Olivia Rodrigo Releases “serena joy” Globally Following Exclusive Physical Debut at Orange County’s Analog Records

OLIVIA RODRIGO RELEASES

NEW SONG “serena joy” GLOBALLY

LISTEN HERE

TRACK MADE ITS PHYSICAL DEBUT FRIDAY, AUGUST 21st

EXCLUSIVELY AT

ANALOG RECORDS IN ORANGE COUNTY,

HOME OF DAISY CHAIN FIELDS FESTIVAL

OLIVIA WILL PERFORM “serena joy”

LIVE AT DAISY CHAIN FIELDS ON AUGUST 29th

 

       Photo credit: ambrosia.healy@umusic.com

Orange County, CA (August 24th, 2026) — Today, GRAMMY award-winning,
multi-platinum artist Olivia Rodrigo releases “serena joy” globally, following the track’s exclusive physical debut on CD at Analog Records in Orange County, California last Friday. The one-store physical release marked the first opportunity for local fans to discover “serena joy,” just eight days ahead of Daisy Chain Fields, Rodrigo’s sold-out music festival taking place August 29th at Great Park in Irvine, California.

Written by Olivia Rodrigo and longtime collaborator Dan Nigro during the sessions for Rodrigo’s third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, “serena joy” is punk in spirit: angsty, urgent and rooted in protest energy. Its release in the lead-up to Daisy Chain Fields is especially fitting, as the festival brings together an all-women lineup of groundbreaking artists, nonprofit organizations, and a community united in support of women and girls. A portion of net proceeds from “serena joy” will be donated to the Daisy Chain Fields Fund.


The physical debut of “serena joy” at Analog Records was an ode to the festival and the Orange County community that will soon welcome it. It also continued Rodrigo’s longstanding support of independent record stores and the communities around them. Most recently, nearly 200 independent record stores nationwide hosted midnight sale events celebrating the release of you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, marking the largest Record Store Day-organized midnight sale in at least a decade.


With “serena joy” available globally today, fans everywhere can listen to the new track, which Rodrigo will perform live for the first time at Daisy Chain Fields on Saturday, August 29th.


See Rodrigo’s full mission statement and learn more about Daisy Chain Fields, the Daisy Chain Fields Fund, and its nonprofit partners at www.daisychainfields.com.


Donate directly to the Daisy Chain Fields Fund here.


Listen to “serena joy” here.


View “serena joy” credits here.




                       Photo credit: ambrosia.healy@umusic.com





photo credit: Lomis, Marissa


About Olivia Rodrigo


GRAMMY-award winning, multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter and philanthropist Olivia Rodrigo is one of the most influential artists of today. After shattering records with her chart-topping, 6x Platinum debut album SOUR – the fastest album in history to have all of its songs certified RIAA Platinum or higher – 3x GRAMMY® Award winning singer -songwriter Olivia Rodrigo made a monumental return with her sophomore album GUTS, revealing newly heightened sophistication as a vocalist and lyricist.


Hailed by The New York Times as “a songwriter of rather astonishing purity” Rodrigo has received fourteen GRAMMY® Award nominations including nods for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year for her work on both SOUR and GUTS. She took home awards for Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 64th GRAMMY® Awards. She was named New Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards, Woman of the Year at Billboard’s 2022 Women in Music Awards and Songwriter of the Year at both the ASCAP Pop Music Awards and Variety Hitmakers. She has also received seven Billboard Awards, a Brit, a Juno, and an NME Award while “Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)” won Best Music Documentary honors at the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards.


SOUR entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 and would go on to become the longest-running debut album in the chart’s top 10 of the 21st century—and the first to spend an entire year in the upper echelon. SOUR also entered the charts at No. 1 in the U.K., Canada, Ireland, Norway, Holland, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. Upon release, SOUR scored the most U.S. audio streams for a female debut album ever and broke the record for the most-streamed album in a week by a female artist on Spotify. In 2022, she kicked off her first-ever world tour—a sold-out run that took her to upwards of 40 cities across North America and Europe.


Praised as an “instant classic” by Rolling Stone, Rodrigo’s sophomore album GUTS debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, coinciding with lead single “vampire” returning to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and Rodrigo’s No. 1 ranking on the Artist 100, thereby giving her a chart triple. Rodrigo is the first female artist in nearly a decade to debut her first two albums atop the Billboard 200 and the youngest artist in Hot 100 history to debut three hits at No. 1 (“vampire” and SOUR’s “drivers license” and “good 4 u”). GUTS’ remaining 11 tracks charted in the top 40 of the Hot 100. GUTS topped the album charts in over 13 countries, including the UK.


