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Grapevine Says: Our Team’s Picks For Sónar Reykjavík
With Sónar Reykjavík kicking off in style with a packed Thursday night bill, we asked our team to outline their picks from the festival lineup. Whether you’re making rings in the programme with a marker pen or tapping them into your app,…
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Happening Tonight: Milkywhale & GKR
If you’re warming up for Sónar Reykjavík next week, there’s a fun party going down at Húrra tonight. One of the bright lights of Iceland’s recently energised rap scene, GKR, will open the night. His single ‘Morgunmatur’ is a sincere ode to…
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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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Airwaves Never Sleeps: PJ Harvey & More Announced For 2016
The people behind the Iceland Airwaves festival haven’t been resting on their laurels this winter—they’ve been beavering away in the darkness to prepare the 2016 festival. They today unveiled the first names of the 2016 lineup, which includes two eye-catching overseas names:…
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Straumur’s Definitive List Of 2015’s Best Albums And Songs
Us Straumur guys would like to wish all of our readers a happy new musical year! With that out of the way, let’s dig into the recent past to uncover our top five favourite Icelandic albums and songs of last year. The…
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Look! It’s The Winners Of Reykjavík Grapevine’s 2016 Music Awards
How often does an event have to be repeated to warrant tradition status? If the number is four, we present to you the on-going tradition of the Reykjavík Grapevine Music Awards! Since its first ever edition, music journalism has always been one…
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Misþyrming’s DG On 2015, Their Upcoming Album, Icelandic Black Metal – And Hip-Hop
The past few months have been very eventful for young DG. In addition to finishing his final term of school, his band Misþyrming has enjoyed an incredible year. Following their performance at Eistnaflug, they were selected as the artists in residence at the…
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The World Loves Icelandic Hip-Hop, But We’re Not Sure Why (And We Still Don’t Understand A Word)
My friends gave me some odd looks in the months leading up to Iceland Airwaves, whenever I forced them to sit through a YouTube playlist I’d made of Icelandic hip-hop. Some of the artists I’d heard or seen before—Gísli Pálmi, Shades of…
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Happening Tonight: Sykur / GKR
Sykur has long been a beacon in Iceland’s galaxy of electronic music. The glamorous singer Agnes pulls us in, sporting killer heels, whipping her pink dreadlocks back and forth, growling her way into our soul. GKR, on the other hand, has the…
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MEET THE NWOIHH!
The holidays are here. Your relatives are annoying. Gifts are expensive. We all need something to kick the edge. Why not try some fresh new Icelandic hip-hop? Yes, the world of Icelandic hip hop is rich and varied. From classics such as…
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Mischief, Mayhem & Hip-Hop With Iceland’s New Yule Lads
The Yule Lads are the thirteen Icelandic Santa Clauses who descend one-by-one on the thirteen days before Christmas to play tricks on Icelandic children. Their mother, Grýla, a mountain Ogress, eats badly-behaved children; her partner-in-crime is Leppalúði, another ogre and Grýla’s third…
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The Recent Iceland Airwaves Festival: The Definitive Straumur Statement
With that hectic Iceland Airwaves week still simmering in our hearts, we feel obligated to bring you a list of the top acts we saw at the festival. Here they are, in no particular order. LA Priest By Anna Domnick This one-man…
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Learning To Love The Icelandic Rap Sheet
Icelandic rappers had been dotting my Spotify for some time, but until Airwaves 2015, I didn’t get what a socialist-leaning, generally-doing-alright country could rap about. But before you grab your rosaries or voodoo dolls or whatever, know that I’m a changed woman now.…
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Pink Street Boys’ Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
– Wake up you slob! …it’s Saturday! https://soundcloud.com/gkrofficial 15:30 – GKR at Íslenski Barinn (off venue) A lot of people are talking about this dude. He has been on the rise in Reykjavik’s hip-hop scene. Will surely be fun to see what the fuzz is…
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Kælan Mikla’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
dj. flugvél og geimskip – Landbandsbankinn Austurstræti (off-venue) at 15:00 Starting the day off with dj. flugvél og geimskip’s horror-space pop is definitely going to cure all the hangover. 16:30 GKR – Laundromat Café (off-venue) at 16:30 You can get some food…
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OMG SECRET FANCY GRAPEVINE PARTY 4 U TOMORROW
Holy eff! What an amazing time Iceland Airwaves 2015 is turning out to be. We want to celebrate. We are throwing you a party. A secret party. There will be beer. There will be Brennivín. There will be some of the best new bands…
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That First Day Of Iceland Airwaves: Eleven Perspectives
Wow! Grapevine’s super-intense, in-depth coverage of Iceland Airwaves 2015 is underway! We’re already going slightly mad trying to convey all of the everything that’s going on. We’re already infatuated with several bands, acts, musicians, performers and/or persons. We’re already feeling like—try as…
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Sónar 2016 Sounds Off More Artists, Now Even More Exciting
Sónar ups its game today, announcing new additions to its quickly swelling lineup. Now set to perform at the festival in February 2016 are German DJ and producer Boys Noize, Detroit rapper Angel Haze, President Bongo (formerly of Gusgus) and his Emotional Carpenters,…
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Jón Ólafsson & Futuregrapher’s Airwaves Highlights
Since the locals are more familiar with the goings-on at Airwaves, we asked two local artists what acts they’ll be doing when their not playing. Their names are Jón Ólafsson, a talented composer and pianist, and Árni Grétar (aka Futuregrapher), an electronic…
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GKR’s ‘Morgunmatur’ Has Us Getting Up For The Right Reasons
How could you not love GKR? A 21-year-old rapper who uses music as a platform to ecstatically revel in the mundanity of daily Reykjavík life. Whose main hope is that whoever comes see him will “…realize that nothing really matters [so they may] escape…
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GKR: Iceland Airwaves Rookie Card
Name: GKR Band: GKR Hometown: Reykjavík Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Pre-Season: “A lot of people want to make music but never do it. I was making rhymes and listening to beats, but I didn’t know how to make a song. I reached out to…
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Happening Tonight: Emmsjé Gauti / Úlfur Úlfur / GKR
We know you can’t get enough of the Icelandic rap scene, and that’s why YOU SHOULD BE EXCITED FOR THIS. Some of Icelandic rap’s greats (Úlfur Úlfur! Emmsjé Gauti!) are hitting Húrra, accompanied by up-and-coming GKR! Bring all your friends (especially that…
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The Most Beautiful Thing In The World
Our current issue’s cover is beautiful. I hope you like it, I’m sure you do, but your opinion doesn’t really concern me, because I think that it is absolutely beautiful. Intrinsically beautiful. Unconditionally beautiful. Beautiful. Just beautiful. Heart-warming. Radiant. Touching. Its beauty…