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Grapevine New Music Picks: Vök, Ásgeir, and G-Jákvæður
It’s Friday and we hope by now that you know what that means… Fresh new tunes from Iceland’s best! There’s a new song by Vök, Ásgeir is back with a second single, and G-Jákvæður brings you a whole album of, well, hardware…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Vök, Supersport! and Eydís Evensen
New sounds for your ears, spanning electro-alternative, pleasantly shambling indie and delicate neo-classical. All these little beauties—and so many more brought to you by The Grapevine over the past twelve months—are available in our New Music Picks 2021-22 playlist. Vök – “Lose…
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The Grapevine’s New Music Picks: Vök, Hugar and Brynjar Daðason
With that pesky pandemic limiting our ability to go out and see music played live, it’s a good thing that 2022 is starting strong with new releases to see us through yet more domestic confinement. The below musical gems—and so many more…
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Cuddling Cats, Preparing Pancakes and Whittling Wood: Margrét Rán’s Perfect Day
Margrét Rán Magnúsdóttir is most often found fronting Vök, Iceland’s premier purveyors of lucid-dream pop, but she also makes music for films. Margrét Rán’s beautiful, visceral soundscapes underpin A Song Called Hate, the powerful Hatari-Eurovision documentary which recently got its cinematic release.…
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East Iceland: Hearts, Arts, Eats, And East Heat
We stare into the canyon. The glacial river Jökulsá á Brú roars by Stuðlagil, one of Iceland’s largest collections of basalt columns. A dizzying slope, interwoven with precarious foot trails and rope handholds, invites us for a closer view of the river…
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Dancing In The Dark: Vök Turn To Pop
In a small pink, neon-lit basement studio in a remote part of Reykjavík, the members of the band Vök are coiling cords and packing up their gear after shooting a press video. Having just returned from touring in Eastern Europe, multi-instrumentalists Margrét…
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Grapevine Playlist: Hermigervill, sillus, HATARI, Psychoplasmics, ZAKAZ & More
A lot of great music sneaked out over the Christmas period, whilst your eye was off the ball, and on the egg nog. If anyone actually drinks that stuff. We don’t really know. We mostly see it in movies. Hermigervill – II…
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Airwaves Tipsters 2018: Nostalgia, Memes & Melancholy With Cheryl K. Ang
Cheryl K. Ang works at the Iceland Music office, where part of her job is listening to tonnes of new Icelandic music on a daily basis, while munching down matcha Kit Kats. A panellist at our 2018 Grapevine Music Awards, she’s a…
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Music News: Sónar Powers Up, GusGus Return, Vök Tour, Björk BRIT-nomination
Sónar Reykjavík, which takes place March 16-17th, has added a raft of new names to the 2018 lineup. Iconic UK duo Underworld join an impressive lineup that includes Danny Brown, Bjarki, Nadia Rose, Jlin, Lena Willikens and more. Also announced are Lindstrøm,…
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A New Year Begins: Celebrate The Unknown with aYia Tomorrow
2017 is coming to an end, and you may start to wonder: what does 2018 have in store for you? The truth is that no one really knows. A slice of excitement with a dash of anxiety, that’s the beauty of the…
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‘Figure’ Skating: Vök Test The Waters
What does a dream-pop band from Hafnarfjörður do to celebrate the release of their new album? “We went rollerblading!” says Einar Stef, the drummer and newest member of Vök, whose LP ‘Figure’ was released on April 28. “It was our day off…
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Grapevine Playlist: Sóley, Áttan, Jónsi, Black Pox, Milkywhale & More
Here’s a choice selection of the latest Icelandic tracks that we’ve been making available offline on Spotify, hearting on Soundcloud, and thumbs-upping on YouTube. Birnir – EKKI SWITCHA The hype surrounding rapper Birnir can only be compared to that which surrounded now…
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Dark and Brooding: Vök To Release Debut Album
Critically acclaimed electronic pop band Vök is to release their debut album, ‘Figure’ on April 28. Having won the Icelandic rising talent contest Músíktilrauir, their album, three years in the making, has been widely anticipated. ‘Figure’, which was written in the band’s…
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Airwaves Announce Warpaint, Liima, The Sonics, Delores Haze & More
Airwaves have added some new names to the 2016 festival lineup. As well as the already-announced PJ Harvey, Julia Holter, múm and Kronos Quartet, they’ve added seminal US garage-rock band The Sonics, moody indie-rock quartet Warpaint, Efterklang’s electronic project Liima, electro-Swedes Dolores…
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Vök Release Video, Announce Kex Show
Moody pop trio Vök have unveiled the video for their new single, “Waiting.” The video, which is inspired by Iceland’s nature and features some “greatest hits” like Reynisfjara and the Blue Lagoon, was directed by Glashier, who had this to say of…
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Sónar Unveil More Exciting Lineup Additions
With the 2016 Sonar festival only four weeks away, the festival has released the final additions to the festival lineup. If you’ve been reading about our 2016 music awards in the new issue, you’ll be pleased to see Tonik added the lineup.…
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Airwaves & Chill: This Year’s Best Sex Music
Some artists, like James Blake and the Weeknd, are especially appreciated for their abilities to enhance (or maybe even initiate) some good sexy time with your favourite sexy person. These two each have radically distinct sounds from each other, but have a…
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Happening Tonight: Dream Wife / Vök / Panos From Komodo, At Húrra
Headlining the night will be the Brighton-based ultra-feminine chicks of Dream Wife, a group that kind of says it all in the name. Self-described as “poolside pop with a bite,” these ladies are cheeky and fun, with a punchy sound and no…
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Hey, There’s A New Vök Track, Did You Hear It? The Video Has Pupils Galore
OK check this out. We got emailed a link to a new Vök track. It’s called If I Was. Stop, look, listen: That sounds pretty good, right? The singer sometimes sounds like her out of The Knife (this is a good thing), and…
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Hold On To Your Visa Cards… Björk Is Playing Airwaves
Björk has been announced to play at Iceland Airwaves 2015. If that’s all you need to know to go and buy a ticket, then yep, cool, we feel you. You can do that here. We’ll wait for you. No, really, it’s no…
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Matt’s Fave Airwaves 2014 Shots
That Matthew Eisman sure was busy during Iceland Airwaves. In addition to shooting an absurd number of band portraits at our Hafnarstræti office throughout the festival, Matthew was also on staff with Iceland Airwaves, responsible for capturing live shows every night. He sent us an assortment…
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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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Saturday Night Live
SÓLEY At first glance, one would not think Sóley is a very tough person. For her set at Gamla Bíó on Saturday evening, she wore loosely tied pearls, frumpy glasses and her hair tied up in a bun. She looked, frankly, like…