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A Defining Moment: Húrra’s Open Mic Night Fosters Fresh Talent
In a city saturated with culture, where do the young guns go? The comedians who want to see if they’ re actually funny, or the songwriters fresh from signing in the shower? Reykjavík is refined, a victim of its own success, and…
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Midsummer Music: Chamber Music’s Crème De La Crème
“This is my little experimental playground,” the brilliant pianist Víkingur Òlafsson says when we call him up for a chat about the award-winning music festival Reykjavík Midsummer Music, taking place June 22-25. Víkingur is the founder of the chamber music celebration, and…
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WHAT’S APPENING TONIGHT, REYKJAVÍK?
We at The Reykjavík Grapevine care about a lot of things. Three, to be exact. Drinking, eating, and fun events, to be even more exact. We get excited about all the things we care about, and we like to extend our care…
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NORÐANPAUNK—MANIFESTO PROFUGUS BOREALIS: To be, or not to be, punk
“Difficult people listen to good music; Good people listen to difficult music.” This is the proverb of Norðanpaunk (“Northern Punk”), an annual family gathering of Iceland’s punk community in Iceland’s mid-west. Norðanpaunk is an event for difficult people, who like to listen…
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Happening This Labour Weekend: DJ Flugvél Og Geimskip, Oyama, Agent Fresco And More!
For those of you not in the loop, we have an upcoming three-day weekend as tomorrow is the first of May, aka. Labour Day. If marching for workers’ rights and the establishing of a national minimum wage doesn’t tickle your fancy, no…