Reykjavik 2024

BLEECH 9:3 released new single 'Tourniquet,' produced by Dan Carey and mixed by Rich Costey, while announcing 2027 U.S. shows including Mercury Lounge in New York on January 21 and The Echo in Los Angeles on February 3. The band also revealed their debut album title, BLEED.

Two-time GRAMMY winner Laufey has signed to Interscope Records/Verve Records following a successful career as an independent artist with seven billion global streams.

The New Colossus Festival announced its 8th edition, featuring approximately 200 artists from the U.S., Europe, UK, Canada, Australia, and beyond across 12 independent venues in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

SHYGIRL released a new single "Lucky (Hymn)" alongside the announcement of her upcoming album SWALLOW! via Because Music. The album marks a reintroduction blending indie songwriting with electronica.

Elf Lyons brings her Edinburgh Fringe hit to SoHo Playhouse following 29 five-star reviews. The autobiographical comedy explores love and heartbreak through theatrical storytelling.

Estonian vocalist Tui Hirv and Icelandic composer-guitarist Páll Ragnar Pálsson will release LAYERS, an album of ambient interpretations of Nordic folk songs and hymns, on Sono Luminus.

Keath Ósk, formerly known as YAELOKRE, released debut album FOREWORD and will launch a 49-date world tour October 7 in Ghent, Belgium, with stops in London, Orlando and Houston through December 20.

Icelandic rock band KALEO will return to Australia and New Zealand in February 2027 with the WAY DOWN UNDER WE GO TOUR, following a 28-date North American run this month.

Shygirl released her new single 'ALYSE' alongside a cinematic short film, marking her first music of the year and a new chapter for the artist via Because Music.

Former Metropolitan Opera musician Elias Faingersh performs a reworked version of SOLO FROM THE PIT at theSpaceTriplex, blending trombone, opera and personal storytelling.

Laufey will host the fourth annual A VERY LAUFEY DAY, bringing arts-themed events to more than 75 cities worldwide, with proceeds supporting the Laufey Foundation's arts access mission.

Keath Ósk, the artist behind viral project YAELOKRE, released two songs from debut album FOREWORD, due September 4, 2026 via Atlantic Records, ahead of a global tour with stops in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Vanessa Kamp brings Houndstooth, a 60-minute interdisciplinary performance, to this year’s Cannonball festival at Icebox. Multiple characters transit and inhabit sensorial spaces and soundscapes where themes of touch are at once literal and expansive.

Comedian Elf Lyons will make her New York and US debut with her new show, The Woman on The Edge, running at New York’s SoHo Playhouse this fall, with performances beginning in September.

The Paley Center for Media announced a live recording of THE PIVOT PODCAST with former NFL stars Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder, plus a preview screening of THE BRINK OF WAR starring Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris.

The award-winning Swedish trombonist, composer and performer Elias Faingersh recounts his decision to leave the Metropolitan Opera and reinvent himself as an independent artist. Learn more here!

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY will present WORLD VOICES, a four-day festival featuring staged readings of new plays in translation by playwrights from Tuscarora/Canada, Austria, France, Senegal, and Germany.

David Byrne, Tony Award-winning creator of Broadway's American Utopia and Here Lies Love, has added new 2026 shows to his world tour in support of his latest album, Who Is The Sky?

Grammy Award-winning musical artist Laufey will be honored with the ASCAP Creative Voice Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). 

Shakespeare's Globe will present A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM from April 23 to August 29, 2026, directed by Emily Lim with a diverse cast including Audrey Brisson and Enyi Okoronkwo.

Actor’s Express will present VENUS by Steve Yockey as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, running April 9–May 3, 2026, in Atlanta. Directed by Melissa Foulger.

Performances are now underway for the Broadway run of the Olivier Award-winning hit play Giant, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Nicholas Hytner and written by Mark Rosenblatt. Meet the cast here!

Laufey will release a deluxe edition of her GRAMMY-winning album A Matter of Time this spring. Titled A Matter of Time: The Final Hour, the album includes four new tracks and will be available April 10. Listen to one of the new tracks now.

Award-winning singer Stefanie Rummel will come to Adelaide Fringe with Songs From Life. In this show, Rummel takes audiences on a musical journey from the cafés of Paris to the cabarets of Berlin, and the clubs of Manhattan.

REYKJAVIK is less a play to be solved rather than a mood to be inhabited. That may frustrate some, but for others, it’s the kind of theater that embraces mystery, that resists tidy endings, that thrives in the uncanny spaces between genres.