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The Reykjavik Poet Par-Excellence: Megas Talks About Music, Drugs, Björk, Toyota, Armageddon and the Afterlife
The first time I interviewed Megas was during my first summer as editor of the new paper Reykjavik Grapevine 15 years ago. I had never before been so nervous before an interview. After all, the man was a living legend and a…
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The Grapevine GrapeWaves 2017 Festival Super Preview, Part One
Airwaves is upon us! The off-venues are running, the stages are warming up, and it’s time to download the festival app and start organising your life for the next five days. Grapevine will, of course, be there in force—we have ten writers…
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Welcome To The Old Skool: Icelandic Legends To Play Airwaves
Airwaves. That time of year when annoying youngsters fill the streets with their unbridled joy, loudness and new-fangled music (this magazine is infested with it: check pages 22-33). But for people who prefer their rock stars to be over 50, and preferably…
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Music News: Final Airwaves Lineup + Kiasmos, Grísalappalísa & Björk Return
One of Iceland’s best live acts, the furiously energetic punk-poetry collective Grísalappalísa, has returned. They dropped a new video last week, premiered at grapevine.is and directed by the band’s drummer, Sigurður Möller Sívertsen. The song is called ‘Kvæðaþjófurinn,’ and it’s the band’s…
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VIDEO PREMIERE: Grísalappalísa—Sambýlismannablús
Hey everyone! Our dear friends from Grísalappalísa have just released a new video, and it is glorious. Not in a fireworks-and-Northern-Lights kind of way, no, these guys are way too cool for such stunts—instead this new video is, for all intents and…
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Matt’s Fave Airwaves 2014 Shots
That Matthew Eisman sure was busy during Iceland Airwaves. In addition to shooting an absurd number of band portraits at our Hafnarstræti office throughout the festival, Matthew was also on staff with Iceland Airwaves, responsible for capturing live shows every night. He sent us an assortment…
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Grísalappalísa: Get Behind Me, Stuðmenn!
Winners of the ‘BEST LIVE BAND’ category of our second annual music awards, Grísalappalísa, just unleashed a cover of a tune by Stuðmenn – Iceland’s favourite pop band. The song in question, “Strax í dag,” is goddamn great, and seeing how they…
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Megas, stay home; the new kids are in town
And where were you? Huddled inside NASA waiting for the tUnE-yArDs show? Sucker. This was officially the best-show-you-missed.
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A Long-Ass Note On Our Xmas Covers + Some Bile
What a Christmas party, eh? The legendary Megas hanging out and smoking cigarettes with the likely soon-to-be legendary Bragi Valdimar Skúlason and Logi Pedro Stefánsson. We bet you’d love to be there, exchanging one-liners and Xmas cheer with these merry men. In…