Well, if you were worried that music may not return in 2021, here’s a sign that things may be looking up. Las Vegas fest Life Is Beautiful revealed that Billie Eilish, Green Day and Tame Impala will headline this year’s event, which is slated to take place Sept. 17-19 in downtown Las Vegas. Other performers include HAIM, A$AP Rocky, Illenium, St. Vincent, 6LACK, Modest Mouse and many, many more. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “obj”: {“id”:”25115″,”width”:”480″,”height”:”270″,”playlist”:”10315″,”inviewBottomOffset”:”105px”} }); –> “When curating the lineup for Life...
The 2021 Grammy Awards have announced this year’s performers, and the list is stacked. Taylor Swift, Chris Martin, Haim, and Billie Eilish are all set to take the stage “while still safely apart.” The broadcast will also include sets from Bad Bunny, Black Pumas, Cardi B, BTS, Brandi Carlile, DaBaby, Doja Cat, Mickey Guyton, Brittany Howard, Miranda Lambert, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa, John Mayer, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, and Harry Styles. Trevor Noah-hosted event will take place a little later than usual this year, after the Recording Academy postponed the ceremony from its original Jan. 31 date due to COVID-19 concerns. Though she won’t be performing, Beyoncé leads the pack&nbs...
Filmmaker R.J. Cutler – best known for his work on documentaries such as The War Room, The September Issue, and Belushi – recalls that there wasn’t much he really knew about Billie Eilish when he was invited to meet her and her family at their L.A. home several years ago. And it didn’t matter. As he remembers the brief drive up the 101, he says he knew about “Ocean Eyes” – the 2015 song that Eilish and her brother, producer Finneas O’Connell, had uploaded to SoundCloud, catapulting the pair to millions of streams and the attention of record labels – and that she was local. But beyond that, he was going in relatively blind. Whether through some directorial instinct, brilliant luck, or some combination of the two, Cutler would spend two years, from 2018 to 2020, following and capturing...
She may still be just a teenager, but Billie Eilish’s 19 years will be chronicled in her first book, BILLIE EILISH, a visual narrative journey through her life. The book, featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photos from her childhood, on tour, and more, will be out May 11 in hardcover and e-book, along with an audio companion. “I spent many hours over many months pouring through my family albums and archives, handpicking all of the photos in this book. I hope you love it as much as I do,” Eilish said in a statement. Published simultaneously with the book will be a standalone audiobook of never-before-told stories and recollections from her personal life and career. It will be released through Grand Central Publishing (GCP), a division of Hachette Book Group, and...
The Beastie Boys, Billie Eilish, Wilco and more have customized a bunch of Yeti coolers for a charity auction benefitting out-of-work touring and venue crews. Bidding is now open, with the opening bid for the Eilish cooler starting at $225; Phoebe Bridgers’ decorated cooler at $300 and the Beasties’ starting at $700. All proceeds from Yeti’s One for the Roadies campaign go to Crew Nation, a relief fund established by Live Nation that helps unemployed live music workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Beasties’ cooler comes “full of merch and includes a vinyl copy of Beastie Boys Music”; the Brandi Carlile cooler features art created by the singer and her family — and includes a drawing of a unicorn and rainbows on the lid– while the My Morning Jacket one comes with cool artwork...
The first trailer for the upcoming Billie Eilish documentary, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, is out now. It opens with her hanging out in a bedroom with her brother FINNEAS before giving a glimpse into her life. The footage includes scenes of Eilish passing her driving test, a shot of her “dream car” (a Dodge Challenger), her relationship with her family and of course, performing early in her career. The documentary will chronicle her rise from playing for her family to selling out arenas all over the world and winning Grammys. Watch it below. [embedded content] The film will be released in theaters by Neon and premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Feb. 26, 2021. It is directed by R.J. Cutler, whose recent work includes Belushi, The Sep...
Cyndi Lauper has announced her 10th annual Home for the Holidays benefit concert, featuring such stars as Billie Eilish, King Princess, Cher, Phoebe Bridgers, Sharon Osbourne, Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Bette Midler, Billy Porter, LL Cool J, Adam Lambert, Whoopi Goldberg, Youth Pride Chorus and many more. Home for the Holiday premieres on Dec. 11 exclusively on Lauper’s TikTok at 8PM EST, along with an additional stream Dec. 13 on Lauper’s YouTube and Facebook at 8PM EST. One hundred percent of the net proceeds go to True Colors United, the organization she co-founded to prevent and end homelessness among LGBTQ+ youth. “It’s been a crazy year, but I am grateful for so many things,” Lauper said in a statement. “My immensely talented and generous f...
Billie Eilish can now add “music video director” to her resume. The 18-year-old Grammy winner has taken the cinematic lead on the video for her new single, “Therefore I Am.” Filmed in the currently empty Glendale Galleria shopping mall, we get a peek at Eilish’s adolescent stomping grounds. INFORMATION ABOUT VIDEO. Not only does she have a new single, but fans will also get the chance to watch her play it live at the American Music Awards, which will air on Nov. 22 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC. “Therefore I Am” follows “My Future,” which initially released at the end of July and then performed at the Democratic National Convention in August. She, along with her brother and collaborator Finneas, played an epic set for NPR Tiny Desk. Watch Billie ...
Billie Eilish debuted her song “my future” at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, so it’s no surprise that when the Trump administration was looking for celebrity support, a report unearthed by The Washington Post described the young singer as “not a Trump Supporter” and “destroying our country and everything we care about.” The Post noted that “Trump’s $250 million coronavirus ad campaign had ‘partisan’ edge, down to the celebrities chosen to participate.” Apparently, there were no further details in the report about how Eilish was doing the things she was alleged of doing. However, out of 274 celebrities considered, apparently, 10 were approved. Other rejected icons included Jennifer Lopez (for her Super Bowl performance which criticized Trump’s immigration policies),...
Following the speedy confirmation of Justice Amy Comey Barrett and fear of losing health care rights, Michael Stipe, Billie Eilish, Foo Fighters and other musicians have signed onto a new Planned Parenthood campaign to urge people to vote. Entitled “We Need Every Voice,” the full-page ad will appear in six newspapers at six key states: Arizona Republic, Detroit Free Press, Tampa Bay Times, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Austin American Statesman, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Everything is on the line with this election,” Alexis McGill Johnson, President, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement. “Voters across the country understand that we need leaders who will fight to protect our rights and access to health care in every branch of government – that’s why tens of millions of Ame...
After unveiling her monochorme video for “No Time to Die” last week, Billie Eilish brought a live performance of the track to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (Oct. 5). With her brother Finneas at the piano, Eilish was seated on the steps of a beautiful theater and gave a smoldering performance of the song from the upcoming James Bond film. Before their performance, the brother-sister musical powerhouse chatted with Jimmy Fallon about the “crazy, surreal” experience of how they got the opportunity to write the next 007 theme song. “I don’t know when it was real,” Eilish said. “But I do know, for many years, we’ve wanted to write a Bond song, not even [that] we thought we could. It was more like a fantasy, like a complete fantasy, like, ‘How cool would it be to do this?R...