Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will document their recent arena tour in support of their latest LP,Wild God,with a live album titledLive God. The 2LP or 2CD set, due out December 5, features performances of tracks off 2024’s Wild God like “Joy,” “Frogs,” and “Cinnamon Horses” alongside Cave classics …
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Nick Cave hasn’t always held artificial intelligence in the highest regard. Back in 2023, a fan sent him a song that ChatGPT had generated “in the style of Nick Cave,” to which the musician bluntly responded: “The apocalypse is well on its way.” But Cave’s opinion has changed somewhat after …
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Look at him now: Nick Cave‘s transforming. He’s vibrating. He’s glowing. He’s flying. Look at him now. At Thursday night’s Bad Seeds concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Cave proved to a U.S. audience what Europe has known for decades: that he — rock’s gothic poet laureate, master of emotional intimacy, …
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A couple of decades ago, Nick Cave offered his opinion of the state of music at the time in an interview, taking unexpected aim at another band. “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always ‘The Red Hot Chili Peppers.’” The …
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey and Devo are among the artists who have contributed unreleased recordings to a new compilation for Los Angeles wildfire relief. Jarvis Cocker, Primal Scream, Gary Numan, U.S. Girls, Cave’s side project Grinderman and a one-off supergroup led by Flea …
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Cruel World Fest is back for another year, and New Order and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will headline 2025’s festival. It’s scheduled to take place May 17 at the Rose Bowl’s Brookside in Pasadena, California. The Go-Gos, Death Cult, Devo, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Garbage, Madness, ‘Til …
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On a solo tour last year, Nick Cave suddenly became self-aware. He built his career performing with bands — the Birthday Party, Grinderman, the Bad Seeds — but here he was with only a piano and Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood supporting him. As they worked their way through nearly two …
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With a new album, Wild God, out now, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will tour North America next year. Although Cave has toured with his red-right-hand-man Warren Ellis and made solo appearances, the full band has not visited the U.S. since 2018. The dates, which includes appearances at arenas …
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Nick Cave has spent the last six years in conversation. Through his Red Hand Files Website and his touring Q&A series, the 66-year-old punk-rock icon has waxed poetic with his fans about grief, aging, and forgiveness. And after dropping the Bad Seeds’ last record, the devastating Ghosteen, in 2019, it …
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In an interview with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Nick Cave recalled how Johnny Cash pushed himself and called on a higher power for the opportunity to record a duet cover of Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” for Cash’s 2002 American IV album. Cash was around 70 at …
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