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Grapevine New Music Picks: Jónsi & co, amiina, and MariaLing
It’s Friyay! It’s been freezing outside and we can’t wait to wake up not having to brave the windy weather on our way to the office. Luckily, it just so happens that these new music picks are perfect for those cold, cosy…
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Video Premiere! Amiina’s ‘Pharology’ EP Gets A Visceral, Primal Accompaniment
Pharology: the scientific study of lighthouses. Coming from that, the epithet Pharologist describes those who once specialised in their use and upkeep. Nowadays, though, it’s used mainly by amateur aficionados of the buildings. Quartet Amiina can be counted among their ranks. Enamoured…
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To The Lighthouse! Amiina’s Beacon Shines Bright With ‘Pharology’
Pharology: the scientific study of lighthouses. It’s a rather archaic term, for as radar and other navigation tools took over the guidance of ships, those who specialised in the use and upkeep of lighthouses became fewer and fewer. Nowadays, the term ‘pharologist’…
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Grapevine Playlist: amiina, Elín Hall, Kælan Mikla, kef LAVÍK & More!
It’s officially summer and we’re ready to sit in the sun, and by sit in the sun, we mean listen to these recently released tracks. Enjoy! Kælan Mikla – Ósýnileg With the solstice only ten days away, the Grapevine vibe is all…
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Sigur Rós Survives: Endings, Eddas And ‘Odin’s Raven Magic’
The end is nigh. You feel it in your bones. Each time you read the news, each time your phone beeps with fresh tidings of another catastrophe, there’s a sense of unravelling, a sense that we can’t possibly keep hurtling from one…
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Grapevine Playlist: amiina, Atli Örvarsson, Brikcs & More!
It’s almost Christmas! Celebrate the end of Christmas music with this holiday feature. amiina – I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing Remember that Christmas soda commercial where all these hippies sang standing in lines while hawking a multi-billion dollar corporation?…
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A Different Tempo: Amiina’s Fantômas Comes To Norður Og Niður
Nothing says Sigur rós like a winter music festival that also includes lectures, dance performances and movie screenings. But hey, if there is someone who can pull off squeezing a lecture on extraterrestrial life between a twirl of baton and a harpist’s…
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Don’t Get Lost At Norður og Niður: Grapevine’s Festival Picks
With 46 fascinating artists already announced for the inaugural Norður og Niður music festival, and more to come, we thought we’d offer you a few choice picks from the lineup. Here are a handful of artists you should firmly ring on the…
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Airwaves Tipsters: Grísalappalísa
Grísalappalísa are a true original, fusing a punk attitude with comedy, rock ‘n’ roll energy, and a healthy dose of Iceland’s poetic tradition. Their live shows send the crowd into a frenzy without fail. Here are the five bands they recommend you…
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Kalifornía Dreaming: Icelandic Music Goes To LA
“Welcome to Iceland. Don’t like the weather? Wait fifteen minutes.” So goes the clichéd joke about Iceland’s capricious meteorological tendencies—windy and wet one moment, sunny and still the next, but never comfortable enough for shorts. As a spring storm snowed, sleeted, and…
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Congratulations 2016 Kraumur Music Award Winners!
We’re halfway through the end of the beginning. Or the beginning of the end. Or anyways, we’re halfway through. It’s December 15th and it’s that time of year, when the entire Earth turns into one big mirror and we start that month…
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The Beautiful Era Returns to Bíó Paradís
In these Trumpian times, what better way to relax than to take a trip back to the Belle Époque, you know, the one which Woody Allen’s nostalgic characters in his romantic 20s film Midnight in Paris wish they were living in? In…
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Track by Track: ‘Fantômas’ by amiina
‘Fantômas’ is a haunting, suspenseful, crime-ridden album full of crooks, clumsy policemen, and bustling Parisian street life. If this sounds more like a movie than an album, that’s because it’s both. Amiina’s forthcoming album, released November 25 by Mengi, was composed as…
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A Walk On The Mild Side
Just off Laugavegur behind some tall red doors lies Gamla Bíó, a grand seated theatre with a high balcony circle and a spotlit stage. Despite being in the heart of downtown Reykjavik, it feels like a secret somehow; an atmospheric sanctuary from…