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Icelanders Pledged 56 Million ISK To Kickstarter
Icelanders have pledged 56 million ISK or 500,000 USD overall to projects on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, reports RÚV. Yesterday Kickstarter…
Björk, Aronofsky And Nature Associations To Throw Nature Benefit Gig
by John Rogers
An environmental benefit concert was announced yesterday with Björk and director Darren Aronofsky as the figureheads. Entitled “Stopp—Let’s Protect the…
Happening This Weekend: Jan 24 – 26
The wind is blowing, the rain is drizzling, and the weekend is full of promising events, so it’s business as…
Jay Z Pays Tribute To Björk
Jay Z gave a shout out to Björk during a concert in New York, reports RÚV. After spotting her in…
Happening This Weekend Jan 18-19
This week the weather has not been utterly horrid in Reykjavík, which hopefully is indicative for the weekend to come…
Jon Stewart: Iceland’s Ambassadorial Nominee Has Never Been To Iceland
During a segment entitled “The Diplomat Buyer’s Club,” on The Daily Show this week, Jon Stewart called foul on many…
A Trip Hop Legend
BonoboSimon Green’s alias, Bonobo, took formal shape in the late ‘90s with the release of the 1999 song “Terrapin,” which…
A Pioneer of Icelandic Hip Hop
by Burke Jam
Cell7To say in 2014 that hip hop is solely an American art form is a grave misnomer. While the origin…
Russian Photographs 1/1000 of Icelandic Population
Photographer Varya Lozenko plans to photograph 1/1000 of the Icelandic population, reports Vísir. The project, called ‘320 Icelanders’ features people…
Year In News: 2013
January The year started with a number of dubious predictions from the outside world—for one, that Iceland was “a seething…
Pollution From Former NATO Base Reaches Danger Levels
by grapevine
Heavy metals and other toxins from the former NATO base in Keflavík are polluting groundwater, to where the Environmental Agency…
Tourist Of The Year 2013
For our second annual ‘Tourist of the Year’ award, we teamed up with Promote Iceland to make it a real…
Police Want To Keep Arresting Asylum Seekers
by grapevine
Police in Suðurnes object to a proposed change to Icelandic immigration law which would, if passed, follow international law and…
Seven Albums Receive Kraumur Awards This Year
The Kraumur Music Fund recognised seven standout albums of 2013 at its seventh annual ceremony held yesterday. A twenty-person committee…
Six Icelandic Christmas Songs That Don’t Suck
The holidays can be hard on the ears for most people with a modicum of taste for decent music. It’s…
Ásgeir’s Glasgow Concert Gets Rave Review
by Ingibjörg Rósa Björnsdóttir
Icelandic musician Ásgeir gets four stars out of five in The Guardian for his concert in Glasgow on Sunday evening,…
30 Things That You Should Do While Visiting Iceland
by Tim Scholz and Gerrit Kubicki
Journalism students from Eichstätt, Germany, Tim Scholz (22) and Gerrit Kubicki (20) spent a semester studying at the University of…
MEET ADDA’S BRAIN
Musician Arnþrúður Ingólfsdóttir—AKA Adda—has of late gained quite a reputation for her soulful, personal (to the point of confessional) and…
Björk Joins Petition Against State Surveillance
by grapevine
Artist Björk Guðmundsdóttir is one of the signatories of a petition aimed at US President Barack Obama denouncing the “abuse…
Kaffibarinn More Popular Than Prime Minister
by grapevine
A new poll conducted by a music exporter shows some interesting results about what people around the world look for…
Happy Birthday, Björk!
In honor of Björk’s 48th birthday, we’ve collected some of our favorite interview moments and encounters with the singer, as…