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Electric Dreams: Good Moon Deer’s Tireless Electronic Experiments
Guðmundur Úlfarsson—also known by his musical moniker Good Moon Deer—is an Icelandic graphic designer and musician who currently lives in Belgium. He released his first album, the sample-heavy ‘Dot,’ as a limited run of 50 special edition LPs in 2015, and he’s…
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Airwaves Friday Super Review, Pt. 1: Goth Gloom, Cheesy Rap, Explosive Parties
Airwaves Friday saw some of the big guns come out, from Ásgeir at Harpa to FM Belfast at the Reykjavík Art Museum, and from Arab Strap’s Scottish poetry to the party blow-out of Mura Masa. Here’s where the Grapevine’s roving team wound…
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What Went Down: Sónar Thursday Capsule Reviews
Angel Haze’s powerful rapping, Milkywhale’s triumphant pop, Ellen Allien’s teutonic techno, Páll Oskar’s golden armour—it’s hard to call what our Sónar team loved the most from day one of the festival. Read on to decide for yourselves. Eli Petzold When Auður performed…
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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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Sónar Unveil More Exciting Lineup Additions
With the 2016 Sonar festival only four weeks away, the festival has released the final additions to the festival lineup. If you’ve been reading about our 2016 music awards in the new issue, you’ll be pleased to see Tonik added the lineup.…
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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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IN PICTURES: Art Is Alive – Day Three
Art Bicnick is out and about, capturing Iceland Airwaves in all its glory! Observe! His wonderful photos! #AMAZING
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A Good Moon Deer Prepares
Guðmundur Úlfarsson, AKA Good Moon Deer, used to work as a designer here at the Grapevine, greatly enriching our little publication by lending his highly refined and disciplined visual aesthetic to our pages. When he was starting out, most of us were…
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Straumur Dispatch: Vagina (dot) Love
One of our favourite Icelandic musicians, Sin Fang, is playing a show at Húrra on May 26. That alone is newsworthy, but the warm-up band also caught our attention with their name, Vagina Boys, and we look forward to seeing them for…
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Happening This Weekend: Good Moon Deer, WonderWagon And Charlie Chaplin
With our fancy new issue out on the streets and the weekend almost upon us, we decided to share three events that really stood out with our readers. WonderWagon The WonderWagon is an old bus made new. Now equipped with a crystal…
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London: Good Moon Deer and M-Band Conquer A Pretentious Shoreditch Venue
Old Blue Last, in the middle of prennial London hipster-haven Shoreditch, makes for an interesting music venue. On one hand, the Vice Media operated club is small and frequently packed to the point of discomfort with the sort of folk you might…
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Part Arty, Part Party
Good Moon Deer is the stage name of one Guðmundur Ingi Úlfarsson (Guðmundur, Guð-mun-dur, Good-moon-deer … get it?) who usually performs with drummer Ívar Pétur Kjartansson. The duo played a whopping six shows at this year’s Airwaves to a slew of dance…
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Iceland’s Dance Music Scene Is Awesome: Amsterdam Pt. 2
Good Moon Deer have a tough slot. They’re charged with enlivening the purgatorial atmosphere of Amsterdam, with the city alive and jumping just outside of its grubby windows. Headliners are hitting the stage in most venues – Omar Souleyman is already striding…
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Good Moon Deer Spawn Weird Improv
Guðmundur Úlfarsson is one half of Reykjavík duo Good Moon Deer. Just as they release another blast of their energizing noise online via this fancy subsite, we challenged him to put the band’s uncategorizable sound into words… Your band name is a…
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The Lights, The Fists: Faktorý Main pt. I
Faktorý will always be Grand Rokk to me, and not because I’m particularly nostalgic for the good ol’ days of 2004, but rather because despite the rebranding, Faktorý still has the same feel of the kind of club you expect to have…
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Video: Good Moon Deer – “Blur”
Video by Alísa Kalyanova / Words by Rebecca Louder Happy Airwaves-Eve! We are impatiently listening for the jingle of free beer and the roar of internationals to arrive (hopefully our North American guests will make it through FRANKENSTORM!) But anyway, it’s starting…
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Goodnight Deer Jumping Over The Moon: Interview with Good Moon Deer
Designed for the runway, not the record press? By Rebecca Louder “It consists of a person playing on a computer and another playing drums. The person on the computer mainly writes the music, but has no real knowledge or background in…
