Agent Fresco
Icelandic math-rock with a soul singer out front, delicate right up until it very much is not.
Iceland Airwaves 2026 Lineup
Three November nights across Reykjavík venues, built to show you bands you have not heard of yet.
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About Iceland Airwaves 2026
Iceland Airwaves has run in Reykjavík since 1999 and has always been a discovery festival first: small venues across the city centre, short sets, and a bill weighted toward Icelandic artists and international newcomers rather than headliners. The 2026 edition runs November 5 to 7 with 95 acts on the official programme.
The international end brings Cobrah, Warhaus, Jamie Woon, Heartworms, Leith Ross, Sandrayati and Taiwan's 9m88. The Icelandic end is the reason to go: Agent Fresco and MAMMÚT returning, Úlfur Úlfur and Emmsjé Gauti on the rap side, Júníus Meyvant and Axel Flóvent writing songs, and a long tail of names like virgin orchestra, someshiit and Falinn Gjóður that will not be on any other festival you attend this year.
Expect pop, alternative, folk and hip-hop across 95 acts.
Iceland Airwaves 2026 lineup & schedule: all 95 acts
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Swedish club provocateur making hard, latex-slick electronic pop for rooms with the lights off — fetish-fashion aesthetics welded to genuinely heavy club production.
Jamie Woon
The voice behind 'Night Air', a smoke-and-sub-bass ballad that has aged better than almost anything from its year.
MAMMÚT
A Reykjavík band together since school, pushing melodic ideas through a lot of noise to get at them.
Warhaus
Maarten Devoldere's louche, cinematic songs, delivered like the last person still sitting in the bar.
9m88
Taiwanese neo-soul with a jazz education behind it, sung across Mandarin and English without changing gear.
Arny Margret
Folk from the Westfjords, spare arrangements and a voice that stays quiet entirely on purpose.
Axel Flóvent
Warm northern indie folk written in a fishing town of two thousand people and built for headphones.
Cell7
An Icelandic rap veteran delivering in English over a jazz backbone, and still sharper than most of the field.
Emmsjé Gauti
One of the biggest rappers in Iceland, filling rooms at home that visitors never hear about.
Heartworms
Jojo Orme's project, military imagery over taut post-punk with real menace behind it.
Júníus Meyvant
Folk soul with a horn section, written on an Icelandic island of four thousand people.
Kaktus Einarsson
Fufanu's frontman on his own, art pop with a great deal of space left in the arrangements.
Leith Ross
Plainly worded songs about tenderness that reliably take a room down to complete silence.
Oyama
Reykjavík shoegaze, guitars set to blur and the melodies buried just deep enough to hunt for.
PISS
Sandrayati
Folk songs recorded partly in Bali and partly in Iceland, whispered more than sung.
Úlfur Úlfur
An Icelandic rap duo who fill the biggest rooms at home, delivered entirely in Icelandic.
Leeds lads making hardware-driven post-punk bangers about mundane dread — deadpan vocals over squelching synths, pitched somewhere between a big night out and an existential crisis.
Alien Chicks
Amor Vincit Omnia
Andervel
Any Young Mechanic
Apex Anima & FRZNTE
Arima Ederra
Bana Zahiti
bed
Birnir
Bjarni Daníel
BKPM
Bleech 9:3
Blood Harmony
BLUAI
Brynja
Brynja Rán
CeaseTone
David Bay
Hushed, unhurried songwriting — a new voice with old grace.
Dumbhead
Einakróna
Emma
Esmeralda Road
Falinn Gjóður
Flesh Machine
Formal Sppeedwear
Gosi
Haukur Páll
HÉR
Inspector Spacetime
Jamie Duffy
JEFF3
Joe & The Shitboys
Jónfrí
Juno Paul
knackered
KOIKOI
Liim
LiteFun
LÓN
Lucy Dreams
Mackenzie Leighton
Mar Pujol
Marsibil
Nori
Short-lived Korean girl group built around a dark fairy-tale concept, working the heavier, more theatrical end of dance-pop before disbanding in 2024.
Pollyfromthedirt
punktò
RAKEL
Revenge of Calculon
Róshildur
RSP
Sævar Jóhannsson
Sakaris
SCAM
Sex Week
Skeler
someshiit
Spacestation
Spouses
State of Grace
Sycamore Tree
SYL
TÁR
The Gnomes
The Itch
Them Flying Monkeys
Tunghoyrt
Una Torfa
Valborg Ólafs
Vicky Sometani
Victoryland
virgin orchestra
Worldpeace DMT
Yaelokre
YARD
The headliners
Cobrah — Swedish club provocateur making hard, latex-slick electronic pop for rooms with the lights off — fetish-fashion aesthetics welded to genuinely heavy club production. Swedish club music built for a much bigger room than these.
- MAMMÚT — A Reykjavík band together since school, pushing melodic ideas through a lot of noise to get at them. A Reykjavík institution, back on the bill.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- bed — One of the more promising new Icelandic names.
Other acts worth planning around
- Úlfur Úlfur — Icelandic rap that fills rooms at home.
The lineup by day
Iceland Airwaves 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Iceland Airwaves 2026?
November 5 to 7, 2026 across venues in central Reykjavík.
Who headlines?
Nobody, officially. Airwaves prints its lineup alphabetically and does not rank it, which is the point of the festival. The tiers on this page are our reading of draw, not the festival's billing.
How many acts are playing?
95 on the official programme, with a day listed for each. Airwaves also runs off-venue shows that are not part of the official lineup.
Are set times and venues out?
Day splits are published. Venue and clock times land closer to the festival.
How do I find the acts I'd like?
Type a few artists you love into the finder at the top of this page. It matches them against this lineup and explains each pick.
Who plays Thursday at Iceland Airwaves 2026?
Thursday, November 5: MAMMÚT, Warhaus, PISS, Adult DVD, Andervel, bed, plus 20 more acts.
Who plays Friday at Iceland Airwaves 2026?
Friday, November 6: Agent Fresco, Cobrah, Axel Flóvent, Emmsjé Gauti, Júníus Meyvant, Oyama, plus 31 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Iceland Airwaves 2026?
Saturday, November 7: Jamie Woon, 9m88, Arny Margret, Cell7, Heartworms, Kaktus Einarsson, plus 27 more acts.
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