Iceland remains one of the most mysterious and wonderful places on planet earth, so it's no surprise that some of the world's best music is also emerging from there. Between the huge success of Sigur ...

Icelandic jazz-pop singer Laufey might only be 25 years old, but her songs of love, hope, betrayal and heartache evoke an era much older that, without feeling dated. In a show lasting about an hour ...

Pop star Daði Freyr is perhaps Iceland’s brightest export right now. While his appeal is broad enough to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest, his style packs a quirky, left-field ...

ennifer Aniston and boyfriend Jim Curtis made their red-carpet debut last night at Elle’s 2025 Women in Hollywood celebration held in Los Angeles. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann responded on Monday ...

Mounted high on the wall in Elín Hall’s Reykjavík kitchen is a pair of white horns, picked up from a Red Cross thrift store in the city. They’re a nod to her grandfather, who once shot a reindeer by ...

The Grammy Award-winning singer and musician had rigorous classical training. Now she's making music that crosses genres: "I've been inspired by... Laufey was an 'odd fish' in native Iceland. Now ...

Inside a top-floor recreation room at the Elliheimilið Grund, a retirement home for the elderly in downtown Reykjavík, the 25th annual Iceland Airwaves festival officially kicked off on Friday, ...

Iceland Airwaves managing director Ísleifur Thorhallsson, beaming in a festival-branded baseball cap, radiates enthusiasm as you enter NASA, a postcard-pretty conference hall in downtown Reykjavík, ...

"I was ready to do anything to get my voice to be heard," she says. "I knew that the first step to that was trying to get out of Iceland and see if ... perhaps my voice would resonate more in the big ...