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The Cave Singers: Invitation Songs (Matador)

...don't come with a more appropriate surname... ...surname than Peter Quirk of Seattle's Cave Singers -- his vocals are indeed quirky. He... ...Peter Quirk of Seattle's Cave Singers -- his vocals are indeed quirky. He delivers... ...of Paul Westerberg into the mix too. The Cave Singers aren't an easy option and only in a... ...of Paul Westerberg into the mix too. The Cave Singers aren't an easy option and only in a few places...

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The Cave Singers: Welcome Joy (Matador)

The debut album by this trio out of Seattle, Invitation Songs, took up residence at Elsewhere for its slightly odd, alt.folk and Old Time America quality which was propelled over the finger-picking an

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The Cave Singers: No Witch (Jajaguwar)

Over two previous albums this Seattle-based outfit weren't easy to pigeon-hole (alt.country, boho-folk, indie.something?) but were always interesting because of that, and not the least for singer Pete

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig Lazarus Dig (Mute)

...his career (and your life) you are either for Cave or couldn't care less. If you are with him but... ...this forward in a dark, almost pop way. And Cave really places his aces in the last half. This...

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream

...the time Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds got to Henry's Dream in '92... ...also officially joining the recording team, Cave had moved to Sao Paolo and found new... ...more mainstream acceptance was well underway. Cave – who by now was wearing bespoke suits... ...end, the bruising Jack the Ripper. Although Cave professed to hate the production by David... ...for just $25, alongside a number of other Cave/Seeds vinyl reissues. Another one to add to... ...here There is a considerable amount about Nick Cave -- including an interview from around this...

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: The Road (Mute)

...when the listener hasn't seen the movie. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have had a long association...

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree (Kobalt)

...Nick Cave has often sung about death from various... ...songwriter is being autobiographical, and that Cave here adopts various personae using the first... ...here, just uneasy atmospherics wrapping around Cave's voice) . . . but the words sting. "I... ...he sings on Girl in Amber. Whatever faith Cave leaned on previously has been shaken and he... ...synths and an almost uplifting melodic line as Cave suggests a glimmer of hope with acceptance as... ...evaporates at the end. This won't be Nick Cave's most popular -- or most played -- album, but... ...his most personal. There is much more on Nick Cave at Elsewhere starting here....

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Carnage (Goliath/digital outlets)

...Cave may have alienated some with trenchant... ...for Israel's policies. A few calls to boycott Cave himself dissipated, particularly in the face... ...and orchestration of the grief-soaked Cave/Seeds' Ghosteen album (2019) and his solo,... ...Idiot Prayer during last year's lockdown. Cave playing to an empty Alexandra Theatre suited... ...of that time. Whatever anyone thinks of Cave's politics, he's an artist at the peak of his... ...Carnage with Bad Seed Warren Ellis. As always, Cave's lyrics juxtapose the material and spiritual... ...of God setting a tone with gloomy portents. Cave channels a white-knuckle desperation on Old... ...a kingdom in the sky”. Yet Cave's melodic beauty and the sound designs created... ...mountain like a train”. As with so many Cave songs (Push the Sky Away, Into My Arms) you... ...Carnage can be as demanding as any in Cave's extensive catalogue. But he again effects...

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Wild God (digital outlets)

...10 years ago I was invited to introduce Nick Cave to an audience which had turned up to see his... ...later I was talking with a longtime friend and Cave fan, and mentioned the suit he was wearing.... ...can be trapped by a prior perception of them. Cave certainly had his wild and decadent years... ...his music of spiritual unease, these days Nick Cave finds himself a respected concert attraction... ...personal history, mythology and the mundane. Cave's recent losses – two sons, his mother,... ...avuncular and approachable secular preacher. Cave's previous album Carnage (with longtime Bad... ...bassist Colin Greenwood – suggests Cave has arrived at post-grief acceptance, if not... ...his brother's head in with a bone” -- Cave swings toward, “Oh Lord, the children in... ...compassion and love. Once again, not easy Cave/Bad Seeds. But addressing unease is what they... .... There is a considerable amount about Nick Cave -- including interviews -- at Elsewhere...

