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  • 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.…

  • Gavin Evans: On Photographing Björk, Iggy Pop & David Bowie

    Gavin Evans: On Photographing Björk, Iggy Pop & David Bowie

    In 1995, photographer Gavin Evans was commissioned by Time Out magazine in London to shoot David Bowie during the recording of ‘Outside’. The results were a series of distinctive portraits that became widely used and well-known, and are currently on display in…

  • #ATP15 First Night: Not Too Stabby

    #ATP15 First Night: Not Too Stabby

    On the festival itself: The layout and setting of ATP is pretty weird—I mean, if you’re like me and spend a lot of time in smoking areas talking to people, you’ll have basically spent the first night drinking in what is essentially a…

  • ATP Thursday: Beautifully Diverse Aesthetic

    ATP Thursday: Beautifully Diverse Aesthetic

    Iceland’s third ATP festival started off well. My tardiness getting on site meant I missed Deafheaven and The Bug, acts that my friends assured me had gone off great—but I did catch three giants: Public Enemy, Iggy Pop and Belle & Sebastian.…

  • You Down With ATP? Yeah You Know Me! – Intern Hannah’s Top 5 Of Last Night

    You Down With ATP? Yeah You Know Me! – Intern Hannah’s Top 5 Of Last Night

    I spent last night at All Tomorrows Parties Iceland, a festival in Keflavík featuring artists like Public Enemy and Iggy Pop. Given that the festival is literally hosted in a carpark (bunker?), I wasn’t really expecting that much, but it was a…

  • Straumur On Festivals: Believe The Hype

    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…

  • It’s SNR RVK Time!

    It’s SNR RVK Time!

    One of the darkest and dullest months of every year is unquestionably February. But, rejoice! We now have something to look forward to: The Sónar Reykjavík Music Festival, set to blow up Harpa on February 12-14 (check out Grapevine’s special Sónar pullout…