Articles in Music

16.12.2011

PBP PUNK DON’T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING

There's a palpable air of "we don't care what anyone else is doing or if they like what and how we do" around the Paradísarborgarplötur (“Paradise City Records”) label/collective
9.12.2011

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

Some decades arrive late, in a pop cultural sense at least
30.11.2011

Singing Around Iceland, Or How To Make Friends With Icelanders

Ever get those days where you find it difficult to get going, to start something you know you'll enjoy once you've just taken that first step? Ever found you've lost sight of what you enjoy in life and can't remember how to go about finding it again? I know, welcome to my world...
23.11.2011

More Noise, Please!

Grab your battery powered toys, alarm clocks, household gadgets and instruments and get ready to RAWK like a robot. LornaLAB invites you to share ideas and knowledge with other geek-minded audiophiles and techies this weekend down at Hafnarhús for an afternoon of electro invention and exchange.
23.11.2011

Hope Is Like A Dog Bitten By A Sheep

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Gímaldin recorded in Russia for a while, but is now back at home among friends, some of whom have made an album with him.
15.11.2011

Icelandic Hard Rock In The Eighties And Nineties - A Skin-Deep Account

In the beginning, Icelandic metal bands kept to themselves and were mostly left out of the mainstream.
11.11.2011

Edison Electronica

Electronic music aficionados, get ready for a blast from the past.
7.11.2011

Track Of The Issue - Reykjavík!: 'Hellbound Heart'

You thought that they’d wandered off for good, but no! Iceland's favourite scuzz rock mentalists REYKJAVÍK! are back and busy storming into everyone's hearts and minds with their third album 'Locust Sounds', a two ton gorilla opus that smashes the puny opposition... and then sits down and eats a banana.
3.11.2011

Baroque Romantics Wanted

If you’re into the Baroque and Romantic masters Johann S. Bach and César Franck, you may want to head to Hallgrímskirkja church (which took 38 years to build!).
1.11.2011

Like Father, Like Son!

Now you know Snorri Helgason, don’t you? Of course you do.
20.10.2011

BJÖRK WILL TEACH YOU!

Look. We’ll come right out and say it. Björk Guðmundsdóttir is a genius, an innovator and a visionary.
18.10.2011

A New Force In Icelandic Heavy Metal

Skálmöld have established themselves at the forefront of Icelandic Heavy Metal with their debut album and a slew of well-attended, impeccably executed concerts.
10.10.2011

Dr. Gunni´s History Of Icelandic Rock / Part 30

Iceland Airwaves is upon us once more. For five days about 750 bands and artists will perform in Reykjavík, of which you only knew three before.
5.10.2011

Stjörnuryk

When I received a copy of Stjörnuryk's debut, all I knew about them
was that they are from Ísafjörður, the capital of the Westfjords of Iceland.
4.10.2011

Ikea Satan

Ikea Satan are three guys who have decided on an ironic band name that that conveys a somewhat powerful image (“Satan”) with something flimsy and second rate (“Ikea”).
30.9.2011

Sálin Reign Over The Country Balls

March 10, 1988 was a big day for Icelandic music. In a long-since burnt down club called Tunglið, HAM were playing their first ever concert, and in the building’s basement—at an adjoining club called Bíókjallarinn—Sálin hans Jóns míns were also making their stage premiere.
26.9.2011

Track Of The Issue - Mugison: "Stingum af"

Mugison’s track ‘Stingum af’ has grown immensely popular since it was released earlier this summer.
14.9.2011

Dr. Gunni´s History Of Icelandic Rock / Part 29

In the eighties, Stuðmenn ("Funmen") were the most popular Icelandic band.
9.9.2011

Track of the Issue!

1...2...3... and RAWK! HAM are BACK! And they are as powered up and fist driving as they were when they released their last album – IN 19-FUCKING-89!!! In celebration of the release of their much, much, much overdue second album, we are frothing at the mouth to give you all this neck-breaking new track.
1.9.2011

Dr. Gunni’s History Of Icelandic Rock / Part 28

In 1980, the world was divided into two parts: disco and punk. In 1983, three thunderous years later, punks had become new-wavers, metalheads or ‘regular people’ and the disco gang now got its’ kicks from ‘new romantics’ such as Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet.
29.8.2011

HE’S BACK!!!111!

It’s been a while since he last graced Icelanders with his presence (nine years to be exact)—now Sage Francis is finally returning to dazzle us with his veritable rhyming skills and some of the best indie hip hop money can buy (you can also cop it off the internet, but stealing from independent artists is especially bad form). His previous two shows are by now the stuff of legend.
26.8.2011

Track Of Issue - Stóriðjuverkefnið mig (title track of the film 'Ge9n')

This infectiously catchy song, ‘Stóriðjuverkefnið mig’ was composed and performed by Linus Orri Gunnarsson and Þórir Bogason (of Just Another Snake Cult) to lyrics from Jón Örn Loðmfjörð's book of poetry ‘Gengismunur’, which was composed algorithmically from the text in the Special Investigative Committee’s report on Iceland’s economic collapse.
25.8.2011

Let's Tango!

The soul of Argentina will be in Reykjavík for a festive four-day weekend!  The Milonga, which features tango dance and music, will take place at Iðnó restaurant and the Kramhúsið multi-cultural dance studio.
23.8.2011

Deep Jimi and the Zep Creams: Better When We´re Dead

Start this album on track 7—‘Don't Let Your Dreams Go’—which will tell you everything you need to know about the style, approach, personality and proper-rock-song attitude of the now-veterans.
19.8.2011

Track of the Issue - Steindi Jr. (featuring Ásgeir Orri): Djamm í kvöld

Comedy, music and social commentary are seldom strangers to each other. Randy Neuman often blended the three, as have countless punk rock bands. Comedian and musician Steindi Jr. has now done the same with this track, ‘Djamm í kvöld’ (Party Tonight).
17.8.2011

Join Lay Low And Of Monsters And Men For A Good Cause

Two of Iceland’s foremost artists will be joining forces for the annual charity show at Faktorý to raise money for Nei!, a movement against sexual violence, on August 18.

16.8.2011

Back To Root Of It All

The 30th edition of the Grapevine Grassroots concerts shows off some of the series’ favourite acts – Enkídú, Arnljótur, Ahma, Sóley, and Nóló.
12.8.2011

Full Metal Racket!

The annual sweaty moshfest that is the Eistnaflug metal festival descended upon the tiny Eastfjords village of Neskaupstaður like a bearded raven of the Apocalypse.
3.8.2011

Track of the Issue!

