Latest Brandi Carlile LP Is a Harmonious, Human Reminder to Venture On Olivia Taubner October 8, 2021 Albums, Reviews Brandi Carlile teaches us learned acceptance and resilience via the voice of a generation with In These Silent Days. My musical alliance with singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile began when a song leapt fro... Read More...
Changes: An Interview With Goo Goo Dolls Olivia Taubner November 16, 2016 Interviews It’s just after 1 PM on a Thursday afternoon in November and my phone rings. Goo Goo Dolls co-founder and bassist Robby Takac is calling me from the West Coast where it’s 10 AM. When I answer I'm greeted wa... Read More...
Brian Wilson/Jeff Beck @ Beacon Theatre/The Wellmont Theater Olivia Taubner December 11, 2013 Concerts NEW YORK, NY/MONTCLAIR, NJ—Sometimes two separate entities can seem to be an unlikely pairing—bananas and peanut butter, Aerosmith and Run DMC, french fries and chocolate milkshakes—but when combined, becom... Read More...
Goo Goo Dolls/Matchbox Twenty @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Olivia Taubner November 27, 2013 Concerts 1 WANTAGH, NY—Matchbox Twenty and the Goo Goo Dolls hit the road together this year as co-headliners on the most anticipated tour of the summer. The sold-out Aug. 17 show at New York's outdoor waterside mu... Read More...
Goo Goo Dolls: Something For The Rest Of Us Olivia Taubner September 1, 2010 Albums 10 Something For The Rest Of Us is just that, a collection of "oblique" songs (as John Rzeznik describes them) written for the world to interpret in their own unique way. Rzeznik's voice is in its best shape si... Read More...
Goo Goo Dolls: As I Am Olivia Taubner August 25, 2010 Interviews 3 “I wanted to really focus on: What are these people feeling? What are they thinking? What's going on in their lives? How does it make a man or a woman feel when they can no longer support their family, and they... Read More...
Jeff Beck @ Wellmont Theatre Olivia Taubner August 5, 2010 Concerts 2 MONTCLAIR, NJ—Every artist has his or her own medium with which to paint a picture, whether it be oil, watercolor, pencil, a camera or an instrument. Jeff Beck uses his guitar (specifically an array of Fender S... Read More...
Growing Up Twisted: Interview with Jesse Blaze Snider Olivia Taubner August 3, 2010 Interviews 3 It’s nearing one o’clock when relief is finally achieved by ice cold air-conditioning on this July afternoon in New York City, where outside the temperature averages 100 degrees and the humidity is doling out b... Read More...
Jay-Z @ Izod Center Olivia Taubner April 27, 2010 Concerts 1 E. RUTHERFORD, NJ—I fall in love with euphony that defies genres, and a charming Grammy Award-winning rapper who was born Shawn Corey Carter on Dec. 4, 1969, holds a very special place in my heart. Finally, on ... Read More...
Daughtry @ The Prudential Center Olivia Taubner April 23, 2010 Concerts 1 NEWARK, NJ—Daughtry’s performance at Newark’s Prudential Center was both expected and not. I expected the compressed guitars, somewhat the heavier-than-thou approach, but not lead singer and halftime guitarist ... Read More...