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NICK CAVE AND HIS BAD SEEDS IN REARVIEW (2017): The dark, the light and the spiritual love

...those who couldn't afford the excellent Nick Cave reissue series, the three CD set (covering... ...interviews and videos -- under the title Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Lovely Creatures, The Best... ...Kirk Lake (who appeared in the Cave “doco” 20,000 Days on Earth) plus... ...three decades is what you are left with. Nick Cave has always explored the beauty of darkness,... ...Vector and a bloody big field at Glastonbury --Cave as always addresses the front few rows so his... ...people beside them check their phones. Nick Cave and the many Bad Seeds (see the photo below... ...Or you really should have. Elsewhere has Nick Cave archival interviews, reviews and a lovely...

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NICK CAVE, FROM OUTSIDER TO AUTEUR IN THE NINETIES: Let Love In to No More Shall We Part

...the early Nineties, Nick Cave -- ever so slowly -- ceased to be a... ...The Ship Song (from The Good Son, '90), and Cave and the Bad Seeds were also delivering some... ...and had settled in Sao Paolo) didn't suit Cave – but they were in the minority. The old... ...re-presented as part of the on-going series of Cave/Bad Seeds reissues and each comes with an... ...the melodic Do You Love Me? which is one of Cave's most affecting songs as he declares a love... ...Nobody's Baby Now (written for Johnny Cash but Cave kept it) is about a lover who died, but... ...The Boatman's Call by some Seeds – was Cave's big one, thrust into attention by his... ...In retrospect this isn't the finest album of Cave's career, but it took him to a new audience.... ...with The Boatman's Call which delivered one of Cave's best known songs, the extraordinarily... ...Seeds, The Boatman's Call is mostly lowkey (Cave at piano or organ in the centre of the frame)... ...important and influential songwriters and singers in rock culture. And the previous set of Nick...

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Grinderman: Grinderman (EMI) BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2007

...which Nick Cave takes a break from his dark and Biblical stuff... ...and blown through with thick diesel smoke. Cave is also obviously having fun with his persona,...

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GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER JONATHAN GANLEY once again shoots Nick Cave

...Jonathan Ganley first photographed Nick Cave in 1983 at Mainstreet when Cave was with The... ...it seemed only fitting he should be there for Cave's appearance at the Civic on December 6, 2014.... ...modern methods simply do not. For more on Nick Cave in New Zealand go here. Jonathan Ganley is an...

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen (Awal)

...“push, push the sky away” to Nick Cave or “into my arms, oh Lord” in that... ...but I know darling that you do . . .” Cave's journey from the screaming Birthday Party... ...and complain or brag. The music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has always – even when... ...and melodrama) and synthesiser beds by Cave and Warren Ellis. The gatefold cover is... ...the lamb, and the inner sleeve has Ellis and Cave out of focus and walking on a wind blasted... ...considerable amount about all aspects of Nick Cave's career at Elsewhere including interviews and...

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Various Artists: Lawless soundtrack (Sony)

...grandfather in Virginia, a screenplay by Nick Cave and directed by John Hillcoat (The Road,... ...Nelson and Emmylou Harris brought together by Cave and Warren (Bad Seeds, Dirty Three) Ellis. It... ...version of Lou Reed's White Light/White Heat, Cave and Ellis offer typically unnerving material,... ...Aim Towards the Sky. And she has variations on Cave and Ellis' Fire in the Blood. A highpoint is... ...Van Zandt's spooky Snake Song. This is for Cave completists and the movie is some way off, but...

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Joan As Police Woman: Real Life (Rhythmethod)

...a "Johnson" in other words), both of whom are singers noted for their nuance and sometimes outre, or... ...She counts among her admirers Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Sparklehorse and others whom she has sung...

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20,000 DAYS ON EARTH, a film by IAIN FORSYTH and JANE POLLARD (Madman DVD)

...after a screening of this film about him, Nick Cave mentioned in passing that a sequence involving... ...said however we do get to see small layers of Cave revealed in his conversations with former Bad... ...also goes through material in the "Nick Cave Archive" -- and by the end a couple of... ...time directors Forsythe and Pollard which, in Cave's own words at that Q&A, "a lot of...