Grapevine is glad today! And you know why? Yes, it’s because Grapevine’s favourite new Icelandic rock band, Ofvitarnir, has finally released an album!
3.8.2011

Hearts Beating As Electronic Music

After a successful debut last year, the Extreme Chill Festival returns to the foot of the Snæfellsjökull glacier between August 5 and 7 to offer us a unique summer festival.
2.8.2011

FUN IN THE FAROESE

The hills are alive with the sound of music in Gøta, the small town in the Faroe Islands, which is the setting for the Faroe’s annual and legendary G! Festival. 
29.7.2011

Lights & Music, Indeed

Outside the concert venue, face flushed pink to match his undersized varsity jacket, Berndsen looked exultant.
Honestly, it was probably all the jumping—a pigmentary euphoria triggered by his onstage synthpop-hop and ensuing gulps of oxygen.
26.7.2011

FIGHT THE POWER

Where have all the protest songs gone? Music, politics, ideas. You don’t really hear much about that nowadays do you?
22.7.2011

Glen Hansard Comes To Reykjavík!

Didn’t make it to Bræðslan? Thought you missed your chance to see Glen Hansard in Iceland? Good news! You haven’t! Upon returning to Reykjavík from the Borgafjörður-based festival, Glen Hansard will be playing an additional show on July 26 at Café Rosenberg.
22.7.2011

Learning To Löve Björk

I have always admired Björk. That’s never been the problem. Björk has constantly caught my admiration, but somehow adoration—even enjoyment—has been out of grasp.
21.7.2011

TRACK OF THE ISSUE - SNORRI HELGASON: MOCKINGBIRD

Singer/songwriter Snorri Helgason first made his name with everyone’s favourite band of 2007, Sprengjuhöllin, who with a ‘difficult second album’ managed to fade into semi-obscurity before going on indefinite hiatus.
19.7.2011

A Look Through the Zonoscope

Crossing over seasons, time zones, language barriers, and maybe even dimensions, Cut/Copy continue to pursue their tour of the world, which has now brought them all the way to Iceland. Nicknamed “The Cutters,” this Australian electro pop group are currently promoting their new LP ‘Zonoscope’.
7.7.2011

TRACK OF THE ISSUE - OJBA RASTA: JOLLY GOOD

Summer has finally threatened to show itself, somewhat, and if you like reggae, Ojba Rasta’s new single Jolly Good is the perfect track to put on for a nice garden BBQ party.
5.7.2011

“IT’S MY FESTIVAL AND I’LL BOOK WHO I WANT!”

It’s a story that has passed into Icelandic music legend. Of how a young drummer named Stefán ‘Stebbi’ Magnússon, having moved to the Eastfjords village of Neskaupstaður, invited several of his musician friends to come and play and have a party out of sheer boredom.
29.6.2011

It Takes Five To Tango. Ehrm

Most people’s idea of tango music evokes a night-time display of poise and passion in a small cafe in the backstreets of Buenos Aires. But what you may not know is that through travelling musicians, the dance and its music reached Finland in the 1920s and ‘30s.
27.6.2011

Stealing Mountains

For three months, Mike Lindsey has lived alone in a cottage in northeast Iceland. Having gained some notoriety as a founding member of British alt-folk gang Tunng, he decided last March that what he really wanted to do was to go to the middle of nowhere and make music with people he didn’t know at all.
22.6.2011

Grapevine Grassroots #29

Singing, Dancing, Poetry, Instrumental Music, Movies, Paintings…come see all or some of the above at the 29th Grapevine Grassroots event.
20.6.2011

A Dream Realised By Accident

Afrocubism is a project that began as a dream thirteen years ago. Nick Gold’s idea was to fuse the sounds of Malian and Cuban music for an album.
17.6.2011

TRACK OF THE ISSUE - THE DANDELION SEEDS: LOVE AND SWEET DREAMS

Man, if there’s one band out there that’s getting us somewhat excited about Icelandic rock again, it’s the goddamn Dandelion Seeds.
16.6.2011

Are Icelanders Americanized? Really?

With their propensity for obesity and economic mismanagement, one could be forgiven for thinking of the Icelanders as little Americans. Conventional wisdom would indeed suggest this.
10.6.2011

The Foreigner’s Prerogative

So who the frak is Jóhann Jóhannsson? He’s an accomplished Icelandic musician, a self-taught composer with seven solo albums and seven movie soundtracks under his belt, as well as having been a member of several successful Icelandic bands, including HAM, Lhooq, Unun, Evil Madness and Apparat Organ Quartet.
7.6.2011

Gig Long, Party Hard!

Another day, another slice of grim apocalyptic action that is life in Iceland. While Grímsvötn’s eruption took a firm grip of the country by the balls and the airport was closed, one casualty of this was the cancellation of the long awaited Caribou gig at NASA on Sunday May 22.
6.6.2011

TRACK OF ISSUE - GUSGUS ARABIAN: HORSE SAMPLER

It appears the verdict is in: with ‘Arabian Horse’, beloved electro legends GusGus have crafted a masterpiece of a record, with mesmerising tunes, stomping rhythms and some hypnotic melodies.
3.6.2011

Solaris 2.0

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Krakow writer Stanislaw Lem’s novel ‘Solaris’, and this should be celebrated. Luckily, the masterful Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason have created an ambitious project doing just that, with the help of one of Poland’s leading orchestras, Sinfonietta Cracovia.
2.6.2011

Cyndi Lauper? Really?

When I first learned Cyndi Lauper would be one of the first international pop artists to perform in Harpa, I was really surprised. Who would want to see Cyndi Lauper? Shouldn't she just stick to playing her hits over and over in Vegas? Well, she keeps getting endlessly nominated for Grammy awards, but does anyone remember anything she’s done since ‘85? She's doing celebrity reality TV for crying out loud!
26.5.2011

Catch Retro Stefson In Iceland While You Can

Retro Stefson are briefly coming home to play a show at NASA on June 1 before going back to Europe to play at festival all summer.
26.5.2011

Mad Scientist Samaris

During the Reykjavík Music Mess I caught up with Samaris, the recent winners of Músíktilraunir. The band is composed of three Icelandic youngsters.
25.5.2011

Synchronicity

In some places in Polynesia it was common to play synchronous music in order to terrify the enemy in warfare. The music would indicate how well they were organized. An organised army is efficient and effective.

