Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds preview Wild God album with "Frogs"

Check out "Frogs" and "Wild God" off Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' forthcoming Wild God album following the preview clip.

Harmonica ace Walter Daniels joins Barry Adamson for "Sundown County"

"Sundown County" is off Barry Adamson's new Steal Awa y EP available via Bandcamp right here. Check it out below. 

Get a copy of Barry Adamson's recent memoir Up Above The City, Down Beneath The Stars right here.

Dave Gahan channels Nick Cave for new Imposter covers project

Judging by recent performances, Depeche Mode mainmain Dave Gahan appears to have been studying the Bad Seeds. 

R.I.P. Bobby Donaho, drummer of Corpus Christi's Bad Seeds

Sadly, Bobby Donaho (top) of The Bad Seeds and later Penny Arkade, has passed away.

 

Nick Cave launches Bad Seed TeeVee

Bad Seed TeeVee is streaming Nick Cave and related performances, interviews, videos and unseen footage 24/7. Check it out below. 

Nick Cave's Distant Sky – Live In Copenhagen EP out September 28

The 4-song EP includes live versions of  From Her To Eternity and The Mercy Seat (below). Nick is now in L.A. working on a new Bad Seeds album.

R.I.P. Conway Savage, 1960-2018

Sadly, Conway Savage, longtime keyboardist with the Bad Seeds passed away yesterday. He was 58. 

"Our beloved Conway passed away on Sunday evening. A member of Bad Seeds for nearly thirty years, Conway was the anarchic thread that ran through the band’s live performances. He was much loved by everyone, band members and fans alike. Irascible, funny, terrifying, sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, acerbic, honest, genuine - he was all of these things and quite literally “had the gift of a golden voice,” high and sweet and drenched in soul. On a drunken night, at four in the morning, in a hotel bar in Cologne, Conway sat at the piano and sang Streets of Laredo to us, in his sweet, melancholy style and stopped the world for a moment. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Goodbye Conway, there isn’t a dry eye in the house."
Love,
Nick and the Bad Seeds.


LINKS
Read Dave Graney's memories of his friend and White Buffaloes bandmate right here.
Rolling Stone obituary.

Happy 60th Birthday Nick Cave!

Here's a rare Bad Seeds clip from a 9:30 Club performance in Washington, DC on February 8, 1989. 

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds announce Massey Hall shows

Check out Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' upcoming tour dates and the new video for Girl in Amber. 

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - 2017 North American Tour 
Friday, May 26 - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
Monday, May 29  - Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
Wednesday, May 31 - Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall 
Thursday, June 1 - Toronto, Ontario -  Massey Hall 
Saturday, June 3 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre
Monday, June 5 -  Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
Wednesday, June 7 - Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Thursday, June 8 -  Pittsburgh, PA - The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall
Saturday, June 10 -  Boston, MA - Boch Center Wang Theatre
Tuesday, June 13 - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
Wednesday, June 14 - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
Friday, June 16 - Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre
Sunday, June 18 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre
Monday, June 19 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kingsbury Hall
Wednesday, June 21 - Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Thursday, June 22 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Saturday, June 24 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre
Monday, June 26 - San Diego, CA - Civic Theatre
Thursday, June 29 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre

One More Time With Feeling documents Nick Cave's writing/recording process

Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is out Sept 8, the day before the new Bad Seeds album Skeleton Tree. 

Nick Cave sings the Higgs Boson Blues

New "Bad Seeds" album from Nick Cave due in February

The release of the latest album from the troubled mind of Nick Cave is now slated for February 18,  2013 and while Push The Sky Away is being credited to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, without the participation of key players Mick Harvey – who left the group in January 2009 after 25 years – and Blixa Bargeld who split in 2003 – it's essentially a new Grinderman album with slightly less facial hair.

Joining Cave on the purported follow-up to 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! will be his entire Grinderman crew including multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis on violin, flute, tenor guitar and synths, Martyn Casey on bass, percussionist Jim Sclavunos along with Thomas Wydler on drums and former Bad Seeds keyboardist Conway Savage only contributing vocals. Furthermore, Push The Sky Away was recorded with Grinderman producer Nick Launay at Studios La Fabrique,  a residential facility set in a grand 19th Century French mansion in bucolic Saint-Rémy de Provence.

The first song to appear from the nine-track album will be We No Who U R – available for download December 3 from your digital retailer of choice or get it gratis when you pre-order Push The Sky Away on CD, limited CD-DVD, vinyl, digital via nickcave.com. Check out the trailer below...

Gallon Drunk comes roaring back

Older and wiser perhaps, but Gallon Drunk are no less menacing. Following the tragic illness and death of their bassist Simon Wring, the bruising Brit thug rockers have resurfaced as a three-piece with the intense new single A Thousand Years (available via iTunes) and suitably unsettling video (see below). Taken together with the previous single You Made Me – issued in the UK a few months back – it certainly bodes well for Gallon Drunk's forthcoming album The Road Gets Darker From Here now set for release on September 11 after initially being slated for August 14th. 

