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  • A Basket Full of Music

    A Basket Full of Music

    The Nordic House’s PIKKNIKK concert series highlights diversity On a lazy Sunday summer afternoon, there are few things as pleasant as a stroll in a garden, laying out a blanket with flourish and having a picnic. The Icelandic weather doesn’t tend to…

  • Event Management Company Sena Live Buys Iceland Airwaves

    Event Management Company Sena Live Buys Iceland Airwaves

    Event managing company Sena Live, a subsidiary of production company Sena, has recently bought popular Iceland Airwaves Music Festival. Airwaves is a beloved and world-famous event that was founded back in 1999, with founding sponsor Icelandair overseeing the festival ever since. While…

  • Iceland Airwaves Introduces Major Changes

    Iceland Airwaves Introduces Major Changes

    The setup for Iceland Airwaves will be changed substantially for this years festival–which takes place between November 1-5– according to a press release. A change has been made to the concert venues, which means that the number of tickets available will decrease…

  • Menningarnótt: Reykjavík’s Playground For The People

    Menningarnótt: Reykjavík’s Playground For The People

    You know that dream where you can run a marathon, then eat dozens of free donuts, then go watch a rock concert with a bunch of bikers, followed by a performance of traditional Icelandic 50s music in a barber shop, all capped…

  • Carry Me, Mark Kozelek

    Carry Me, Mark Kozelek

    Sun Kil Moon, the notorious North Korean dictator, ordered the execution of a series of puffins by firing squad as an apparent snub to a cooling of Iceland-DPRK relations, reports KCNA. “They don’t belong on our plates”, said the DPRK’s Taskforce on…

  • Meet The Venues

    Meet The Venues

    So you’re browsing through the Airwaves schedule trying to get a feel for your evening and while you know some of the bands at each place you’re really thinking, “Hey, what’s the vibe like in this place? Is this a venue I…

  • The Foreign Resort: Rocking the streets of Reykjavík

    The Danes arrived to Reykjavík uncertain if anyone in Iceland had ever heard of them. They changed that with just one day of rocking out. By Steffan Lykke Møller They describe their music as The Cure meets Sonic Youth with a pinch…