On Thursday, February 8, musicians and music lovers alike joined to celebrate the 2026 Reykjavík Grapevine Music Awards at Lemmy. For the 14th time, artists and individuals who excelled last year were ...

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“I book these concerts every Sunday, and tonight I decided to book myself. You can do this,” says Ari Frank Inguson, known as Ari Árelíus, speaking from the stage of IÐNÓ during the release concert of ...

Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo — choreographers and directors of the Madrid-based arts collective Kor’sia — have been making waves in the European dance scene and far beyond. Originally from Naples, ...

In 2025, the category Best Music Video underwent the transformation into Best Visual Representation. Every once in a while, a music video shows up whose concept is so perplexing that it manages to ...

Icelandic artist Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir won her second Grammy award at the recent ceremony, celebrated in Los Angeles on February 1. Laufey’s win makes her a two-time Grammy winner, as her 2023 album ...

Growing up in Iceland, you will at some point become aware of the Cod Wars. This awareness is comfortably nestled in the Patriotic Fun Fact Files, somewhere between “Iceland discovered America” and ...

A record store in Odense, Denmark, has removed Björk’s music from its shelves, reports the Danish broadcaster TV 2. This comes days after Björk’s comments about Greenland. “From tomorrow, it will no ...

Reykjavík plays host to a Laurie Anderson residency this week as the revolutionary polymath performs two shows at Steina Vasulka’s retrospective in addition to her standalone Republic Of Love show at ...

After a fast-paced summer at the Grapevine, I decided to take an overdue summer vacation in October. While packing my bags for the Netherlands, I perused the programme for Eindhoven’s Dutch Design ...

“I worry about the public’s declining trust in politics in general. That was my sense when I first went into politics. One of the first things I did was to travel the country on my own, meet people at ...

“Sorry, we’ve been soundchecking,” says musician and composer Sindri Már Sigfússon, perhaps better known as Sin Fang, as he greets me at the door of his ...