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Demonic Agoraphobia At Austurbæjarbíó
Here’s a rundown of Reykjavík’s biggest Versló affair Twenty-three artists, three days, two stages, one new venue: this is the 2025 Innipúkinn. In this year’s iteration, indoor demons will take refuge in Austurbæjarbíó. Back in 2014, a Grapevine writer previewing the event…
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Kraumur Music Award Winners Announced
The winners of the annual Kraumur Music Awards were announced on December 12. The aim of the annual award is to promote and support album releases among Icelandic artists and bands. Since their inception in 2008, approximately 90 artists have been awarded. …
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Iryna’s Saturday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: “Do Not Beg, Do Not Bow, Do Not Curtsy!”
Every year I think about the need to build up my festival stamina, the same way people train for ultramarathons — increase the distance you can run slowly but steadily, do a longer run every now and then, shop for the right…
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Ish’s Saturday Night Iceland Airwaves Diary: A Successful Grapewaves, A Successful Airwaves
My Airwaves day starts earlier today, taking in all the sounds of Grapewaves from start to finish. First up is BKPM, who play post-punk while adorned in construction vests. Their raucous sound instantly draws a crowd and toddlers stand with their…
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Grapevine New Music: Árný Margrét, Floni, Virgin Orchestra & More
There’s an e.coli outbreak among preschoolers, Bjarni Ben is saying racist shit, Iceland reached its highest-ever murder count, and the world is burning: are you sure this is the future our grandparents worked for? We can at least console ourselves with the…
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Grapevine New Music: Una Schram, Young Nazareth, Emilíana Torrini & More
Passersby near Reykjavík’s harbour dock might have noticed a slight change to the scenery in the last week. A giant Ferris wheel seems to have sprung up seemingly overnight. Seeing as views across the bay have been more or less obscured by…
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66 Degrees of Sound: Artist Spotlight — SiGRÚN
There’s never a dull moment at GV HQ studios and this week is no exception! Coming in frazzled from a long weekend, we arrived to find our mixer had vanished and we had to improvise. Luckily we are punk-ethos musicians so we…
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66 Degrees of Sound: Saturday Morning Mix #2 — Monday Mix-Up Edition
Oh no we messed up! “We” being Rex’s internet in their new place, as moving and technology didn’t go hand in hand. Wish we could blame Mercury-in-Gatorade for it but it wasn’t even there. So last week’s Saturday Morning Mix comes to…
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Grapevine New Music: Teitur Magnússon, Logi Pedro, Cyber & More
Somebody told me that you had a girlfriend that looked like a boyfriend, who never wanted to miss out on the recent music releases happening in Iceland. A Killer(s) reference, eh? Well, that certain someone is in great luck, as we’ve got…
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Grapevine Events: Tae Woong, SiGRÚN, and Mamma Mia!
I’m Tae Woong July 28th at 20:30 – Mengi – 2.500 kr. All the way from South Korea, Tae Woong finds himself on this rock with probably a very negative image of Icelandic summer. Thankfully there is Mengi with their diverse programming…
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New Icelandic Music: Countess Malaise, SiGRÚN, sideproject ++
Like waking up with nine extra arms that have been tidying up your house and doing your taxes while you were asleep, here are the nine new tracks from the Icelandic music scene that caught our attention—for better, or for worse—this month.…
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Electric Dreams: Sónar Reykjavík’s Emotional, Rhythmic Dance Music
Fam, Sónar season is soon upon us. Sónar Reykjavík is the annual three days of music, creativity and technology that brings together local and foreign lovers of beat-driven, dreamy, danceable and in any way technological music. The nuanced, while simultaneously offbeat approach…
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Secretly Satanic: SMIT Records Explores The Frontiers Of Experimental Music
“It’s about infecting people with satanic music,” says Héðinn Finnsson, in a quiet, deadpan voice, with a neat grid of monochrome 7” records on the table in front of him. An almost inaudibly shy presence, he’s explaining the name of SMIT Records,…
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Airwaves Tipsters 2018: Samantha Shay Recommends SiGRÚN, sóley, JFDR & More
Samantha Shay is a multi-disciplinary artist, among other things, who’s been making waves since she arrived in Iceland from the U.S. a couple of years ago. Here are her picks from the festival lineup. SiGRÚN I saw her play at R6013 last…
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Grapevine Playlist: aYia, SiGRÚN, GYDA, Emilíana Torrini, Júníus Meyvant, PORT & More
Like the beautiful geysir exploding hot, stinky earth water all over a group of damp, blissed-out lookers-on, here are the latest steaming exhalations from Iceland’s sulphurous music scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4TzcQusPSY&feature=youtu.be aYia – Sparkle A breakthrough project of recent years, the video for aYia’s…
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It’s Her World: SiGRÚN Prepares To Unleash Debut Album ‘Onælan’
Solo artist SiGRÚN—aka Sigrún Jónsdóttir—is a fascinating presence on the Icelandic music scene. She first appeared in 2016 with the ‘Hringsjá’ EP after an early career spent as a touring musician with Björk, Sigur Rós and Florence and the Machine. “It’s been…
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Artist Playlist: Acid, Berghain And CGI Vaporwave With Hermigervill
Hermigervill is Sveinbjörn Thorarinsson, an accomplished electronic musician, performer, producer, and ever-present Reykjavík scene mainstay. With some exciting new music coming down the pipes, we asked him to share a playlist of some of his favourite Icelandic tracks. Chevron – It’s All…
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Total Wildness: Peaches And Dan Deacon Ignite Norður Og Niður
After a quiet and thoughtful start, Norður Og Niður festival turned the fun up to eleven for a spectacular, invigorating, wildly diverse Friday night party. Here’s what went down. The Many Routes To Euphoria Words: John Rogers The lineup of Norður Og…
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Don’t Get Lost At Norður og Niður: Grapevine’s Festival Picks
With 46 fascinating artists already announced for the inaugural Norður og Niður music festival, and more to come, we thought we’d offer you a few choice picks from the lineup. Here are a handful of artists you should firmly ring on the…
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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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SiGRÚN’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Sigrún Jónsdóttir is a musician and composer. After touring the world in the bands of Björk, Sigur rós and Florence and the Machine, last year she released two EPs that she’s since performed live at festivals such as Sónar Reykjavík and Iceland…
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Life In Music: Sóley’s Top 8 Albums
Sóley Stafansdóttir performs music as sóley. She first rose to prominence as a member of Sin Fang, but has since blossomed into one of Iceland’s premier singer-songwriters. Her new album, ‘Endless Summer’, comes out via Morr Music in May. This is such…
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After Tours With Björk And Sigur Rós, SiGRÚN Goes Solo
SiGRÚN’s first EP, ‘Hringsjá’, judders into life with a couple of blasts of bassy distortion. It quickly dissolves into washes of wordless vocal harmonies before evolving again into a shattered, powerful rhythm. It’s devoutly experimental, bringing to mind a DIY version of…