The slaughterhouse-turned-music-festival Hátíðni returns to Borðeyri for three days of music, art, workshops and DIT ...

In Reykjavík it is impossible to escape the trendy artisanal bakeries, which seem to pop up all over the place constantly, ...

The devils of downtown Reykjavík rock have teamed up with art pop legend Barði Jóhannsson from the band Bang Gang to produce ...

As the biggest English-language newspaper on this particular North Atlantic rock we share some responsibility for giving ...

On July 2, Iceland competed in the World Cup. Not the FIFA World Cup underway in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. No, Iceland ...

The biggest problem with cemeteries is that there aren’t any bars, so although they are often beautiful, serene and great for ...

I had no idea any of this existed. Sigur Rós had built some kind of sound installation in an Oxford basement, and I was ...

It was the summer of 2003 and I, then editor of Grapevine, was walking through town with 58-year-old Megas, best known as ...

Unsurprisingly the first generation living on the gravel (Reykjavík) is doing badly, it freaks out over all their options and then sinks to the bottom of misery.

Walk into almost any souvenir shop in Iceland and you will find the same familiar symbols staring back at you: Thor’s hammer ...

The armed influencer and Trump buddy It’s been a big couple of weeks for Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir. After a rough ...

The cover image was taken by professional driver Klemenz Geir Klemenzson on 18 June 2026.