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Grinderman, the side project of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, have announced they will be reissuing their full discography on July 18th.

The Grinderman lineup is comprised of Cave with fellow Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos. The quartet has released three albums: their self-titled 2007 debut, 2010’s Grinderman 2, and 2012’s Grinderman 2 Rmx. Each project will be available on eco-conscious black vinyl and digisleeve CD editions. Pre-orders are ongoing.

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Formed in 2005, Grinderman was created to explore a more raw, primal sound than The Bad Seeds and lean closer to Cave’s earlier post-punk project, The Birthday Party. Their debut album, Grinderman, was universally acclaimed upon its release and spawned the singles “No Pussy Blues” and “Get It On.” Its follow-up, Grinderman 2, took a more psychedelic approach, while Grinderman 2 Rmx featured reinterpretations from artists including Robert Fripp, Josh Homme, Unkle, and Nick Zinner.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are set to launch their first North American tour in eight years.

Coming in support of their latest album, Wild God, the tour officially launches with a pair gigs in Boston and Brooklyn on April 15th and 17th, respectively, both of which will feature St. Vincent as a special guest. From there, the Bad Seeds will play concerts in cities including Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Philadelphia, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Vancouver, Seattle, and elsewhere, before wrapping up the tour with an appearance at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, California on May 17th.

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Tickets for the Bad Seeds’ North American tour dates are available via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for last-minute deals or get sold-out tickets via StubHub, where orders are 110% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ touring lineup features Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on bass,...

Nick Cave has revealed that he has contributed to a “trumpet record” being made by Flea, describing the collaboration as a “reconciliation and an apology” for his past comments about Red Hot Chili Peppers.

“Last week, Flea sent me a song and asked if I’d like to add some vocals,” Cave wrote in the latest Q&a on his Red Hands Files website. “It was for a ‘trumpet record’ that he is making. It is not for me to divulge what the song was, only that it is a song I cherish more than most, with arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to.”

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He added, “I went into the studio on Wednesday and recorded my vocals. The track emerged as a beautiful...

Remember when, during the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone got into little hobbies like baking sourdough or gardening? Well, for gothic punk icon Nick Cave, his Covid escape was, as it turns out, hand-crafted Staffordshire-style ceramic sculptures.

Yes, as strange as it may seem — or may not seem, if you’re up to date with his vibe on the British royal family — Cave has a genuine, “not ironic” passion for making the Victorian Era figurines, and has refined the practice into quite the art form. In 2022, he unveiled a 17-piece series titled “The Devil — A Life,” which is now on display at the Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Netherlands.

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Speaking about his newfound work as a ceramist in an interview with The Art Newspaper, Cave explained that it came about as “a kind of yearning I had to get back to some sort of visual...

Nick Cave has reaffirmed his love for Kanye West’s music by revealing he wants the rapper’s song “I Am a God” to be played at his funeral.

In the latest Q&a on his Red Hands Files website, Cave responded to a pair of fan questions, one of which mentioned his selection of the 2013 Yeezus track on BBC’s Desert Island Discs. The other asked which song the artist wanted to be played at his funeral, which was an easy decision. “Please, ‘I Am a God’ by Kanye West,” he wrote.

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Over the past several years, Cave has been one of West’s biggest defenders. In 2020, he called Ye “our greatest artist,” saying the process of making art is “a form of madness.” He continued, “There is no musician on Earth that is as committed to their own derangement as Kanye,...

With longtime Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds bassist Martyn Casey sidelined by an unspecified illness, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood stepped in as the band’s live bassist for a series of European shows last fall. Greenwood will do so again this spring when The Bad Seeds tour in North America, as recently confirmed in a new installment of Radiohead’s W.A.S.T.E. newsletter.

The tour officially kicks off on April 15th in Boston, Ma, and runs a total of 19 dates, culminating with an appearance at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, CA, on May 17th. Fans can get tickets here.

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In a recent editorial for The New Statesman, Greenwood reflected on his experiences with Radiohead and compared them to his time playing with The Bad Seeds. “Perhaps the biggest difference between touring with Radiohead and Nick Cave is...