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Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (Light in the Attic/Global Routes)

...Tapes is allegedly about her, and Nick Cave's When I First Came To Town was inspired by... ...Cave, neo-folkie Devendra Banhart, Fred Neil and... ...comes with essays by Lenny Kaye, Banhart and Cave. By this time Dalton was reaching way beyond... ...that was to follow this remarkable album. As Cave says in his essay, "I know people who...

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The Twilight Singers: Dynamite Steps (Sub Pop)

...outfit might better be called The Midnight Singers. Here – with guest Ani DiFranco duetting... ...Gutter Twins with Dulli – these “singers” deliver a stew of moody ballads, toxic...

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NICK CAVE, THE SEEDY MIDDLE YEARS: From Tender Prey to Henry's Dream

...the safe money would have been on Nick Cave -- then battling various demons and his... ...-- not making it much further. Yet here is Cave, now in his early 50s, dutifully going to the... ...by critics, subject to literary analysis . . . Cave's long career has always been worth following,... ...has, and the on-going Mute repackaging of the Cave/Bad Seeds CDs sets a benchmark in reissues:... ...weighted) and to take in the long arc of Cave/Bad Seeds' fascinating career. The first batch... ...remastered Cave/Bad Seeds albums -- From Her Eternity in '84... ...(recorded in Berlin) that the melodic side of Cave emerged and the band really gelled. Cave has... ...for some sessions then back to Australia, Cave writing his first novel And the Ass Saw the... ...Tender Prey included Cave's alarmingly threatening masterpiece Mercy... ...a Blind Willie Johnson blues which followed in Cave's declamatory style; the lovely, suggested...

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Various Artists: We Are Only Riders (Shock)

...and the presence of kindred dark soul Nick Cave here should further draw attention to the... ...cassette of a few unreleased songs includes Cave, Mark Lanegan, the Ravonettes, Deborah Harry,... ...their own image -- which also owes a debt to Cave/Black Seeds -- this confirms Pierce's... ...between Springsteen's Nebraska and Nick Cave (who also covers it); Lanegan and Isobel... ...Chain soundscape on the same song, and the Cave/Deborah Harry version is a delicate country...

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Mark Lanegan: Imitations (Heavenly/PIAS)

...QOTSA, the Gutter Twins, Soulsavers, Twilight Singers, on albums with Isobel Campbell and, just four... ...considers one of the great voices) and Nick Cave (Brompton Oratory). Most of these songs (many...

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Freakwater: Scheherazade (Bloodshot/Southbound)

...Freakwater -- here with the Dirty Three/Nick Cave pal Warren Ellis on violin -- explore a... ...distorted electric guitar on the challenging Cave-like Down Will Come Baby (which gets a little... ...Me With You -- a more acoustic outing -- the singers ask about the destination . . . but you feel... ...the "snow and cold and rain . . ." Singers Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin walk a line...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Grinderman: Grinderman 2 (EMI)

...Cave has been very clear that Grinderman is not...

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Leonard Cohen: Avalanche (1971)

...film 20,000 Days on Earth in Auckland, Nick Cave was asked if he'd ever met Leonard Cohen and...

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Ute Lemper: The Best of Ute Lemper (Decca)

...Bowie, Scott Walker, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and many others who dipped a toe in Berlin...

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Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral (4AD)

...with Nick Cave, Mark Langean knows the idiom that suits his... ...ballads (St Louis Elegy with his Twilight Singers pal Greg Dulli, the emotionally striking and...

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NICK CAVE INTERVIEWED (1992): Hyena circles the corpse

...her bones... " - Opening lines on Nick Cave’s album Henry’s Dream. If rock... ...has a reigning Lizard King, it’s Nick Cave. Painfully thin, black hair swept back from a... ...a permanent halo of gloom and cigarette smoke, Cave scowls into the vortex between Robert... ...he makes music of almost criminal intent. Cave’s songs walk through ghostly... ...and with bony fingers clutching a microphone, Cave, has been the vulture wheeling over bleak... ...throat-rattle confusion of landscapes of fear Cave deals in. He is wonderful...but he’s... ...functional. “Cave is an empty vessel into which you can place... ...review in Melody Maker six months ago. And Cave himself, although increasingly weary of his... ...as he always surveyed. There are other Nick Cave realities, however, even if his latest album,... ...Henry’s Dream is more grim, obsessive Cave music...but there’s a different Cave man...