20.5.2011

The Exponential Curve Of Caribou

With five albums under his belt, Dan Snaith's sound continues to approach a plane of infinite possibilities.
6.5.2011

UNTITLED MUSIC COLUMN

When I turned thirteen, and consequently started smelling like shit, my mom decided to break it to me in an interesting way. Rather than confront me with the mind-bending horrors of puberty, she gently told me that although she wasn’t bothered by the stench of rotting bacteria corpses in my armpits, the other kids in my class might be...
28.4.2011

Bob And Sindri Go Músíktilraunir!

Every year, Músíktilraunir (“Music Experiments”) are held to locate and reward the most innovative undiscovered bands in Iceland.
21.4.2011

Come All Ye Faithful, But Other People Can Totally Come If They Want To

Not all artists are assholes. Some, in fact, can be quite friendly.
19.4.2011

Go North (Not South) For The Aldrei Fór Ég Suður Music Festival!

Conceived in 2003 by Iceland's own Mugison with his father while they were drinking in London, the Aldrei Fór Ég Suður music festival will enjoy its eighth year in Ísafjörður this April.
15.4.2011

SPECIAL: Grapevine Gets Its Legs Back!

To celebrate that whole Reykjavík Music Mess mess we, your loyal friends at the Grapevine, are throwing a special music edition of 'GRAPEVINE GOT LEGS'! It’s happening tomorrow, Saturday April 16, at 2PM and THERE WILL BE DRINKS. Read on for more info!
15.4.2011

For A Love Of Moisturiser And David Bowie

If you don't know much about Deerhunter's music, you probably should.
14.4.2011

Dare We Be Excited About Reykjavík Music Mess?

OK so there’s this ‘new’ music festival making the rounds in Reykjavík (you might have noticed—you are reading a special Grapevine supplement about it).
14.4.2011

Reykjavík Gets Steamy with Blues Music

If you're looking for something different to do around Easter break and you like smoking cigars and looking cool, then you should probably check out the Reykjavík Blues Festival. 
13.4.2011

RMM - Your Schedule

Reykjavik Music Mess is an independent music festival in downtown Reykjavik, with shows at Nasa, The Nordic House and Sódóma Reykjavík. It is held for the first time from the 15th to 17th of April.
12.4.2011

North Iceland Gets Jazzy

Tonak Jazz Orchestra and Matisand Jazz trio will be the last to perform in the JazzTA concert series at Götubarinn, a bar in downtown Akureyri tomorrow night at 21:00.
11.4.2011

DOWNLOAD YR. RMM COMPILATION - 16 TRACKS!

To help y’all get SUPER GADDAMN PUMPED for the Reykjavík Music Mess, the good people behind it have compiled a fancy compilation for your downloading and listening pleasures. Check it out!
5.4.2011

Aural Leftovers: Computer Lust

There’s no option but to bend over and take what’s on offer from our digital overlords. Offerings such as ‘Skywatchers’ from Yoda Remote, a rabid chipmunk duo who spent their school years making crazy 8-bit electronic tunes instead of learning algebra, or sniffing glue.
30.3.2011

“We aren't the Bee Gees or Justin Bieber”

Steve Austin is an infamous character in the heavy music world; a man who lends huge doses of brutal honesty and a terrifying, angst-ridden aura to the music he disseminates through Today is the Day (who are often referred to as ‘the most influential metal band of the last 15 years’). Since Today is the Day are playing a couple shows in Iceland this month, we thought we’d use the opportunity to e-mail him some questions.
21.3.2011

Das Experiment, But Without All The Violence And Grown Men Pissing On Each Other

If you’re reading this and have any interest in Icelandic music, do everything in your power to see this. Between March 25 and April 2, the youngest generation of Icelandic musicians are going to strut their stuff at the annual Icelandic Music Experiments 2011.
17.3.2011

Remembering Biogen

A pivotal figure in Iceland’s electronic music scene, whether it was during his early forays into electronic music as a member of the legendary hardcore techno band Ajax or through the many collaborations and side projects he was involved with, Biogen had a personal hand in shaping the last two decades of Icelandic music. His influence is felt by his contemporaries and will be gleaned by those who follow.
14.3.2011

Deerhunter Are Coming! Deerhunter Are Coming!

For the first time ever, tickets are on sale for the Reykjavi´k Music Mess, an independent music festival that will take over NASA and the Nordic House on April 16 and 17.
4.3.2011

Prepare For Battle At Sódóma!

Six bands square off at Sódóma on Saturday for the honor of playing at Wacken Open Air, a massive outdoor metal festival in Wacken, Germany.
2.3.2011

Singing Goddess Graces Iceland

It’s always a treat to have Eivór Pálsdóttir in Iceland. It’s a treat because Eivór, a singer/songwriter from neighbouring Faroe Islands, has an exceptionally beautiful voice.
23.2.2011

A New Reign of Terror Over Iceland

A relatively new group of Vikings calling themselves, Skálmöld, plan to terrorize Tjarnarbíó with their big bad, Viking metal on February 24.
18.2.2011

Hjaltalín And Other Stuff At Café Rosenberg

Café Rosenberg may not be this town’s hipster mecca. To be sure, the atmosphere there is more reminiscent of bars in even smaller town Iceland.
17.2.2011

Release Concert FRENZY Tonight!

Everyone’s two favourite Icelandic albums from last year are being celebrated tonight, with massive release concert party fun shindigs a go-go carrying on through the night. The records in question are of course Prinspóló’s ‘Jukk’ and Agent Fresco’s ‘A Long Time Listening’, and both of them of course received glowing reviews right here in the Grapevine, as well as scoring high on the annual year-end polls (of course!). Why? Because they are great, that’s why.
16.2.2011

Get Your Geek On With Booka Shade

If you’re one of those weird people who like to go out and get monstrously drunk to rave music without being punched in the face, the CCP annual Fanfest might appeal to you.
11.2.2011

New Music Festival Hits Reykjavik

Reykjavik welcomes a new music festival this month called, BERGEN-REYKJAVIK-NUUK, which celebrates the relationship between Norway, Iceland, and Greenland.
11.2.2011

Dr. Gunni's History Of Icelandic Rock / Part 27

Scoring a ‘Single of the Week’ in the English music press doesn't necessary mean the instant access to the big time, but in The Sugarcubes’ case it did. After ‘Birthday’ got the honour, One Little Indian Records was swamped with interview requests and offers from record companies, both indies and majors.
9.2.2011

Enzyme Compatibility

Icelandic alt-rock champions Ensími have been proving that punk needn’t be simple and indie needn’t be complicated over four albums and fourteen years, and have recently emerged from hiatus to support their latest full-length offering, Gæludýr.
4.2.2011

You Don't Know What You've Got...

