Iceland has taken part in the Venice Biennale since 1984, but the country’s pavilion has regularly changed venues. After around two decades in Alvar Aalto’s Finnish pavilion building, Icelandic ...

PRI/ The World's Global Hit - Iceland Learn more about Marco Werman's role as radio reporter for The World on public radio, and listen to streaming audio of his interviews with bands Hudson Wayne and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Orchestral concerts came late to Iceland. While large-scale works by Stravinsky and Schoenberg were being ...

With lyrics in 13 languages across 18 tracks and nods to musical traditions spanning everything from flamenco to opera, Spanish pop star Rosalía's new album, ‘Lux,’ is an aural feast. Since its ...

"Some people started seeing the Icelandic sound not as I would like to classify it, as a liberal, spirited, lively sound that allows for everything, but as just something that sounds like glaciers," ...

As part of our Múm curated week, Vasilis Panagiotopoulos travelled to Iceland in order to see how the economic crisis and what followed has affected the music scene. Last October’s collapse of the ...

“Really great bands have the ability to do everything they want onstage.” Iceland is also home to one helluva cool music scene, a place where electronic sounds and dreamy pop vocals co-exist in ...

"Viltu Vitrast" is a minimalist, clarinet-driven bit of Scandinavian electronic music, performed by three teenagers who are each roughly the same age as Justin Bieber. In the song, Samaris retells a ...

Imagine a glacier slowly making its way across a snow-capped continent. Now imagine the preternatural sound that glacier makes over the course of its centuries-long creep, the harmonic hum amplified ...

Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, co-creators of HBO’s Vinyl, were so impressed by Kaleo‘s “No Good” that they requested to use the blues-rock hit on their show – even though they hadn’t heard the ...

With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials, activists and others bade goodbye to what once was a glacier. After about 100 ...