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Wagons: Acid Rain and Sugar Cane (Spunk)

...menace it's a man who has worked with Nick Cave, to whom Wagons owes quite some debt. As he... ...And when two influences implode – Cave and Springsteen on Search the Streets –...

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Grinderman: Grinderman 2 (EMI)

...passion, killing and redemption. Must be Nick Cave, right? Ever since he left the Birthday Party... ...Bad Seeds, the Bible and dark blues – Cave has cut a singular path through rock music.... ...Wild Roses Grow) picked up a few new converts. Cave today – 52, married, a father of three... ...violinist/pianist Warren Ellis. Of course Cave is never going to entirely abandon the fire... ...rage are back too. At times on Grinderman 2 Cave sounds like an especially annoyed Jim Morrison... ...What I Know allows you to take a breath as Cave recounts quietly how he has grown – but...

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Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind: CollectiV (Masonic/Southbound)

...and psychobilly through offshoots of Nick Cave, Exile-era Stones, Springsteen after a dose...

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Various Artists: Murder; Songs from the Dark Side of the Soul (Trikont/Yellow Eye)

...still fascinates us -- and we didn't need Nick Cave to tell us that murder songs were kind of... .... . . and white folks. One for fans of Nick Cave's Murder Ballads perhaps? And of less appeal...

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Crime and the City Solution: A History of Crime; Berlin 1987-1991 (Mute)

...somewhere between Jim Morrison and Nick Cave -- under the spotlight in the years when they... ...was the nexus for bands of this ilk. Nick Cave was already there (and also appeared in Wings... ...Desire). Unlike Cave, Bonney's style erred to long poetic songs... ...on a band that was somewhat overshadowed by Cave and the Bad Seeds, but had their own take on...

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We Will Ride Fast: Emotional Molecules (Fight Cave Records/digital outlets)

Throbbing, danceable gloom-rock is not just alive and well in the hands of Kyle Sattler (The Bennies) out of Tauranga but, on this third album, pushing further into experimental guitar rock. With swat

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Various Artists: LateNightTales; Trentemoller (LateNightTales)

...Mazzy Star, Velvet Underground, M.Ward, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis from their soundtrack to The...

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Various Artists: The Journey is Long; The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (Fuse/Border)

...Project in which fellow travelers (Nick Cave, various Bad Seeds, Tav Falco) and admirers... ...collection We Are Only Riders last year let Cave, Lanegan, Harry, the Ravonettes and others... ...identify a thread which works for them. Here Cave gets into the dark stuff (and a lovely piano...

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Cloud Control: Dream Cave (Mushroom)

This self-styled indie-rock outfit from Sydney's Blue Mountains have won two Arias and, in 2011, the Australian Music Prize which netted them a cool A$30,000. And on this, their second album, you can

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Shilpa Ray: Last Year's Savage (Northern Spy/Southbound)

...has opened for unabashed admirer Nick Cave (“phenomenal . . . she's going to be... ...pulls them hard. Ignore her at your peril. Mr Cave knows a thing or...

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The Veils: Total Depravity (Nettwerk)

...and . . . You can't help hear elements of Nick Cave here (King of Chrome which falls well short of... ...gravitas) and Trent Reznor's early work, but...

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Geeshie Wiley: Skinny Leg Blues (1930)

...sex and menace and murder actually. "Nick Cave to the operating theatre, please." . For...

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Dead Man's Bones: Dead Man's Bones (Anti/Shock)

...kids shouting the chorus) is kinda fun. Nick Cave (or Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson come to...

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THE FINAL FAREWELL ALBUM (2023): Goodbyes from Paul Simon, Nick Cave, David Bowie . . .

...word album, also titled Seven Psalms, Nick Cave – who lost two sons in recent years... ...Most recently however in the company of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis she has explored the idea... ...Simon's Seven Psalms is on Spotify here, Nick Cave's Seven Psalms on Spotify...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 The Jim Jones Revue: Burning Your House Down (Liberator)

...by Jim Sclavunos (who has done similar for Cave/Bad Seeds), this one roars at you with pure...

