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Halsey announces debut poetry collection ‘I Would Leave Me If I Could’
Halsey has announced a debut collection of poetry called I Would Leave Me If I Could. Read More: The Big Read – Halsey: “I can be feminine and delicate but also really fucking dangerous” The pop star, whose latest album ‘Manic’ arrived in January, will release the hardback book on November 10 via Simon & Schuster. According to an official synopsis, the project will collate “never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder”. Advertisement Announcing I Would Leave Me If I Could on Twitter today (June 25), Halsey said: “I wrote a few thousand sentences but...
Slipknot to stream classic film ‘Welcome To Our Neighborhood’ tomorrow
Slipknot are set to broadcast their classic home movie Welcome To Our Neighborhood tomorrow as part of their ongoing video series. Read more: The Big Read – Slipknot: “I’m just going to tell you the facts: this album is a masterpiece” Originally released in 1999, the film contains self-shot behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and performance clips from the metal group’s early days. Featured live tracks include ‘Wait And Bleed’, ‘Surfacing’ and ‘Scissors’. To mark the 21st anniversary of their self-titled debut album (released on June 29, 1999), Slipknot will stream Welcome To Our Neighborhood on their official Knotfest website tomorrow night (June...
Max Richter announces ambitious new project ‘VOICES’ featuring an “upside-down orchestra”
Max Richter has announced his new album ‘VOICES’, an ambitious project that features what’s described as an “upside-down orchestra” and hundreds of people reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 70 languages. Richter crowd-sourced the vocals by asking for fan submissions, while the orchestra is “upside-down” because of the number of each instrument featured – twelve double basses, 24 cellos, 6 violas, 8 violins and a harp. The album is released on July 31. The first music from the new album, released which was premiered live at a performance at London’s Barbican Centre in February, comes in...
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever on being political: “It’s weird for five straight white dudes to be going, ‘We think this’”
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have discussed their mixed opinions about using their platform to push political causes. Read More: The Big Read –Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: “Lennon, McCartney, Harrison were in competition with each other. We’re not” Speaking in NME Australia‘s Big Read feature, the band discussed Black Lives Matter protests in their native Melbourne, and their decision to auction a signed test pressing of ‘Sideways To New Italy’, donating the proceeds to the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. “We are all very politically engaged and politically aware, and it’s something we talk about a lot,” said the band’s Fran...
Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9th Wonder form new supergroup Dinner Party
Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9th Wonder have formed a new supergroup called Dinner Party. The collaborative project has been launched with ‘Freeze Tag’, which is set appear on the group’s forthcoming self-titled debut album. Arriving with an official studio-based video, the uplifting cut sees Phoelix provide guest vocals. “They told me put my hands up behind my head/ I think you got the wrong one/ I’m sick and tired of running/ I been searching where the love went“, he sings. Advertisement As Stereogum notes, the musicians that feature in Dinner Party go back many years: Washington and...
Phoebe Bridgers: “Hating The 1975, I feel, is sexist”
Phoebe Bridgers, who collaborated with The 1975 on their recent record ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’, has said that hating the band is “sexist”. Read More: The Big Read – Phoebe Bridgers: “I definitely feel a lot less apologetic than I did before” Bridgers contributed vocals to the track ‘Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America’, which she describes as “a duet, but the people in the duet don’t want to fuck each other. It’s a love song of two lonely people.” Asked about critics of the Matty Healy-fronted band, Bridgers told The Forty-Five: “Hating The 1975, I feel like,...
Watch Shannon Hoon lay down Blind Melon’s ‘No Rain’ in trailer for ‘All I Can Say’ documentary
A documentary made up of footage captured by Blind Melon‘s late frontman Shannon Hoon is set to be released tomorrow (June 26) – watch the trailer for All I Can Say below. Read more: This is what Blind Melon’s ‘Bee Girl’ looks like now The VHS footage featured in the documentary’s trailer includes a never-before-seen clip of the singer, who died of a drug overdose in 1995, recording the band’s 1992 hit ‘No Rain’. The trailer also includes footage of Hoon blowing out the candles on his 28th birthday cake; less than a month before his death. Advertisement A description of...
Metallica’s landmark Glastonbury headline show to air in full tonight
Metallica‘s Glastonbury headline set from 2014 will air in its entirety on the BBC iPlayer tonight. Read More: A love letter to Glastonbury – and why next year’s festival will be sweeter than ever The platform has today (June 25) launched a pop-up Glastonbury channel in celebration of what would have been the festival’s 50th anniversary weekend. Classic shows from the likes of Oasis (1994), Jay-Z (2008), Lady Gaga (2009) and Arctic Monkeys (2013) will stream over the next five days. With several “special guests” also featured across the virtual bill, the BBC has now confirmed that Metallica’s landmark Worthy...
Robbie Williams suggests debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory is true: “The right questions haven’t been asked”
Robbie Williams has bizarrely suggested that the Pizzagate conspiracy theory hasn’t been properly debunked. The singer was interviewed by journalist Anna Brees, with a trailer for the second part seemingly showing the moment in which Williams discusses the conspiracy theory – which falsely alleged that Democrat Party officials and US restaurants were involved in a human trafficking and child sex ring. It was widely debunked in the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, but Williams appears to suggest that the theory has not been properly investigated. Advertisement “Look, there might be a personally reasonable explanation for that language, who...Recent Posts
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