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- Morphine - At Your Service
- It was just a decade that Morphine were with us, before front man Mark Sandman, in July 1999, suffered a massive heart attack on stage, collapsed and died. Before that, the band managed to release four studio albums and record a fifth, The Night , which Read More...
- Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar
- Nick Cave and his fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis have been working on film scores together since 2005 when they collaborated on the music for Australian western The Proposition . Since then they have scored 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Read More...
- Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands -- Cody's Dream
- Remember that grunge-affiliated band Screaming Trees, fronted by the enigmatic Mark Lanegan? The drummer in the band was Mark Pickerel and it seems the guy has kept himself busy, recording with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic in a short-lived band dubbed Read More...
- Albums of 2008 that weren't made by South Africans
- Wow what a great year in music. 2008 was filled with interesting and diverse releases across numerous genres. It was also the year I discovered some great albums from 2007 that were not included in my end of year list last year. Records by Yeasayer, Thurston Read More...
- Marianne Faithfull records new Covers album
- When she is not acting in Sophia Copolla movies, Marianne Faithfull has recorded some rather fantastic albums in the last few years. 2004's Before the poison was a cracker of an album featuring Nick Cave and PJ Harvey as guests, while 2002's Kissin Time Read More...
- Nick Cave to release his second novel
- Does this man ever stop. Killer Bad Seeds albums, fantastic Grinderman side-project, a film script here a soundtrack there and now another book. Yes that's right, according to Billboard.com, Nick Cave will publish his second novel, The Death of Bunny Read More...
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Soundtrack
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis have followed up their magnificent work on the score to 2005’s Australian western The Proposition with a beautifully paced score to this tale of the American outlaw Jesse James. Once again Ellis’ violin work takes centre stage, Read More...
- Dig, Lazarus, dig!!!
- So I just managed to get my hands on a copy of the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds single Dig! Laszarus, dig!!! I am still not quite sure what to think, I really like it although it is a very strange song from the Bad Seeds indeed. It is as close to pop Read More...
- Out with the new, in with the old!
- Having just completed the majority of reviews I had outstanding for that newspaper that I work for, I have this feeling of overwhelming relief. While discovering loads of great new music throughout the year is a really cool job to have, it’s amazing how Read More...
- Nick Cave and Stephen Malkmus to unleash new albums in 2008
- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is the name of the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, the band’s 14th studio album in all. News of its release on March 3rd brings one question to mind, does this man ever stop? I mean first there was the great No More Shall we Read More...
- The Veils - Nux Vomica
- In 2004 a little known New Zealand outfit released their debut album, The Runaway Found . Although well received, lead singer Finn Andrews decided to break the band up. Fast forward to 2007 and he’s back with a new Veils line-up and even better second Read More...
- The National - Boxer
- Although The National’s last album was a great slab of melancholic indie-rock, I was still unprepared for the audacity of their latest album, Boxer. To put it simply, everyone else is going to have to work bloody hard to beat this album in 2007 -- it Read More...
- Grinderman
- OK, so I promised this review when I posted Blues Explosion last week, so here it is. And I know that I also promised the review of the National's Boxer recently too, it will be up by the end of the week. There is a slash of guitar just to signal intentions Read More...
- The Blues Explosion
- Isolation.TV traces a blues/garage rock trajectory that begins with the Doors and The Stooges in the mid sixties and arrives at the current crop of garage rock stars that includes Australia’s Rocket Science and Holland’s zZz. So I picked up a second hand Read More...
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Abattoir blues tour DVD
- Nick Cave has hit an amazing creative streak in the last five or so years. His 2001 album No more shall we part was an absolute masterstroke. The patchy yet brilliant in part Nocturama in 2003 and then the double album masterpiece Abattoir blues/The lyre Read More...
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