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Art In Sequence, Real-time!
by Sigurður Kjartan Kristinsson
The Sequences arts festival has been pretty awesome these past few years. It is a unique offspring of the big…
The History of Icelandic Rock Music: Part 12
by Dr. Gunni
By the mid-seventies, indolent hippies were passé and nobody was really singing about love and peace anymore. Heavy drinking and…
One Nation, One Party, One Bank Account?
A year after the economic collapse and one can’t help notice that nothing has really changed. The oligarchs, though officially…
Milos Forman’s Masterclass
Milos Forman is sitting at café Hressó, just about the only bar in Reykjavík where one can still sit and…
Sólstafir
Definitely one of the best Icelandic albums of the year. Sólstafir have come a long way from their humble black…
Oh No! It’s the Radiophonic Paramilitaries
Regardless of whether cinema used to be truth 24 times per second or lies at the same rate, it is…
The History of Icelandic Rock Music: Part 11
by Dr. Gunni
By spring of 1973, both Gunnar Þórðarson and Rúnar Júlíusson had turned 28. Behind were the most popular groups of…
Dr. Gunni Lists Iceland
There’s not a lot to know about Iceland, right? It’s a small island. Not a lot of folks there. And…
A Traveler’s Guide to Icelandic Folk Tales
While traveling around Iceland, tourists will often hear stories of Icelandic folk legends. In A Traveler’s Guide To Iceland, Jón…
Ísafjörður, Dead Ahead
by Bart Cameron
A bird slamming into the windshield. That’s my greeting to Ísafjörður. To be fair, there are signs warning that birds…
Your Post-Collapse Guide to the Movies
It is a sad fact of life that outside the glorious ten days of the Reykjavík International Film Festival, almost…
The Editors Speak
by Valur Gunnarsson, Bart Cameron and Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson
Valur The first editor My career as editor of Grapevine ended the way it started, being shouted at by ancient…
Things I Learned At The Gay History Walk
When I first heard about the gay history walk, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. In all honesty…
Stuff We Like!
Just thought we’d draw your attention to the very awesome concert we’ve got going on Friday. Number nine in our…
SLASH, KILL, BLOOD, GUTS, LOVE, AWESOME
by Sigurður Kjartan Kristinsson
Finally! The first Icelandic slasher flick! Icelandic films have hitherto been characterized by bleak and gloomy stories of depressed Icelanders…
Purging Some Past At The Reykjavík International Literary Festival
by Satu Rämö
Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen will read at the Reykjavík International Literary Festival this September. Her latest novel, Purge, was Finland’s…
Sour grapes and stuff
by You Guys!
Sour grape of the month A case of POLAR BEER for your thoughts. We’re not gonna lie to you: we…
The History of Icelandic Rock Music: Part 9
by Dr. Gunni
The Icecross album from 1973 has in recent times fetched high prices on the international psych record market. This is…
Book Review: The Travels Of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson
by Ian Watson
On a summer day in 1627, pirates landed on Heimaey, the largest of the Westmann Islands. They swarmed over the…
The History of Icelandic Rock Music: Part 8
by Dr. Gunni
It is the beginning of 1971 and yet another line-up for the premium hippie band Trúbrot is born. Trúbrot 3.0…
Get Up – Stand Up!
It was a Saturday much like any other in Greenwich Village, New York. Business as usual on a balmy night…