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Grapevine New Music Picks: Borko, Brynjar and Pusswhip
Prick up your ears! It’s time once more for The Grapevine to pour some fresh harmonic honey into them. And once we’re done, check out everything we’re listening to right now on The Grapevine’s New Music Picks playlist on Spotify. Lord Pusswhip…
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Reykjavík Arts Festival: Borko Celebrates The Release Of “The Lover —Music For Dance”
Borko, aka Björn Kristjánsson, is a compelling character. With his impressive, well-groomed beard and his intelligent eyes behind old-school glasses, he seems like a person that lives in a cabin far out in the wilderness. A resident of Reykjavík, he instead goes…
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IN PICTURES: Sykur & The Mystical Crowd At Airwaves Day Two
Our photographer Art Bicnick continues frantically capturing through the magical medium that is photography. Without further ado, we present to you: Art Bicnick’s Fresh Shots From Airwaves Thursday! Check it out!
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I Know Nothing: The Casual Listener’s Guide To Random Airwaves Acts
Unlike some of my colleagues at the Grapevine, I’m not a music aficionado. I’m the Jon Snow of music. I’m not engaged with the Icelandic scene, and if someone tells me about this new post-industrial surfer sludge band they’ve heard, my mind…
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Teaching Hillbillies to Appreciate Music: Borko on Music and Small Town Life
I stalk my interviewee from my window, waiting for an unfamiliar car to leave. When the coast is clear, I skip across the lawn to a house I’m very familiar with. It might seem like a nifty coincidence that the person I’m…
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Icelandic Musicians Unite For Gaza Charity Album
Nineteen Icelandic bands and artists have donated tracks to a new compilation from the Iceland-Palestine Association. Entitled Fyrir Gaza (“For Gaza”), the album features tracks from some of Iceland’s most notable acts, such as GusGus, Sin Fang, Ólafur Arnalds and Mugison, with all the…
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Night At The Museum
I don’t believe you can underestimate the importance of fun in a live show. It’s probably a cliché but if performers look like they’re having fun, there’s no doubt it rubs off on those around. Of course it takes more than this…
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FM BELFAST ARE BACK AND TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS!
Words by Rebecca Louder / Photos by Alísa Kalyanova / Photoshoot wardrobe courtesy of Kormákur & Skjöldur Last Airwaves, there was a gaping hole in the lineup of Icelandic bands that didn’t ruin the festival (not by far!) but it sure felt weird…
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TONIGHT! Bands Sing Songs By Other Bands At KARAOKE101
Because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! As previously reported, the bar Bakkus is celebrating its swan-song week with its final instalment of the B-Waves festival. Amidst all the madness they’ll be hosting in the next few days is the multimedia…
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Middling in the Art Gallery
8:30 pm at the art gallery and Borko are in full swing. I have found my spot for the night, slouched in a corner on the balcony, at this point taking in the denim clad asses of a denim clad couple standing…