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President Guðni Jóhannesson Honorary Guest At Wacken Open Air Festival
President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson leaves for Germany tomorrow, August 4, where he will attend the metal festival Wacken Open Air. Guðni is attending as a guest of honour. Wacken Open Air started on August 2 and runs until August 5. Four Icelandic…
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Grapevine Playlist: Jónsi, Sólstafir, The Post Performance Blues Band & More!
Stuck on what to listen to? Here are some of our favourite songs of the past month. Jónsi & Robyn – Salt Licorice “Salt Licorice” is an aggressive take on ballroom house, with a thumping beat contrasted by eerie vocals. In it,…
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Life In Pictures: Head Banging, Heavy Music And Beer Yoga
Each year in mid-July around 2000 fans of the metal, rock and indie music scene find their way to the small town of Neskaupstaður at the end of road 92 in the east of Iceland. The Eistnaflug festival has grown over the…
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Music News: Ambitious Tours, Reykjavík Jazz Festival, Bjarki Going Strong, Busy FALK & More
Three Icelandic acts are embarking on ambitious tours this year. First, mom-folk strummer Axel Flovent is heading out on a European tour in Nov-Dec. Second, with one member fresh from playing on Björk’s ‘Utopia’ tour, Hugar are embarking on a tour of…
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Music News: Night + Day Festival, Iceland Airwaves & Solstafir
The big music news this week was the cancellation of the inaugural Night + Day festival, which was to be curated by The xx and held in the area around the Skógafoss waterfall on the South Coast. The festival raised eyebrows in…
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Happening Tonight: Rokkjötnar
The semi-annual Rokkjötnar festival has had a tough time of 2015. Earlier in the year, the festival booked a line-up of badass bands and announced a much-talked-about show for September 5. Unfortunately, they had to cancel the whole shebang when headliners Mastodon…
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No Usual Suspects
Árstíðir dj flugvél og geimskip Fufanu Júníus Meyvant Kaleo Kiasmos Low Roar M-Band Óbó Rökkurró Samaris Skálmöld Sóley Sólstafir Tonik Ensemble Vök Ylja Young Karin These are the eighteen Icelandic artists and bands confirmed for Eurosonic 2015, the Dutch ‘festival of…
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Muck Me, I’m Glad We Metz
The lovely Torontonians made sure to shred, rip, tear and murder everything they could in the most efficient manner imaginable with the time allotted to them. And like true Canadians, they politely bade the attendees “a great night” and to “take care”…
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Grapevine Talks To… Sólstafir!
We asked each band in this video interview series to pick a location that seemed personal or special to them in some way. Some chose their own homes, some their favourite bars or cafes; a practice room or much-loved record shop perhaps.…
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Harpa’s Metal Night: Considerable Damage To Structures
For your review-reading accompaniment: field audio recording of the wind storm currently unleashing holy hell on this wee island nation. From the darkened gates of waning gloom, we were summoned. From the wind-frozen terrorface of a Greenlandic glacial shitstorm,* we were summoned.…