At the end of “Balcony Man,” Nick Cave‘s ponderous and playful song about hope, romance, and grief, he sings, “What doesn’t kill you just makes you crazier.” The words are a wry twist on Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous aphorism — but Cave says they’re also an improvement upon it. “I don’t …
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A new documentary, Mutiny in Heaven, will explore the history and legacy of the gothic-tinged art-punk group the Birthday Party, which featured singer Nick Cave and lasted from the late Seventies through 1983. The doc will premiere in the U.S. later this week. A clip from the film shows how …
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Musician after musician turned down invitations to perform at King Charles’ Coronation concert and it’s likely that even more declined invitations to just show up as attendees. Not Nick Cave, though. In a newsletter to his fans, addressed specifically to four who inquired about why he’ll be attending, the singer …
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Back in 1988, Shannon Strong was a scrappy young Denver punk musician playing in a band called the Pagan Cowboys while dreaming of something else. Inspired by the magazine ads of Neve recording consoles she taped on her bedroom wall as a kid and the flashing buttons at the fingertips …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Nick Cave will embark on a rare North American solo tour this fall, with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood accompanying him on bass. Cave’s 18-date solo jaunt kicks off Sept. …
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Ten years ago, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their 15th studio album Push the Sky Away. The record marked their first without Mick Harvey, but saw the return of Barry Adamson. A few days after its release, the band performed the full record at the Fonda Theater in …
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Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds frontman whose songs are tinged with a healthy dose of death, forlorn love, and religion, is no fan of ChatGPT‘s lyrical ambitions. The popular AI bot has drawn both praise and concern for its ability to generate conversational and nuanced text responses in simple, clean …
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After several years fronting gothy art-punks the Birthday Party, Nick Cave ventured out as a solo artist with a new band, the more traditionally rock-focused Bad Seeds, in 1983. In addition to his Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey, the longest tenured original member of the group was Blixa Bargeld, who …
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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have once again collaborated with director Andrew Dominik — this time for the score to the filmmaker’s upcoming Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde. The Bad Seeds duo have shared their opening piece from the upcoming Netflix film, which arrives on the streaming service on Sept. 28; …
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Warren Ellis didn’t know what to do with himself at first when Covid shut the world down. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the group he joined in the late Nineties, had just released a new album, Ghosteen, in late 2019 and were hoping to go on tour. But as …
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