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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 …

D ozens of characters live and yearn in PJ Harvey‘s songs. There’s the Devil-plagued stalker narrating “To Bring You My Love”; the “prettiest mess you’ve ever seen” in “Angelene”; and, most recently, the lost girl, Ira-Abel, beguiled by an oracle and a ghost-like Elvis figure in all the songs from …

During her Primavera performance this past weekend, PJ Harvey paid tribute to late musician and recording engineer Steve Albini, dedicating a rendition of Uh Huh Her’s “The Desperate Kingdom of Love” to him. “I would like to sing this next song in memory of Steve Albini,” she said. “Steve should …

Primavera Sound Barcelona has long been renowned for brilliant lineups in an idyllic setting, the setting flanked by the Mediterranean Sea with the Spanish city as its backdrop. This year’s iteration was no exception, drawing an estimated 193,000 people from around the world to witness an eclectic mix of artists …

If all Steve Albini ever did with music was complain about it, he still would have reigned as one of its most brilliant provocateurs. But Albini came to make noise — as a punk guitarist, as a producer, as a writer —with rock’s most notoriously savage sense of humor. “I …

PJ Harvey paid tribute to Steve Albini, who she recorded her acclaimed second album Rid of Me with, following the death of the noise-rock pioneer. “Meeting Steve Albini and working with him changed the course of my life. He taught me so much about music, and life. Steve was a …

Steve Albini, the noise-rock pioneer with Big Black and Shellac who also helped engineer some of the greatest alternative rock albums of all time — Nirvana’s In Utero and Pixies’ Surfer Rosa among them — has died at the age of 61. Staff at Albini’s Electrical Audio recording studio confirmed …

P.J. Harvey has shared the demo for “Eugene Alone,” one of the songs she co-wrote for a stage musical titled London Tide that opened today in London. Harvey and Ben Power co-wrote the original songs for the National Theatre show, which is based on Charles Dickens’s final novel, Our Mutual …

PJ Harvey will embark on her first North American tour in nearly a decade this fall in support of her latest album, last year’s I Inside the Old Year Dying. Tickets go on sale on Friday. In addition to the tour announcement, the singer is also releasing a video for …

PJ Harvey paid tribute to one of her biggest influences, Captain Beefheart, by reading some of his poetry at a London art gallery a couple of weeks ago. The singer posted a video from the event to her Instagram. The singer-songwriter — who befriended the pioneering art-rock bluesman, whose real …