Grinderman, Grinderman, does whatever a grinder can Laser beams from their eyes The Bad Seeds in disguise Look out! Here comes the Grinderman! A new song? Listen guy: It’s a tune called “Heathen Child” And so to boost my indie cred The video, I shall embed Hey there! There goes the Grinderman! Anyway. While perusing Pitchfork’s slender form for the Lanegan video below, I chanced upon this video for “Heathen Child”, from Grinderman’s upcoming sophomore…
During her recent summer tour, Karin Andresson released a very limited edition 7″, featuring her covering Vashti Bunyan’s “Here Before” and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ “Stranger Than Kindness.” Both are excellent, but I found the Nick Cave one strangely interesting. The original is soberly dark, but this Fever Ray version dwells even further, exploring well beyond its limits, thus delivering an even darker, but sensual take. Her drum beats signature sound seals it…
After all of Nick Cave’s success performing with The Bad Seeds, creating spellbinding soundtracks with Warren Ellis and composing screenplays, the Australian cult icon has now turned to the written word, and is being tipped to deliver yet another artistic triumph. Cave’s new novel, ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’, is a menacingly graphic account of a depraved and sex-crazed door-to-door salesman, who also happens to reside in the author’s current home of Brighton, England. Fans…
Nick Cave just announced a busy touring schedule for the rest of the year, recently, for both him and his Bad Seeds, to promote their most recently released LP Dig, Lazaurs, Dig!!!. The band will first play a over month long tour in Europe, with the first show kicking off tonight (April 29th) in Paris, after which they’ll head out to North America, a bit later though. About 5 months late to be more exact,…
April seems to be packed new music, with this week being flooded by new records from the likes of new and old acts alike. FIrst off there’s Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds, who’ve released their latest “Dig, Lazarus, Dig” LP in the UK, at the beginning of last month and are ready for US soil. Then there’s the indie veterans The Breeders, who’ve released their forth record in their long career, the highly anticipated…
Wow; what a week! There’s so many remarkable artists releasing new records this week, that I don’t really know where to start. This week’s bombshell, without a doubt, is Nine Inch Nails latest record, “Ghosts I-IV,” that was subjected to a free digital download by the band, just last night. The album is a 36 track instrumental collection, that’s been planed from last year’s fall, but its sudden leakage wasn’t expect by anyone; anything familiar?….
Here’s another opportunity to crack myself up, as [tag]Nick Cave[/tag]’s back with some new updates on “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” (just love the title) This time Nick and The Bad Seeds have released the video for this ‘epic’ song, that depicts the modern day interpolation of the biblical Lazarus resurrection. The video was directed by Iain Porsyth and Jane Pollard, check it out at the dig website (not digg). Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, is out March 3,…
Here’s a feature about [tag]Nick Cave[/tag] we know you’re all gonna dig, after all with a hip name for Nick and The Bad Seeds’ forthcoming 14th album like “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” you can’t go wrong. The official tracklist was reveled just recently, as well with a US release date of April 8, one month after Dig lands on UK soil on March 3 via Mute. The first single is set to be title track (I’ve…
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