12 Must-Have Songs for Your Halloween Playlist
Before you go out to your favorite haunted house or visit your favorite witchy woman, be sure to have the proper monster music handy.
31 Oct 2018
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INmusic Day 2: Nick Cave Brings the Apocalypse with a Smile
The second day of the famed Croatian rock festival INmusic saw record-breaking crowds and a magnificent display of artistic range featuring Nick Cave and St. Vincent.
27 Jun 2018
A Visual Encyclopedic Look at Mute Records
It's hard to imagine Mute as a label being defined more accurately or succinctly than this.
15 Nov 2017
Novice Enters Nick Cave Performance at Beacon, Comes Out Undeterred
Intense and dramatically profound, Nick Cave's performance allows fans to worship at the feet of a preacher.
22 Jun 2017
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
Much of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 16th album was created before tragedy struck Nick Cave's family, but that loss permeates through every track.
14 Sep 2016
Mick Harvey: Intoxicated Man / Pink Elephants
They are Serge Gainsbourg's songs, but it's Harvey’s show, and he does a fine job as frontman throughout.
10 Jul 2014
Shilpa Ray - "Mother Is a Misanthrope" (stream)
Judging from the devastation wrought from last year's Hurricane Sandy and a number of other terrifying natural tragedies, Mother Nature is regarding humanity with a lot of ill will.
11 Oct 2013
Mark Lanegan: Imitations
Imitations proves once again that even after four decades in the game, Mark Lanegan is not an artist content to conform to expectations, but one that will continue crossing borders to indulge his muse.
19 Sep 2013
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Carry Me"
In the fall of 2004, I was working at WRAS-Atlanta, Album 88, and was on the graveyard shift. I was new to the world of college radio and my mind was being blown every day by bands I had never heard of.
28 Jun 2013
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Premiere "Jubilee Street" (Stream)
Another promising cut from next month's Push the Sky Away.
17 Jan 2013
Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave - “Where the Wild Roses Grow" (stream)
Kylie Minogue’s new album 'The Abbey Road Sessions' features re-recordings of a number of her past hit songs, including this duet from 1996′s 'Murder Ballads' with Nick Cave. More new tunes from the record are streaming on Kylie Minogue's Facebook.
26 Oct 2012
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Lawless (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Much like the film for which it serves as the sonic backdrop for, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' original songs and cover versions are both idiosyncratic and traditional. Those two may seem like good musical bedfellows, but here they're left to be a bland, unmemorable set of bluegrass songs.
16 Sep 2012
The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
Bon Iver sings about robot dogs. Nick Cave does a wicked Tom Waits impression. Erykah Badu covers Roberta Flack... in space. Even with its flaws, it's hard to think of a more memorable disc released this year than Heady Fwends.
03 May 2012
Grinderman: Grinderman 2 RMX
Just as Cave’s Grinderman has toyed with the idea of how older artists should behave, Grinderman 2 RMX toys with the concept of the remix and proves that reworkings need not be danceable, they just need to appear a bit bruised.
23 Apr 2012
The Best Film Scores of the 2000s
From contemplative science fiction to macabre stop-motion, the 2000s brought forth some excellent film scores that are worth listening to long after the credits have rolled. With this year's Academy Awards just behind us, Sound Affects looks at the top movie scores from the 21 century so far.
29 Feb 2012
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