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  • Happening This Weekend: Our Picks!

    Happening This Weekend: Our Picks!

    School has started. Morale is low. The apocalypse is nigh. Cheer yourself up with these not-to-miss events. Friday, January 11th The Grapevine Music Awards 2019! 21:00, Húrra, Free! After much deliberation, long-lists, shortlists, to-and-fros, tugs of war and tie breaking Twister matches,…

  • Happening In Reykjavík This Week: Our Top Picks

    Happening In Reykjavík This Week: Our Top Picks

    Summer is finally here—today at least—in Reykjavík and it’s time to celebrate that sweet sweet Vitamin D. Here are our top picks for the week. Monday Kizomba Night, Hverfisbarinn, 21:30, Free! Monday nights aren’t usually known as prime dancing times, but that’s…

  • Happening This Week: Our Top Picks

    Happening This Week: Our Top Picks

    Today is that fated week of Friday the 13th. Insert eerie music. Celebrate with a host of ooky spooky events—or ones that are just cool. Here are our picks. Monday:  Boardgamonday #41, Stofan, 20:00, Free This weekly event is BYOB, aka Bring…

  • Let There Be Dark: Dark Music Days Happening This Week!

    Let There Be Dark: Dark Music Days Happening This Week!

    Going to the symphony, attending a classical concert. There is an aura of sophistication and tradition that floats around the Icelandic Composers Society, the group that founded Reykjavík’s “Dark Music Days” back in 1980. As one of Iceland’s longest running music festivals,…

  • Happening This Week: The Past, “Presence” and The Future

    Happening This Week: The Past, “Presence” and The Future

    It’s a new year. A time of reflection and resolutions. Of reflecting on what’s been and resolving not to do it again. The calendar on the wall has been replaced, and there are still 350 blank little boxes left to scribble on.…

  • Happening This Week: Normcore, Norðanpaunk and Charity

    Happening This Week: Normcore, Norðanpaunk and Charity

    “I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turns out I was just really bored” -Wayne Campbell Yeah, we’ve all been there. It can be hard to get out and see the world when the snow is coming at…

  • Happening This Week: ‘Gimme Danger’ Jim Jarmusch X The Stooges

    Happening This Week: ‘Gimme Danger’ Jim Jarmusch X The Stooges

    After all of the recent elections (all of them), a lot of people are left feeling like we’re living in a political Fun House. Nothings right, everything’s right, everything’s weird and we’re looking for answers to questions we didn’t know we had.…

  • Happening This Weekend: Sequences Festival

    Happening This Weekend: Sequences Festival

    Sequences Festival turns ten! Since 2006 Sequences Art Festival has provided ten-days of visual arts with a special focus on time-based mediums: performances, sound works, videos, public displays and so forth. The seventh edition of the festival explores our inner- and under-workings…

  • Happening This Week: Video Release by Godchilla

    Happening This Week: Video Release by Godchilla

    Like the suburbs, like the smiling baby doll, like Christmas. There is something inherently creepy in that which is all too perfect. Sometimes its better to confront the dark and “illogical” badnesses…and then write a song about them. Reykjavík’s Godchilla dredge out our…

  • Happening This Week: Fest Afrika Reykjavík

    Happening This Week: Fest Afrika Reykjavík

    Reykjavík is a small city. Attend one of the many music festivals, join in a summer art residency, or just walk up and down Laugavegur a couple times and you are already starting to recognize faces. Because of its size the potential…