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NICK CAVE ENCOUNTERED (2014): The man, the myth and the movie

...room at Auckland's SkyTower Theatre where Nick Cave waits is tiny, but doubtless he's seen much... ...boots. He looks every inch the image of Nick Cave as you would want him, and is affable, witty... ...photo collection A Little History; Nick Cave and Cohorts 1983-2013. “Do you know... ...“To Graham with love and thanks, Nick Cave”. I ask if this was an odd session or... ...to that huge audience he could barely see. Cave comments that he's “a front row... ...songs. Love flows towards the stage for Nick Cave and his songs reciprocate. On the way out I... ...dressed, affable and myth-breaking Nick Cave is more New Testament than Old. But as that... ...December 11 There is much more on Nick Cave at Elsewhere starting here, including an...

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Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues

...and Miles Davis, Bjork and Bob Marley, Nick Cave and Chuck Berry, and Fatboy Slim, The Band,... ...you to this album by one of the greatest of singers who was so singular she was, and remains,...

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GUEST WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER JONATHAN GANLEY on Nick Cave and the Birthday Party at Mainstreet, 1983

...3 2013 marks 30 years to the day since Nick Cave and The Birthday Party played their first New... ...It must be close to midnight already but Nick Cave and the band are keeping us waiting. Simon... ...too, but The Clash were all handsome. Nick Cave looked menacing and seedy all at once, like a... ...onstage. The unmistakable figure of Nick Cave appeared first. He was clutching a glass, and... ...absolute chaos …” Showtime. Nick Cave looked out at the crowd and spoke. “You... ...face. It was interesting to see the clips of Cave’s 2013 Coachella performance with... ...Now 30 years have passed, and Nick Cave’s stature as a solo artist has grown... ...New Zealand album charts earlier this year. Cave and the Bad Seeds played the Auckland Town... ...at the 2011 Big Day Out. This was fitting for Cave's theatrics but with ominous crackling through... ...Party images on Tumblr, especially of Nick Cave in full flight, and of the fragile and...

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The Veils: Trouble of the Brain EP (Pitch Beast/Native Tongue)

...and a more folksy but still menacing Nick Cave (the light industrial edge on the cautionary...

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The Tindersticks: Falling Down A Mountain (4AD)

...guitar is eerie familiar and in Nick Cave's hands would be a nasty dark cantina song;...

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The Renderers: Monsters and Miasma (Last Visible Dog)

...occupy similar rock-noir territory as Nick Cave. But when Maryrose takes the vocals there is...

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IT'S ALL IN THE GAME, CONSIDERED (2021): The singers and the song

In 1911 a guy called Charles Dawes -- who later became the US vice president -- wrote a very simple melody one afternoon at home and it was subsequently published as sheet music. It was entitled Melod

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Susanna and the Magical Orchestra: Love Will Tear Us Apart (2006)

...by Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and Nick Cave, Badfinger's Without You and Sandy Denny's Who...

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The The: I'm a Long Gone Daddy (1994)

...their Achtung Baby/Zooropa period -- or Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -- might have done with it....

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ROB ST JOHN PROFILED (2012): A voice from the North

...troubadour" and likened to both Nick Cave and Nick Drake, Rob St John -- born in... ...colourings from musical saw, harmonium, other singers and fiddle. The piece Sargasso Sea rides an... ...found sound; Domino (which invites those Nick Cave/Bad Seeds references) is shaped by distortion...

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Willard Grant Conspiracy: Bear Witness (CD/DVD, Glitterhouse/Yellow Eye)

...ballads and the like put him close to Nick Cave and Bonnie Prince Billy, but he is a much more...

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The Flaming Lips: Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (Warners)

...collaborated with the likes of Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Tame Impala, Kei$ha, Jim James of... ...head (That Ain't My Trip with James) and Nick Cave wades in with some declaimed sermon on the...

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Finn Andrews: One Piece at a Time (Nettwerk)

...early days through indie-angst rock to Nick Cave, the latter notably on their last album Total... ...Al Pacino/Rise and Fall towards the end where Cave peaks back in for a classy original, and the...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2008 Emiliana Torrini: Me and Armini (Rough Trade)

...one the Guardian drew comparisons with Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen, and the Sun said "each...

