Nick Cave

In Prohibition Drama Lawless, Looks Trump Drama

Sharon Van Etten: Personal, But Not Too Personal

Sharon Van Etten's Tramp is a study in directness. Beyond Van Etten's voice, a clear, present, hum, there's the sounds -- sparse, and focused, produced by of Aaron Dessner of The National. The record is centered on the idea of clarity, illustrated by song titles like "I'm Wrong," "We Are Fine," an ... More >>

Your Guide to Highly Anticipated Summer Films

Dark Wave

Celebrate National Novel Writing Month with Five Musician/Novelists

Nick Cave, author of And the Ass Saw the Angel and The Death of Bunny Munro​People like to dedicate the month of November to specific tasks. Say, growing a mustache (Movember) or writing a novel (National Novel Writing Month). One dude who clearly knows how to do both is Nick Cave. His books, ... More >>

The Sowing of The Bad Seeds, Part Three: Third Set of Nick Cave and Band's Catalog Reissues

Steve Gullick / NickCaveandtheBadSeeds.comNick Cave, third from left, and The Bad Seeds​If there were ever an artist who has passed the half-century mark in age and is making new works every bit as engaging, if not more so, than what was created in their so-called "prime," it has to be Nick Ca ... More >>

Grinderman: Grinderman 2

​Artist: GrindermanTitle: Grinderman 2Release date: September 14Label: Anti-Most of the indie rock I've heard this year (well over 200 records and counting, with 11 weeks to go in this series) is really pretty toothless. Even the harder-rocking stuff, with its big drums or wall-of-sound guitars or ... More >>

Grinderman Accused of Plagiarism for 'Palaces of Montezuma'

​Nick Cave of Grinderman has been called out by a random 29-year-old shmoe who claims Cave ripped off his song to make "Palaces of Montezuma."Cave addressed the issue at a show in London on Friday, stating that someone is trying to sue him for supposedly basing the Grinderman song on his own. The ... More >>

10 Most Bizarre Videos of the Year (So Far)

​Floating heads shooting lasers, machete wielding mad men, exploding gingers and Lady Gaga.You're probably asking yourself what all of these things have in common. If you said, 'things you see while dropping acid,' you aren't that far off. Actually, those scenes are just some of the oddball image ... More >>

The Sowing of the Bad Seeds, Part Two: Second Set of Nick Cave and Band's Catalog Reissues

​ We dig Nick Cave. A lot. We've documented as much previously here, here and here. With this second set of reissues of the Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds catalog -- begun last year to mark the 25th anniversary of their recorded debut -- we've now reached the halfway point of the band's 14 stud ... More >>

Arty Girl: Green Streets, In the Yard, Stylos and Spanish Market

By Joe Lanman on flickr Creative CommonsYou're going to need something bigger than that.​I did my fair share of being out and about these past two weeks, soaking up the Nick Cave lecture at SMoCA, making a jaunt to First Friday and hitting the Canalscape opening at ASU Art Museum (among other even ... More >>

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Arty Girl: A Couple Things...ASU Today, SMoCA on Wednesday

By .:Siddhartha:. on flickr Creative Commons.​First, you have just two days to get a little scratch together and purchase tickets for the "Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" lecture and soundsuit performance. But you already knew that, right? I mean, we've written a night & day pie ... More >>

Lingering Monsters

Artist’s “soundsuits” put run-of-the-mill beasties to shame

Nick Cave's Creative Roll Continues with New Novel and Double Album of Soundtrack Work

nickcaveandthebadseeds.comMulti-media master. In addition to his musical work with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Birthday Party, Nick Cave has penned screenplays, scored films and just released his second novel.​ Things getting better with age is an age-old cliché that rarely holds true f ... More >>

October 13 In Blogs: Lou Dobbs, Nick Cave, Lola Tapas, and Arizona Democrats

​​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Salvador Reza Calls for Anti-Joe Arpaio March This Friday, October 16 The Anti-Lou Dobbs ... More >>

Culture Club

Scottsdale hot spot brings in fall with a bang

"Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" at SMoCA Lets Visitors See and Hear Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits”

John Hughes Shrine in NYC, Aerosmith Cancels Tour, Anthony and the Johnsons Cover Beyonce

Sound of the City: There Is Now A Shrine in the Spot Where John Hughes Died Spin: Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week Spin: Watch as Nick Cave Reads from New Novel Rolling Stone: "The Beatles: Rock Band" Boasts Unheard Lennon, McCartney Audio Rolling Stone: Aerosmith Cancel Summer Tour Due to Tyler's ... More >>

Higher Repurpose

If a twig falls in the forest, will Nick Cave stick in it a Soundsuit?

Didgeridoo-ist Xavier Rudd: One Day He May Join Kylie Minogue, Rick Springfield, and Men At Work in the Top 10 Aussie Acts

The Sowing of The Bad Seeds: Nick Cave and band's early catalog gets deluxe reissues

Nick Cave is a bad-ass. Perhaps, the baddest ass around. Consider: in the last few years alone, he's released two of the best albums of his career -- Dig Lazarus Dig!!! with longtime backing band The Bad Seeds and the self-titled debut by side project Grinderman. He wrote the screenplay and sco ... More >>

Taylor Swift, Al Barr, and More Reflect on Songs to Be Thankful for

Rising Sand collaborators Plant and Krauss inspire a game of musical pairs

Deep thoughts on the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album

The Limit Club

No Limits for The Limit Club

Interpol

Our Love to Admire
(Capitol Records)

Grinderman

Grinderman
(Anti-)

Finger-Pluckin' Good

The family-size box

Poetry and Puncture Wounds

The Bad Seeds

A new breed of revisionist Western

Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands

Snake in the Radio
(Bloodshot)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
(Anti-/Mute)

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nocturama (Anti)

Best Place To Buy New CDs

Tower Records at Desert Ridge

Bertrand Burgalat

The SSSound of Mmmusic (Emperor Norton)

Powderfinger

Odyssey Number Five (Republic/Universal)

The Scientists

Blood Red River 1982-1984 (Citadel, Australian import)

Molten Wax

Critical Mass

A recap of the releases that made it worthwhile to own a CD player in 1998

Hank's Tank

Copy Cats

In the tired realm of tribute albums, imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence

Recordings

It Was a Dark and Holy Night

Recordings

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