Inside a top-floor recreation room at the Elliheimilið Grund, a retirement home for the elderly in downtown Reykjavík, the 25th annual Iceland Airwaves festival officially kicked off on Friday, ...

The debut festival from Barcelona party collective SOUNDIT is set to take over Parc Nou, El Prat de Llobregat on July 17-18, and the inaugural event has now confirmed the programming across its four ...

Iceland Airwaves festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and has just shared the initial lineup for their 2024 edition, which happens November 7-9 in Reykjavik. Among the 25 artists ...

Iceland Airwaves managing director Ísleifur Thorhallsson, beaming in a festival-branded baseball cap, radiates enthusiasm as you enter NASA, a postcard-pretty conference hall in downtown Reykjavík, ...

Iceland is only about a five-hour flight from the East Coast of the United States, making the island nation a getaway that’s not too far from home. The Iceland Airwaves festival routinely provides a ...

After nearly 20 years in existence, Iceland Airwaves has gone through a few transformations. From modest beginnings — a much smaller and more contained affair in an old airplane hangar — it grew into ...

Before heading out to Iceland Airwaves, I encountered a throng of people who had never heard of it. For these people I contextualized the music festival as “Iceland’s SXSW.” Never having been to the ...