Valgeir Sigurdsson

Plus Chance the Rapper, Sylvan Esso, Lydia Loveless, Tori Amos, Hamilton Leithauser, Waxahatchee, Margo Price, Bully, Phantogram, HAIM, Gary Numan, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

“Even before this thing hit, I resolved to try to listen to some new music,” Lloyd tells us of the wide-ranging quarantine playlist he’s given us. “Not necessarily new to the world, but new to me.”

Plus: KRS-One, Author & Punisher, Suzanne Ciani, Drexciya, Shabazz Palaces, Psychic TV, Torres, Smerz, and more, plus this year’s eight-hour sleep concert, robots, and more.

The LA shows mark the first time the Icelandic band have performed in public with an orchestra in 15 years.

As previously announced, the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of imaginative collaborations between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the intersection of classical and pop music…

Sam Amidon @ LPR in June (more by Fresh Bread) Solo artist & Doveman band member Sam Amidon‘s new record I See The Sign will be out in March on Bedroom Community and features contributions from Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Nico Muhly, and Valgeir Sigurdsson…