24 Oct 2019The schedule for the official venues of the Iceland Airwaves music festival, planned for November 6-9, has been posted on the festival’s website.
3 Nov 2017A unique copy of a vinyl record by Icelandic songwriter and musician Ásgeir is now floating somewhere in the North Atlantic Iceland off the coast of Iceland.
23 Feb 2017Iceland Airwaves have just announced that Fleet Foxes will be playing two shows during this year´s festival. The legendary Billy Bragg will also be performing, as well as a diverse list of local and international names including new Bella Union signees Mammút and JFDR (aka Jófríður from Samaris).
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7 Nov 2016Iceland Airwaves came to a close last night with a performance by UK star of protest rock, Polly Jean Harvey, PJ Harvey, at the Vodafone sports arena in Reykjavik.
6 Nov 2016Last night was another dazzling night of Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavik with highlights such as Digable Planets, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät and FM Belfast. Tonight the festival comes to a close with a variety of artists headlined by UK star PJ Harvey.
6 Nov 2016 One of the world's most famous punks, John Lydon, or Johnny Rotten of UK punk outfit The Sex Pistols was invited by Iceland Airwaves to open the Iceland Punk Museum, situated in the former public toilets in Bankastræti.
3 Nov 2016Leader of the Bright Future political party in Iceland, Óttarr Proppé, is also a respected musician in Iceland and is a member of legendary metal band HAM as well as punk rock band Dr.Spock, who are performing at Iceland Airwaves tonight.
2 Nov 2016This year, the Iceland Airwaves music festival collaborated with Urban Nation Berlin for the second year running in getting a number of artists to do murals on several city walls. The project, called Wall Poetry aims to connect creative minds all over the world with one another.
1 Nov 2016Björk has been particularly busy recently. She's been making a virtual reality version of her latest album Vulnicura, she's writing new songs for a new album and she's also directing an exhibition dedicated to the digital aspects of her work. Oh yes, and she's also performing twice at the Iceland Airwaves music festival.
1 Nov 2016The annual off-venue programme at Kex Hostel prsented in cooperation with KEXP, Iceland Naturally and Iceland Airwaves takes place every night this week with incredible bands playing and ADMISSION FREE!
20 Oct 2016UK songwriter and musician John Lydon otherwise known as Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols will be opening a new museum, The Icelandic Museum of Punk at the upcoming Iceland Airwaves Festival.
20 Sep 2016British alternative rock band Suede has announced a new Iceland gig to be held on 22 October – sixteen years after their last Iceland performance.
1 Sep 2016The announced line-up for this year’s Iceland Airwaves music festival is now complete – some 220 acts have been booked, of which seventy are from abroad.
