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Sigur Rós To Play David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday
Sigur Rós are among the musical acts performing at Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday celebration, slated May 8. In honour of the natural historian’s centenary, Royal Albert Hall will play host to the festivities. Sigur Rós is claimed to perform “Hoppipolla”, which…
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Gyða Valtýsdóttir’s Mother Pearl Is A Testimony To Life
Beauty Through Abrasion Múm member, Nordic Council Music Prize Winner, and tour-de-force composer Gyða Valtýsdóttir released her latest album Mother Pearl on March 20. Drawing on philosophical inspiration, Mother Pearl is possibly Gyða’s most personal work yet, enveloped by an artful take…
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Teenage Kicks And Funky Licks
Prog-folk trio Falinn Gjóður wins the cumbersome Músíktilraunir As spring rolls around, nothing encapsulates the turn of the Icelandic music season as well as Músíktilraunir. Since the 1980s, the perennial battle-of-the-bands style competition has been platforming musically inclined adolescents and slingshotted some…
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Kaleo To Play Þingvellir National Park June 20
The Mosfellsbær blues band Kaleo is set to play a concert in Þingvellir National Park next summer. The Þingvellir Committee and Kaleo’s representatives signed a contract allowing for a 20.000 guest capacity for the band’s show on June 20, RÚV reports. An…
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Almost Half Of Icelanders Play Music For Leisure
New data compiled by Statistics Iceland shed light on the Icelandic population’s music habits. Conducted in 2023 as part of its Media and Culture Barometer, the findings demonstrate the role of music in people’s daily lives. According to the findings, music plays…
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Welcome to Hermigervill’s Record Corner
The many pitfalls of the streaming era for Icelandic music buffs Towards the end of December, 2023, I found myself at 12 Tónar on a Thursday — a reliably good night to be there. A tenet of the Reykjavík music scene, the…
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From Biennale To Vinyl: Styrmir Lays Performance Art Down On Wax
Most of us at some point have taken pause to ask ourselves “What am I doing with my life?” For Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson—artist name simply Styrmir—this question came to him during a fateful walk through a Riga cemetery and became the title…
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Grapevine Live Blog: ATP Iceland – Saturday!
It’s the end… the Bitter End! 14:00 – Media Hotel – Bob Cluness (BC) It’s 2pm and at the hotel, things are muffled and a little subdued. Last night, beer was brought back and there was a small party so several of…