SANTA CRUZ — Entertainer Oliver Tree aims to finish performing his music on all seven continents within the coming year — but not before the Santa Cruz native makes a special stop to help the needy in ...

A cartoon character by design, Oliver Tree’s comical image and mastery of over-the-top gimmickry can be a double-edged sword. Simultaneously a living, breathing meme and a genre-fusing sonic ...

SANTA CRUZ — These days Oliver Tree Nickell lives in Hollywood. But he started out here in Santa Cruz. The performer’s first album (and last) “Ugly is Beautiful” was released by Atlantic Records and ...

James Hetfield is a lifelong reveler in “manly” extremes. It makes sense that Hetfield, the lead snarler for Metallica, would voluntarily brave remote and frigid conditions. Oliver Tree, though?

Who is Oliver Tree? Even his fans haven’t really known the answer, as the wacky pop music star has presented himself in a mysterious, Andy Kaufman-like way throughout his career, conjuring various ...

Oliver Tree recently shocked fans when he broke the news his debut album, Ugly Is Beautiful, was “officially canceled due to COVID-19” a little more than 24 hours before its release. Earlier this year ...

Oliver Tree has unleashed his final song and video “Let Me Down.” If you’re unsure why it’s considered the final song, well, that’s because the singer canceled his upcoming album Ugly Is Beautiful ...

Oliver Tree has released his new album, Cowboy Tears. In keeping with Tree’s characteristic vision, the new record is thematically rich and builds on his unique blend of music and performance art.

Not long after Oliver Tree released the video for “All That x Alien Boy” — in which the bowl-cutted singer gets bowled over by a minivan, staggers to his feet bloody but unbowed, finds his way to a ...

Messages from close friends and industry folks alike flooded Oliver Tree’s phone after the Kid Laroi released the cinematically eccentric video for “Thousand Miles” in late April. Friends and ...

Every time we check in on one of our favorite viral juggernauts, Oliver Tree, it’s a new adventure. No creative mind in the world can claim anything close to Tree’s level of preposterous, but that’s ...