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Billie Eilish took full advantage of the coincidental intersection between her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour route and the campaign trail this weekend when she performed in the key swing state of Georgia.

Eilish played two shows at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, and during her first show there, on Nov. 2, she stopped the performance to address the crowd. “Times are really scary and a lot is at stake and I know that if you’re in this room and you support me, you support women,” Eilish said...

Billie Eilish brought the heat when she graced the stage during the October 19 episode of Saturday Night Live!

The 22-year-old Hit Me Hard and Soft superstar was the musical guest for the episode, which was hosted by Michael Keaton.

She performed two numbers during the beloved late-night show – “Birds of a Feather” and “Wildflower!”

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With the assistance of her brother and creative partner Finneas O’Connell, Billie delivered two impressive performances with simple but impactful staging.

For “Birds of a Feather,” she performed against an ethereal background of clouds in a bright blue sky. “Wildflower” was even simpler, with Billie singing under a moody blue light.

Speaking of Billie, the hitmaker is rumored to be in the running for a starring role in a popular show. During a recent interview, she also revealed something that she would no longer discuss publicly.

Check out both of Billie Eilish’s performances below…...

As Finneas promotes his latest album For Cryin’ Out Loud!, the hit producer popped into the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to perform a cover of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees.” In a video posted Friday, Finneas sang an emotional rendition to the 1995 hit, as piano keys swelled in the background.

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke previously divulged the origins of the track. The song was “the product of a joke that wasn’t really a joke, a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of sorts,” he said, per Far Out Magazine,...

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 8, Rolling Stone is breaking down 13 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.

This was such a great year for songs that we almost wish the Grammys would revert back to 10 nominees instead of eight. But don’t worry, we managed to squeeze in two Post Malone collaborations, as well as dynamite pop stunners by Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and more.

“Overall, it’s been an amazing year in music,...

Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 8, Rolling Stone is breaking down 13 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night.

This nomination year had rock-solid full-lengths from four Grammy perennials of recent vintage — Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, and Black Pumas — which doesn’t leave much wiggle room in the eight-entry field of Album of the Year. But that is enough space to nod to Chappell Roan’s meteoric rise and the hold that Brat Summer had on the collective imagination,...

Reviews of Billie Eilish’s extraordinary Hit Me Hard and Soft have, not surprisingly, underscored the singer’s embrace of her bisexuality. Both the 22-year-old’s sense of style and dry, clipped vocal delivery are at times reminiscent of another queer trailblazer, Ani Difranco, whose fierce independence helped carve a path for “outsider pop” artists like Eilish—and who also has a new album out this week.

Unlike Eilish’s latest, Unprecedented Sh!t is less interested in interpersonal relationships than the sociopolitical conditions surrounding them. On “Virus,” Difranco examines her guilt about how Covid affected her (“I was so deeply pleased to pause this life/I think I jinxed the world and caused this strife”) and acknowledges the ways in which we silo ourselves from each other (“I just keep listening to my own voice/In the echo chamber of my choice”).

This is Difranco’s first album in...

A stage musical adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis’ best-selling novel which became a hit series on Netflix, is in the works, with Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Mitski attached to write the music & lyrics, playwright Eboni Booth (Primary Trust) writing the book and Obie Award-winner Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) set to direct.

The project was announced today by producers Level Forward, Tony-winning Tina star Adrienne Warren, Lawryn Lacroix, and Tony Award-winning producer Mara Isaacs (Hadestown).

“Before Level Forward even brought the idea of making a musical of The Queen’s Gambit, I was a fan of the Netflix show, and an even greater fan of the original novel,” said Mitski in a statement. “So I was already determined to be a member of this team. And then I met Eboni and Whitney, and my determination grew tenfold!

Soft Cell have announced an expansive reissue of their breakout debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, out October 20th via Mercury-Emi/Umr.

The release is highlighted by a 6xCD, 98-track Super Deluxe Edition featuring 40 previously unreleased tracks. In addition to a new remastering of the album by Barry Grint, the first disc includes the A- and B-sides in their original 7-inch versions. Meanwhile, the second disc features extended versions and new remixes of each of the album’s tracks, and the third is filled with BBC session highlights alongside demos, outtakes, and audio from BBC TV and radio appearances on The Richard Skinner Show, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops, and more.

Also included are a full instrumental version of the album and demos, original 12-inch A- and B-sides from 1981 and 1982, and live recordings from Soft Cell’s shows at Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo in November 2021 and...

Outfest Fusion, LA nonprofit Outfest‘s film festival dedicated to queer Bipoc storytelling, has unveiled the full lineup of films for its 20th anniversary festival.