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Liela Moss: Internal Working Model (Bella Union/digital outlets)

...Orchestra playing Giorgio Moroder, Nick Cave and others) and member of the indie-rock...

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Jimi Goodwin: Odludek (Heavenly)

...Man V Dingo channels some Nick Cave rage – and the bristling backdrops of...

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Cybiont: A Trilogy of Random Thoughts and Considerations (Cybiont)

...Rich?; later there are echoes of early Nick Cave in the gloomy cabaret-noir stylings;...

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Joanie Sommers: Johnny Get Angry (1962)

...boyfriend ("I want a brave man, I want a cave man") and hoping for a lecture from... ...Sommers probably has THE future of the new singers of our time." The problem for her was...

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Various Artists: Sweet Dreams; Where Country Meets Soul Vol 2 (Kent/Border)

...Time Slips Away). Yet even on these songs the singers throw themselves behind the sentiment in a way... ...-- one of the greatest soul and soul-country singers -- with I Hate You, and Esther Phllips (Sweet...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5748/various-artists-sweet-dreams-where-country-meets-soul-vol-2-kent-border/

Blanche: Little Amber Bottles (LooseMusic/Shock)

...from Detroit with Gothic overtones; think Nick Cave with a backwoods twang . . . This band out of...

Tagged with: james mcmurtry | johnny cash | pines | the handsome family |

Music at Elsewhere: music/1413/blanche-little-amber-bottles-loosemusic-shock/

Lizz Wright: The Orchard (Verve)

...aren't short of soulful women singers right now, but few deliver with such blues... ...rare ones. Most black (and a few white) women singers who sing with an ache are hailed as the new...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1540/lizz-wright-the-orchard-verve/

Ustad Dildar Hussain Khan: Sur Sangeet (Kanaga)

...and transporting musical events is when singers of the Sufi qawwali tradition appear. Usually... ...a large group of supportive singers and percussion players, the main vocalist is... ...prepare to be transported. For more on qawwali singers and the tradition, including interviews, start...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/6981/ustad-dildar-hussain-khan-sur-sangeet-kanaga/

Nicole Atkins: Neptune City (Sony BMG)

...to grow up in a time of tough-voiced women singers (Dusty, Cilla, Lulu and then Grace Slick of... ...will be passed over lightly. I like women singers who sing about adult stuff, not women...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1621/nicole-atkins-neptune-city-sony-bmg/

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Giant Sand: Blurry Blue Mountain (Fire/Southbound)

...balladeer (with odd lyrics), a touch of Nick Cave, and on this typically diverse album he closes... ...echo and jazzy piano, Thin Line man is brittle Cave-like blues-rock . . . Time Flies a lovely two...

Music at Elsewhere: music/3739/best-of-elsewhere-2010-giant-sand-blurry-blue-mountain-fire-southbound/

Bannerman: Dearly Departed (Bannerman/Rhythmethod)

...isn't drawing too long a bow to namecheck Nick Cave, Elvis watching a long black limousine and...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4708/bannerman-dearly-departed-bannerman-rhythmethod/

Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams (Reprise)

...also been an inspiration for Lou Reed and Nick Cave. Nicks' version, after a promising and lowkey...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4153/stevie-nicks-in-your-dreams-reprise/

Barbara Carlotti: Les Lys Brises (4AD)

...Bertrand Burgalat who has worked with Nick Cave. This is her sensual and downbeat debut album...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/918/barbara-carlotti-les-lys-brises-4ad/

Kailash Kher and Kailasa: Yatra /Nomadic Souls (Cumbancha)

...the sound of Indian (Bollywood) playback singers or Indo-pop has never made much sense to you... ...he has one of those powerful voices of qawwali singers -- but is nowhere near Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/2963/kailash-kher-and-kailasa-yatra-nomadic-souls-cumbancha/

IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent releases

...Ferry on Let's Stick Together) . . . Nick Cave wrote Late Victorian Holocaust for her and it... ...At a recent Q&A in Auckland Nick Cave was asked when he last saw Howard -- the... ...and songwriter in Cave's first bands The Boys Next Door/The Birthday... ...Cave told of an encounter in St KIlda and added,... ...Bill Laswell. Add in guests like singers Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio) and Killah...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6747/in-brief-a-quick-overview-of-some-recent-releases/

Various: Music of Central Asia Vol 4, Bardic Divas (Smithsonian/Elite)

...but contains the remarkable voices of women singers from Central Asia, the region between Iran and... ...of these peoples -- here represented by women singers from various regions -- are both as wide in...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/1425/various-music-of-central-asia-vol-4-bardic-divas-smithsonian-elite/

The Veils: Time Stays, We Go (Rough Trade)

...which peels off a very large slice of Nick Cave/Grinderman in imagery with a bit of Jack White... ...in. This is a hard area to be original in when Cave has so firmly staked it out and the Veils...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5652/the-veils-time-stays-we-go-rough-trade/

IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent international releases

...stream, and be prepared to be won over. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Loin des Hommes (Goliath):... ...Cave and Ellis run a very interesting sideline... ...plays front parlour violin, viola and such, Cave brings piano, pump organ (sounding vaguely... ...drums. Very evocative. And speaking of Nick Cave . . . Various Artists: Nick Cave Heard Them... ...of Hey Joe and others -- are all songs Nick Cave has covered (live, on Kicking Against the...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6977/in-brief-a-quick-overview-of-some-recent-international-releases/

Sonny Boy Williamson: Your Funeral and My Trial (1958)

...Morrison, Rory Gallagher and many more. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appropriated the title of...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/4632/sonny-boy-williamson-your-funeral-and-my-trial-1958/

Psychic TV: Only Love Can Break Your Heart (1989)

...Young covers by Dinosaur Jr, the Pixies, Nick Cave, Flaming Lips and others - on the '89 album...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/5238/psychic-tv-only-love-can-break-your-heart-1989/

Cat Power: Jukebox (Matador)

...Jesse Mae Hempill, her hero Bob Dylan and Nick Cave. She also includes two of her own songs (Metal...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1455/cat-power-jukebox-matador/

Ann Peebles: The Original Soul Sister (Music Club)

...that few would dare cover their songs (Nick Cave, Madonna, add your own names). Ann Peebles,...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5309/ann-peebles-the-original-soul-sister-music-club/

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Richard Thompson: Dream Attic (Proper)

...Thompson sounds like he is channeling Nick Cave's acidic disposition and delivers a violently...

Music at Elsewhere: music/3419/best-of-elsewhere-2010-richard-thompson-dream-attic-proper/

Hobotalk: Homesick for Nowhere (Yellow Eye)

...tunes by mandolin, violin, female backing singers and the like just bring these songs to life...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1404/hobotalk-homesick-for-nowhere-yellow-eye/

Cassandra Jenkins: My Light, My Destroyer (digital outlets)

...Here she moves deeper within where, like Nick Cave, the mundane world co-exists with an interior...

Music at Elsewhere: music/11215/cassandra-jenkins-my-light-my-destroyer-digital-outlets/

STEVE REICH INTERVIEWED (1990): The maximal minimalist

...how he is co-commissioning the new work, The Cave, with money from patrons in Germany, France,... ...The reason is simple, his current project, The Cave. It is an enormous work involving five large... ...performance. “The title refers to the cave in the town of Hebron on the West Bank where... ...texts are still there today.” What The Cave sets out to explore is who these characters... ...what had become instrumental works. For The Cave, Reich and his wife video artist Beryl Korot,...

Tagged with: kraftwerk | kronos quartet | philip glass | steve reich |

Cultural Elsewhere: culturalelsewhere/2016/steve-reich-interviewed-1990-the-maximal-minimalist/

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2008: Le Trio Joubran: Majaz (Jawwal/Ode)

...may look like those agency-groomed opera singers you see on the back of buses -- immaculately...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/1686/best-of-elsewhere-2008-le-trio-joubran-majaz-jawwal-ode/

Filthy Boy: Smile That Won't Go Down (Shock)

...cabaret, the spirits of Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave are evoked – and these Morrisseys...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6041/filthy-boy-smile-that-wont-go-down-shock/

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Kimbra: Vows (Warners)

...ballad back in the late Fifties, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds also covered. For someone...

