Photo © Alexander Matukhno - Iceland Airwaves

The programmers of the Montreux Jazz Café were in Reykjavik Mid-October

Since the first edition was held in 1999 (in an airplane hangar), Iceland Airwaves has become one of the premier annual showcases for new music – Icelandic and otherwise – in the world. It's made a heap of friends and won many fans along the way, and been lavished with praise pretty much everywhere they write about music. Example: Rolling Stone magazine called it "The hippest long weekend on the annual music-festival calendar."

Below, some of their favourites:

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