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Grapevine Events: Reykjavík Dance Festival, RAFLOST, Icelandic Language Day
We’re currently in the middle of The Reykjavík Dance Festival! There’s a smattering of different events: graduation shows, a political retelling of Swan Lake, a rave for babies. Our journalist Iryna Zubenko interviewed organisers and dancers behind the festival, which you can…
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Grapevine Events: Concerts, Concerts, Concerts!
It’s Friday! Time to clock out, take a breath, and enjoy all Reykjavík has to offer this weekend. We’ve got a slew of concerts for you down below, so if you’re looking for live music, this weekend is for you. Tonight, Bíó…
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Grapevine Events: Birdhouse Celebration And A Lot Of Good Food
With this warm weather and hot volcano, we thought we’d chill things out by letting you know about some cool events around town (see what we did there?). There’s a new Grapevine on the streets, and we recommend picking one up on…
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Grapevine Events: Happy 22nd Birthday To Us!
Sun’s out, and today’s Grapevine’s 22nd birthday! We’ll be celebrating at our birthday party, but we’ve got some ideas for you if you don’t have weekend plans just yet! If you’ve got a ticket to the Stella í Orlofi (check out Iryna…
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Grapevine Events: Norwegian DJs, A Birthday Party, Fisherman’s Day & More
It’s Friday and, as always, Grapevine’s got your weekend plans covered. Whether you’re looking for art or music, in Reykjavík or outside downtown, we humbly present our recommendations: Opening on Friday and closing on Saturday, Unnar Örn exhibits IN THE RUINS OF…
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Grapevine Events: Concert Series Galore And Some Openings
We just printed a new Grapevine last night, so we’re ready to hit the town and celebrate! Our plan is to check out a concert series, or two. Read more about them below. Then on Saturday, if you’re looking for even more…
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Straumur: East Of My Berlin—Icelandic Synth Stars On The Move
Electro-pop duo East of My Youth have been making international rounds in the past years. In the middle of September they released a brand new song and video. The Berlin-based project is comprised of Thelma Marín Jónsdóttir and Herdís Stefánsdóttir, who earlier…
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Straumur: Poem Thiefs Dancing In The Disco Lights
Grísalappalísa, Iceland’s premier literate new wave band, just put our their first new song in like ages, and threw a concert at Kex Hostel—their first in over a year. It’s good to have them back and ‘Kvæðaþjófurinn’ (Poem Thief), does not disappoint.…
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French Masters Do Distortion Justice
In our last column we wrote about ‘Take Me Down,’ the first single from the upcoming EP ‘Unravel,’ by electronic singer-songwriter Einar Indra. The EP is now out and it is his third release on Möller Records–one of Iceland’s premium electronic labels–…
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Straumur: The Old And The Nu, With Black Pox, Par-Ðar, EinarIndra & More
The rapper Bróðir Big just released his debut LP, ‘Hrátt Hljóð’ (“Raw Sound”), and while there sure is a swelling hip-hop wave in Iceland right now, Bróðir Big sits on shore and watches it. The album is pure 90s golden age hip-hop:…
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Straumur: Anderson .Paak-robatics and kef LAVÍK Videodrome
First things first, the Secret Solstice festival that took place in Laugardalur from June 1518 was a monstrous blissful good time for us. The best in show this time was for sure Anderson .Paak, whose swaggering rap antics, ferocious live band funk…
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Straumur: Juggling Pineapples With Smjörvi
Old favourites Bárujárn, who haven’t been active for quite a few years, returned last week out of the blue with a brand new song and video. Those who’ve read our column before know our affection for their unique brand of surf rock…
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Straumur: More Songs About WD-40 And Djammviskubit
An emerging electronic act with an eccentric name caught our eye recently: two guys who go by the names of Johnny Blaze & Hakki Brakes. They just put out two music videos, and one of the songs is an ode to an…
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Straumur: Mountains Between Mountains
Músíktilraunir, the annual Icelandic Battle of the Bands, was held a couple of weeks ago. The winning band was Between Mountains: an impressive duo comprising two young girls from the Westfjords, Katla Vigdís Vernharðsdóttir (16 years old) and and Ásrós Helga Guðmundsdóttir…
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Straumur: Auto-Tuned Teenage Angst
On the first of April we attended a concert at Húrra by kef LAVÍK: the band has a sense of humour for sure, but the music and performance that night was certainly no joke. The Auto-Tuned teenage angst blaring from the stage…
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Straumur: Autotuned Crooning & Organic Machines
Everybody’s favorite autotune teenage crooner, Aron Can, just released the first single from his debut LP, ‘ÍNÓTT’ (“TONIGHT,” in English), expected to drop later this year. The song “Fullir Vasar” (“Deep Pockets”), is a melancholic banger about romantic love and selling drugs…
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Straumur’s Top 5 Icelandic Albums of 2016
#5 Samaris – ‘Black Lights’ On their third and most mature album Samaris deliver threefold on their early promise as the best post-dubstep Icelandic pop band. Black Lights by Samaris #4 Aron Can – ‘Þekkir stráginn’ The young and talented singer/rapper Aron…
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Straumur: Icelandic Hip-Hop, A Cinematic Journey and Sónar Reykjavík
GKR, the rapper named “artist to watch” at last year’s Grapevine Music Awards, made good on his early promise last month by releasing an eponymous EP, ‘GKR’. The rapper is in his early twenties, and made a name for himself with his…
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Straumur: Tipzy Kings
Mugison, at first an indie darling, then the whole nation’s, just released his first album in five years. On ‘Enjoy!’ he sings in English again and, in a departure from his last album, is a bit more sonically adventurous. There is gentle…
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Straumur: Disco And Not Disco
Earlier this summer we introduced you to the debut album from Andi, who makes delightful retro-sounding instrumental synth pop with nods to synth maestros of the past like Cerrone and Yellow Magic Orchestra. He just released a new song titled “Eltingaleikur” (“Chase,”…
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STRAUMUR: Excursion To The Ambient Underwaterground
Sindri Freyr Steinsson is a jack of many musical trades. He explores surf punk with a theremin twist in the band Bárujárn and is one of the leaders of the golden-era disco outfit Boogie Trouble. But his first solo venture is another…
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Straumur: Life Secretive
A comprehensive overview of the 2016 Secret Solstice experience. Thursday The Good Flatbush Zombies Flatbush Zombies incited a minor riot on the Valhalla Stage. The Brooklyn rap trio tore up the stage with an amazing performance, most of it shirtless. Their music…
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Straumur: Icelanders Abroad
For the first time in the history of this column, the Straumur editorial board went outside of Iceland to mine for material, and we did it just for you, dear reader. We travelled to Barcelona for the gigantic and well-respected Primavera Sound…