Here’s part two of our guide to what’s new and who’s who at Iceland Airwaves 18. Make sure to get…

Iceland Airwaves built its reputation as a destination festival not by booking loads of big names, but because it’s the…

Rain showers hit the car windows as James Cox, the head of Paradís Sessions, picks me up around noon. A…

Music, films, and books can easily come across as light-hearted entertainment that serve to make us forget our everyday worries….

Since 2010, the Icelandic electronica community has been rallied together by the annual Extreme Chill festival, a multi-locational gathering of…

Local rap musicians HOLY HRAFN (Óli Hrafn Jónasson) and Stelpurófan (Þorgerður María Þorbjarnardóttir) form the musical collaboration Stelpuróló. In the…

You might not have heard of BLVCK POX but in the local hip-hop game in Reykjavík, he’s a strong contender….

The self-proclaimed “medium-curious musician” Katrín Helga Ólafsdóttir is an up-and-coming artist studying composition at Iceland University of the Arts. She…

Performers from both Iceland and abroad will gather in Reykjavik this July to offer the city something it’s never seen…

DIY goth-rock trio Kælan Mikla were recently invited to play at Robert Smith’s Meltdown festival at the Royal Festival Hall…

“I’m in a conceptual black metal band right now,” says Frímann Frímannsson, a.k.a. Harry Knuckles. “You’ve probably never seen us…

With their warm, flowing, mellow sound, Bagdad Brothers are a unique addition to the ever-blossoming Reykjavík music scene. They describe…

Kristján Eldjárn rose to prominence as one of the producers behind SYKUR, one of Iceland’s most explosive electronic pop party…

In the short time since branching out into a solo music career, Sólveig Matthildur has caused tidal waves through Reykjavík’s—and…

Johnny Blaze & Hakki Brakes’s music collaboration presents an absurd but intimate fantasy world. Their month-old release ‘Vroom Vroom Vroom’—their…

Musician María Viktoría laughs heartily on a bright day in Reykjavík, anticipating her upcoming travels to the United States and…