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Grapevine Music Awards: Artist Of The Year – Jófríður Ákadóttir
Once a year, we at Grapevine honour the best and brightest of the Icelandic music scene by giving out awards to some of the artists who light up our lives on the little subarctic island. The Artist Of The Year award goes…
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The Grapevine GrapeWaves 2017 Festival Super Preview, Part Two
Airwaves is upon us! The off-venues are running, the stages are warming up, and it’s time to download the festival app and start organising your life for the next five days. Grapevine will, of course, be there in force—we have ten writers…
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Grapevine Playlist: Páll Ivan, FM Belfast, Gyða, Úlfur, GANGLY & More
It’s been good month for new Icelandic music—here are some of the recent faves that have been spinning on the Grapevine stereo, from orchestral folk, to weird trap, to renovated ancient compsition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmmUkT-Pw6A Páll Ivan Frá Eiðum – Expanding We loved this…
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Gangly: The Anonymous Rise Of Iceland’s Most Mysterious Band
“We want to be photographed in the dark, don’t show our faces!” exclaims one of the members of Gangly, who, intentionally or not, have taken the title of “Iceland’s most mysterious band.” Their almost cloak-and-dagger approach to publicity started with an email…
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Grapevine Playlist: GANGLY, sóley, Dream Wife & More
Icelandic musicians are coming out of hibernation this month, with new releases dropping all over the genre spectrum. Here are the songs that we’ve been spinning here in the Grapevine office. GANGLY – Whole Again Supergroup GANGLY continue to drip-feed our hungry…
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Music News in Brief (All Caps Edition): JFDR, AUÐUR, GANGLY & More
Gone are the days of A-sides and B-sides, we’re in the world of track by track. Listeners are often seduced away from narrative storytelling and continuous threads by the Spotify temptress and the “new-here-now” workflow. But last month AUÐUR, one of Reykjavík’s…
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Gangly Are Whole Again
Rising Icelandic trio Gangly released a new song, with a video by Máni M. Sigfússon, today. “Whole Again” is another in their ongoing drip-fed series of beautiful, low-key pop songs, and features a chiming melody with lead vocals by Jófríður Ákadóttir. “I…
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Music News In Brief: Cryptochrome, Sigur Rós, The Kraumur Awards and more!
Mysterious melty-faced trio GANGLY are pros at testing our patience, releasing one…killer…steady…track…at…a…time. This past week they put out their third track and video for the single ‘Blow Out.’ The track is as meticulous and haunting as the TV murderer Dexter, and the…
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GANGLY Have A Blow Out
Icelandic supergroup GANGLY today unveiled their third song, entitled “Blow Out”. The group consists of Sindri from Sin Fang, Úlfur of Oyama and Útidúr, and Jófríður of Samaris, Pascal Pinon and JFDR. Speaking to i-D, Sindri said: “Gangly means tall, thin, and…
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JFDR Unveils KEXP Session, Announces Reykjavík Shows
The cover star of Reykjavík Grapevine’s current print issue, Jófríður Ákadottir — — read the full “Year of Jófríður” story here — today posted a live session and interview about her JFDR project with Kevin Cole of KEXP. If you like what…
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The Year Of Jófríður
Jófríður Ákadóttir is very tired. She sits slumped on the red leather sofa of a comfortably dim downtown basement café, sipping a coffee; her pale blue eyes stare out onto the street, where groups of people meander past, their laughter and American,…
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 1: What’s New And Who’s Who
It’s tough to set your schedule up for Iceland Airwaves. Over the festival’s five days, there are 150 bands in the official “on-venue” programme alone. And what makes it all the more difficult and exciting is an ever-expanding list of new names…
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Grapevine Playlist: September 2016
GANGLY – Holy Grounds So this is a bouncy bass thing for you luxuriously soundsystemed car, but at the same time it has an icy wistfulness, so you’re alone in your car. It’s not full on hysterically sad, so you’re probably not…
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Video Roundup: GKR, Samaris, Reykjavíkurdætur, Prins Póló, GANGLY
With Airwaves coming, pretty much everyone in the Icelandic music scene is gearing up to drop a new track or record in 2016. Here are a few videos that have caught our attention in the Grapevine office over the last few weeks,…
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Happening Today: Ultraorthodox / Auður / Gangly at Húrra
When the lineup at Húrra is this good, attention must be payed. Gangly starts the evening off with cool electronic vibes, followed by the sultry Auður and his smooth R&B tunes. To end the night we have none other than Ultraorthodox, serving…
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Gangly: “Oh Grow Up”
In December of 2014, a song called “Fuck With Someone Else” hit the internet. The track was a glacially paced slice of R&B electro-pop, featuring a male and female voice teasing out the title statement over hushed synths and the gentle interruption…
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Milkywhale’s Guide To Sónar 2016
Our favourite emergent band from Airwaves ’15 was the all-singing-all-dancing party band Milkywhale, the project of dancer, singer, and loveable stage dynamo Melkorka Magnúsdóttir, and her laptop-manning co-creator Arni Hlöðversson (also of FM Belfast, amongst others). We asked Milkywhale to give us…
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Two Big Names Announced for Sónar Reykjavík ’16
Sónar Reykjavík made their first lineup announcement about the 2016 festival today. The Icelandic acts announced include a rare show from Iceland’s much-admired Apparat Organ Quartet, and performances from homegrown stars Úlfur Úlfur, Sturla Atlas, GANGLY, Skeng and Vaginaboys. They also dropped…
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6 New Icelandic Bands To Watch Out For At Airwaves
As well as being a monolithic highlight on the city’s festival calendar, Iceland Airwaves also functions as a kind of informal annual survey of what’s good in the Icelandic music scene. Unusually, native bands make up the majority of the lineup, giving…
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Sónar Is Here! And So Is Our New Podcast! Jófríður From Samaris Picks The Tracks!
Sónar Reykjavík is here! Yay! The Icelandic edition of the international electronic music festival opens its doors tonight at Harpa. Amongst the Icelandic performers tonight are Samaris, one of the recent young success stories from the Reykjavík scene. We talked to the…
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Straumur’s Best Of 2014!
We at Straumur wish all you readers a happy new year, and hope 2015 will be a blast for all of us. But, before we dive head-on into the New Year, it’s time to reflect on what just happened. Behold, our absolute…
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Who Are GANGLY And Why Are They So Great?
Earlier today, long-time Grapevine contributors Straumur premiered a song/music video by a new, apparently “local” band that calls itself GANGLY. Now, this in itself wouldn’t be that interesting (lord knows there are plenty of bands out there making songs and videos), except for the…
