DJ Kevin Cole guides you through some of the best of this year’s Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, one of the world’s premier music discovery festivals showcasing awesome new and emerging Nordic artists alongside forward-thinking international acts across all genres!
It's 37 degrees in Reykjavik, and KEXP is setting up at Kex Hostel for four days of incredible live music. Iceland Airwaves festival is just getting warmed up (it officially kicks off tomorrow), but things are already hot here at the hippest hostel in Iceland. We've brought along all the necessary …
Today, we finish our broadcast during Iceland Airwaves Music Festival with another excellent day of exclusive live performances at KEX Hostel in Reykjavik. Starting out the day is American singer-songwriter John Grant, who's been living in Iceland for the past couple of years, followed by an all Ic…
Watch the Icelandic band's performance from Kex Hostel Iceland Airwaves 2019 and read an exclusive interview .
Watch the Icelandic songwriter's performance from Iceland Airwaves 2019.
Iceland Airwaves Music Festival share the first wave of their line-up, including international acts like Girl Ray and Superorganism, as well as Icelandic acts Júníus Meyvant, Snorri Helgason, and more.
Icelandic electro-pop outfit aYia brought dark, entrancing vibes to Kex Hostel
DJ Kevin Cole chats with the father of the late Icelandic composer in Reykjavik
Our second performance of the day here at the KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, Iceland was yet another thrilling debut of a collaboration between two renowned Icelandic composers.
Next on KEXP’s Iceland Airwaves broadcast live from Kex Hostel is Icelandic indie-rock band Hjaltalín. The band formed in 2004, but didn’t release their debut record
Our second day at KEX Hostel starts off blissfully with the renowned Icelandic composer.
The Norwegian songwriter brings a brilliant blend of electronic-pop music and art-rock to the KEX Hostel in Iceland.
We shared the first wave of line-up announcements from Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, and today, they've rolled out the final list. Fufanu, Reykjavíkurdætur, Sóley, and Gangly have been added to the festival, which already boasted great guests like Fleet Foxes, Michael Kiwanuka, Àsgeir, Aldous H…
Icelandic duo whose worked with the likes of Sigur Rós and Björk brings their stunning composition to KEX Hostel.
The notoriously undefinable Icelandic DIY act tears up the stage as we wrap up day two at the KEX Hostel.
Watch her performance for Iceland Airwaves 2019 during KEXP's broadcast from Kex Hostel.
Next on KEXP live from Kex Hostel at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival was the first non-Icelandic band of this year's broadcast. Operators is the new synth-pop project from Canadian musician Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade/Divine Fits/Handsome Furs). A ray of sun after the bright but melancholy cloud of D…
KEXP presents a stirring, cinematic set from Icelandic avant jazz super-ensemble ADHD, live from the Free Church in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, just before Iceland Airwaves 2014. Recorded 11/03/2014 - 5 songs: Á Sama Stad, Vog, London Út, Merkilegt, Endaleysa.
Our first non-Icelandic act of the festival at KEX hostel gives us a world tour or sounds and heavy doses of psychedlia.
The Dublin act makes their second appearance on KEXP this year with another invigorating performance at KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, Iceland.
