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Time Seems Long Until You’ve Lived It
Childhood friends ponder time on their debut EP Fluid Time With more than four decades’ worth of creative experience, musicians Birgir Mogensen and Sigtryggur Baldursson imbue their childhood influences into their newest project, Paddan, releasing their debut EP Fluid Time on May…
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Holy Shit! It’s The 2023 Grapevine Music Awards!
What will 2022 be remembered for? If 2020-2021 were “the lost years,” where artists went insular and mused on solitude and resilience, then 2022, in comparison, was the year of fresh starts; a cautious but joyful movement towards normality. Larger-scale live events…
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Iceland Airwaves: The Unheard Festival
The pandemic silencing of Iceland Airwaves—for the second year running—has led to claims that the government isn’t listening to live music. In the first week of November, Reykjavík will be a lot quieter than it should be. Iceland Airwaves— arguably the nation’s…
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Kalifornía Dreaming: Icelandic Music Goes To LA
“Welcome to Iceland. Don’t like the weather? Wait fifteen minutes.” So goes the clichéd joke about Iceland’s capricious meteorological tendencies—windy and wet one moment, sunny and still the next, but never comfortable enough for shorts. As a spring storm snowed, sleeted, and…
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Iceland On The Brain: 1200 Years Of Tourism
Everyone knows that Ingólfur Arnarson (that chap with the spear thing on the hill overlooking the city centre) was Iceland’s first settler. But, he was not the first person to set foot upon it. A few years before the settlement, which is…
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The Struggle for New Iceland
by Valur Gunnarsson TAKE 1: The Vikings Relations between North Americans and Icelanders did not get off to an auspicious start. The Icelanders came upon nine Native North Americans hiding beneath skin boats. Eight were executed, one escaped. According to Greenlander´s Saga,…