Missing Hiker
The search for missing American hiker Nathan Foley-Mendelssohn was called off by ICESAR, Iceland’s search and rescue division, last night,…
Missing Cat Could Be Major Trouble
A foreign cat went missing from a private plane at the Reykjavík Domestic Airport yesterday. The problem, however, is that…
Iceland Airwaves Insider: Megan Horan
Airwaves Insider is a series of interviews with the movers & shakers of the Reykjavík scene. We’ll chat with concert…
Sísý Ey
Icelandic band Sísý Ey (pronounced See See Ay) was founded in 2011. The idea was to get the three sisters,…
Retro Stefson
Following ‘Kimbabwe,’ their first release outside of Iceland, Retro Stefson are back with their third full-length, self-titled album. ‘Retro Stefson,’…
Lost Hiker Found Using GSM
A hiker who got lost hiking Svinafellsjokull yesterday was found last night using his cell phone’s GSM, reports Morgunblaðið. The…
Gimme Some Whale
I remember the first time I tried whale meat. It was the early ‘90s, and I was a ten-year-old living…
Blue Ice: Svínafellsjökull, Veronica And Elves
by Carol Devine
Birta Jóhannesdóttir is helping my daughter Veronica strap crampons over her boots. Our minibus parks in a lot minutes from…
Sour Grapes And Stuff: Issue 13
by You Guys!
MOST AWESOME LETTER From the perspective of a tourist, please don’t fill your beautiful city with hotels. One of the…
Hiking Fimmvörðuháls, South Iceland’s Greatest Hiking Trail
by John Rogers
Fimmvörðuháls is an old hiking trail in Southern Iceland that’s flanked by two glaciers, Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. The name means…
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Five thousand metres somewhere above Colorado, I was sitting on an Icelandair plane called Askja and it struck me that…
Get Consent
People in today’s society have an unprecedented access to information. Anyone can instantly find information about advanced thermodynamics or Simpsons…
MISSING: Circus Tent
by Ingibjörg Rósa Björnsdóttir
Sirkus Íslands is asking the public for support to buy its very own circus tent. It seems that after the…
Enter The 6th Volume
by Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson
How is history written? And by who? Is just anyone capable of writing it? Or should the task be left…