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Grapevine New Music: Hatari, Diamond Dolls, Vigdís Hafliðadóttir & Villi Neto
Congrats! We’ve almost made it through the year, with only four weeks to go until January. For the Grapevine, that means our 18th and last issue of 2024 is out on the streets today. Filled with election night analyses — including a…
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Iryna’s Thursday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: The One Where I See Them All
My first night of the official Iceland Airwaves program this year starts with me being confused. I wanted to begin with the screening of the Of Monsters And Men film TÍU – something more chill than music pounding in my ears. It’s…
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The Art Of Taking A Stand: Hatari Show Strength In ‘A Song Called Hate’
If you live in Iceland the chances are that you’ll know Hatari—at least by reputation. If not, they may well have gatecrashed your consciousness in 2019 when they represented Iceland at Eurovision in Israel—and lobbed a cheeky agitprop grenade right into the…
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Hatari Drops New Neyslutrans Remix Album
The notoriously non-controversial Eurovision-favourites sextronic trio Hatari have just released new album full of remixes from their debut effort, ‘Neyslutrans’, which came out in early 2020. As I—Owen, new intern to the Grapevine—know absolutely nothing about the band themselves, I was given…
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Icelandic Musicians Awarded COVID-19 Recovery Grants
Grants for Icelandic musicians have been announced as part of the Icelandic government’s post-coronavirus economic recovery programme. The 81 million ISK fund will be shared between 162 musical projects. Minister for Education and Culture, Lilja Alfreðsdóttir released the full list of grant…
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Art In The Time Of Corona: Can Inherently Social Art Survive Isolation?
In this current climate, artists of all mediums are facing difficulties. When stuck in social distancing, quarantining, or—God forbid—dealing with the virus itself, how do those who rely on shows and concerts to sustain and spread their word? To find out, the…
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Grapevine Podcasts: We’ve Got Issues! Hatari, Bíó Paradís, Immigration And More!
We’ve got issues, and we wanna talk about them! Our longtime readers know that we have features in every issue. This is a podcast where we walk through the magazine and talk about those features at length. In this episode, Valur and…
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Breaking Down Hatari: Iceland’s Most Famous Trio Unmasked
From their early years as the dystopic darlings of the underground Reykjavík scene to their 2019 media takeover at the Eurovision Song Contest, the BDSM-clad lads of Hatari have always been a puzzle. At once shrouded in secrecy while also relentlessly attention-grabbing,…
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Grapevine Playlist: Goose Bumps And Some Solid Rock
Bistro Boy – evolve Bistro Boy is definitely our boy. He just released a new EP called ‘evolve,’ and boy, has Bistro Boy done just what the title says. The album is a beautiful ambient-fused electro with a lot of soul. He…
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Breakdown Of Engin Miskunn by Hatari
Larger than life Icelandic hardcore boy band Hatari released a new video yesterday, Engin Miskunn (“No Mercy”), to instant critical acclaim. But while the masses process what they just saw in just under four minutes, critics around the globe are furiously scratching…
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Hatari Drop New Video: ‘Engin Miskunn’, First Single On Newest Album
Respectable, uncontroversial and totally normal industrial art rockers Hatari have just dropped a new video, and it is really something else. This video, for their song ‘Engin Miskunn’ (‘No Mercy’), is the first song on their new album, Neyslutrans. “Engin Miskunn is…
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Hatari Releases New Album, Neyslutrans, World Rejoices
Everyone’s favourite leather-clad, anti-capitalist, Palestinian-Flag-waving, rubber-curious, zombie-tween, tax-evading, sexually-charged, industrial-techno-metal group has released a new album called Neyslutrans, and holy shit, it is good. There are polished versions of old favourites, as well as brand new tracks. Hatrið Mun Sigra is somehow…
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The Grapevine Music Awards 2020: The Winners Are Here!
The Grapevine Music Awards 2020 is here! As is tradition, we at the Grapevine once again convened a panel of valued experts (see who they were at the foot of this article) to comb through the brightest talents, breakthrough moments, and ear-catching…
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CYBER And HATARI Join Chains To Crumble Europe In New Tour
Its true, 2020 promises to be the year that Iceland’s favourite gimp-masked System-smashing post-human aristocracy-chasers guillotine-builders—we could go on—Hatari, makes Europe their bitch. And you know what they say, to smash capitalism, the more degenerate, soulful, delinquent, left-minded proto-cyborg, the better. With…
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Grapevine Music Awards 2020: Song Of The Year – ‘Hatrið mun sigra’ By Hatari
One couch. Three banners. Seven seconds of live television. And with that, the leather-clad doomsday anticapitalist BDSM water-hawking scam artist tycoons (we could go on) Hatari, made history under their mantra of “Hatrið mun sigra,” as they brought the world’s attention to…
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Taking Out The tRASH: HATARI x tRASHY Clothing Team Up
“It was insane,” Palestinian fashion designer Shukri Lawrence says, looking back on the moment Hatari pulled out their Palestinian flag live at Eurovision. “I remember going on Instagram and literally every story was that one photo.” But for Shukri, the act was…
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Music News: Icelandic Women Make A Splash, Hatari, And More!
Two Icelandic women are amongst those nominated for the 2020 Grammy Awards, setting a historic precedent for Icelandic music. Anna Þorvaldsdóttir (above) has been nominated for Best Engineered Album, Classical, for her album ‘Aequa.’ Hildur Guðnadóttir has been nominated for Best Score…
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Hatari Opens Their Rainbow Wings In Russia
This weekend, Hatari traveled to Moscow to perform in their most unpredictable show to date. The Icelandic group took with them some costumes and ideas that could’ve been very dangerous, with a very clear display of LGBTQIA+* pride in one of their…
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Hatari To Support Klausturgate Whistleblower Bára Halldórsdóttir
Whistleblower Bára Halldórsdóttir, who recorded the infamous conversation between members of the Central Party and People’s Party at the bar Klaustur last year, can now count on support from Iceland’s world-famous Eurovision contestant Hatari. The band has announced that they will contribute…
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The Matrix, Hummus, And Pancakes: Einar Stef’s Perfect Day
Einar Stef is the drummer for electronic metal band, Hatari. In a rare moment, he speaks, and shares with us what a perfect day for him would look like. Morning I would wake up quite early after a perfect sleep. I say…
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Hatari Releases New Single “Filthy Boy”
Hatari has released a new single. Relentless Scam Incorporated issued a press release, saying they are “proud to introduce the latest by award-winning sexually repressed Icelandic anti-capitalist techno-music performance art collective Hatari.” The group made international headlines for their participation and active…
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Icelandic Public Broadcasting Fined For Hatari’s Palestinian Flag Statement
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has decided to fine Icelandic public broadcasting (RÚV) €5,000 for Hatari’s displaying of the Palestinian flag during the live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest last May, RÚV reports. RÚV has issued a statement objecting to the…
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Vape Clouds, Hard Bass & Hatari: Secret Solstice 2019 Reviewed
Grapevine contributor/photographer Sigurður Ragnarsson gives us the low-down on his experience at Secret Solstice 2019 iteration. Friday: Secret Solstice 2019 Walking into Laugardalur, I was greeted by a sea of golden vests, police officers, thick vape clouds, and pre-teens on the phones…