Olivia Rodrigo performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — All it took was a crack of a smile and a bite of the tongue to send the capacity crowd at Chase Center, primed to see pop star Olivia Rodrigo, into…

Taylor Swift accepts the Album Of The Year award for “Midnights” during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy. Every Grammy Awards have own storyline, and the 2024 edition may end up being…

RIFF’s best albums of 2023 include Olivia Rodrigo, Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Mitski, boygenius, Slowdive, Hozier, Yves Tumor, Foo Fighters, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kylie Minogue, The Clientele, Avenged Sevenfold, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Caroline Polachek, Blur, Feist, Sonic Youth and Billy Woods with Kenny Segal. Our album reviews are…

Olivia Rodrigo, courtesy Zamar Velez. Update Sept. 15: Olivia Rodrigo on Friday announced an addition 18 shows to her GUTS world tour, including a second date at Chase Center in San Francisco. Other cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, are now getting four shows. Tickets will be available…

Olivia Rodrigo, “GUTS.” What do Avril Lavigne, Jack White and Taylor Swift all have in common? All of them have met Olivia Rodrigo and love her. Also, all three are in the DNA of her newest album, GUTS. GUTS Olivia Rodrigo Geffen, Sept. 8 8/10 Get the album on…

Olivia Rodrigo performs on “Saturday Night Live” on May 15, 2021. Photo: Will Heath/NBC. Bay Area fans clamoring to see Olivia Rodrigo in concert will have to wait just a little bit longer. The pop superstar was tapped to kick off her tour in support of debut album Sour…

Clockwise from top right: Olivia Rodrigo, Shawn Mendes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Stapleton, The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, HAIM, Roger Waters, Tyler, The Creator, Billie Eilish, Lorde and John Mayer. After the pandemic canceled concerts in 2020, we crossed out fingers that our favorites would be rescheduled. Slowly, they’re…

The best albums of 2021 include Billie Eilish, Brandi Carlile, Tyler, The Creator, Little Simz, Olivia Rodrigo, Wolf Alice, Gojira, Rise Against, Yola and Lord Huron. We’ve made it to the end! These are our absolute favorite 10 albums of the year. What we discovered as a team was…

For those who spent their elementary and middle school days reading teen magazine covers detailing the high-profile breakups of Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas or Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron, the career arc of Olivia Rodrigo the last couple years of stardom feels all too familiar. After her breakthrough on Disney+…