Tagged with: amy winehouse | best of elsewhere 2011 | gotye | kimbra |

Music at Elsewhere: music/4399/best-of-elsewhere-2011-kimbra-vows-warners/

KAREN DALTON: IN MY OWN TIME a doco by ROBERT YAPKOWITZ and RICHARD PEETE

...the championing by Devendra Banhart, Nick Cave, folk singer Lucy J. Dalton (who adopted... ...surname). Lenny Kaye, Cave and Banhart contributed the liner notes for... ...through political or intellectual inclination. Cave says you you have to be prepared to go into...

Film at Elsewhere: film/10078/karen-dalton-in-my-own-time-a-doco-by-robert-yapkowitz-and-richard-peete/

Cat Power: Covers (Domino/digital outlets)

...Bad Religion into downbeat electro-folk; Nick Cave's menacing I Had a Dream Joe throbbing with...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10190/cat-power-covers-domino-digital-outlets/

Maggie Bell: The Best of Maggie Bell (Angel Air/Southbound CD/DVD)

...one of those paint-peeling, bluesy post-Joplin singers of the late Sixties and Seventies whose path... ...scare the bejeezus out of most aspiring female singers...

Tagged with: aretha franklin | bonnie raitt | janis joplin | maggie bell |

Music at Elsewhere: music/3109/maggie-bell-the-best-of-maggie-bell-angel-air-southbound-cd-dvd/

Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective: Watina (Cumbancha/Elite)

...songs comes from one of the most well-known singers of the Garifuna, a people who live along the...

Tagged with: andy palacio | garifuna women's project |

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/1253/andy-palacio-and-the-garifuna-collective-watina-cumbancha-elite/

The Triffids and Guests: It's Raining Pleasure (Madman DVD)

Elsewhere recently noted the tribute CD to David McComb of the Australian band the Triffids who died in February 1999. That all-star concert released as Deep in a Dream was to help raise funds to comp

Music at Elsewhere: music/3032/the-triffids-and-guests-its-raining-pleasure-madman-dvd/

HARRY SMITH'S LEGACY REVISITED 2007: His grave is being kept . . . clean?

...to know the Folksmen are here too. Nick Cave is compelling on John The Revelator, as is...

Tagged with: bob dylan | elvis costello | norman mclaren | woody guthrie |

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/2030/harry-smiths-legacy-revisited-2007-his-grave-is-being-kept-clean/

Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders: Word Gets Around (Rough Diamond/Southbound, digital outlets)

...Elvis, the Cramps and pessmistic Nick Cave) or puts Davidson menace front'n'centre (Make...

Tagged with: new zealand music |

Music at Elsewhere: music/8906/delaney-davidson-and-barry-saunders-word-gets-around-rough-diamond-southbound-digital-outlets/

Stateless: Stateless (IK7)

...Chris Martin from Coldplay? All those names -- singers of unique and distinctive passion -- come to...

Tagged with: coldplay | jeff buckley | stateless |

Music at Elsewhere: music/1300/stateless-stateless-ik7/

Marianne Faithfull: Easy Come Easy Go (Naive)

...collision includes among its vast cast Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Cat Power, Keith Richards,...

Tagged with: cat power | keith richards | nick cave | randy newman |

Music at Elsewhere: music/2212/marianne-faithfull-easy-come-easy-go-naive/

Stan Freberg: The Old Payola Roll Blues (1960)

...American popular culture who would also parody singers with withering accuracy. The fact he was also... ...(he was as cruel there as he was to pop singers), advertising and musical styles. One of his... ...Sellers took a poke at the pretensions of pop singers on The Trumpet Volunteer, so Freberg nails the...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/2964/stan-freberg-the-old-payola-roll-blues-1960/

Patty Griffin: Children Running Through (Shock)

...five-star collection which puts most other singers on notice that their fan-base is under serious...

Tagged with: eliza gilkyson | kasey chambers | patty griffin | po' girl |

Music at Elsewhere: music/1096/patty-griffin-children-running-through-shock/

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