Agent Fresco’s Release Show: Rigid, Yet Fresh Fresh!
Entering Silfurberg, I can feel the excitement in the air. More than 720 friends, fans and followers have gathered to witness Agent Fresco perform their long-awaited new album in f
Happening Tonight: 4/4 Concert Series
Youth cultural centre Hitt Húsið has just restarted their 4/4 concert series, which focuses on giving musicians aged 16-25 the chance to promote their music, as well as get exper
Úlfur Eldjárn Is Composing Futuristic, Emotional Utopias For All Of Us
Smartly dressed, long-bearded, bespectacled Icelandic composer Úlfur Eldjárn bustled into Harpa’s cafe, dodging cstomers and pushing a trolley piled high with flight cases
Happening Tonight: Emmsjé Gauti / Úlfur Úlfur / GKR
We know you can’t get enough of the Icelandic rap scene, and that’s why YOU SHOULD BE EXCITED FOR THIS. Some of Icelandic rap’s greats (Úlfur Úlfur! Emmsjé Gauti!) are [&h
Happening Tonight: Abominor Album Release Concert
Do you like black metal and new and exciting albums? Then you’ll want to catch the album release concert for Abominor’s ‘Opus: Decay’, a head-jarringly heavy collection of
The Vintage Caravan: Tired And Getting Old (But Not Really)
The Vintage Caravan have sure come a long way. As they released their second album, ‘Voyage’, they graduated from support slot jockeys to headliner status, their energetic stag
Happening Tonight: Dulvitund Album Release Party/Döpur/ULTRAORTHODOX
Experimental dronescaper Dulvitund is releasing new album ‘Allt er Lífið Myrkur Draumur’ and to celebrate, he’s putting on a show with some of his fellow friend
Clockworking
The new record from Icelandic chamber music ensemble Nordic Affect showcases new works combining historical performance traditions with fresh new sounds. In addition to familiar in
Delicious Tinnitus Ahoy: Tin Drum Hits Harpa!
Earlier this month, a new concert series premiered at Harpa, with artists Valdimar and Örn Eldjárn performing some of their best songs. The monthly series, Blikktromman (“The T
Straumur: Hassle, Techno & Balkan Metal!
There’s a brand, brand new musical project out there, and it sounds mighty good. Wesen (“Hassle”) consists of Loji Höskuldsson, formerly of Sudden Weather Change, and Júlí
WTF Is “Musicology” And Why Should You Care?
On Tuesday, the University of Iceland’s Continuing Education Institute kicks off a three-night seminar on musicology, taught by Iceland’s only (by now) music writer-slash-s
Umleikis
Composer/violinist Una Sveinbjarnardóttir’s new album of violin solos is titled ‘Umleikis’, or “playing around.” Una is best known for her role in the Icelandic Symphony
Happening Tonight: Kría Brekkan
Angelic whisper-singer, multi-instrumentalist, electronic/freak-folk icon and living legend (at least in my fanatical opinion <3) Kría Brekkan (aka Krístin Anna Valtýsdóttir
HAM TONIGHT & FOREVER: Shedding Skin, Reaching New Heights
Infamous cult favourites-cum-everyman rockers HAM have been at it for almost three decades now, turning an entire generation of Icelanders on to their monstrous, leftfield take on
Happening Tonight: Árstíðir Album Release Party
Although Árstíðir’s latest album ‘Hvel’ was released in March (following a very successful crowdfunding campaign), the band have been so busy (what with touring and whatno
Sounds Of Strife: Music Collaged From Former Conflict Zones
Looking for a way to ease into the weekend? Ambient musician Sam Slater will bring his rich, haunting soundscapes to Mengi this Friday. This Berlin-based Brit spent half of 2014
Misþyrming Is Roadburn Festival’s 2016 Artist In Residence
Move over Björk and Sigur Rós, a new Icelandic artist is making waves overseas. Black metal mavericks Misþyrming—whom we at the Grapevine have written a lot about—have just
Poised For Domination, Agent Fresco Celebrate ‘Destrier’
Agent Fresco’s new album ‘Destrier’ starts with a series of disparate sounds that slowly meld into a Tartini tone—that is, when two notes play at a certain frequency, fooli
Happening Tonight: Múm & Dj. Flugvél Og Geimskip
Two founding members of renowned Icelandic experinstrumental-electroglitch group múm, Gunnar Tynes and Örvar Smárason, will be joined by queen of the local weirdo scene, dj. flu
Happening Tonight: Jófríður & WESEN
One of Iceland’s more prominent electronica wünderkind, Jófríður Ákadóttir, is performing solo at Húrra. She stepped onto the scene a few years ago with Pascal Pinon and S