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Opening Tonight: Berlin X Reykjavík
The second edition of the Berlin X Reykjavík Festival presents jazz and electronic music from the German and Icelandic scenes. Various artists will perform in both capital cities in late January, with artists like M-Band, Sísý Ey, Berndsen, dj. flugvél og geimskip,…
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A Space Of Colour: Tonik Ensemble On Making The Album Of 2015
Sometimes, “dance music” goes beyond its implied mission of moving people’s feet, and moves them in other ways, too. Grapevine’s album of the year 2015—Tonik Ensemble’s ’Snapshots’—does just that. An educated, simmering take on house-techno-pop, it’s a lush production of cello, saxophone…
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Innipúkinn: Inner Demons And Outdoor Fan Service
With twenty-seven acts performing over the course of three nights in two venues, it was assured that you couldn’t see everything at Innipúkinn, even though you might want to. Since the rest of the city seemed hell-bent on getting out—barbecuing, communing with…
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VIDEO: A Fishing Nation
Grapevine’s resident videographer Timothée Lambrecq and his brother Camille took a road trip to Ísafjörður recently, hoping to make a film about the day to day lives of Iceland’s fishermen. The two went down to the docks in Bolungarvík at 5:30am, where…
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PHOTOS: Innipúkinn 2015, In Pictures
Last weekend, we had a blast at Reykjavík’s only Merchant’s Weekend festival, Innipúkinn. We’ll be posting some reviews and other coverage-type stuff soon enough, but while you wait, feast your eyes on these photos from the wonderful Timothée Lambrecq. It was a blast.
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Yes, We Will Be Your Iceland Airwaves 2015 HQ!
With Iceland Airwaves 2015 already looking all sorts of amazing, with artists like Ariel Pink, Björk, GusGus, Pink Street Boys, M-Band and Sóley set to perform, we are happy to announce that The Reykjavík Grapevine will once again serve as your main source of…
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London: Good Moon Deer and M-Band Conquer A Pretentious Shoreditch Venue
Old Blue Last, in the middle of prennial London hipster-haven Shoreditch, makes for an interesting music venue. On one hand, the Vice Media operated club is small and frequently packed to the point of discomfort with the sort of folk you might…
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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…
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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…
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Hear M-Band’s Sónar Picks
After Sigga of Sísy Éy told us her five most-wanted acts on the Sónar Reykjavík lineup, here are the next five. Below are some bands that our album-of-2014 winner M-Band, aka Hörður Már Bjarnason, will be losing his pants to. Says he:…
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Holy Shit We’re Throwing You A Sónar Warmup Party!
Whoa, Sónar Reykjavík is just about to start. And as you might have noticed, we are more than a little excited. Just how excited are we? Well, we’ve been covering the event a whole bunch, with interviews and guides and such (and…
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Straumur’s Best Of 2014!
We at Straumur wish all you readers a happy new year, and hope 2015 will be a blast for all of us. But, before we dive head-on into the New Year, it’s time to reflect on what just happened. Behold, our absolute…
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What? An Airwaves ’15 Announcement Already? Okay!
Hey you! Stop drinking that honey & lemon flu drink and pause your Friends marathon for the next one minute and ten seconds. Because even though it’s January and Airwaves ’14 feels like it just finished, the festival has already announced the…
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Full Sónar Lineup Unveiled, Including 27 More Icelandic Acts
The 2015 Sónar festival has revealed the final 27 names for their 2015 lineup. All of them are from the home team, representing a diverse range of Iceland’s brightest talents. So in addition to the “HERE COMES THE DROP” bass wibbles of…
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Behold! The Reykjavík Grapevine’s Third Annual Music Awards!
The following is true: We at The Reykjavík Grapevine really like music. You could say we love it. We love music. Every goddamn person involved in this publication lives and breathes music every hour of every day. Every hour. It’s true. As…
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Kraumur Music Awards Announce Shortlist
It’s that time of year again, when the snow is on the ground, and everybody is getting very very listy. Kids are writing lists to Santa (or that evil child-chewing ogress or whatever the hell it is you write to here in…
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Matt’s Fave LOOK! Portraits
This was my fourth year covering Airwaves, and although it’s crazy every year, this was probably my busiest yet. It was my first time as a member of the official Airwaves photo team. It was a pleasure working with a crack team…
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LOOK: It’s M-Band!
M-Band is Hörður Már Bjarnason, also sometimes seen performing with Tonik Ensemble and Nolo. He is one of the chosen Eurosonic acts announced by IMX today – read about that here. “I’m playing five shows with Tonik and as M-Band. The Eurosonic…
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No Usual Suspects
Árstíðir dj flugvél og geimskip Fufanu Júníus Meyvant Kaleo Kiasmos Low Roar M-Band Óbó Rökkurró Samaris Skálmöld Sóley Sólstafir Tonik Ensemble Vök Ylja Young Karin These are the eighteen Icelandic artists and bands confirmed for Eurosonic 2015, the Dutch ‘festival of…
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Seven New Projects To Catch This Airwaves
Each Iceland Airwaves festival features a gobsmackingly large number of bands, and this year is no exception with 220 in the lineup. It’s not everyone and their grandmothers playing, mind you. Festival organisers have put a lot of energy into vetting the…
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40 More Acts Announced For Iceland Airwaves
After the big reveal of The Knife’s Iceland Airwaves performance last week, the festival has released 40 new additions for the 2014 edition. The announcement includes a fine selection of local artists, including Grapevine’s band of the year Sin Fang, the Ólafur…
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M-Band – Haust
Hörður Már Bjarnason’s solo album ‘Haust’ (or “Autumn”), under his band name M-Band, at times seems to emulate the styles of more seasoned electronic musicians a little too closely, but ends up offering plenty of fresh sounds as well. GusGus is an…
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Straumur: Best Of Music
Best album: GusGus’s ‘Mexico’ The greats of Icelandic dance music, GusGus, have yet to slip up in their almost two decade long career and they certainly don’t do so on their latest album, ‘Mexico.’ They continue to explore the sonic terrain of…