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Now And Then: Reclaiming A Music Venue
A building that has been a school, a ballroom, a store and a live venue This house, standing by Austurvöllur, downtown Reykjavík, has, like many a house there, served multiple purposes in the past. It was built for Thora and Páll Melsted…
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Iceland Space Agency To Host NASA’s Deleted Women Astronaut Comics
NASA has removed two comic books about women astronauts from all of its websites. The removal seems to be part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to purge what it deems “DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) content from federal agencies.…
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KÁRI Plays His Debut Album Release Show in Reykjavík
Icelandic musician KÁRI (Kári Egillson) held a release show for his debut album Palm Trees in the Snow on May 11. Grapevine first discovered KÁRI about seven months ago and has since been closely following the young musician’s career. So far in…
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Icelandic Astrophysicist Awarded In US
Icelandic astrophysicist Guðmundur Kári Stefánsson has been recognised in the United States for his work in helping develop a new technology that allows for more accurate measurements of distant planets from the ground, reports Vísir. Awarded for doctoral work The Pacific Astronomical…
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NASA Captures The Eruption With The LANDSAT-8 Satellite
Yesterday, the LANDSAT-8 satellite orbited over Iceland and captured pictures of the eruption at Geldingadalur with its high tech camera. The natural history group at the University of Iceland published the new photos on their Facebook page. The photos taken from the…
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Halldór Eldjárn: Finding Stillness In This Hectic World
Eldjárn—the Icelandic word for “fireiron”—suggests a sort of burning rage, but Halldór Eldjárn evokes anything but. Taking a seat at the Grapevine office, the computer scientist-cum-musician, calm and centered, carefully observes his surroundings. Halldór just dropped his solo album ‘Poco Apollo’ in…
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NASA Starts Simulations In Iceland In Preparation For Journey To Mars
A group of scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has just launched a new project in Iceland in preparation for a future journey to Mars, Vísir reports. NASA, in fact, plans on sending men to Mars and the Moon…
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PHOTOS: NASA Torn Down, Will Be Reborn Soon
Reykjavík’s legendary night club is officially being torn down, but it will be reborn – two stories underground – at the same location. NASA has long been a fixture in Reykjavík’s nightlife. This venue has hosted many big name acts, has featured…
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Northern Light Explosion Lighting Up The Sky Tomorrow
Tomorrow, does it really come? The answer is most likely, but what is definite, is that as day turns to night a massive, stunningly beautiful coronal mass ejection, or a halo CME, will bombard Earth. CMEs begin as colossal explosions on the…
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Meet The Venues Of Iceland Airwaves 2016
Iceland Airwaves is, by and large, located in downtown Reykjavík. For first-timers, part of the fun whirlwind of the festival comes from discovering the variety of venues on offer, whether it’s wandering into a quaint wooden-floored music hall, marvelling at a high-ceilinged…
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Legendary Reykjavík Venue To Re-Open This Summer
NASA, the boarded-up concert hall on Austurvöllur square, is a legendary venue. It was once a firm favourite amongst Icelanders—generations of whom had school dances there—and foreigners, who got their first taste of Airwaves party chaos within its hallowed walls. Its 2012…
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Prime Minister’s Wife NOT Planning Trip To Space
The Prime Minister’s wife, Anna Sigurlaug Pálsdóttir, usually refered to as Anna Stella, loves being away from Iceland, both physically and financially. While the nation is discussing her court-pressured-inheritance’s long-term holiday in the British Virgin Islands, the Daily Mail reports Anna Stella…
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Icelandic Highlands Help In Mars Research
NASA has found Iceland’s Highlands similar enough to Mars to warrant conducting research here to learn more about the planet. A recent conference at Harpa on the preservation of the Highlands had amongst its guests vulcanologist Dr. Christopher Hamilton, RÚV reports. Apart…
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Learning To Love The Icelandic Rap Sheet
Icelandic rappers had been dotting my Spotify for some time, but until Airwaves 2015, I didn’t get what a socialist-leaning, generally-doing-alright country could rap about. But before you grab your rosaries or voodoo dolls or whatever, know that I’m a changed woman now.…
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IN PICTURES: QT, Reykjavíkurdætur, Lára, sóley @ Airwaves Day 4
Our boy Art Bicnick was all over the place at Iceland Airwaves this past Saturday night, doing his very best to capture the action so that we may relive it in perpetuity! Look!
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YAMAHO’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
Kött grá pje at 15:00 at Hlemmur Square: A rapper with long hair… Need I say more? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgRv7XWJnZs Dr Gunni at 16:00 at Kaffihús Vesterbæjar or at 20:50 at Gamla Bíó: A man that writes a song about farts is not a…
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Airwaves Day One: Terror In The Chest, Taking It In The Ass & Unexpected Horse Dick
So I’m just back from a four day trip around the south of Iceland, when I wake up from a deep ten-hour sleep, aching head to toe from walking and hiking and being in a car for a long period of time.…
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DJ Introbeats Offers A Warm-Up Mix For Airwaves
Introbeats is a constant presence on the Reykjavík music scene. Whether DJing in Prikið and Kaffibarinn, producing his own tracks a mixes, or scratching with Icelandic rap acts, he’s a very familiar face to anyone who spends time in 101 — especially…
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It’s Planny-Plan Time! Airwaves Release Schedule!
Iceland Airwaves today released the schedule for the 2015 festival, prompting a ripple of anticipation amongst ticket-holders. To the uninitiated, a music festival releasing its schedule might not seem like such a big deal. But for Airwaves veterans: it just is. People…
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Potential Closure Of Downtown’s Music Venues: It’s About More Than Music
It’s Faktorý all over again. The buildings that house downtown’s booming music scene—venues like Húrra, Gaukurinn, Paloma and Dubliner—will likely be renovated into “tourism-related businesses.” The news is reminiscent to the sad fate of Faktorý, a popular Reykjavík music venue that was…
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Nasa To Open Again
Famed nightclub Nasa has come out of limbo and will open again soon. Vísir reports that the club is to be taken under the wing of local celebrity Ásgeir Kolbeinsson, well known to Reykjavík residents as almost iconic of the city’s nightclub…
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So Much For Spring, Iceland!
Satellite pictures courtesy of NASA show that April is no guarantee of spring in Iceland and that in fact the weather is comparable to last April, which also sucked. The University of Iceland’s Earth Science Institute posted two satellite images of Iceland…
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NASA Saved! Sort Of
Iceland’s Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, has decreed that the hall inside former Icelandic club and community centre, NASA, is to be protected as a cultural heritage site, reports Vísir. NASA was shut down in 2012 to make way for a hotel…