By the time this goes to print, Havarí will be shut. Temporarily closed while they seek a new locale, the independent record store/bookstore/small venue/art gallery/recording studio/coffee shop has been forced to make way for a new downtown hotel after seventeen months of centrally located awesomeness.
4.2.2011

Go Muck Yourself

28.1.2011

Headbanging Over A Piano

Viktoriya ‘Vika’ Yermoleva is a 32-year old classically educated pianist who hails from Ukraine. She plays, for the most part, piano versions of contemporary metal songs.
26.1.2011

"And Some Things That Should Not Have Been Forgotten Were Lost."

I don't really listen to music.
21.1.2011

Five Albums That Shaped Bob Cluness’ Decade

The world’s most infuriatingly enigmatic band. But man when they get it right they fucking get it right!
20.1.2011

Five Albums That Shaped Bergrún Anna Hallsteinsdóttir´s Decade

Bergrún Anna Hallsteinsdóttir picks the five albums that shaped her decade.
18.1.2011

The Most Important Hard, Fast, and Heavy of 2001-10

No one wants to make a list like this. You like to get stoned (no pun) to death by disappointed band dorks? Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson gives his take on the most important hard, fast, and heavy albums of the last decade.
17.1.2011

It's Almost Over!

For over a year and a half now, Havarí has been offering a massive boost to Reykjavík’s often-championed, yet seldom-supported music scene, acting as a record store and small venue for bands, as well as offering literature from young artists and writers.
17.1.2011

Something Borrowed, Something Blue

On January 18, one of Iceland’s more dutiful musicians’ unions, the Icelandic Society of Authors and Composers, will host the third in their ‘Birdcage’ concert series.
14.1.2011

Not Going Anywhere In Particular

Icelandic music expert Dr. Gunni lists his favourite albums of the last decade. Click through for some LIST FUN!
12.1.2011

Attack Schmattack!

What do Páll Óskar, KK & Ellen, Reykjavík!, múm and Steini from Hjálmar have in common? They all stand behind the Reykjavík 9, the nine people, some say scapegoats, charged with attacking Althingi during protests in December 2008.
13.12.2010

Not Your Conventional Rock Star...

 Known for his flamboyant style, manic stage shows and glam rock/disco tinged songs about Jesus Christ on crack, Tom Cruise and the Iraq war, Bobby Con was in Reykjavík as part of his 'Rise Up' tour.
7.12.2010

Five Super-Weird Icelandic Records!

Icelandic musicians have produced their share of weird records. Some records aim to be weird, but some are weird by accident, the artist involved even being fully serious about the whole thing. The five below are truly weird, some by design, others by accident.
14.11.2010

Grapevine TV At Airwaves 2010

The Grapevine had a film crew documenting Airwaves this year. For a recap of this five day festival, which saw a record number of performers, check out this video by former intern Sigurður Kjartan Kristinsson and his talented film crew.
11.11.2010

Hurts to Rock Reykjavík A Second Time

Following their stunning performance at the Airwaves festival last month, UK synth-pop duo Hurts are set to return to Reykjavik’s Vodafone Stadium.
11.11.2010

The Best Show I Witnessed At Iceland Airwaves 2010, And Why It Was The Best Show I Witnessed At Iceland Airwaves 2010

So we did it again. We compiled a team of music lovers-slash-misanthropes to review every single show of the official Iceland Airwaves programme.
11.11.2010

Dr. Gunni's History of Icelandic Rock Part 25

International recognition has always been every ambitious Icelandic pop musician’s goal. And no wonder. Few settle for the limitations of the tiny Icelandic market.
11.11.2010

What could have been better about Iceland Airwaves 2010 and why!

Hate brings out the best in people. Or at least in writers. You know that. Bad reviews are so much more fun to read than the good ones. LOL!
10.11.2010

The South Iceland Chamber Choir Receives Glowing Reviews

The South Iceland Chamber Choir (Kammerkór Suðurlands) is gaining wide acclaim for their new CD ‘Iepo Oneipo’.
5.11.2010

Datarock is Coming Back!

So guess what. Some Nordic initiative or other is happening these days...
28.10.2010

My Airwaves Discovery Of The Year: The Dandelion Seeds

For a few depraved souls, the off-off venue Kaffistofan was the ultimate place to be on Airwaves Saturday.
28.10.2010

Oh Oh Oh Canada

The Ring Lounge at Hressó played host to a bevy of Canadian musical marvels on Saturday for the most highly anticipated (at least for this reviewer) off-venue of the Airwaves calendar.
21.10.2010

Efterklang Inspires A New Generation Of Efterkids

Welcome to Efterkids, the brainchild of Danish super band Efterklang.
19.10.2010

Second Coming

I didn’t expect to see fourteen musicians on stage, a mind-boggling array of instruments and an audience ranging from rock royalty to little old ladies, but that’s what I got at Amiina’s album release concert at NASA earlier this month.
17.10.2010

Parties And Shows TONITE!

So Iceland Airwaves is really almost over. Thank the lord. This is SO TIRING. But it ain’t over yet, and we are busy getting ourselves all hyped up for tonight’s concert madness. One last night, then it’s off to rehab. Promise.
17.10.2010

Talking Out Of Phones

Dan Deacon is best known for two things: a profanity laden viral video and bleep-bloopy dance music that hipsters really, really love.
17.10.2010

Don’t You Know Who I am? I’m Nick Coxon, Music Journalist To The Stars!

I spent yesterday downloading the final episode of the BBC series, ‘Sherlock.
16.10.2010

Grapevine's Picks For Saturday! + CONTEST ACTION!

16.10.2010

Grapevine TV - EPISODE ONE!

So check this out: we've got a small camera crew running around the good festival, and they have been busy interviewing folks, recording bands and generally getting all crazy with their cameras.

16.10.2010

How Abstract Can You Get, Ghostigital?

This brainchild of the mighty Einar Örn Benediktsson and the also-mighty Curver needs no introduction.
16.10.2010

Mínus Are LEGENDary ...and so are Esja, for that matter

You all know Krummi from his epic ventures with the rock band Mínus. If you don’t, go right now and read up on Mínus and their adventures. Listen to their music.
16.10.2010

Bang Gang Can Do Everything

You know Bang Gang, right?
16.10.2010

Eating Pizza, Reading Books With MSAASS

My Summer as a Salvation Soldier is one of Þórir Georg Jónsson’s many musical projects.
16.10.2010

The Lovely Crooked World Of Mount Kimbie...

