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Fancies: Skaði Þórðardóttir
Fancies is a Grapevine series where we highlight an individual with supreme style. Our latest subject is Skaði Þórðardóttir (44), an artist. today’s look Skaði Þórðardóttir is wearing: Sweater from Aftur Legwarmers from Pole Sport Shoes from Kjólar & Konfekt Unknown tights…
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Grapevine Playlist: Auður, Birgir, Skaði, Singapore Sling & More
What’s new in Icelandic Music you ask? Many, many things. Singapore Sling – Suicide Twist Take some classic 80s goth vocals, add a drum machine and some grunge guitars and wham, bam, a wild Singapore Sling appears. ‘Suicide Twist,’ the first single…
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Perfect Day: Face Of The Downtown Scene Skaði Gives Us The Scoop
For Skaði Þórðardóttir, an Icelandic music producer and performer, a perfect day is between 10-15ºC in Autumn, a season that symbolizes new beginnings for Skaði. This is how she’d spend her perfect day. First thing in the morning I would wake up…
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Hatari, Skaði & Tara Mobee Amongst Contestants To Represent Iceland At Eurovision
As you may have noticed, the Eurovision Song Contest is kind of a phenomenon in Iceland. Alongside supporting the occasionally semi-successful Icelandic handball and football teams, each year—without fail—Eurovision evokes a heightened nationalistic fervour. Over 98% of Iceland’s TV audience watched the…
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Where Nobody Gives A Fuck & Everybody Cares: Skaði’s Colourfully Goth World
Skaði Þórðardóttir emits a golden aura. She’s positive, open, and friendly—the type of girl you want to share secrets with at a sleepover. Her music is equally alluring. Layering goth drum loops with eerie synths and soothing vocal harmonies, Skaði creates music…
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What’s New & Who’s Who At Airwaves, #7: Acid, Phlegm, Xanax
Airwaves is almost here, so it’s homework time. It’s time for part seven of our monolithic guide to 48 local bands playing the festival for the first time in 2017. Plúsvídd Formed of Xylic & Daveeth, Plúsvidd makes melodic, spacious, fun electronic…
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Sincere Punk-Drag: Skaði Turns Her Gender Into A Mythological Music Being
“My art has a lot of sexual energy,” says Skaði, the music producer and performer known for her punk-electro drag performances. “I see drag culture as a way to perform as a sexual being, like expressing an orgasm. I let it flow…
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Beer Connoisseur’s Guide To Icelandic Beer
You have probably read somewhere that Icelandic authorities banned beer for very, very many years, until 1989. But true freedom of beer did not really begin until 2005, when Iceland’s first craft brewery was established on a remote farm in North Iceland.…