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Off The Rails With Grísalappalísa: The Iconic Band Bids Adieu
If the early aughts in the Icelandic music scene was defined by lo-fi indie, peaking at around the time of the financial crisis of 2008, Grísalappalísa undoubtedly represents the sound of post-crash Iceland: loud, chaotic, bounding with untameable energy. From their inception…
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The Search For The Ghost Duck: The Epic Journey Of Berghaim
Berghaim is a character that is half-hidden and half-visible. The only thing that can be seen is his face, buried in the ground. Having spent most of his life in solitude, his life was shaped by the sounds that surround him, and…
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Grapevine Airwaves Super Review: Thursday
Airwaves day 2: more drunk, more concerts, and more madness. Everybody agreed that one band ruled them all and we all got a bit of BDSM love. We didn’t catch them all, but like with Pokémon, it’s about the hunt; not the…
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Airwaves Tipsters: Grísalappalísa
Grísalappalísa are a true original, fusing a punk attitude with comedy, rock ‘n’ roll energy, and a healthy dose of Iceland’s poetic tradition. Their live shows send the crowd into a frenzy without fail. Here are the five bands they recommend you…
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Straumur: Poem Thiefs Dancing In The Disco Lights
Grísalappalísa, Iceland’s premier literate new wave band, just put our their first new song in like ages, and threw a concert at Kex Hostel—their first in over a year. It’s good to have them back and ‘Kvæðaþjófurinn’ (Poem Thief), does not disappoint.…
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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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Music News: Final Airwaves Lineup + Kiasmos, Grísalappalísa & Björk Return
One of Iceland’s best live acts, the furiously energetic punk-poetry collective Grísalappalísa, has returned. They dropped a new video last week, premiered at grapevine.is and directed by the band’s drummer, Sigurður Möller Sívertsen. The song is called ‘Kvæðaþjófurinn,’ and it’s the band’s…
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Premiere: Grísalappalísa Return With New Video, Announce Shows
One of Iceland’s best live acts, the comedic and furiously energetic punk-poetry collective Grísalappalísa, have returned. They dropped a new video today, directed by the band’s drummer Sigurður Möller Sívertsen, and have also announced a handful of Reykjavík shows in September. The…
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Nintendo, Slack Rock And Psychos!
This month saw the release of ‘Polyhedron’, the debut LP from the long-overlooked one-man band Laser Life. The one man in question is Breki Steinn Mánason, a 25-year-old guitarist with roots in the east of Iceland and hardcore rock acts such as…
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OKAY WTF JUST HAPPENED HERE? An #Airwaves15 recap.
So that’s that. With a lot of heat, whirlwind and flash, Iceland Airwaves 2015 has passed. Actually, not so much passed as hit the entire Grapevine writing team full on, leaving our bedraggled, mangled, booze-soaked, twitching, grinning bodies in its glitter-covered wake.…
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You Can’t Always Force It
I swear, I wanted to party last night. When I saw my work schedule for this week I said to myself, and everyone around me, “Well, I’ll just have to go all out on Friday night.” That was my plan. So why…
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Airwaves, DAY THREE: Ten Perspectives!
The best show of the night was hands-down Ho99o9—the punked-out dark hip-hop performance turned the heat up and kept it at a feverish high throughout the wild ride. It had the whole nine yards, and then some: costume changes, leaping performers, massive…
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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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Dr. Gunni’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
dj. Flugvél og geimskip – Off-venue Slippbarinn @12:00 I will get some coffee and see Steinunn Hardardottir aka DJ F og G cook up some deep sea outer space nuggets. Skelkur í bringu – Off-venue Bíó Paradís @13:00 Featuring Steinunn Dj F&G…
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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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Rökrétt Framhald
On Grísalappalísa’s debut album ‘Ali’, there’s a line in “Lóan er komin” where singer Baldur Baldursson growls, “Thoroughly thought out/Much practiced/Stolen from here or there/Don’t expect that I take responsibility or remember where it came from” (translation mine). As a lyric-asM.O., it…
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Download This: “Þurz” by Grísalappalísa
Our track of the issue this time around is a live recording from Grísalappalísa’s show at Gamli Baukurinn in Húsavík, North Iceland, during their mega tour last year. They’re about to release a live double-vinyl from this tour called ‘Sumar á Gríslandi’,…
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Eistnaflug Friday: Black #2
Eistnaflug is by far the friendliest festival I’ve ever been to. As a metal-concert-vet, my first metal festival is shaping up to a great one. Though the climate is quite a bit colder than in previous years (I’m told), there is enough…
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Happening Tonight: Grísalappalísa at KEX
Everyone loves a showman, and Grísalappalísa’s frontman Gunnar Ragnarsson is just that. Like a modern-day Bowie, Gunnar smears his makeup, wears tight clothes and shakes his hips with a fury that’s almost frightening. The band plays raw, energetic and yet groovy punk,…
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The Must-See Icelandic Acts At ATP + Festival Schedule
ATP Iceland is three this year, and we at Grapevine couldn’t be happier to see this discerning festival putting down some roots over in Keflavík. After memorable performances from previous headliners Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Portishead, ATP Iceland has…
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Airwaves Announce Mercury Rev, Arca And Lots More
This year is passing so fast, huh? A minute ago it was new year, and now we’re already past midsummer… With that in mind, the Airwaves festival will be here in no time, and today they unleashed another mouth-watering lineup announcement. The…
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Straumur On Festivals: Believe The Hype
First things first: Sónar Reykjavík at Harpa was a gigantic audiovisual explosion in dolby digital and HD vivid colors. For a three-day weekend, Harpa transformed into humongous club on an Ibiza scale. The music spanned the range from ambient to EDM and…
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The Grapevine Interns Highlight What’s Happening This Weekend
It may be the end of the shortest month of the year, but it looks to be quite possibly the busiest weekend of them all! In between KEX Hostel’s annual beer festival, Oyama and Brött Brekka’s show at Bar 11, the Rafnæs DJ night…