Reykjavík Grapevine - jan. 2023, Blaðsíða 2

Fist Fights and
Awards Shows
8: Music Awards
Madness
6: Show me those
northern lights, baby!
7: Do all cobblers
have foot fetishes?
11: Lights, camera,
Vesturbær!

Life can be a trip sometimes. One moment you’re working from
home, leisurely writing and editing for international publica-
tions, and the next you’re thrust into the driver’s seat of a street
mag on the cusp of its 20th birthday.
Not that I’m a stranger to the Reykjavík Grapevine — and
no, not only, as one intrepid reporter wrote, because of my
partner’s affiliation with it. Hey, at least they spelled my name
correctly. No, I’ve been lurking around the cramped, highly-
flammable halls of Grapevine HQ for 13 years and change,
interning, writing, reviewing, proofreading, copyediting, and
more. I love and adore this ragtag little publication and it’s an
absolute honour to have been entrusted to put my mark on it
at this juncture in its life.
But enough about me. Twists and turns in life are par for
the course for every one of the 7.8 billion people on this planet,
including (cue smooth segue) the artists the Reykjavík Grape-
vine is tipping its hat to on the occasion of our 2023 Music
Awards.
Culture Editor Josie Anne Gaitens convened a powerhouse
panel of industry hotshots and musicians in their own right to
pore over every single snippet, sample and song produced in
Iceland this year to determine which artists, albums and events
were the best of the best. In some categories, like Artist of the
Year, the winner was a unanimous choice of all panellists, while
other categories saw bickering evolve into bare-knuckle fights
and ugly crying before the panel could come back together in
consensus and an all-healing group hug.
That’s how I imagine it all played out, anyways.
I’m not going to give you any spoilers here — my haphazard
googling of “how to write an editorial” didn’t expressly advise
against it, but it seems like the right path to take — but you
should flip through to Josie’s great big Music Awards feature
on page 8 (I highly recommend reading pages three through
seven on the way there), and then learn more about our Artist
of the Year on page 14 and get a track-by-track runthrough of
our Album of the Year on page 15.
If your interest in the artists we’re spotlighting is piqued,
keep your ears peeled for an upcoming podcast on our Artist
of the Year and then join us Jan. 20 at Loft Hostel for an honest
to god awards show with live performances from some of our
winners. It’ll be fun!
This will be fun.
14: An award for the
King of the Mundane
22: 2022 was a (mostly)
delicious year
EDITORIAL EDITORIAL EDITORIAL EDITORIAL
COVER PHOTO:
Neonme is the winner in the
One to Watch category of the
2023 Reykjavík Grapevine Music
Awards.
This year's award winners
was shot by the great Magnús
Andersen, who flew over from
Stockholm to keep up this
tradition, as he's shot our Music
Awards series for the past 8
years
Photo: Magnús Andersen
Photo: Art Bicnick
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