Nick Cave wrestles with the darkest parts of the human experience in Wild God, churning up doubt and fear and grief and blasphemy from the muck at the bottom and distilling it, somehow, into transcending clarity. A meditation on humankind’s first crime—the murder of Abel—turns into a rhapsody over frogs jumping up in the rain.
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The Creator Has a Master Plan: A Conversation with Warren Ellis
Per his new book, Nina Simone’s Gum, Warren Ellis reflects “I wanted it to be about the good in people. The light, rather than the darkness, especially after the year we’ve all just had.” And it is.
We recently caught up with Ellis, via Zoom, to discuss the new book and much, much more.
Bad Seed TeeVee
Last April, Australian rock singer Nick Cave, of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, announced the launch of Bad Seed TeeVee, a YouTube channel of live concert footage, studio outtakes, interviews, promo videos, and other band miscellanea, broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week…
Transmissions Podcast :: Whitney/Don Slepian/Nick Cave’s Ghosteen: A Discussion
Boys and girls, All Hallows’ Eve is here, and you’re tuned into the October edition of the Transmissions podcast. The veil is thin and we’re back with another round of discussions and digressions. In this episode, Chicago’s Whitney discusses Forever Turned Around, the group’s sophomore lp. Then, New Age pioneer Don Slepian takes us back to the early ’80s. And to close out, a long ramble about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ haunted instant classic, Ghosteen.
John Cale, Nick Cave & Chrissie Hynde: Songwriters Circle (BBC 1999)
Twenty years ago next month, at the crest of the twentieth century, the BBC aired an episode of its long-running “Songwriters Circle” with featured guests John Cale, Nick Cave and […]
Nick Cave on This Is Elvis (1981 Film)
The motivations behind writing this are twofold. First, as a PSA for those of you who have yet to subscribe to Nick Cave’s weekly email newsletter: The Red Hand Files. Second, to highlight the exceptional 1981 documentary film This Is Elvis — a film Cave references in issue #34. The context for its inclusion is in relation to Cave’s thoughts on the transformative power of music, and specifically how it relates to Presley near the end of his life.
Nick Cave :: Stranger In A Strange Land (Documentary, 1987)
Before 20,000 Days on Earth there was this. Produced by Bram van Splunteren, for Dutch television’s VPRO in 1987, Stranger In A Strange Land captures Nick Cave at pivotal point in the long […]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds :: Push The Sky Away
It’s nothing new for Nick Cave to sound bummed out. Over his thirty-year career, the chief Bad Seed has groped his way around every dark corner he can find. Even […]
Sevens :: Nick Cave – There She Goes, My Beautiful World
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) There is no taxiing towards the sky here. It begins with the click […]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds :: Austria, October ’86
Last month AD revisited Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds first four albums: From Her to Eternity , The Firstborn is Dead ,
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds :: Your Funeral…My Trial
It’s a good time to be a Bad Seed . In addition to releasing the critically-acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! , Nick Cave has, in the past year, toured relentlessly to rabid crowds, written the score […]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds :: Kicking Against the Pricks
It’s a good time to be a Bad Seed . In addition to releasing the critically-acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! , Nick Cave has, in the past year, toured relentlessly to rabid crowds, written the score […]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds :: Firstborn Is Dead
It’s a good time to be a Bad Seed . In addition to releasing the critically-acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! , Nick Cave has, in the past year, toured relentlessly to rabid crowds, written the score […]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds :: From Her To Eternity
It’s a good time to be a Bad Seed . In addition to releasing the critically-acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! , Nick Cave has, in the past year, toured relentlessly to rabid crowds, written the score […]
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds :: Dig! Lazarus Dig!
Those who saw last year’s gritty Grinderman side trip as a return to form need look no further that The Bad Seeds new full length Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! . Like the Grinderman project,