The festival is held to honor the old Norse gods and to celebrate the month ... held during the summer solstice in June, is a unique music festival that takes advantage of Iceland’s 24-hour daylight.

A few years ago, an Icelandic indie-folk group walked into a train station in the German city of Wuppertal and created an unforgettable moment of music. The group was Árstíðir, and the music a ...

It took a pandemic for Bertelmann to entertain the thought of recording Netflix’s “The Old Guard ... Netflix’s VP of Music, had given Atli a call to ask him if Iceland was open for ...

When I get on Zoom with Laufey, the 24-year-old Icelandic Chinese ... Her upbringing in Iceland is something that’s deeply inspired Laufey’s music and aesthetic—she got very into classic ...

Iceland has a dedicated music export office ... One moment, I was seated in the pews of Fríkirkjan, a 124-year-old church adorned with fading frescos that transformed the concert into a spiritual ...

Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter (known by the mononym Laufey to her fans), never dreamed that her music, which she started writing while she was a college student in ...

“The music world is definitely more about genuine ... “We did a performance of an old Icelandic poem called Odin’s Raven Magic and we performed with a choir.” After the performance ...

Released via FOUND (a U.S.-based record label dedicated to spotlighting singular voices in Icelandic music), More Than You Know draws much ... and apologizing because all she had was this beat-up old ...

Whether it was her unique, modern jazz sound or her identity as a Chinese Icelandic artist, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter ... has taken the music world — and TikTok — by storm.