With 2025 formally wrapped up, it’s a good time to take stock of the year in music. It’s almost time for the Grapevine to select the best of the best. Which artist destroyed in 2025? Who should you be ...

Reykjavík plays host to a Laurie Anderson residency this week as the revolutionary polymath performs two shows at Steina Vasulka’s retrospective in addition to her standalone Republic Of Love show at ...

The Reykjavík Grapevine’s Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin editor ...

Petrol prices in Iceland decreased significantly on New Year’s Day, when the fuel taxes were replaced by a per-kilometre charge. Both petrol and diesel prices in the capital area decreased by ...

Three foreign nationals who stole large sums of money through pickpocketing in Reykjavík in December have been deported, reports RÚV. Police say they came to Iceland specifically to engage in criminal ...

What is the Reykjavik Grapevine? Your essential guide to life, travel and entertainment in Iceland. The Reykavík Grapevine is Iceland's biggest, best and most widely read English-language publication.

It isn’t often that an entirely new cultural medium is born. But over the last few decades, video games have taken over the world. With over three billion active players, games have emerged as both a ...

At around 6:25 on January 16, 1995, a massive avalanche struck the fishing village of Súðavík in the Westfjords, claiming the lives of 14 people, including eight children aged between one and fourteen ...

When this magazine finds its way into the shops, cafés and cultural institutions of Reykjavík, it will have been a mere 46 days since the inauguration of President of the United States of America ...

“I worry about the public’s declining trust in politics in general. That was my sense when I first went into politics. One of the first things I did was to travel the country on my own, meet people at ...

When I first heard the premise of Óskar Jónasson’s debut feature Sódóma Reykjavík, I thought there simply must be more to the film than a guy spending the whole time looking for a remote control. But ...

What do any two random Icelanders have in common, genetically? If this sounds like the beginning of a bad knock-knock joke (or Jimmy Kimmel sketch), that’s probably because by now you’ve read at least ...