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Grapevine Cover Wins The Magazine Photograph Of The Year Award
Blaðaljósmyndarafélag Íslands announced the winners of its annual “Photos of the Year” competition. The association received a total of 789 photo submissions. [su_pullquote]Not in Iceland for a while but still want to read our new issue? Get it sent from the Grapevine…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Inspector Spacetime, Árný Margrét & John Grant
Tomorrow sees the return of Live From Reykjavík! You can choose to brave the Icelandic chill to catch the live music across the city, or stay toasty and watch the global stream at home. Either way, all three of this week’s picks…
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Live From Reykjavík Returns
Music fans will have to wait until 2022 for their next fix of Iceland Airwaves, after gathering restrictions put paid to the festival for the second year running. But the good folk who run Airwaves are determined not to leave the nation’s…
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Tales Of A Michigan Boy: The Open Book Of John Grant
“I suppose I never really tire of going back over my life, and trying to figure out what the fuck happened.” John Grant—musician of international renown and Reykjavík resident for the last decade—has some stories to tell while he does that figuring.…
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Hold On To Your Visa Cards… Björk Is Playing Airwaves
Björk has been announced to play at Iceland Airwaves 2015. If that’s all you need to know to go and buy a ticket, then yep, cool, we feel you. You can do that here. We’ll wait for you. No, really, it’s no…
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John Grant Presents Icelandic Music In BBC Special
American musician, John Grant, who recently relocated to Reykjavík hosted a winter solstice music special on BBC 6 called “Songs from a Dark Place”, reports RÚV. The show documented the rise of Iceland’s music scene and included tracks by Björk, The Sugarcubes, Sigur…
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Eurovision Video Gets 62,000 Views In Ten Days
Since its release on March 14, the English-language music video for “No Prejudice,” by Iceland’s 2014 Eurovision competitor, Pollapönk, has gotten over 62,000 views on YouTube, Vísir reports. This year’s song competition will be hosted in Copenhagen and, as announced by the…
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An Amazing Evening
You know how dogs sometimes spend so long with their owners that they start to resemble one another? John Grant and Iceland have a similar relationship going on. If there’s ever been a more convincing impression of a Reykjavik native done by…
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The Night of the Meh.
The drummer from Lockerbie is wearing a Ramones t-shirt. Explain to me how that makes sense. Lockerbie play the most boring, predictable, hackneyed post-rock imaginable, and yet, there’s the drummer. Wearing a fucking Ramones shirt. What the fuck. I’ve got to hand…
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Clock Opera's Guide to Iceland Airwaves (Without Having Ever Been There)
It’s our first trip to Iceland as Clock Opera, but I came to stay with a friend a few years ago and fell in love with the place. Waterfalls smothered in cloud, stumbling on secret hot springs and waking up in Landmannalaugar…