In this article, we'll explore five choral works from Iceland that have shaped the country’s musical landscape over the past ...

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 ...

"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," ...

"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 ...

There is just something about Iceland. In reality it is not one single thing but a combination of things; from the people, the weather, the city of Reykjavík itself and, above all, all of these ...

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 ...

“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 ...