Iceland Airwaves: Fat Dog, jasmine.4.t, Kenya Grace lead first names for 2025
The festival will return to Reykjavík this November
Iceland Airwaves festival has announced its first names for the 2025 edition of the event.
The festival will return to the Icelandic capital Reykjavík on the weekend of November 6-8 this year, and its first 35 names have been revealed.
Leading the first wave of names are Fat Dog, jasmine.4.t, Kenya Grace, Antony Szmierek, The Orchestra (For Now) and more.
See the full list of names so far below.
Reviewing the 2024 edition of Iceland Airwaves, Rolling Stone UK said: “Now in its 25th year, Icelandic festival Iceland Airwaves has become a leader in the global calendar of showcase festivals alongside SXSW, The Great Escape and others. Across its musical programme and conference events, 2024’s edition paints a hopeful but complicated future for music both within and beyond the country’s borders.
“Across the conference, topics ranged from maintaining artistic integrity in a capitalist society, marketing in a stan culture era, the life (or death) of the live music industry and more. On stage and in conversation, young Icelandic bands present exciting and boundary-pushing new music, though worry about the closure of local venues.”