In the big bad world of dubstep, there are followers and there are leaders. Mount Kimbie belong to the latter camp, for sure. Comprised of two guys, Dom Maker and Kai Campos, their debut album ‘Crooks and Lovers’ has been heralded as the best post-dubstep around this year.
16.10.2010

Go See XXX Rottweiler Tonight!

So check this out. The last few days have been crazy, and we're not gonna lie - tonight is going to be even crazier.
16.10.2010

Ghostigital Welcome Y'All To Their Crazy Show Tonight

We met up with Ghostigital last night. And then we shot a little teaser for their epic gig tonight at Tjarnarbíó on our shitty ass phone camera. 'Cuz we're like that.

16.10.2010

Reptile & Retard Fell In Love With Machines

We both like rock, but there is something happening in the electronic genre that is not happening in rock.
16.10.2010

Yeah, But Where’s Bedroom Community?

We keep getting e-mails from folks that are upset about Bedroom Community not staging an event at this year's Airwaves bash. We e-mailed Valgeir Sigurðsson, Ben Frost and Nico Muhly to ask them: What’s up with that?
16.10.2010

Retro Stefson Welcome You To Kimbabwe!

Retro Stefson are responsible for some of the rocking-est, dancing-est, most joyous live shows this fine publication has ever had the good fortune to witness.
16.10.2010

Special Airwaves Discount To Transaquania - Into Thin Air

Flash your Airwaves wristband to get half-off tickets to Icelandic Dance Company's "Transaquania - Into Thin Air," which shows on Sunday at the Reykjavík City Theater. It's the last scheduled showing of this piece.
16.10.2010

The Antlers Are Open To Interpretation

“I started playing when I was six years old. I stopped playing for a while to explore some other things but I needed to come back to it. It's pretty much what I've always wanted to do.”
16.10.2010

Screaming Masterpiece?

After a decade’s worth of editions of the Iceland Airwaves festival, the event has finally been captured for the big screen.
15.10.2010

Grapevine’s Picks For Friday

In no particular order, some suggestions for fun things to get up to tonight at the offish Iceland Airwaves shows (off venue shows are great too, but y’know... we can only pick so much):
15.10.2010

Introducing Everyone’s Favourite Venue Of 2010: Tjarnarbíó

So we’re two days into Airwaves-frenzy, and it’s all been going splendidly up until now! Great times! Fun bands! Wet beer! And folks have been talking a lot, too. We like to troll or listen in when folks are saying interesting things around us, so our ears have been extra wide these past few days.
15.10.2010

Arnljótur’s Picks For Friday

Arnljótur is a member of Ojba Rasta, Sin Fang and Berndsen. He also plays solo as Arnljótur, and you can often see him on stage with a bunch of other bands.
15.10.2010

Sonic Iceland Recommends

Sonic Iceland is the brainchild of two bloggers, Kai and Marcel from Germany and Ireland.
15.10.2010

DLX ATX AND THEN SOME!

There are all these nice krútt bands around, but evil also lurks in Reykjavík’s cutesy music scene. There are dark sinister bands out there, bands that play dark and sinister music. One of Grapevine’s favourite purveyors of evil are definitely DLX ATX, led by the lovely Irish expat Greg Barrett. You should try and see him this weekend, for sure.
15.10.2010

HumanWoman Pick Five For Airwaves

HumanWoman is an excellent new local band comprised of the lovely hairdoctor Jón Atli Jónasson (AKA Sexy Lazer) and Gísli Galdur (of Trabant, Langi Seli & Skuggarnir and many other excellent bands).
15.10.2010

Urban Psychedelia And Fiery Myths

Sometimes it takes a long time for bands to form. Childhood friendships, painstaking auditions and frustrating jam sessions until the perfect balance is found.
15.10.2010

Like Drinking A Bottle Of Cough Syrup On The Beach

New York rockers The Vandelles are very likely the coolest band to hit Airwaves this year. With their mix of sixties surf, psychedelia and a noise laden wall of sound they've hypnotized crowds with something that has been described as an audio and visual assault.
15.10.2010

Everyone Loves Sudden Weather Change

Everyone loves Sudden Weather Change. At least everyone who loves their music sprinkled with fuckloads of guitar noise, triple harmonies and a sweet ‘90s spirit and weight that far too often seems missing from today’s music (think: Cap’n Jazz playing around with Sonic Youth).
15.10.2010

The Band That Came In From The Köld...

Ever since their debut EP ‘Til Vahallar’ was released in 1996, Sólstafir have been mainstays of the Icelandic metal community.
15.10.2010

Psychedelia and Madness: The Klink Experience

Klink have the reputation for being one of Iceland’s most brutal live acts, a blistering force of metalcore.
15.10.2010

Morbidity And Contempt

The rise of Gone Postal within the Icelandic metal scene has been akin to something of a death metal juggernaut.
15.10.2010

For A Minor Reflection Are Comin’ To Gitcha!

It’s all in the name. At least in the case of For a Minor Reflection.
15.10.2010

Endless Dark Are Not Like The Other Bands

Endless Dark are one of the many young Icelandic bands performing at Iceland Airwaves for the first time this year.
15.10.2010

The Importance Of Being Indie

If you run an independent music enterprise, it's probable that at some point you'll realise you've become something of a geek.
15.10.2010

Bárujárn Are Just What We Were Waiting For

Bárujárn have been busy reinvigorating the Icelandic music scene for over two years now!
14.10.2010

Your Airwaves Experience on Live Project

For the first time, Airwaves festival goers will be able to stream their concert videos and photos straight from their mobile phone to a new real time video and photo blog, liveproject.is.
14.10.2010

The Good Doctor’s Guide to Surviving Airwaves

While Airwaves is a rather fun and fabulous time for most, it’s possible that at one stage or another you, or one of your friends, might find yourselves at the wrong end of a flying elbow or taking a dive after one too many cold ones.
14.10.2010

The Good Doctor’s Guide to Surviving Airwaves

While Airwaves is a rather fun and fabulous time for most, it’s possible that at one stage or another you, or one of your friends, might find yourselves at the wrong end of a flying elbow or taking a dive after one too many cold ones.
14.10.2010

