Skuli Sverrisson

Icelandic musician and composer Úlfur Hansson has made a name for himself over the last decade collaborating with Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Ólöf Arnalds, and Anna Von Hausswolff, and has had works commissioned by The Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet and l’Orchestre de Radio France. Now based out of NYC and going simply by Úlfur, he's set to release new solo album Arborescence on November 3...

Olof Arnalds recently finished up a new album, which is her first original album recorded entirely in English. The album was produced. Olof will be premiering material from the new album today (5/14) between 2-3 PM on WNYC's Soundcheck...

Like Loser's Lounge & friends did at Le Poisson Rouge recently, Theo Bleckmann, who also did it at Le Poisson Rouge, and his Hello Earth! project will be performing the music of Kate Bush at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center today, Thursday (1/5)...

DOWNLOAD: Skúli Sverrisson - Volumes (MP3) Skúli Sverrisson is an Icelandic bassist & composer with a history of backing up his talented friends (recent appearances by Skúli include Laurie Anderson's Homeland and Ólof Arnalds's Innundir Skinni)...

You may recognize the name Ryuichi Sakamoto as a member of the pioneering Japanese synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra, or as composer for one of many film scores including The Last Emperor (with David Byrne), Babel, The Sheltering Sky, or one of dozens of others...

Just in time for the Olof/Sam/Kria show in a church tonight (Sept 16), here are the pictures from last week's (le) poisson rouge show that Deerhunter also played (if you count it all as one show with a late intermission) (Sept 9)...

Ólöf Arnalds's set time was 2:30 at the East Village Radio Festival at South Street Seaport on Sunday (Sept 7). That's when I planned to get there, so naturally I arrived at 2:50...