Have a look at the press release:

Recorded at Clouds Hills Recordings in Hamburg during the summer of 2011, produced by Johann Scheerer (Faust/Robots In Disguise), Gallon Drunk bring the considerable power of their renowned live performances to the new album The Road Gets Darker From Here which will be available on heavyweight vinyl, CD and download.

Featuring founding frontman and former member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds wrecking crew James Johnston (vocals, organ, guitar, harmonica, piano, and bass), Terry Edwards (bass, saxophone and percussion) and Ian White (drums, percussion), the trio have refocused their utterly distinctive musical vision with a collection of impassioned songs, imbued with pure mania, despair and abandonment.

At the state of the art analogue recording studio, Scheerer recorded the band playing the songs live, direct to two-inch tape. This gave a warmth, richness and depth of sound to the recording. Coupled with the band members’ own recent experiences, playing and recording with the likes of Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise, Faust, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and The Tindersticks, this brought an open minded freshness to the sessions.

From the insistent, slide guitar driven ‘A Thousand Years’, through the exhilaratingly sleazy, deranged rock ‘n’ roll of ‘You Made Me’ (the first single to be released from the album, in the UK and Europe only), the menacing melancholia of ‘Stuck In My Head’ (featuring French singer Marion Andrau of Underground Railroad), to the desperate eruption of guitar fury of ‘Hanging On’, this is classic, unfettered Gallon Drunk. Also including the fever dream boogie of ‘The Big Breakdown’, before the final haunting, enigmatic psychodrama ‘The Perfect Dancer’ - a miasma of hallucinatory guitars, Hammond organs and slinky voodoo drums - the album is an utterly captivating experience.


A Thousand Years



You Made Me



LINK
site http://www.gallondrunk.com/

Nick Cave refines his flow with Grinderman 2

Following the release of the first Grinderman album, the Birthday Party references came quickly and steadily from music critics looking for a place to slot the latest Nick Cave side project which didn't seem to be a natural progression from what he'd been doing with the Bad Seeds. But rather than a regression for Cave as if part of an ill-advised bid to reconnect with his glory days as some have suggested, Grinderman is a bold step forward. He's not aiming to relive his youth, just merely trying to shake out the cobwebs.
Like many artists of Cave's advanced age – he turns 53 on September 22 – he has come to realize that those unequivocally great songs aren't filling up the pages of his notebooks as effortlessly as they once did. Plus, he no longer has longtime collaborator Mick Harvey as a sounding board who announced the end of their 25 year-long creative partnership for "personal and professional" reasons in January 2009.
Rather than settle for recording mediocre material or searching out some worthwhile covers as many of his singer/songwriter contemporaries have done after hitting the wall, Cave commendably decided to try shaking up his tried and true writing process instead. That means no more sitting alone in his office waiting for inspiration to move him over to the piano to plunk out a new idea. With the Grinderman project, Cave is now in a room face-to-face with his musical cohorts Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunous verbally playing off whatever riffs and rhythms they come up with not unlike the way some rappers use a beat to spark their flow. Consequently, rather than the grandly plotted narratives populated with sharply drawn characters commonly associated with Cave's pre-war ballads and blues-inspired work with the Bad Seeds, his Grinderman lyrics are much more impressionistic and abstract as if he's working to reconcile the disparate influences of Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightnin' and Scarface's The Diary while maintaining that delightfully dark sense of humour. 

For Grinderman 2 (Mute/Anti-), Cave and crew now have a working methodology solidly in place and better defined roles which shows up in the refinement of the compositions that come off less like extended jams tossed off as part of a one-off studio project and more like actual songs played by a band – a brutally efficient one at that. Of course not every tune on the nine-song Grinderman 2 album is a memorable classic but they've certainly tightened up the wankery while lowering the overall suck-quotient. Perhaps even more important, it rocks and, at times, it's also uproariously funny.
The album's first single Heathen Child is their best song yet with the atypically tender B-side Star Charmer not far behind. Although it's still to early to tell whether Heathen Child and the other arena-ready whumpers they've included on Grinderman 2 (apparently only a fraction of the songs recorded made it onto the album) will connect with an audience beyond the Bad Seeds' loyal following. If it doesn't, it won't be from lack of trying.
Check out the startlingly demented Heathen Child video directed by John Hillicoat (The Road) which manages to one-up Peter Serafinowicz's similarly laser-enhanced clip for Hot Chip's I Feel Better for sheer bizarreness. We can only hope that Grinderman will be using those nutty Roman Centurion get-ups as stagewear for their upcoming tour which brings them to Toronto for a show at the Phoenix on November 11.

Worm Tamer by Grinderman on Later with Jools Holland

LINKS
Grinderman www.grinderman.com
Anti-  http://www.anti.com/home/