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Leading up to the release of Aisles, Angel Olsen's upcoming EP of 1980s covers, the singer-songwriter has shared her own take on Billy Idol's 1983 hit, "Eyes Without a Face." The track serves as the official follow-up to previous covers, Laura Branigan's "Gloria" and Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance," both of which are also set to appear on the EP.

Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen performed their collaborative track ‘Like I Used To’ on US TV last night – check out the video below.The two singer-songwriters joined forces to record the John Congleton-produced single earlier this year.Van Etten and Olsen were introduced as musical guests by guest host David Spade on last night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (August 9).

Angel Olsen has shared another new track from her forthcoming ’80s covers EP ‘Aisles’, releasing her take on ‘Safety Dance’ by Canadian synth-pop outfit Men Without Hats.Olsen’s industrial-tinged take on the 1982 classic is slower and considerably darker than the upbeat original, progressively building in intensity over time.“I felt this song could be reinterpreted to be about the time of quarantine and the fear of being around anyone or having too much fun,” Olsen commented in a statement.

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Angel Olsen only seems to get more prolific by the year. In 2019, she released her grand, mercurial All Mirrors, and followed it with a stripped-back twin record, Whole New Mess, last year.

Angel Olsen has announced ‘Aisles’, a new EP of ’80s covers – you can hear her rendition of Laura Branigan’s ‘Gloria’ below.The five-track EP is set to arrive on August 20 and will be the first release on Olsen’s new Jagjaguwar imprint somethingscosmic.As well as taking on Branigan’s ‘Gloria’, the ‘Aisles’ EP also sees Olsen covering ‘Eyes Without A Face’ (by Billy Idol), ‘Safety Dance’ (Men Without Hats), ‘If You Leave’ (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) and ‘Forever Young’

Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy and his son Spencer have covered Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen‘s new collaborative single – watch the performance below.The pair shared the single ‘Like I Used To’ last month, complete with its own video and subsequent late night TV performance.Jeff and Spencer’s performance of the song came as part of the duo’s long-running livestream show The Tweedy Show.“That’s the best I can do with not knowing the lyrics perfectly yet,” Jeff says after the performance.

Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen performed their track ‘Like I Used To’ on TV for the first time last night (June 8) – you can watch their Tonight Show performance below.The two artists released their collaborative song, which was produced by John Congleton, last month.Van Etten and Olsen recorded their live performance of ‘Like I Used To’ for the Tonight Show at the LA music venue Zebulon.As Stereogum notes, the two artists’ live set-up included drummer Rhys Hastings and guitarist Emily Elhaj

Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen have spent some of 2021 revisiting their older work: Van Etten recently dropped epic Ten, an album of cover songs that originally appeared on 2010's Epic, with artists like Fiona Apple and Shamir answering her call. This month, Olsen shared the boxset Song Of The Lark And Other Far Memories containing her projects All Mirrors and Whole New Mess plus the outtakes collection Far Memory.

Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen have teamed up to record a new collaborative song, ‘Like I Used To’ – you can listen to the track below.After teasing its arrival earlier this week, the John Congleton-produced track has been released today (May 20).“Even though we weren’t super close, I always felt supported by Angel and considered her a peer in this weird world of touring,” Van Etten said in a statement about ‘Like I Used To’.

Sharon Van Etten has teased a new collaborative song with Angel Olsen – check out the clip below.The pair shared images of each other on their respective social media accounts this week, with the post’s captions reading “lighting one up like she used to” and “avoiding big crowds like she used to”.Now, Van Etten and Olsen have uploaded a teaser for a new joint single titled ‘Like I Used To’ along with a link to its official video, which will premiere on YouTube tomorrow (May 20) at 3pm BST.The

As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and federal regulations loosen, more and more music festivals have been announced for 2021. The latest is Pitchfork Music Festival, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a three-day event on September 10-12 at Union Park in Chicago.

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Angel Olsen shared a new, orchestral version of her song "Waving, Smiling" on Tuesday. The wistful new take features an 11-piece orchestra performing string arrangements by Jherek Bischoff, and turns the acoustic balladry of the original, which appeared on Olsen's 2020 album Whole New Mess, and turning it into a sweeping, cinematic experience.

Angel Olsen has shared a new track – listen to ‘Alive and Dying (Waving, Smiling)’ below.The track is a reworking of ‘Waving, Smiling’, which appeared on Olsen’s 2020 album ‘Whole New Mess’.

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Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has announced that she is gay.

Haley Bosselman editorIn an Instagram post Friday, singer-songwriter Angel Olsen came out as gay.“My beau, I’m gay,” she captioned a series of photos that included her partner, a tattoo, loafers and a massive bear statue. Olsen accompanied the post with a photo of herself, golden hour sunshine beaming on her smiling face, on her Instagram story.

