Sigur Rós headline Iceland Airwaves!

It is with great pleasure that we announce the return of Sigur Rós to Iceland Airwaves! It’s been 11 years since Sigur Rós last performed at Iceland Airwaves, after coming to international prominence with their second record ‘Ágætis Byrjun’. In their first hometown show for four years, the band will close the festival with a performance at the new Laugardalshöll Arena … Read more

Iceland Airwaves hits The Great Escape!

We’re heading to The Great Escape and putting up a daytime showcase with homegrown talents Retro Stefson and Sykur, and Canadian Half Moon Run. The Iceland Airwaves showcase will take place on the afternoon of May 11 at Above Audio and we have a raffle where you can win a round-trip for two with Icelandair to this year’s festival!… Read more

More artists announced!

It‘s time to serve up another batch of artists confirmed for Iceland Airwaves 2012, which will be held Oct 31 – Nov 4 in Reykjavík.

International goodies confirmed are wunderkind Patrick Wolf (UK), electronic rock duo Phantogram (US), electronic pop-soul outfit Polica (US), Jamie N Commons (UK), who the BBC named one of the sounds of 2012, Nordic Music Prize nominees … Read more

Iceland Airwaves hits Paris!

Iceland Airwaves will be giving the French a little taste of Iceland and its music at Air d’Islande, an Icelandic cultural festival in Paris. Air d’Islande takes place April 14-15 at le Point Ephémère and showcases Icelandic music, film and contemporary art.

The line-up offers some fantastic Icelandic talent, who aim to charm the baguette out of Paris’ baskets:

14.04 : ICELAND … Read more

Free NASA show tickets are now online!

Get ‘em while they’re hot! We’re throwing a free warm up show at NASA on March 31 with sóleyAgent Fresco and British guitar rockers All The Young performing. Tickets are available now on midi.is. Just follow these simple instructions:

-Choose number of tickets

-Fill out buyer info

-Choose Free tickets, put NASA in ticket key and then … Read more