Bringing The Breakbeat To Book
It’s a Wednesday afternoon and I’m passing the time at Prikið while waiting for Karl “Kalli” Tryggvason, DJ and member of drum and bass collective Breakbeat.is, to appear.
Megas og Strengir: Aðför að lögum
An Icelandic legend, a veritable local Bob Dylan/Tom Waits/eccentric troubadour, Megas is a staple of many Icelandic homes; I am certainly not alone in having been raised with the
Rainbow Reykjavík
Reykjavík will become a multi-coloured explosion of joy and happiness as it celebrates Rainbow Reykjavík on the weekend of 16-19 February! Rainbow Reykjavík is Iceland’s I
A Peek At Dark Music Days 2012
Le Desordre, C’est Moi Thursday, January 26 at Harpa, Eldborg Hall Conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO) Ilan Volkov stated in a recent interview with The Grapevi
Daníel Bjarnason/Ben Frost: Sólaris
SÓLARIS is inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s book of the same name and the subsequent film by Tarkovsky. Its initial performance also featured electronic manipulation of the film
Tribute To ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’ Video Competition
Calling all musicians, Dr Wim Van Hooste needs your help! As part of his project to do an update of ‘Rokk í Reykjavík,’ the Dr is asking musicians from around […]
Making Digital Waves Across The World
Yatra Arts seeks a wider audience for Icelandic electronic music in 2012. That can’t be a bad thing, can it? Gaukur á stöng was filled with the great, the good, […]
Think You Know Elephants & Outer Space?
Calling all brain-boxes, info-nerds, and fact-geeks! Put your knowledge to use by entering The Grapevine and Bakkus Pub Quiz! Show us what you’re made of…make women and men
Birds Of A Feather
In most cases when a musician finds another artist operating under the same name, they take the cue to come up with an alter ego (see: David Bowie). But it […]
Track Of The Issue – Michael Dean Odin Pollock & Siggi Sig: ‘Squeeze’
Here’s a little treat for you, a track from the new Michael Dean Odin Pollock EP, out now on Synthadelia Records. A terse, folky number, with the harmonica of Siggi […]
Go To Clyde’s Show!
Do you like your music loud and heavy? Are the clothes in your wardrobe mostly black? Do you like evil things…and beer, lots of beer? If so, you should cram […]
Icy Spicy Leoncie Live In Iceland
Unless you’ve been reading Iceland’s page six for the last decade or so, you’re probably not familiar with the peculiar and flamboyant character that bears the self-coined mo
Feel The Darkness
This year’s Dark Music Days programme is a cavalcade exciting modern composition (Icelandic and otherwise) and exclusive performances and premieres. It begins on Thursday 26 and
Turin Brakes Church Comeback
Remember the Turin Brakes? Well, they had a couple of hits back in the late ‘90s and early 2000s and got their hands on a decent amount of BRIT statues […]
Significant Music Of 2011: Musicians’ Picks
Bored of year-end lists that usually don’t even manage to tell half the story, we decided to attempt a different approach at summing up 2011 in music. Firstly, we got […]
Put Your Dancing Shoes On For Tim Green
This young and talented Brit was voted ‘Breakthrough Producer of 2010’ by DJ Mag. He has performed at big clubs in London, Berlin and Ibiza, and he’s worked with big [&hellip
Significant Music Of 2011: Writers’ Picks
Bored of year-end lists that usually don’t even manage to tell half the story, we decided to attempt a different approach at summing up 2011 in music. Firstly, we got […]
Track Of The Issue!
LEGEND knocked veteran Grapevine music scribe Rebecca Louder off her feet at last year’s Iceland Airwaves. Here’s what she wrote: “LEGEND is a band whose name is not only apt
Hjálmar: Órar
Hjálmar live a somewhat unchallenged existence as the kings of the Icelandic reggae scene (as there are barely any other reggae bands out here), and while they do a tip […]
For Weeks
Oh ok then, Henrik Björnsson sounds like some kind of deadpan cynical cowboy fronting a hybrid Pet Shop Boys / drugged-up psychadelic shoegazey type bunch of reprobates and the se
For A Minor Reflection: EP
This is a solid release that old and new fans alike will probably enjoy, but the production is preventing it from reaching its potential. First off, some shifts between [&he