In 2024, Rodrigo embarked on her second world tour – GUTS World Tour, which wrapped in the summer of 2025 after 100 sold-out headline shows in 64 cities across more than 21 countries. She donated a portion from her net proceeds from the GUTS World Tour to charities around the globe. The donation was distributed via Rodrigo’s Fund 4 Good – a global initiative committed to building an equitable and just future for all women and girls through direct support of community-based non-profits that champion girls’ education, support reproductive rights and prevent gender-based violence. Rodrigo was named Billboard's 2024 Touring Artist of the Year after the massive global success of her GUTS World Tour.


Before the year ended, Rodrigo achieved another career milestone with the release of her first contribution to a film soundtrack: “Can’t Catch Me Now” from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Music From & Inspired By). The song, nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Song Written For Visual Media, won a 2023 Hollywood Music In Media Award for SciFi/Fantasy Film, a 2024 SCL Award for Outstanding Original Song For A Dramatic Or Documentary Visual Media Production and was shortlisted for the 2024 Oscars.


In 2025, Rodrigo continued to tour through South America, performing at her first ever stadium in Curitiba, Brazil. Dominating the festival circuit, Rodrigo performed at Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City, bringing generations together with special guests such as David Byrne. Rodrigo made history as the second youngest person ever to headline Glastonbury, bringing out iconic special guest Robert Smith of The Cure. Rodrigo also released LIVE FROM GLASTONBURY (A BBC RECORDING), an album that captures her headline set from the renowned UK festival. After officially wrapping her GUTS world tour in the summer, Rodrigo joined forces with Feist for a stripped-back acoustic performance of "We're Going to Be Friends" to honor The White Stripes at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony that Fall.



With over 37 million albums sold globally to date, Rodrigo released her third studio album this June, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, to critical acclaim, becoming the biggest solo debut of 2026, with 485,000 units sold in the first week. Rodrigo became the first artist ever to debut each of their first 3 lead singles at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and first 3 albums at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love also going #1 in 17 countries. The new album marks the biggest debut by a solo act so far this year, and now Rodrigo’s entire discography has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, each new album outselling the last.




Rodrigo is set to kick off her massive sold out The Unraveled Tour in September, quickly selling out globally with over 1 million tickets sold, added stops due to demand, and breaking several venue records. The tour was originally announced with four dates in Brooklyn and quickly expanded to a massive 10-show residency at Barclays Center. Rodrigo also set the venue performance record at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome, bringing the total to an historic 10 dates, establishing a new venue benchmark. At London’s O2 with 11 nights set to perform, Rodrigo joins an elite group of artists who have reached double-digit residencies at the venue including Prince, The Spice Girls, One Direction, Ariana Grande, Elton John, and Rihanna.

Not stopping there, Rodrigo announced her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival, a new music festival bringing together women in music to support and uplift women and girls. The festival will celebrate the power of collective experiences to inspire new ideas, deepen understanding, and drive action. Taking place August 29 at Great Park in Irvine, California, the single-day event will bring together an all-women lineup of groundbreaking artists, women- and girls-focused nonprofit organizations, and a community rooted in creativity, connection, and collective impact. Net proceeds from the festival will benefit non-profit organizations dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls through the Daisy Chain Fields Fund.


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Joining Janeane Wednesday August 19th at 9:00am - Filmmaker Doug Pray & KCRW's David Greene discuss their timely and powerful film, Louder than Guns

 

