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66 Degrees of Sound

The Reykjavík Grapevine

Welcome to 66 Degrees of Sound, a show by The Reykjavík Grapevine bringing you all the latest music releases in Iceland. The Reykjavík Grapevine is an English language magazine published 18 times a year, focusing on all things Iceland-related. Launched in 2003, the independent magazine has long been a leading voice in Icelandic culture. In this show made for music lovers and Icelandophiles, Grapevine journalists Rex Beckett and Jóhannes Bjarkason discuss and play some of the latest new music

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37:32

Artist Spotlight — Mighty Bear

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/06/18

Send us a Text Message.Having just celebrated Iceland's 80th birthday, we are back at it this week with another wonderful artist spotlight! This week, Rex and Jói welcome experimental dark pop performance artist and queer icon Mighty Bear to Grapevine HQ Studios.Having just released his latest album Angurværð on May 31, the EP marks a turning point for Mighty Bear as he tests the limitations of his artistry within a neoclassical soundscape. We had a rousing talk about his latest album, the ca...

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51:02

Saturday Morning Mix #6

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/06/15

Send us a Text Message.After skipping a Saturday morning mix episode last week, we were so excited to get back into the groove that neither of us could shut up this week. In a slightly longer episode than usual, we delve into the nature of artist collaborations, the authenticity of revival genre bands, and the progression of mainstream Icelandic hip hop. Episode Tracklist:Birnir & Bríet — Juvenile (r. May 31) Jónfrí & Ólafur Bjarki — Gott og Vel (r. June 7) Brimbrot — Tequila Mo...

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38:24

Hot Happenings #7: Slacker Events

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/06/13

Send us a Text Message.With our new Grapevine issue about to drop tomorrow, we heat up the happenings once again this week with our guests from Slacker Events, an independent production and promotion team bringing banging parties to our local scene. The Slacker Events team is led by Atli Steinn Bjarnason and Alfreð Drexler, both long time active members of Reykjavík's live scene as artists and performers. Together they formed relationships with artists such as Ash Walker and Ruby Francis from...

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43:34

Artist Spotlight — Sin Fang

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/06/11

Send us a Text Message.The gang is back together this week as Jói returns from a much-needed staycation and Rex emerges from sick leave. We kick things off this week with a very fun visit from the one and only Sin Fang! The moniker of Sindri Már Sigfússon (also of Seabear, Team Dreams and Gangly) has just released his latest album All My Friends Are Sleeping (Ambient Mixtapes 1-5) (June 7 on Inni Music), a mammoth collection of his ambient works going all the way back to 2007. We get in...

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34:02

Hot Happenings #6: Reykjavík Arts Festival Special

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/06/06

Send us a Text Message.Due to the lapse in releases due to a certain podcast producer getting sick, we are bringing you the Hot Happenings episode that should have come out on May 30th today. Luckily it's still very hot, cause it's all about the Reykjavík Arts Festival which is in full swing and going strong until June 16!The biennale festival has already kicked off with some of the prestigious but highly accessible events we mention in the episode, and there is so much more going on for the ...

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38:18

Artist Spotlight: GDRN

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/06/04

Send us a Text Message.This week we are back with an artist spotlight on singer-songwriter GDRN and her quick but huge rise to success in Icelandic music. This episode is hosted solely by Jóhannes and will be our only release this week, as Rex is out sick. (If you're wondering where last week's Hot Happenings and Saturday Morning Mix episodes went, that's also what happened.)Guðrún Ýr Eyfjörð, better known as GDRN, is one of Iceland’s most celebrated pop stars in recent years after her ...

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Artist Spotlight: sameheads

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/28

Send us a Text Message.It's an exciting week for us as GV HQ Studios as we get a much-needed gear upgrade courtesy of the good folks at Tónastöðin. Going with us on the maiden voyage on our new mixer is rock band sameheads' guitarist Baldur Skúlason, who joined us in the studio for a short but sweet chat about their latest single "Barinn við Barinn" (released May 24).We get into the very recent beginnings and history of the band, their somewhat loose lineup, and what they have on the horizon....

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44:58

Saturday Morning Mix #5

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/25

Send us a Text Message.After a hectic short week of shifting into biweekly printing mode, your hosts Rex and Jói are once again bringing a sweet sweet Saturday morning mix full of fresh new tunes. In this synchronicity-heavy episode, we find many accidental connections between the artist and tracks, making these disparate tracks reach common ground. We also veer off into rock'n'roll anecdotes, Scandinavian pop lore, and ask the age old question: are all washed up hair metal rockers now alt-ri...

