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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

There are those who can handle 24 hours of sunlight with joy, those who can handle it with grace, and those who flee to the calming darkness of the library, the movie theatre, and the record store.

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

Unfortunately, it’s easy to tell when it’s Reykjavík Grapevine publishing day, for that is when, for the first time in two weeks, our readers emerge in their thousands from their mouldy garage ...

In the movie 101 Reykjavík, adapted from eponymous book by author Hallgrímur Helgason, there is a scene when a character is ...