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Directed by: Doug Pray Written by: David Greene, Ketch Secor Edited by: Doug Pray Produced by: Stephanie Meurer, Ashley York, Doug Pray Executive Produced by: Ketch Secor, David Greene, Foster Phillips   RT: 89 minutes   “Thought-Provoking, Poignant, A Must See” Janet Walker, Haute-Lifestyle   “Easily one of the most important films of 2026” Steve Kopian, Unseen Films   “A perspective that feels almost radical in a media landscape built on outrage” Chris Jones, Overly Honest Movie Reviews We’re having the conversation…   In the wake of yet another mass shooting, this time at The Covenant School in Nashville, Ketch Secor, lead singer of the popular country-bluegrass band Old Crow Medicine Show, decided it was time to speak out on gun reform. He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times entitled, “Country Music Can Lead America Out of Its Obsession with Guns.” It caught the attention of Ketch’s friend, David Greene, former NPR reporter and host of KCRW’s “Left, Right & Center,” and the two set out to kickstart an open dialog about gun rights and gun violence in America. Film director Doug Pray followed Ketch and David as the band toured rural and urban communities, creating the documentary LOUDER THAN GUNS named after a song Ketch wrote for the victims of the Covenant shooting.   Known for their signature song “Wagon Wheel,” Old Crow Medicine Show attracts a wide demographic of music fans, stretching to the furthest ends of today’s culture wars. People in the front row of their concerts might not agree on anything besides the music they love, providing this film with one of modern America’s rarest opportunities: the chance to engage with one another respectfully, despite our differences.   Smashing stereotypes, LOUDER THAN GUNS brings together the frustrations and hopes of citizens who are asked to listen to one another and try to find common ground. Led by Ketch and David, these emotional and inspiring discussions, in barbeque joints, barbershops, church pews, gun stores, and concert halls, prove that localized, community-led discourse has the power to move the needle on gun reform in ways that today’s polarized media and politicians rarely achieve. Because most people in this country—gun owners and non-gun owners alike— want safer communities.   LOUDER THAN GUNS screened in LA on July 28 at Laemmle’s Monica Theater and on July 29 at Laemmle’s Glendale Theater.    To view the trailer, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKewN_PayUY Official website: https://www.louderthanguns.com About Doug Pray Doug Pray is an award-winning Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker, director, producer and editor known for films that explore maverick individuals, subcultures, creativity and the human stories behind complex issues. His documentaries include Hype!, Scratch, Infamy, Big Rig, Surfwise, the Emmy Award-winning Art & Copy, Levitated Mass, and Love, Lizzo. He also served as executive producer, writer and editor of HBO's acclaimed The Defiant Ones, which won a Grammy for Best Music Film. Pray's newest documentary, Louder Than Guns, explores America's deeply divided conversation around gun violence through music, storytelling and face-to-face dialogue. Following the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, the film follows Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor and journalist David Greene as they travel across the country bringing people with differing views together to listen and talk. Born in Denver and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Pray studied sociology at Colorado College before earning an MFA in producing and directing from UCLA's School of Film and Television. His work frequently focuses on people and communities that don't fit neatly into conventional categories, making him particularly interested in how storytelling can create understanding across differences. About David Greene Host of Left, Right & Center on KCRW David Greene is the host of KCRW's Left, Right & Center, as well as Sports in America from PRX and WHYY and the podcast David Greene is Obsessed. Greene hosted NPR's Morning Edition for more than a decade and helped launch the popular morning news podcast UpFirst. Before Morning Edition, he was NPR’s Moscow Bureau Chief, covering the region from Ukraine and the Baltics east to Siberia. He also took two trips across the Trans-Siberian Railway and published a New York Times best-selling book about the journeys called Midnight in Siberia, giving readers a nuanced look at Russian life under Vladimir Putin. Greene was previously a White House Correspondent for NPR and The Baltimore Sun during the George W. Bush administration.

Daisy Chain Fields ❀ August 29th in Irvine, CA at Great Park. the festival features an all-women lineup and 100 percent of the net proceeds will go to charities dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls.

 

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UC Irvine and CureDuchenne to host free screening of ‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’ Friday, Sept. 18, at the Rivian South Coast Theater in Laguna Beach

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UC Irvine and CureDuchenne to host free screening of ‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’

 

EVENT: The UC Irvine Muscle Biology and Disease Research Center and CureDuchenne will host a free community screening of the award-winning documentary “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” during Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month. The event will bring together scientists, clinicians, patients, families and community members to raise awareness of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and highlight advances in muscle disease research, clinical trials and care.

 

The documentary tells the story of Mats Steen, a young man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy whose family discovered after his death at age 25 that he had built a vibrant community and deep friendships through the online game “World of Warcraft.” It explores disability, connection and the impact of online communities.

 

WHEN/WHERE: Friday, Sept. 18, at the Rivian South Coast Theater in Laguna Beach. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., and the film begins at 7 p.m.

 

INFORMATION: The event is free and open to the public, including UC Irvine affiliates. Register at events.rivian.com/theremarkablelifeofibelin.