Polipe Will Prove A Nice Surprise

At the age of 14 we began to play together and let go all that bullshit. The drummer joined us later in that particular friendship as we opened up our minds together on different cultures, philosophies, drugs, and of course: sounds.
14.10.2010

Polipe Will Prove A Nice Surprise

At the age of 14 we began to play together and let go all that bullshit. The drummer joined us later in that particular friendship as we opened up our minds together on different cultures, philosophies, drugs, and of course: sounds.
14.10.2010

Pascal Pinon: “Be there or be a chair”

Pascal Pinon are truly something. Comprised of twin sisters Jófríður Ákadóttir and Ásthildur Ákadóttir, these girls have been writing and performing sweet, soothing, melodic and incredibly ambitious music since they were at the tender age of fifteen.
14.10.2010

Pascal Pinon: “Be there or be a chair”

Pascal Pinon are truly something. Comprised of twin sisters Jófríður Ákadóttir and Ásthildur Ákadóttir, these girls have been writing and performing sweet, soothing, melodic and incredibly ambitious music since they were at the tender age of fifteen.
14.10.2010

The Chamber Choir of South Iceland at Iceland Airwaves

Kammerkór Suðurlands (The Chamber choir of South Iceland), introduce their latest CD of sacred music at Landakotskirkja, Reykjavík’s Catholic Church, today, Thursday 14th.
14.10.2010

Three Punk Rock Things To Do Whilst In Reykjavík

Morðingjarnir is the Reykjavík Grapevine’s favourite local punk rock band. It probably should be your favourite Icelandic  punk rock band, too.
14.10.2010

Three Punk Rock Things To Do Whilst In Reykjavík

Morðingjarnir is the Reykjavík Grapevine’s favourite local punk rock band. It probably should be your favourite Icelandic  punk rock band, too.
14.10.2010

kimono Do Not Play Math Rock

Operating out of Iceland for the greater part of the last decade, kimono have long been your classic band’s band, meaning that most of the musicians performing at Airwaves count kimono as their favourite local band (the guitar bearing ones anyway).
14.10.2010

kimono Do Not Play Math Rock

Operating out of Iceland for the greater part of the last decade, kimono have long been your classic band’s band, meaning that most of the musicians performing at Airwaves count kimono as their favourite local band (the guitar bearing ones anyway).
14.10.2010

You Need To See Go Go Darkness

The Go-Go Darkness are a creative vehicle for the combined forces of Singapore Sling mastermind Henrik Björnsson and his spouse, the lovely Elsa María Blöndal.
14.10.2010

You Need To See Go Go Darkness

The Go-Go Darkness are a creative vehicle for the combined forces of Singapore Sling mastermind Henrik Björnsson and his spouse, the lovely Elsa María Blöndal.
14.10.2010

Efterklang: You Know You Want To

“It will be our first concert in Iceland. That’s enough accomplishment for us.”
14.10.2010

Efterklang: You Know You Want To

“It will be our first concert in Iceland. That’s enough accomplishment for us.”
13.10.2010

Grapevine’s Picks For Tonight!

It’s on! My is it on! How fun! How fresh! Yes! To help y’all get started, we decided to pick some picks for y’all to check out tonight, if you have no idea what you’re into or what you want to see. These are just some bands that we know can provide excellent live shows, or are curious about in one way or the other.
13.10.2010

Grapevine’s Picks For Tonight!

It’s on! My is it on! How fun! How fresh! Yes! To help y’all get started, we decided to pick some picks for y’all to check out tonight, if you have no idea what you’re into or what you want to see. These are just some bands that we know can provide excellent live shows, or are curious about in one way or the other.
13.10.2010

Kick Off Your Airwaves Experience With A Splash At Vesturbærjarlaug

In a unique start to Airwaves proceedings, German electro troubadours Hundreds will kick off the festivities this evening with a performance in the quirky setting of Vesturbæjarlaug swimming pool
13.10.2010

Stuff You Might Want to Know

For all you new-to-town-ers, here a little something we put together to hopefully make your stay, ehrm… make a little more sense.
13.10.2010

Stuff You Might Want to Know

For all you new-to-town-ers, here a little something we put together to hopefully make your stay, ehrm… make a little more sense.
13.10.2010

The Young Composer's Guide To Reykjavík Dining

Why the respectable Reykjavík Grapevine magazine would ask a non-eating, 58kg workaholic who would go for the pill—if there was one to replace all food consumption—to write a guide on Reykjavík dining baffles me.
13.10.2010

The Young Composer's Guide To Reykjavík Dining

Why the respectable Reykjavík Grapevine magazine would ask a non-eating, 58kg workaholic who would go for the pill—if there was one to replace all food consumption—to write a guide on Reykjavík dining baffles me.
13.10.2010

Top 5 After-Hours Hangouts

It’s an acknowledged and loathed snag, the confusion that takes over during Iceland Airwaves when the concert schedule has been concluded and you’re all too sweaty, horny and psyched up to call it a night.
13.10.2010

Top 5 After-Hours Hangouts

It’s an acknowledged and loathed snag, the confusion that takes over during Iceland Airwaves when the concert schedule has been concluded and you’re all too sweaty, horny and psyched up to call it a night.
13.10.2010

Everything Everything Have Never Read Naomi Klein

“I grew up without a TV in the middle of nowhere and was always encouraged to use my imagination, I learned some instruments and downloaded a really crap sequencer and just spent all my time making music. I kept playing because it makes me feel alive, and it's loads better than nearly every job in the world.”
13.10.2010

Everything Everything Have Never Read Naomi Klein

“I grew up without a TV in the middle of nowhere and was always encouraged to use my imagination, I learned some instruments and downloaded a really crap sequencer and just spent all my time making music. I kept playing because it makes me feel alive, and it's loads better than nearly every job in the world.”
13.10.2010

Vuk Will Probably Enchant You

“I've been making music all my life, wherever I've been.
13.10.2010

Vuk Will Probably Enchant You

“I've been making music all my life, wherever I've been.
13.10.2010

Árni Rúnar’s Fabulous Gear Guide To Airwaves

Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson is one hell of a guy.
13.10.2010

Árni Rúnar’s Fabulous Gear Guide To Airwaves

Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson is one hell of a guy.
13.10.2010

An Autodrone Shaped Bloodstain On Iceland

“Well we are Autodrone, we come from New York City and we make the only kind of music that we are capable of making.”

13.10.2010

An Autodrone Shaped Bloodstain On Iceland

“Well we are Autodrone, we come from New York City and we make the only kind of music that we are capable of making.”