Back in 2019, Angel Olsen shared her much-loved album All Mirrors, and followed it up in 2020 with Whole New Mess, an album of rearrangements of All Mirrors songs. Those albums will be collected on an upcoming boxset titled Song Of The Lark And Other Far Memories.

Angel Olsen has announced a new box set, ‘Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories’, and shared a previously unreleased track – you can listen to ‘It’s Every Season (Whole New Mess)’ below.The box set features Olsen’s two most recent studio albums, 2019’s ‘All Mirrors’ and last year’s ‘Whole New Mess’, as well as a bonus LP and a 40-page book collection which includes unseen photos, handwritten lyrics and original song sketches.‘Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories’ is set for release on May 7

‘Curve Of Earth’ in 2019, teamed up with the Detroit artist Stef Chura for the song, which will appear on a forthcoming seven-inch vinyl titled ‘Schatze b/w Failure’ (out February 26).Mixed by Collin Dupuis (Lana Del Rey, Angel Olsen, St.

Angel Olsen has been confirmed as a featured guest on Miley Cyrus‘ upcoming new album, ‘Plastic Hearts’.Last week, Cyrus shared the tracklist for her much anticipated seventh studio album, which revealed collaborations with the likes of Dua Lipa, Billy Idol and Joan Jett.Mark Ronson, who has also worked on the album, has since shared some more information about songs ‘High’, ‘Bad Karma’ and ‘Never Be Me’.“I love that I get to see the tracklisting at the same time as you all,” the producer

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Angel Olsen has premiered a new track, ‘Time Bandits’, on her social media. The previously-unheard song comes a month and a half after the arrival of her LP ‘Whole New Mess’.Watch Olsen perform ‘Time Bandits’ below: I wrote this after I came home from St.

Phoebe Bridgers, Mac DeMarco and Angel Olsen are among the artists set to play a virtual fundraiser for Planned Parenthood this month.The event, billed as ‘Village Of Love Planned Parenthood’, will be held online on October 25 and also feature a raffle, auction and more, all benefiting Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles and New York.Also playing the event will be Margo Price, Devendra Banhart, Brittany Howard, Ezra Furman, Perfume Genius, Weyes Blood, Tenacious D and lots more, all promising

Angel Olsen has shared a moody new cover of 1930s track ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ – watch her version below.The track was popularised with covers by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and more.“Working on some covers, some expected, some not,” Olsen wrote under a new Instagram video of the cover, which saw her bathed in shadow and playing solo at the piano.“This one’s been close to the heart lately,” she added. Watch her cover of ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ below.

Angel Olsen has shared her rendition of ‘Mr. Lonely’, as featured on the soundtrack for Miranda July’s forthcoming film Kajillionaire.The collaboration with composer Emile Mosseri is a haunting take on the Bobby Vinton classic, which was released in 1964.After Mosseri and July met and decided to collaborate on the score, Rolling Stone writes, the writer and director contacted Olsen.“Suddenly there she was,” Olsen said in a statement.

Angel Olsen has shared a cover of George Harrison‘s 1970 track ‘Beware of Darkness’ on her Instagram page.“The original is pretty great. I’m just messing around like a tired sad shit,” wrote Olsen in the video’s caption.

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Angel Olsen, “Whole New Mess” (Jagjaguwar)If you’re looking for something completely new from Angel Olsen, “Whole New Mess” isn’t it. But if you’re looking for something raw, vulnerable and piercing, this album delivers.“Whole New Mess” sees Olsen stripped down, processing the pain before the songs would become glossier versions of themselves.

Angel Olsen, though, isn’t most artists. Before making her fourth album, 2019’s astounding ‘All Mirrors’, she escaped to a tiny studio in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest of America to work out a bunch of new songs alone, accompanied only by her guitar and the occasional trill of an organ.

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Angel Olsen has shared a new track called ‘Waving, Smiling’ – you can listen to it below.The song will feature on the North Carolina artist’s forthcoming album ‘Whole New Mess’, which arrives on August 28 via Jagjaguwar.‘Waving, Smiling’ in my head is the last scene, a slow-motion realisation of love not lost but at peace somewhere within myself,” Olsen said of the cut.

Angel Olsen has told NME that she predicted that 2020 “would be the year of burning trash”.The North Carolina singer-songwriter, who’s new album ‘Whole New Mess’ is released on August 28, claims in this week’s NME Big Read interview that with the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement gathering momentum, it has been a year of scrutinising every system we once accepted without question.“It’s a trash-burning year! Let’s reveal everyone, everything, pull the rug out from all of