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KEX Port ’24: Entertainment In The Front, Grilling In The Back
KEX Hostel’s block party KEX Port sees its final iteration Kex Hostel’s block party KEX Port, a regular fixture of the local festival circuit, may very well see its last iteration this year. The festival says its final farewell on July 13…
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Album of the Year: Sóley & kef LAVÍK
Album of the year: Mother Melancholia by Sóley ‘Mother Melancholia’ is a dark, deep exploration into the feeling of the end of the world, imminent death and destruction, as well as the complexity of a feminist riot surging within the heart of…
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Grapevine Playlist: Mannveira, Vök, Unnsteinn, Oscar Leone & More!
Sit in the sun. Bump some tunes. Have a blast. Mannveira – Í Köldum Faðmi At the origin of every genre lies a raw creative energy that defies translation into rules and norms, but inevitably, even the most extreme genres can become…
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Grapevine Playlist: amiina, Elín Hall, Kælan Mikla, kef LAVÍK & More!
It’s officially summer and we’re ready to sit in the sun, and by sit in the sun, we mean listen to these recently released tracks. Enjoy! Kælan Mikla – Ósýnileg With the solstice only ten days away, the Grapevine vibe is all…
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Grapevine Playlist: BSÍ, Lord Pusswhip, Pale Moon, Blankiflúr & More!
Happy summer! You know what goes great with summer? Music! Also vaccines! Pale Moon – Parachutes Just in time for summer (ok Icelandic summer), Pale Moon has blessed us with what is perhaps the most perfect driving-in-the-sunlight track ever made. Genuinely, if…
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Love, Drugs, Escapism: The Mysterious Cult Of kef LAVÍK
Kef LAVÍK are an unusual band in more ways than one. They’d released three albums—‘Kuldinn er Fínn,’ ‘Lifum Alltaf,’ and ‘Vesæl í Kuldanum’—before they even played their first gig, opening for Vaginaboys in front of 400 people at Harpa in 2016. An…
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Airwaves Tipsters 2018: Geoffrey Skywalker’s Newcomers & Wildcards
A mogul sitting near the top of Partybær, Sticky Records, and Prikið—the beating heart of the local rap scene—Geoff has an eagle eye for what’s new and worth checking out in 101. Here are his Airwaves 2018 picks. Arnar Úlfur Arnar is…
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Straumur: Anderson .Paak-robatics and kef LAVÍK Videodrome
First things first, the Secret Solstice festival that took place in Laugardalur from June 1518 was a monstrous blissful good time for us. The best in show this time was for sure Anderson .Paak, whose swaggering rap antics, ferocious live band funk…
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Straumur: Auto-Tuned Teenage Angst
On the first of April we attended a concert at Húrra by kef LAVÍK: the band has a sense of humour for sure, but the music and performance that night was certainly no joke. The Auto-Tuned teenage angst blaring from the stage…
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Straumur: Drugs, Masculinity And Depression
Kef LAVÍK is the best-kept secret in the Icelandic music scene. They are two guys in their early twenties hailing from Höfn í Hornafirði, way jaded beyond their years, who for the past year or so have churned out three EPs of…
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STRAUMUR: Excursion To The Ambient Underwaterground
Sindri Freyr Steinsson is a jack of many musical trades. He explores surf punk with a theremin twist in the band Bárujárn and is one of the leaders of the golden-era disco outfit Boogie Trouble. But his first solo venture is another…
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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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Straumur: The Voice Of A (de)Generation
The find of February for us was local band kef LAVÍK. Although they didn’t perform at Sónar, they were there in spirit, as a song they produced and performed on was a part of the Vaginaboys show. They sound like a more…