Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds — B-Sides And Rarities

The king of gothic blues collects 20 years of b-sides, outtakes and other unreleased material for an eclectic three-disc set. Designed in almost chronological order, the exhaustive package moves from his snarling lo-fi blues and debonair lounge lizard crooning to more recent, less experimental material. But within all this minor-key brooding are...
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - B-Sides And Rarities

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds — Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus

If ever a man was destined to record an epic double album, it was Nick Cave. The veteran poet/madman's themes have been getting steadily larger since he found God sometime last decade and on this two-faced opus they finally reach Biblical proportions. Even the good book could've used a little editing, however, and while Abbatoir Blues — supposedly...
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — No More Shall We Part

If Leonard Cohen were the lounge act for Heaven, Tom Waits for Hell, then Nick Cave is the lounge act for Purgatory. It's more distraught than Hell. Cave's melancholy songs have been the soundtrack to many a night of drunken barfly disasters. With No More Shall We Part, many a solemn spirit worried that Cave's upswing in life happiness may...
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No More Shall We Part

I Read The News Today... For Nov. 22, 2010

The Dears will launch a webcast at 7 p.m. EST today to preview their upcoming Degeneration Street album. The series will continue until the LP comes out Feb. 15. —Livestream Luke Doucet and blues artist Harrison Kennedy both won three Hamilton Music Awards on Sunday night. No, the trophies were not made of steel. —Hamilton Spectator Wavves' Nathan...
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More Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Albums Getting Reissued

Mute Records reissued the first four albums by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds last spring, and announced plans to eventually reissue the band's entire catalogue. Well, the label is keeping true to its word, as the band's fifth, sixth and seventh albums will also soon be re-released. On March 30, 1988's Tender Prey, 1990's The Good Son, and 1992's...
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Nick Cave's Rejected Gladiator 2 Script

There hasn't been a sequel to 2000's Academy Award-winning Gladiator, but there might have been if a script written by Nick Cave had been accepted by the film studio. The Birthday Party founder and leader of The Bad Seeds has written a novel, acted in and contributed music to films, and written the screenplay for the Australian film The...
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Nick Cave Returns To The Abattoir For DVD Set

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are releasing The Abattoir Blues Tour, a two-DVD set, on Jan. 29. The live set contains two live concerts taken from the band's 2003 and 2004 tour supporting Abattoir Blues and The Lyre Of Orpheus. According to Cave's official website, disc one is culled from a Nov. 11, 2004 performance at London's Brixton Academy....
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Loose Ends: The Doors Open For Ian Astbury And Stewart Copeland

We've already mentioned that The Doors will be playing the big Harley Davidson show at Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario on September 29 and we speculated that Ian "Lizard King Jr." Astbury could take the late Jim Morrison's spot on lead vox. Well, kiddies, unofficial Doors leadman, Ray Manzarek, has confirmed to Billboard.com that...
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