Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Cave Preaches To Choir

Like most people currently in their mid-to-late twenties, I arrived late to the Nick Cave party. Unless your parents were older hipster elite (and mine weren't), most of us first heard Cave's menacing growl on "Red Right Hand" midway through Wes Craven's pop horror flick, Scream. I actually bought Cave singles out of curiosity...
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Nick Cave (photo by Rachel Verbin)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

The Grinderman is gone and Australia's favourite wandering, murder ballad-singing, ex-heroin-using frontman is back with his Bad Seeds. I admit I don't really love the group's last effort, the double-disc Abbatoir Blues, but Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! has made me forget my misgivings. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are once again one of the most creative...
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Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

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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Mute Reissuing Nick Cave Albums

Mute Records will reissue all 14 of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' albums, starting with the first four on April 7. The band's 1984 From Her To Eternity debut, 1985's The Firstborn Is Dead and 1986's Kicking Against The Pricks and Your Funeral... My Trial will be the first to get the reissue treatment, including digital remastering and remixing...
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Mick Harvey Leaves The Bad Seeds

Mick Harvey, Nick Cave's longtime musical collaborator, has left Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Harvey — who played guitar, bass, keyboards and drums in The Bad Seeds — announced on Thursday he would be leaving the band to pursue other projects. "For a variety of personal and professional reasons, I have chosen to discontinue my ongoing...
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Pumping: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — The Abattoir Blues Tour

Anybody else think "The Ship Song" is absolutely amazing? I have no idea and I lack context because to ask this of a diehard Cave fan would actually mean having to engage in dialogue with them and we all know what that would be like. We're having our staff Christmas diner tonight, so album felt appropriate to play for whatever reason...
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Nick Cave At Kool Haus

Photographer: 
Rachel Verbin
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 1, 2008
Nick Cave

Nick Cave At Kool Haus

Photographer: 
Rachel Verbin
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 1, 2008
Nick Cave

Nick Cave At Kool Haus

Photographer: 
Rachel Verbin
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 1, 2008
Nick Cave

Nick Cave At Kool Haus

Photographer: 
Rachel Verbin
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 1, 2008
Nick Cave

Nick Cave At Kool Haus

Photographer: 
Rachel Verbin
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 1, 2008
Nick Cave

Nick Cave Bringing Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! To Bookstores

Music journalists have written plenty of books which dissect songs and albums, but now Nick Cave is publishing a book that will serve as an accompaniment to the title track of his latest album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!. The 40-page hardback book will be available in stores on July 8. It will include handwritten lyrics, photos, an explanation of the...
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Nick Cave Digs Up A New Album

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds will release their 14th studio album, the extra exclamatory Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, on April 8 through Anti- Records. The band's first release since 2004's Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus double LP contains 11 new tracks. It was produced by the group and Nick Launay (Silverchair, Talking Heads) and recorded at State...
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Nick Cave (Photo By Steve Gullick)

Bad Seed Mick Harvey Plays The Two Of Diamonds

Mick Harvey of The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release his latest solo album, Two Of Diamonds, on July 17 via Mute Records. The follow-up to 2005's One Man's Treasure was primarily recorded live at Harvey's Grace Lane Studio and Atlantis Studios in Melbourne, Australia with his solo band: James Johnston (organ, guitar...
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Hear New Nick Cave Songs

For those that can't wait for the April 2 release from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds you can hear the first music he's released in three years via his website. Forty second soundbites of each of the 12 songs on the upcoming album, No More Shall We Part have been made available on www.nickcave.net. Not only can you get a sample of what the new...
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 Finally Some New Nick Cave Tunes
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