Sound Fanatic: The Musical World of Hildur Guðnadóttir
To Hildur Guðnadóttir, film scores are more than background noise. The Berlin-based cellist and composer is set to score her highest-profile film to date, ‘Soldado’, the sequ
Music News: Myrkfælni, Airwaves, The Return Of Vaginaboys
Iceland Airwaves have announced a new crop of bands for the 2017 festival, including Russian new-wave band Glintshake, Aldous Harding from New Zealand, and Jo Goes Hunting from the
Punk Is Dead, Long Live Tófa’s Yoga Punk
There doesn’t seem to be any place better to interview the lead guitarist of a punk band than midnight at a bar in downtown Reykjavík. Árni Þór Árnason is a […]
Track By Track: Endless Dark’s ‘Hereafter Ltd.’
Endless Dark are the post-hardcore stars of the Reykjavík scene. If you’re into poppy choruses mixed with heavy breakdowns, they might just be your thing. Here they talk us thro
Kalifornía Dreaming: Icelandic Music Goes To LA
“Welcome to Iceland. Don’t like the weather? Wait fifteen minutes.” So goes the clichéd joke about Iceland’s capricious meteorological tendencies—windy and wet one momen
Straumur: Mountains Between Mountains
Músíktilraunir, the annual Icelandic Battle of the Bands, was held a couple of weeks ago. The winning band was Between Mountains: an impressive duo comprising two young girls fro
Stay Weird: Four Emerging Acts Take Over Húrra
Iceland’s music scene is a lot more diverse than many people imagine. It’s easy to understand why: the dreamy, spaced-out sounds of múm, Samaris and Sigur rós, the restless,
Grapevine Playlist: Skrattar, Godchilla, AUÐUR & More
Spring is coming! What better way to celebrate than with some black metal, AutoTune and sludge-rock? Here it is: the latest edition of the Grapevine Playlist. Godchilla – Spa
Straumur: Auto-Tuned Teenage Angst
On the first of April we attended a concert at Húrra by kef LAVÍK: the band has a sense of humour for sure, but the music and performance that night […]
New Airwaves Bands Announced
Airwaves have announced a crop of bands for the 2017, including Russian new-wave band Glintshake, Músíktilraunir winers Between Mountains, the competition runners up Phelgm and O
While You Were Waiting: Kiriyama Family Are Finding Their Groove
It can take anyone a little while to figure out who they are. Kiriyama Family have had four years, and some exits and entrances to the band—and also to their […]
Music News: Glowie Signs Major Label Deal, New Björk Video, And More!
Icelandic pop singer Glowie, who was one of the nine emerging artists on the cover of our special Iceland Airwaves magazine last year, has signed a major label deal with […]
The Eccentric Trad Society of Ölsmiðjan
Once a week, after schoolyards fall quiet and workdays end, a handful of musicians climb the stairs of a whitewashed Reykjavík pub. They hail from England, Scotland, France, the U
Making of an Artist: Milkywhale’s Melkorka Sigríður Magnúsdóttir
In “Making of an Artist,” we ask noteable members of Reykjavík’s arts scene to tell us about the formative works and experiences that helped them along on their creative jou
Track by Track: Úlfur Eldjárn’s ‘Aristókrasía Project’
Úlfur Eldjárn is an Icelandic composer, a member of the Apparat Organ Quartet, and now, a solo artist too. “The Aristókrasía Project started as an outlet for ideas that d
Chris Foster’s ‘Hadelin’: English Folk Hits Reykjavík
English folk ballads don’t get much attention these days on a musical stage saturated with grunge-hip-techno-disco-pop. But here to give them the attention they deserve is Chris
Grapevine Playlist: Ljósvaki, Nordic Affect, KÁ-AKÁ, Snowed In & More
From contemporary composition to mental-health-rap to young punks from Akranes, here are the new tracks that have been playing on the Grapevine stereo. Ambitious but talentless by
The Dream Wife Never Existed
“Thank you so much to whoever pissed these girls off,” reads the top YouTube comment on Dream Wife’s “FUU” video. FUU stands, of course, for “fuck you up.” The so
Mozart In Slow-Mo: Valgeir Sigurðsson’s ‘Dissonance’
The opening strings on Icelandic composer, producer and performer Valgeir Sigurðsson’s new album ‘Dissonance’ feel poised and collected, almost glacial in pace, building gra
Photos: Björk Saves Mexican Festival Ceremonia, Reveals “Notget VR”
Björk performed at the stricken Ceremonia festival in Mexico last night, after the festival was thought to have been cancelled due to high winds damaging the stage. pic.twitter.co
Straumur: Autotuned Crooning & Organic Machines
Everybody’s favorite autotune teenage crooner, Aron Can, just released the first single from his debut LP, ‘ÍNÓTT’ (“TONIGHT,” in English), expected to drop later this