13.10.2010

The Icelandic Electronic Odyssey

It's been a good summer for electronic music in Iceland.
12.10.2010

Your Handy Guide For Airwaves 2010

We are always hanging out in downtown Reykjavík (it’s where most of us work and live, you know), so we are fairly familiar with the venues that will be in use for Iceland Airwaves 2010.
12.10.2010

Your Handy Guide For Airwaves 2010

We are always hanging out in downtown Reykjavík (it’s where most of us work and live, you know), so we are fairly familiar with the venues that will be in use for Iceland Airwaves 2010.
12.10.2010

Airwaves Off-Venue 2010

Grapevine's Most Fun Shop of 2010 sure lives up to its reputation during this years Iceland Airwaves music festival.
12.10.2010

Airwaves Off-Venue 2010

Grapevine's Most Fun Shop of 2010 sure lives up to its reputation during this years Iceland Airwaves music festival.
12.10.2010

Icelandic Metal Is [insert Eyjafjallajökull pun here]!

Don’t be lame. Subject yourself to Icelandic metal.
12.10.2010

Icelandic Metal Is [insert Eyjafjallajökull pun here]!

Don’t be lame. Subject yourself to Icelandic metal.
11.10.2010

Kraumur and Backyard at Iceland Airwaves

Icelandic music documentary Backyard, will be screened at Bíó Paradís over the Airwaves festival this coming weekend
8.10.2010

S.H. Draumur (1982 - 1988): Kicking Against The Pricks

In 1982 I had been in bands for three years with basically the same guys in Kópavogur.
1.10.2010

Life Outside The Mainstream (1982–1985)

Bubbi Morthens and Utangarðsmenn hit the dull sugarcoated Icelandic pop scene in 1980, spreading raw excitement in their wake.
28.9.2010

Iceland Airwaves Warm-Up

For years, the staff of the Iceland Airwaves festival has worked tirelessly to promote the festival abroad as an exciting option for a weekend get-away destination for young people on both sides of the Atlantic.
28.9.2010

Iceland Airwaves Warm-Up

For years, the staff of the Iceland Airwaves festival has worked tirelessly to promote the festival abroad as an exciting option for a weekend get-away destination for young people on both sides of the Atlantic.
17.9.2010

Happy Up Here

They had me at “Alluu!”.
14.9.2010

Blastbeats Be Gone

Momentum want to welcome you to the genre of progressive doom. Never heard of the genre?
14.9.2010

Blastbeats Be Gone

Momentum want to welcome you to the genre of progressive doom. Never heard of the genre?
8.9.2010

Jonsí is Way Out West

It is closing in on midnight in Slottskogen in Gothenburg and singer M.I.A. is the last act to take the big stage on a Friday night for the Way Out West music festival.
7.9.2010

Rip It Up and Start Again

Þeyr, an Icelandic musical  phenomenon shrouded in  a veil of mystery and deliberately  obscure, recorded  seven albums from 1980-  1983 and were undoubtedly  the most progressive band of  the Icelandic new wave/punk  scene.
6.9.2010

Dispatches From The Corpse-Painting Station

Just down road from the bruised, bloody, moshing mess of Eistnaflug’s main venue Egilsbúð was another den of depravity and darkness.
1.9.2010

Eight Weeks Until Airwaves!

Summer is over and school is back in session, which means the party is basically over. Well, not really, it’s just on a much needed hiatus before the biggest, wildest, messiest and most drunken five-day party of the year: the infamous Iceland Airwaves festival.
1.9.2010

Eight Weeks Until Airwaves!

Summer is over and school is back in session, which means the party is basically over. Well, not really, it’s just on a much needed hiatus before the biggest, wildest, messiest and most drunken five-day party of the year: the infamous Iceland Airwaves festival.
1.9.2010

Insol: Hátindar

A collection of the atonal yammerings of a weird, deluded shut-in, Hátindar has mostly only novelty value.
24.8.2010

Iceland Airwaves Warm-Up Show In Akureyri

A lot has happened since we last brought you news from camp Airwaves. The team has been hard at work booking and announcing dozens of local and international acts.
20.8.2010

ENTER THE HANGOVER

The summer of 2010 has been one of festivals and parties. 
20.8.2010

The Scientist of Sound

“When I listen to music, I very often don’t listen to the music; I just listen to the instruments. Otherwise, I get involved with an emotional situation, which is what we are all after; but in order to learn about the nature of the sound, I have to kind of forget the music.”
13.8.2010

The Rise And Fall Of Kukl

The Icelandic rock movement associated with the ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’ documentary got yet another kick in the groin when the radio show Áfangar ("Phases") was forcefully discontinued in the spring of 1983.
3.8.2010

I’m Not Afraid Of Anyone

After becoming a breakaway hit in 2008 while competing to represent Iceland in the Eurovision song contest, 25-year old Icelandic-American performer Haffi Haff has worked his way up and down the ladder to establish himself as a serious artist with solid goals.
30.7.2010

The Diversion Sessions

Former Skátar rocker Markús Bjarnason shows a softer side on his new album ‘Now I Know.’
23.7.2010

Heading Towards Chaos

“For a Minor Reflection is a four-piece, made of two guys with indie tops, a man with glasses and a metalhead.”
20.7.2010

Singing In The Rain

It was presented as an extravaganza of “eclectic music, inspired by Iceland.” Then it was (very quietly) announced that some of the artists (Hjaltalín, Retro Stefson, For a Minor Reflection, GusGus) would only be present in the form of ‘pre-recorded performances from scenic locations throughout Iceland”.
19.7.2010

Rokk í Reykjavík!