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52:20

Hot Happenings #5 with Anna Jóna Dungal

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/23

Send us a Text Message.Things truly get heated up on this week's edition of Hot Happenings, as we have an absolutely fire discussion with Icelandic music industry expert Anna Jóna Dungal. A wearer of many hats in the industry with a rich and varied background, she is notably the OK AGENCY consulting firm, manager of erstwhile Eurovision contenders Celebs, and previously on the Sena Live team.She recently put on a new fancy hat of project manager at Salurinn Concert House in Kópavogur, a belov...

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Artist Spotlight: SiGRÚN

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/21

Send us a Text Message.There's never a dull moment at GV HQ studios and this week is no exception! Coming in frazzled from a long weekend, we arrived to find our mixer had vanished and we had to improvise. Luckily we are punk-ethos musicians so we just got creative. This episode is very "play it as it lays" but in the best way possible, we think.We were also very lucky to have a great guest in our midst: multi-instrumental electronic artist SiGRÚN joined us in the studio to talk about her new...

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45:04

Saturday Morning Mix #4

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/18

Send us a Text Message.Just another Saturday getting ready to carpe diem with some coffee and some hot new Icelandic tunes! This week we have a doubles-special, with two releases off marvaða records, two releases off Heavy Knife records, and two cover songs! (But only 5 tracks—one of those fits two categories.)This one is an absolute banger of a list so get ready to kick off your weekend with some kitchen dancing!Episode Tracklist:Ultraflex — Say Goodbye (Hiroshi Sato cover) (r. May 10)...

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47:30

Hot Happenings #4 with Félagið Ísland-Palestína

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/16

Send us a Text Message.We take a serious turn on this week's Hot Happenings to highlight the upcoming lectures of Dr. Mads Gilbert, prominent Norwegian health care worker and activist for Palestine. He's coming at the end of the month to deliver his talk "Gaza 2024: A catastrophic man-made disaster. What can we do?", facilitated by the Félagið Ísland-Palestína (Iceland-Palestine Association).We're joined by Salvör Gullbrá Þórarinsdóttir from the organisation to give us a small preview of the ...

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35:52

Artist Spotlight: Xiupill

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/14

Send us a Text Message.As we sprint through the end of our transition to biweekly summer issues, we kick off another weekly rotation of 66DoS. This week's artist spotlight is on the genre-bending and self-described “boy band” Xiupill! With members hailing from Iceland, Spain and the US, the three-piece create a blend of production, performance and artistry that looks firmly to the future of music production while embracing diverse elements of the past. We've had our eyes and ears on them for ...

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47:02

Saturday Morning Mix #3

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/11

Send us a Text Message.Ahh, it's another fine Saturday morning in Reykjavík and what better way to start the weekend than with some piping hot new tunes! Hosts Rex and Jói once again bring you five fresh picks that have been blowing up our Grapevine playlist.This week we have vibes from all over the shop — some eerie ambient from Sin Fang, the new intercontinental collab Vil, the roaring comeback of Tófa, the polished ravey growth of sideproject, and an absolutely gutting cover by Önnu Jónu S...

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Hot Happenings #3 with guest MSEA

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/09

Send us a Text Message.It's an extra hot Hot Happenings episode this week as we dive in with one of the Grapevine's faves—MSEA joins us in our studio to talk about her release show for her latest album Our Daily Apocalypse Walk (released in September 2023). The concert is Thursday May 9, 20:00 at Tjarnarbíó and tickets cost 3.900 ISK. And since that is the day this episode drops, you better hurry and buy your ticket right away right here on tix.is!Follow MSEA on her socials:Instagram: @mseasi...

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42:16

Artist Spotlight: TORFI

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/05/08

Send us a Text Message.A whole new week, a whole new set of tech issues and delays! OOF! Coming at you one day late, this week's Artist Spotlight shines on TORFI, the quadruple threat newcomer poised to take over Reykjavík's dancefloors. The singer-songwriter-producer-dancer joined us once again in studio (his first visit was last year) to tell us all about his debut album EITT (released April 25), a collection of dancefloor ready love songs to the queer community. We get into the influence o...

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46:46

Saturday Morning Mix #2: Monday Mix-Up Edition

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/04/29

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Hot Happenings #2

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/04/25

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Artist Spotlight: Dustin O'Halloran

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/04/23

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Saturday Morning Mix #1

66 Degrees of Sound ·

2024/04/20

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