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. Luckily I was still ...

As discussed, Jose Gonzalez is going on a 2015 tour, and since we last spoke it’s been announced that Icelandic folk singer Ólöf Arnalds will be opening on both European and North American dates. That ...

Singer-songwriter Olof Arnalds has one of the most distinctive voices around — only in part because she's from Iceland and usually warbles her folk-flavored tunes in her native Nordic tongue, a ...

In the frigid North Atlantic Ocean between Norway and Greenland lies Iceland, an island nation of only about 300,000 souls. Two-thirds of Icelanders live in and around the capital city of Reykjavik, ...

Five years on from the release of her breakthrough, altogether beguiling debut, Við Og Við, Iceland native Ólöf Arnalds continues to occupy a singular domain in the vast, often derivative world of ...

On 2007's Vid og Vid, Ólöf Arnalds makes a lot happen with very few ingredients: The Icelandic singer/songwriter uses her pristine voice and an instrument or two to conjure a strange, mysterious world ...

Folksinger Ólöf Arnalds is perched in a back room of Sandholt Bakery, a sleepy café located along Reykjavík’s busiest shopping street, wearing traffic-stopping pink lipstick and a sparkly butterfly ...

IN ONE sense it's not fair to focus too much on some of the covers that Olof Arnalds performed in this delightful show instead of her own songs or the pieces written for her by other Icelandic ...

'Palme' is Ólöf Arnalds fourth album, released on near-legendary imprint One Little Indian. While retaining the distinctive and fragile vocals that lilted over her previous offerings, 'Palme' provides ...

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