The Reykjavík Grapevine presents our daily, comprehensive coverage of 2025 Iceland Airwaves. This year, we are pleased to introduce a number of new writers joining us as we try to document and explain ...

Twenty years of making music together. During Iceland Airwaves, we’re opening The Living Room: a pop-up space for listening, ...

Veður leyfir’ is an upcoming exhibition by Jón Helgi Pálmason and Einar Viðar Guðmundsson Thoroddsen, opening on the 5th of November at Herma Gallery from 17-20:00. Water splits the stone, not ...

The annual Search and Rescue Team fundraiser, the selling of neyðarkall, is underway. Sold in the form of a keychain or a ...

Is there a book, song or other media that makes you feel like you belong? Would you like to come and share it, or listen to other people talk about their own experience of finding belonging in art and ...

Airwaves week at Smekkleysa 
We’re filling the record shop with live music from 4–7 November, with off-venue shows and the Iceland Airwaves partner event Oktaves Session Vol. 09.

Local legend has it that the hill got the nickname “Gun Hill” at this time. This slowly morphed into the more breezy ...

Dr. Gunni is exhibiting 14 paintings based on the lyrics from the albums Goð and Drap mann með skóflu by the band S.H. Draumur. This is his second solo exhibition; his first, Atvik, was held at Mokka ...

Smekkleysa Plötubúð Oktaves & Worship Bookings present Freakjavík Halloweekend, a two-day death disco not for the faint of heart.

Shout out to Seattle-based writer Ruben Lira, who saw RAKEL at SXSW in 2026 and documented her intimate, stunning Austin ...

Sunna Eyþórsdóttir turns butter, sugar and eggs into fantastical sculptures, spending days creating cakes that sometimes ...

This year, we are continuing our Iceland Music Feedback Program. The goal is to recruit new writers to explore cultural ...