If you said in 2019 (or even 2020 for that matter) that Billy Joel would welcome Olivia Rodrigo onstage at one of his sold-out Madison Square Garden shows in New York City, people would have been … confused. Yet here we are in 2022 and that’s exactly what happened. At Joel’s 82nd consecutive show at […]
On the heels of her blazing debut performance at the Glastonbury Festival, Olivia Rodrigo swung by Manchester’s Bunny Jackson’s and surprised the dive bar’s patrons with a cover of Ednaswap’s “Torn,” popularized by Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia in the late ’90s. “I’m dead sober,” the “Driver’s License” star said before tackling the song on Sunday […]
After singing “Complicated” with Avril Lavigne last month in Toronto, Olivia Rodrigo once again nodded to her musical roots last night (May 24) during the first of two shows at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, bringing out Alanis Morissette for a duet on the latter’s 1995 classic “You Oughta Know.” Morissette sang the first verse of […]
Olivia Rodrigo continues to pay tribute to her influences while on tour. The teen pop superstar covered No Doubt’s 1995 classic “Just a Girl” at her shows at the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia over the weekend, days after she was photographed with No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani at the Met Gala in New York. […]
Olivia Rodrigo has been covering “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne during all the stops of her Sour tour, but last night was different. During the Toronto show, Lavigne joined her onstage to perform her debut single. The pop star introduced Lavigne as someone “who broke down so many barriers, and opened so many doors for girls […]
Olivia Rodrigo kicked off her first-ever tour last night after a year of buzz surrounding her debut album Sour. The alternative pop singer just won Best New Artist at the Grammys on Sunday and was hiding the high as she kicked off her tour at Portland’s Theater Of The Clouds. During the performance, as an […]
Calendar years have never felt more meaningless. It’s 2022? Hooray. This will be the year I…stay inside a lot. But we can still count on music lists to help us organize our calendars. So here’s our latest: 22 Artists to Watch in 2022. (See what we did with the numbers there? Embrace the chaos.) This […]
The late, great Lester Bangs once wrote that we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. And he was basically right until Lil Nas X came sliding down the stripper-pole to Hell. Oh, 2021. You rocked us like a damn sociopath. What an insanely exciting, emotional, and reinvigorating year for music. […]
A pair of rappers pulling off the best Tom Tom Club sample since Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” (G Perico & Rucci), an iconic New Wave band trafficking in tongue-in-cheek nostalgia (Duran Duran), a blackgaze act embracing their love of vocal harmony (Deafheaven), and psych-rockers using the shopping mall as a metaphor for capitalist greed (My Morning […]
Back in June, SPIN published The 30 Best Albums of 2021 (So Far), rounding up everything from mainstream rock to experimental hip-hop. Six months later, we’re back with our year-end recap — and it’s interesting how, even though the stylistic balance has stayed consistent, the picks themselves haven’t. While this list also covers a lot of […]