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

6:15 p.m. Doors open. Attendees can meet UC Irvine muscle scientists and physicians and visit educational exhibits, research demonstrations and resource tables hosted by UC Irvine and CureDuchenne. Select items will be available for purchase throughout the evening, with proceeds benefiting the event. Researchers and clinicians will share information about current clinical trials and advances in muscle biology and neuromuscular disease.

 

7 p.m. Screening of “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”

After the film: Panel discussion and audience Q&A featuring researchers, clinicians and patient advocates

 

BACKGROUND: Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a progressive neuromuscular disease. The Sept. 18 event is intended to connect the experiences of patients and families with the scientists, clinicians and advocates working to advance research, treatments and care for Duchenne and other muscle diseases.

 

“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” premiered in 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won two awards in the World Cinema Documentary Competition – the Audience Award and the Directing Award. It also won a Peabody Award.

 

Muscular dystrophy and other muscle-wasting diseases represent a significant clinical research portfolio within the UCI School of Medicine. The UC Irvine Medical Center currently has eight active clinical trials for muscular dystrophies, including gene therapy studies and those evaluating the safety and efficacy of emerging treatments.

 

Established in 2023, the UC Irvine Muscle Biology and Disease Research Center promotes research, clinical translation and education in skeletal muscle biology. Directed by Armando Villalta, Ph.D., the interdisciplinary center brings together about 80 scientists, clinicians and trainees from across UC Irvine to accelerate discoveries in muscle regeneration and neuromuscular disease. It’s expanding education and workforce development through graduate courses, collaborative research initiatives and a National Institutes of Health-supported T32 training program for future muscle biologists and physician-scientists.

 

CureDuchenne, headquartered in Newport Beach, is a global nonprofit dedicated to improving and extending the lives of people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. For more than two decades, the organization has invested in early-stage research to help advance potential therapies into human clinical trials while expanding access to expert care, education and resources for families.

 

The event is supported by a UC Irvine Campus-Community Collaboration Incubator award.

 

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Coming up August 19th at 9:30am - MILCK — aka Connie K. Lim — joins Janeane to talk about La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical The Family Album.

MILCK and AG (Adrianne Gonzalez) wrote the music and lyrics for this powerful and uplifting new musical about finding your voice, confronting the past, healing, and using your voice for change.

MILCK — aka Connie K. Lim — joins Janeane to talk about La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical The Family Album.

MILCK and AG (Adrianne Gonzalez) wrote the music and lyrics for this powerful and uplifting new musical about finding your voice, confronting the past, healing, and using your voice for change.

We’ll talk about the inspiration behind The Family Album, the creative process of bringing her story to the stage, and what it means to find — and reclaim — your voice.

📻 Wednesday, August 19 | 9:30am

Don’t miss the conversation with MILCK!

#MILCK #ConnieKLim #TheFamilyAlbum #LaJollaPlayhouse #MusicalTheatre #FindingYourVoice #GetTheFunkOut

The Family Album

La Jolla Playhouse | The Family Album - La Jolla Playhouse

Aury Krebs (left) and Claire Kwon in La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical
THE FAMILY ALBUM;
photo by Rich Soublet II.
Photo courtesy of La Jolla Playhouse - PR Becky Biegelsen

Aury Krebs (front) with Paul Nakauchi and Jodi Long
 in La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical THE FAMILY ALBUM;
photo by Rich Soublet II.

Book by Sam Chanse

Music and Lyrics by MILCK (aka Connie K. Lim) and AG (aka Adrianne Gonzalez)

Conceived by MILCK and Jess McLeod

Story by Sam Chanse, MILCK and Jess McLeod

Directed by Jess McLeod

 

Singer-songwriter Mia Bing has been hustling for years and is on the cusp of breaking through in the music industry. Just as she receives the call that could change her career, she’s pulled back to her childhood home, where she’s once again the “disappointing” daughter of her Asian immigrant parents, still haunted by an unresolved secret. Mia must learn to use her voice to confront and heal from the past.

(L-R) Marc delaCruz, Aury Krebs and Courtney Reed in
La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical
THE FAMILY ALBUM; photo by Rich Soublet II.

In 2017, MILCK and AG’s “Quiet” became a viral sensation around the world as an anthem of the Women’s March. That same spirit inspired them and acclaimed playwright Sam Chanse to draw on each of their personal stories to create The Family Album, a humorous and poignant original musical about finding and reclaiming your voice and using it for change.