10 features, 93 short films, and four TV presentations will screen during the March festival in Los Angeles, including Sundance documentaries “Little Richard: I Am Everything” and “The Stroll.” Documentary “Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn,” produced by Xpedition and Al Roker, and featuring Lee Daniels, will make its North American premiere during the festival; in total, 23 films will make world premieres, five will make their U.S. premiere, four their international premieres, and three their North American premieres. Over half of all films were directed by women, non-binary, two spirit, or gender-nonconforming filmmakers.

“We are at a moment where our industry is ready to have an honest dialogue about inclusion, investment and representation of people of color and yet our entire LGBTQ+ population is facing a...

Last year, as the industry was looking to lift itself out the pandemic’s purgatory at the box office, SXSW lit the wick on A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which wound up dynamiting the 18-34 hipster moviegoer set in what became the highest-grossing indie film of 2022, the best ever for the New York-based distributor, and now a potential Oscar Best Picture winner.

As such, it’s often been said that SXSW has been a place to launch big studio horror titles and comedies before genre-friendly crowds rather than sell them and discover frosh talent; it’s here where eventual Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton first made a big splash with the Brie Larson drama Short Term 12. Still, that slow rhythm has never deterred sellers from utilizing the Austin festival as place to launch fresh talent directly to a zeitgeist demographic, away from...

Outfest is gearing up for the 20th anniversary of its Outfest Fusion Qtbipoc Film Festival.

The organization revealed on Tuesday the lineup of films that will screen during the 10-day festival as well as the news that The Inspection filmmaker Elegance Bratton has been selected to receive the Fusion Achievement Award at the opening night gala on March 24.

The honor recognizes “an individual who has made a significant contribution to LGBTQ+ visibility in stories, arts and media,” per Outfest. Bratton has been making the rounds as of late for A24’s The Inspection starring Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union. Inspired by his own story, The Inspection follows a gay Black man who is rejected by his mother and left with few options for his future. He then decides to join the Marines where he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of...

Outfest has announced its feature lineup for its 2023 Outfest Fusion Qtbipoc Film Festival, which will run from March 24 through April 2.

Outfest Fusion will be celebrating its 20th anniversary by showcasing Lgbtqia+ filmmakers and their various films depicting queer and transgender stories. There will be nine features, including two 2023 Sundance documentaries, “Little Richard: I Am Everything” from Lisa Cortés and “The Stroll” from Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker. Cortés documentary explores how Richard “Little Richard” Penniman worked through his struggles with his sexuality, all while he made his mark on rock n’ roll. While Lovell and Drucker follow transgender women of color as they detail the community’s history of sex work in New York City.

In addition, the Outfest Fusion lineup includes Dawn Mikkelson, Keri Pickett’s “Finding Her Beat;” Fábio Leal’s “Follow The Protocol;” Timothy Harris’ “Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn;” Joseph Amenta’s “Soft;” Lorena Zilleruelo...

Iran-France-Norway co-production follows all-female Kurdish militia Ypj.

Visit Films has boarded worldwide sales rights to Iranian filmmaker Negin Ahmadi’s documentary Dreams’ Gate ahead of its world premiere in Berlin Generation 14plus.

Ahmadi travels to the war zone of northern Syria to follow the lives of the women in the Ypj, an all-female Kurdish militia for whom fighting Isis is a way to escape the restraints of a patriarchal society.

Dreams’ Gate (Darvazeye Royaha) weaves together candid moments between the female soldiers with the brutality of combat and offers a visual diary that examines the role of women in battle...

Iran-France-Norway co-production follows all-female Kurdish militia Ypj.

Visit Films has boarded worldwide sales rights to Iranian filmmaker Negin Ahmadi’s documentary Dreams’ Gate ahead of its world premiere in Berlin Generation 14plus.

Ahmadi travels to the war zone of northern Syria to follow the lives of the women in the Ypj, an all-female Kurdish militia for whom fighting Isis is a way to escape the restraints of a patriarchal society.

Dreams’ Gate (Darvazeye Royaha) weaves together candid moments between the female soldiers with the brutality of combat and offers a visual diary that examines the role of women in battle...

If you asked Saweetie about this new performance, she’d probably say “I’m not bothering nobody, I just breathe and sh-t.” But some football fans are coming hard for the rapper after the NFL announced that she will take the virtual stage at a Super Bowl Concert on Roblox.

On Tuesday, the NFL revealed that Saweetie will perform on Friday for a “family-friendly, fully motion-captured” Roblox show ahead of Sunday’s championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. “A concert like you’ve never experienced before,...