For 14 hours beginning June 20, 2026, in a natural geological valley within Þingvellir National Park, festival headliner KALEO, followed by an eclectic slate of Icelandic music, came off entirely ...

The newly formed majority in Reykjavík has decided to make it one of their first tasks to axe the city’s human rights office, supposedly to save taxpayer money and simplify government.

I have a large number of friends who like KALEO. The band specialises in what we term Dad Rock, and I am a dad in Iceland.

You got to see there is something to be alive about. This band is something to be alive about. If you are alive… if you have ...

My partner and I made a promise: the day we finally bought a car, we’d drive to Mývatn. For years, the lake had occupied a ...

During the recent municipal elections, we noticed some of the great local civic accomplishments weren’t celebrated — or ...

Bathing culture here is not a luxury but a way of life. Sky Lagoon takes that deeply familiar ritual and gives it a dramatic ...

Advance ticketing starts today at 11 AM for Queens of the Stone Age’s celebrated return to Iceland on October 24, 2026. The ...

When Rhys Chatham was 12 years old, he heard the Velvet Underground’s White Light White Heat. Not much later, he was playing ...

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson laughed wholeheartedly on the phone when I called him this week in Hafnarfjörður. He was on his ...

Record collectors tend to be obsessive-compulsive once they’ve become fixated on a particular record or artist. Such was my ...

Today, the Reykjavík Grapevine received multiple threats to whaling ships in the harbour. The threats, which were received by ...