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Angel Olsen Extends Big Time Tour Into 2023
Angel Olsen has extended her tour in support of the recent album Big Time with 18 new U.S. dates, beginning Jan. 20 in Atlanta and wrapping Feb. 11 in Durham, N.C. Erin Rae will support. Big Time reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Folk Albums chart and No. 8 on its Top Alternative Albums tally. Olsen is supporting the project on a fall European tour, beginning next week in Lisbon. Last week, Olsen released a new version of the album’s title track as a duet with Sturgill Simpson. Here are Angel Olsen’s 2023 tour dates: Fri. Jan. 20 – Atlanta, GA @ The EasternSat. Jan. 21 – New Orleans, LA @ The Joy TheaterMon. Jan. 23 – San Antonio, TX @ Tobin CenterTue. Jan. 24 – Dallas, TX @ The Studio at The FactoryWed. Jan. 25 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower TheatreFri. Jan. 27 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty HallSa...
Hear Angel Olsen and Sturgill Simpson Revisit ‘Big Time’
Angel Olsen and Sturgill Simpson have teamed for a new duet version of the former’s song “Big Time,” which also doubles as the title track of her latest Jagjaguwar album. The track is out today (Sept. 13) ahead of Olsen’s first performance tomorrow at Nashville’s annual Americana Fest. Olsen and Simpson have been friends since the 2016 release of Olsen’s album My Woman and have now finally collaborated with one another. “It’s crazy to write a song and then watch someone else you really admire sing your words — kinda turns the whole thing on its head,” says Olsen. “I loved the song already, but hearing Sturgill’s take on ‘Big Time’ made me smile ear to ear. He made it come alive on a different level.” [embedded content][embedded content] Big Time reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Folk Albums...
Hear Angel Olsen’s Mournful Cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘One Too Many Mornings’
Angel Olsen has released a stirring cover of Bob Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings” from his classic 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin.’ Olsen’s rendition is featured in the season finale and soundtrack of the Apple TV thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls. The series stars Elisabeth Moss as a Chicago newspaper archivist with a traumatic past. According to a press release, all streaming royalties from the song will be donated to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization fighting for gun control. For Olsen, the melancholic and sparse rendition of “Mornings” sounds right in line with material from her forthcoming album, Big Time (June 3 via Jagjaguwar). Olsen released its third single, “Through The Fires,” which followed March’s “All The Go...
Angel Olsen Shares Trailer for Big Time
Angel Olsen has announced that her forthcoming album Big Time will be released alongside an accompanying film made in collaboration with director Kimberly Stuckwisch. Stuckwisch previously worked with Olsen on the video for her collaboration with Sharon Van Etten, “Like I Used To.” As part of Amazon Music’s Pride Month programming, the film will premiere on June 2 on the Amazon Music Twitch channel, the day before Big Time is released by Jagjaguwar. It will be screened theatrically May 17 in London and June 1-2 at separate events in Los Angeles. A trailer is out now and features “Chasing the Sun” and “Through the Fires” from Big Time. [embedded content][embedded content] “It’s a story that targets deep rooted complexities such as how our unconscious deals with repressed sexual identity, th...
Watch Angel Olsen’s Gender-Subverting New Video for ‘Big Time’
Angel Olsen has finally shared the title track of her forthcoming album, Big Time, out June 3 on Jagjaguwar. The track fully embraces Olsen’s country music inclinations after playing around with the style on other projects. “Big Time” is an unapologetic love song with warm lyrics propelled by her enchanting voice. The accompanying video seeks to make a statement about the fluidity of gender identity and subvert the expectations imposed by the gender binary through the video’s choreography, color, and wardrobe choices. The cinematic video was directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch and choreographed by Monika Felice Smith. According to a release, the video seeks to hold space for existence outside of strict gender roles to “shout to the world that you are more than who you are told to be.” [em...
Angel Olsen Tackles Death, Personal Rebirth on Big Time
Singer/songwriter Angel Olsen ruminates on such weighty topics as coming out as queer and the death of her parents on her new album, Big Time, which will be released June 3 by Jagjaguwar. The organ-flecked first single “All the Good Times” is out now and features Olsen and her partner in the Kimberly Stuckwisch-directed music video. [embedded content][embedded content] Olsen started recording Big Time within weeks of both of her parents passing away. She had also just come out to them, about which she admits, “some experiences just make you feel as though you’re five years old, no matter how wise or adult you think you are. Finally, at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me.” The album was co-produced by Olsen with Jonathan Wilson at his Fivestar Studios in Topanga, Calif. Longtime bandma...
Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, Julien Baker Announce Co-Headlining Tour
Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, and Julien Baker just detailed their upcoming The Wild Hearts Tour, embarking together throughout North America. The co-headlining stint takes off in July for a 20-date run until August. “I’m so thrilled to be traveling and playing music alongside Spencer., Julien Baker and Sharon Van Etten,” Olsen said. “It’s truly a dream, something to hold and share collaboratively as we get out from under the last few years.” Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. local time Friday, January 14. Each artist will play with their own respective band, and artist Spencer. is scheduled to support on all dates. The tour consists of mostly outdoor venues, besides the stops on July 23 at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and on August 12 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The Wild H...
Hear Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen’s Otherworldly Rendition of ‘Like I Used To’
Forty years after “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” came out in 1981, two of Stevie Nicks’ musical heirs — Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen — reincarnated her prowling duet for the pandemic era. “Like I Used To” is another blistering ball-and-chain ballad, except this fraught relationship is about the one you have with your own mind. “Well, my head’s gone today/ sell my past for a way to sing and have something left to say,” Van Etten sings in her mysterious drawl. As with Nicks/Petty, the strange magic of “Like I Used To” lies in the polarity of Van Etten and Olsen’s distinctive voices. Together, they produce a sound that’s somehow both bitter and alluring, like two magnets that never touch. These qualities are heightened on the new, stripped-down rendition Etten and Olsen performed on Jimm...
Jim James, Wayne Coyne, Angel Olsen on the Legacy of All Things Must Pass
George Harrison released his third solo project, the expansive triple-LP All Things Must Pass, in November 1970. And its songs — like “My Sweet Lord,” “Wah-Wah,” “Isn’t It a Pity,” “Behind That Locked Door,” and “Beware of Darkness” — solidified the former Beatle’s signature balance of earthly and divine, from his soulful slide-guitar to the searching spirituality of his lyrics. To celebrate the album’s “50th” anniversary reissue — including the massive Uber Deluxe Edition, complete with gnome replicas — SPIN spoke to three famous Harrison fans about his early masterpiece. Below, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips) and Angel Olsen go deep on the influence and legacy of All Things Must Pass — and Harrison himself. Jim James (My Morning Jacket) CREDIT: Nei...
Angel Olsen to Release EP of ’80s Covers
Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has had a busy past year or so with the release of her most recent album, Whole New Mess, and now, she’s got some more good news on the way. On Tuesday, Olsen announced her new EP titled Aisles, which will consist of ’80s covers and that the release will be put out on her own Jagjaguwar imprint that will be called somethingscosmic. “I know it’s not really in my history to do something unintentional or just for the hell of it, but my connection to these songs is pretty straightforward, I just wanted to have a little fun and be a little more spontaneous, and I think I needed to remember that I could!” Olsen said of the EP in a statement. The EP was recorded in Asheville, North Carolina in the winter of 2020 with co-producer/engineer Adam McDaniel. The firs...
Angel Olsen Shares New Song, ‘Time Bandits’
After appearing on NPR’s Tiny Desk (At Home) concert last week, Angel Olsen has treated fans to a new song on Instagram. “Time Bandits” is a piano-driven ballad that repeats a set of chords the directs the focus to the lyrics. It clocks in at just over 11 minutes. She sings, “I want you I want you I need you right now / To be here and lay down and get on the ground / And hear it and feel it and know that you’re bound / To the earth to each other, and that’s where it’s found / The love that we wanted the future we need / We can’t do it alone, we have to believe / In each other in each other be as thick as thieves.” Olsen penned “Time Bandits” after coming home following a trip to St. Louis a few weeks ago. She did hesitate to post it, but “against better judgment I’ve decided to put new son...
Angel Olsen Covers George Harrison’s ‘Beware of Darkness’
With everything that’s happened in 2020 so far, the year has definitely been a mood. And Angel Olsen adds to it with an acoustic cover of “Beware of Darkness” from George Harrison’s 1970 album, All Things Must Pass. “The original is pretty great,” she captioned the Instagram video, which also included the lyrics to the track. “I’m just messing around like a tired sad shit.” It unsurprisingly got many rave reviews, including one from Jehnny Beth of Savages. “I love the way your voice gets more assured towards the end,” Beth commented on the video. “Properly walking then. The power of music. Thank you.” Olsen just released her fifth album, Whole New Mess, on Aug. 28 via Jagjaguwar. She also played the title track on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch Angel Olsen’s cover of Ge...
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