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Music Reviews: BKPM, RAKEL, Alaska1867 and Birnir
Grapevine is hot off the press, and so are these single reviews! Check out musician, and now Grapevine contributor, Sævar Andri Sigurðarson’s reviews of these three songs below. “Vínarborg” by BKPM Single — July 22 Experimental post-punk group BKPM have been hard at…
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Icelandic Composer Anna Þorvaldsdóttir Impresses New York
Icelandic composer Anna Þorvaldsdóttir recently performed her latest work, ‘Metacosmos’, in New York, receiving rave reviews from major American newspapers as “an orchestral odyssey through chaos and beauty.” A graduate of the University of California, Anna was named Kravis Emerging Composer by…
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PHOTOS: Moses Hightower Soothes The Crowd At Húrra
The only certain way to unwind after the holidays was to catch Moses Hightower performing at Húrra on the first post X-mas workday, December 29. Known for their skilful playing, soothing voices and advanced compositions, they sure knew how to finish 2015 off…
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Secret Solstice Friday RECAP: Hashtag Problem, Hashtag Zzz, And Not A Chance In Hel
The Secret Solstice music festival breaks fresh ground in Icelandic history in two ways. For starters, it is the first annual international outdoor music festival in Iceland’s history. Secondly, it features the largest selection of international hip hop and electronic talent I’ve…
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Svartidauði Conjure An Aphotic Ritual At Dillon
Enveloping darkness engulfed the upper half of Dillon last night as Svartidauði cast their bestial bloodlust upon a full crowd, eager to have their ears inexorably maimed by four demons sent upwards through the crusts of hell to act as Satan’s median…
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The Absolutely, Unquestionably, Very Best Of Airwaves 2013!
We did it again (oops). We did it again. It was a tough one, what with the one hundred thousand bands each playing three shows per night for fifteen consecutive nights at eight thousand venues spread throughout the gargantuan Reykjavík metropolis area…
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Book Review: The Travels Of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson
On a summer day in 1627, pirates landed on Heimaey, the largest of the Westmann Islands. They swarmed over the island’s farms and houses, killed thirty-four of its residents and forced 242 men, women, and children onto their ships. They sailed with…