In 1981, filmmaker Friðrik Þór Friðriksson began filming Icelandic rock bands in action around Reykjavík for an upcoming documentary about the scene.
5.7.2010

Shabbiness And Bankruptcy

Obviously I have no first-hand experience of clubs before I started playing in 1980, but from what I’ve heard there were some pretty cool venues operated before my time.
25.6.2010

Þeyr Has Spiritual Intercourse With The Nation

In 1981, a flock of serious men came out of the woodworks—often wearing long grey or black overcoats.
21.6.2010

Into The Light

He is tow-headed and unassuming, sitting on a patio, fidgeting as he lights a cigarette. He is driving to the airport in four hours to go on a two-week tour in support of his latest album, … and they have escaped the weight of darkness, which was released at the end of April.
7.6.2010

Reykjavík Needs Henrik Björnsson And His Music

Singapore Sling are one of the finer constants of Icelandic music.
25.5.2010

Dr Gunni History of Icelandic Music Rock Part 18

Ahh... 1981. The best year in Iceland's rock history. At least for me, a 15 year old whose life music had taken over completely. Bubbi Morthens and his Utangarðsmenn—the most popular band in Iceland—were already passé for forward thinking dudes like myself.
18.5.2010

A Breath Of Fresh Air

Oh boy, a lot has gone down in the seven months since the last Iceland Airwaves festival.
14.5.2010

Smashing The System, One Release At A Time

I would guess that when most people think of the word “collective” they usually think of Stalinist Russia, dirty smelly hippies, or The Borg with their S&M kitchen tools.
11.5.2010

Visualizing A Universe Of Hope

Since conquering the francophone World Music charts over the last decade, Amadou & Mariam from Mali have recently taken the rest of the music world by storm.
29.4.2010

The Iceland Of My Heart

Lately, we hear a lot about Dubai being the Iceland of the desert or Greece being this year’s Iceland. Iceland, however, is more than just a metaphor for economic stupidity.
16.4.2010

Dr. Gunni’s History Of Icelandic Rock Part 17

The rhythm section of Utangarðsmenn—Magnús and Rúnar—came from the tiny village of Raufarhöfn. Brothers Mike and Danny Pollock were the guitar players, two dudes with an Icelandic mother and an American father.
9.3.2010

Dr. Gunni’s History Of Icelandic Rock Part 16

Punk and new wave came late to Iceland. In 1979, all Icelandic records were still either disco, foamy pop or Meat Loaf-imitations. Some punkerly types were lurking around, though...
12.2.2010

kimono: Lowercase Ninjas keep piling it on

Mainstay indie-rock outfit kimono released one of 2009’s most critically lauded albums—Easy Music For Difficult People—four years after they unleashed the equally critically lauded LP Arctic Death Ship. The interim saw them move to Berlin, lose a founding member and... settle down.
8.2.2010

The Progressive Folk Rock Brigade

In the seventies, Icelandic progressive folk music was mainly taken care of by two bands, Spilverk þjóðanna ("Plaything of the Nations") and Þursaflokkurinn ("Band of Titans"). It all started in legendarily artsy college MH, which would later become the breeding ground for lots of other bands.
25.1.2010

Whooping It Up In 2009

For Icelanders, 2009 was in many ways a god-awful year. Still, there seems to be a hidden link between grim nightlife, gruesome partying and a bad national temperament-rate. So it’s easy to assert that Grapevine’s favorite pastime – getting shitfaced – had a strong year.
20.1.2010

Artists Take Their Pick Of Music In 2009

We sorta abhor year-end lists over here at Grapevine HQ. At least when it comes to making them. That has always been a task, and whatever we’ve come up with in the past has in retrospect usually struck us as forced, rushed and ill thought out.
15.1.2010

Looking Back On Another Fine Year Of Music

We sorta abhor year-end lists over here at Grapevine HQ. At least when it comes to making them. That has always been a task, and whatever we’ve come up with in the past has in retrospect usually struck us as forced, rushed and ill thought out.
14.1.2010

Metal And Hardcore In 2009

The year in Metal? In order to kick the ol’ brain cell bundle into gear I got in touch with my friend to compare notes. He assured me that nothing noteworthy had happened beyond the Sororicide reunion and Sólstafir releasing their best work to date.
14.12.2009

The Least Obnoxious Xmas Music - Ever

Christmas music is painful at best. Except it is actually Christmas—plus/minus a week. Hearing absolutely horrible songs like the Icelandic version of Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday sung by heavy metal Eurovision contest dude Eiríkur Hauksson—say, in a crowded mall with red eyed people looking for gifts, gifts, gifts all around you—is pure hell.
12.11.2009

The History of Icelandic Rock Music: Part 13

The same core players are involved in three of the best Icelandic bands from the seventies, Stuðmenn, Spilverk þjóðanna and Þursaflokkurinn. All are veritable institutions of Icelandic rock history.
28.10.2009

The History of Icelandic Rock Music: Part 12

By the mid-seventies, indolent hippies were passé and nobody was really singing about love and peace anymore. Heavy drinking and wild hedonism were the order of the day, and this showed in pop lyrics.
18.10.2009

You: Why are you wearing these dorky running shoes at Airwaves, man? Me: Because my feet hurt from watching all your shitty bands.

I was going to be the human iPod-shuffle last night, going from venue to venue regardless of if it was an official show or an off-venue. But then a New Jersey native who currently lives in New York wound up crashing on my couch for the weekend, and he didn’t have the precious Airwaves bracelet. So to Dillon we went.
18.10.2009

Saturday: Airwaves Photos

17.10.2009

There Will Be Klink

At the point where Coalesce and Brutal converge, the almighty Klink prey mercilessly on aural assault aficinados of the most radical stripe.
Fresh from five years in hiatus all manner of pent-up aggression so long dormant within the band teeters on the brink of eruption, and at the ungodly hour of 2 AM Saturday night at Sódóma, where Klink is headlining the Kerrang sponsored showcase, the boys are set to unleash a metalic onslaught of dire proportions.

17.10.2009

Friday: Airwaves Photos

17.10.2009

Thursday: Airwaves Photos

17.10.2009

Airwaves Goes Wild!

"Well, when lions have sex, there’s something really great about it."
17.10.2009

Blue Lagoon, Fuck Yeah!

Two Grapevine interns defy the repercussions of the previous Airwaves night and head out to the Blue Lagoon and it's hangover party. And what a party!
17.10.2009

Ólafur Arnalds

“I am Ólafur Arnalds. You can expect pretty much the same as at any other concert of mine: Piano, string quartet and some glitchy electronica.”
17.10.2009

GHOSTIGITAL

“What am I? Einar Örn, the other half Ghostigital. Also kingpin of grapewire.net but also: Fit and really working again. Out of breath! A bit harder, wiser and out of pocket! Dirty dancing.”
17.10.2009

FM Belfast

“General nonsense, civil disobedience and dancing friends with blinking lights and loud music in 4/4.”
16.10.2009

Check Out The Grapevine Off-Venue At Lost Horse Gallery Tomorrow

So this has been a pretty great festival thus far, all things considered. And it still has a bunch of greatness left, too. One of the great things that are left is the Grapevine sponsored off-venue show at Lost Horse gallery tomorrow (Saturday). At the Lost Horse, Grapevine's very own photographer, Julia Staples, is hosting a show entitled 'No