 

Commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, The Family Album features a soulful power-pop score by MILCK and two-time Tony Award nominee AG (The Lost Boys). Director Jess McLeod is known for work that blends emotional intimacy with expansive visual storytelling. This powerful, uplifting new musical is a journey through the healing power of connection. It will hit you right in the heart.

 

MILCK (aka Connie K. Lim) (Music and Lyrics)
is a singer/songwriter/recording artist and humanitarian who pens anthems for healing, bridge building, and freedom. Her breakout anthem “Quiet” was named a Billboard #1 protest song, NPR’s featured “American Anthems,” and a top feminist anthem of all time by Harper’s Bazaar. In 2025 Elle UK named MILCK as a top 40 Women of Hope. MILCK composes anthemic songs for film, television, and artists; from John Legend to Natasha Bedingfield. MILCK has since gone viral with another song titled “Sisters of Winter,” which is featured on the ACLU’s 2026 national campaign. 

Coming up 8/12 - Dayna Altman - a dynamic mental health speaker, entrepreneur and advocate joins host Janeane on KUCI 88.9fm

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Dayna Altman is an energetic and dynamic mental health speaker, entrepreneur and advocate. The full force and sole operator of Bake it Till You Make it LLC, Dayna harvests her
passion for mental health advocacy by using food and baking to create an authentic recipe for vulnerable storytelling.


The author of five mental health cookbooks, the facilitator of a variety of mental health presentations and the subject of an award winning documentary, Dayna is a sought after storyteller. She has been invited to speak at national conferences, in community kitchens, on the news and most notably, at the White House in 2022.


With experience working in both clinical and advocacy mental health settings, Dayna’s breadth of knowledge in the field informs her work, as does her own recovery. Today, Dayna lives with major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and is in lifelong eating disorder recovery. When she’s not testing out new recipes in her kitchen or quoting her therapists, Dayna is in pursuit of creating art as a means to explore new ways to change the world using her own story.

Joining Janeane on 8/12/26 at 9:00am - Co-Founders of Neighbors Who Nourish: Aafiya Mahmood & Yeshwi Sharma

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The mission of Neighbors Who Nourish is to  bring communities together by nurturing meaningful connections and providing mental health resources to those facing food insecurity. 

Below is our instagram page highlighting the various events they have had so far: 

https://www.instagram.com/neighbors.who.nourish?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Aafiya Mahmood
Age: 16

Co-Founder, Neighbors Who Nourish
Aafiya is a student and co-founder of Neighbors Who Nourish, a youth-led initiative focused on addressing food insecurity while strengthening mental well-being and community connection.

Yeshwi Sharma
Age: 17

Co-Founder, Neighbors Who Nourish
Yeshwi is a student and co-founder of Neighbors Who Nourish, working alongside Aafiya to bring families together through food, mental wellness activities, and community-based support.

How We Got Started
Neighbors Who Nourish grew out of our personal connections to food insecurity, mental health, and the isolation that can come with both problems. We realized that food could be more than something people simply receive, it could be a pathway to bring people together. We began hosting community events centered around shared meals, family activities, and mental wellness conversations. Our goal was turning food from a source of stress into a source of connection. We also provide SNAP-friendly cookbooks and mental wellness resources to help people beyond their events.


About Neighbors Who Nourish
Neighbors Who Nourish is a youth-led initiative addressing food insecurity while strengthening mental well-being and community connection. 

In two months, we have directly impacted 1,170 people and distributed 1,000+ mental health resources and SNAP-friendly cookbooks. Our work brings together three connected pieces: food security, mental wellness, and community. Through SNAP-friendly cooking demonstrations and bilingual cookbooks, families gain practical nutrition resources. In addition, through community mental health activities, they have opportunities to express themselves and support one another. Through shared meals and activities, those conversations become genuine connections. They have brought these events to people ages 6-80+

What We’d Like Listeners to Know
We want listeners to know that food insecurity isn’t only about whether someone has enough food; it can also bring stress, isolation, and uncertainty. We believe community can help anyone, regardless of their circumstances, and that no one should have to carry their struggles alone. 

Through Neighbors Who Nourish, we use food as a starting point for connection, creating spaces where people can feel supported, build relationships, and become more comfortable talking about their mental well-being.