Reykjavík Grapevine - 09.05.2008, Blaðsíða 32

On Saturday May 10, the
Icelandic soccer season
kicks off with the first
round of play in the men’s
premier league for the
ninety-sixth year.
The Grapevine predicts the upcoming
football season.
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We were quite lazy and
toured very little. Another
thing that saved us a lot
of time is that we never
rehearsed, which is not a
concept I recommend for
young artists.
Einstürzende Neubauten’s Mark Chung
gives us the lowdown on the music industry.
Page 12
I think a lot true punkers,
the one’s that have safety
pins in their cheeks, they
probably don’t think we
are really punk.
Punk favorites Morðingjarnir sound a little
unsure of themselves.
Page 16
Their performance was the
usual high-octane delivery
of punk rock mayhem that
audiences have come to
expect and demand from
this band
Reykjavík played Iðnó
Page 18
“I find it hard to believe
that people would lie about
witnessing something in
Lagarfljót for centuries.”
Monster survivor Valdimar Benediktsson
on the Worm in Lagarfljót.
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OK. So you figure the
name’s supposed to invoke
irony. I mean, the five
releases that so far make
up Grandmother’s Records
catalogue don’t sound like
anything any grandmothers
I know would approve of.
Haukur Magnússon investigates the curi-
ous collective Grandmother’s Records
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