It’s been six years since Radiohead last performed a concert together, and with the band’s members busy with a variety of different side projects, a reunion doesn’t appear in the cards anytime soon. However, during a Q&a at the Hay Festival Querétaro on Sunday, bassist Colin Greenwood revealed that the members of Radiohead recently got together to play music.

“We did some rehearsals about two months ago in London, just to play the old songs,” Greenwood explained. “And it was really fun, had a really good time.”

Greenwood cautioned that the band has no formal plans on the books. “We’re still talking all the time, we just need to make a plan and get some time together sorted out in advance,” the musician continued.

For now, Greenwood will spend the next several months touring as member of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, filling in for bassist Martyn Casey.

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 and theaters, kick off in Boston in April with St. Vincent serving as support for that show and the next date at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The tour, without St. Vincent, will then wend around the country over the next...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have extended their upcoming tour in support of their new album, Wild God, with their first North American dates since 2018.

Kicking off on April 15th, 2025 in Boston, the Bad Seeds’ North American leg will take them to Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, Kansas City, Seattle, and more cities before wrapping on May 14th in San Francisco. For the first two nights of the run in Boston and Brooklyn, they’ll be joined by St. Vincent, who will play an opening set.

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Tickets for the Bad Seeds’ North American dates will first become available via a Ticketmaster pre-sale opening on Tuesday, September 10th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use code Setlist), with the general on-sale opening the following Friday, September 13th. Once tickets are on sale, fans can also look for deals or get sold-out tickets via StubHub,...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will be without bassist Martyn Casey on their upcoming UK and European tour.

According to a statement from the band, Casey is suffering from an unspecified illness.

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Fortunately, the Bad Seeds have found a worthy replacement in Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, who will stand in on bass for these upcoming shows. Greenwood previously backed Cave on his recent solo tours, and also contributed to the band’s new album, Wild God.

The tour officially kicks off in Germany on September 24th and runs through mid-November. Last-minute tickets are available for purchase here.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 2024 Tour Dates:

09/24 – Oberhausen, Germany @ Rudolf Weber-arena

09/26 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome

09/27 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome

09/29 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena

09/30 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena

10/02 – Oslo, Norway @ Oslo Spektrum

10/03 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Hovet

10/05 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena

10/06 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena

10/08 – Hamburg,...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have announced a new album called Wild God, which will arrive on August 30th. Today, the band shared the album’s title track and lead single.

Released via Bad Seed in partnership with Play It Again Sam, Wild God will span 10 tracks, each produced by Cave and Warren Ellis. In addition to the band’s lineup — consisting of Cave, Ellis, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, and George Vjestica — Luis Almau and Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood made contributions to the album.

Speaking about Wild God in a new statement, Cave expressed a “hope [that] the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me.” Continuing, he explained: “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have announced B-Sides & Rarities Part II, a second collection of rare and unreleased tracks that the group recorded over the past decade and a half.

The band released their first B-Sides & Rarities compilation in 2005. Since then, he and the Bad Seeds have recorded two more discs’ worth of B-sides and rarities, both released and unheard.

In total, the 27-song B-Sides & Rarities Part II boasts 19 unreleased tracks — compiled by Cave and Bad Seeds member Warren Ellis — including the first recordings of album cuts like “Skeleton Tree,...

It’s a rare thing to see an artist’s worldview change overnight. For decades, Nick Cave has been goth rock’s hyperliterate poet laureate, famous for his intricately molded stories about rogues and “badlanders” all in the throes of anguish. (He has also always written beautiful love songs.) But where writing about doom and despair once seemed like a lark — see “Stagger Lee,” John Finn’s Wife,” Murder Ballads, etc. — the freak death of his 15-year-old son Arthur four years ago rightfully shook him to his core. His last album,...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Beacon Theatre, NYC June 15, 2017

Much is being written that Nick Cave's current tour of Skeleton Tree may be his best yet. Seeing Mr. Cave and The Bad Seeds' performance last night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, I would agree. Playing every song from that album except "Rings of Saturn" plus another eleven classic songs (set list here) from his catalog, it was a show that will be difficult to rival by any touring act this year or quite possibly until Mr. Cave decides to tour again. Quite remarkable given that he's a few months shy of his 60th year on Earth.

Channeling both rage and ragged beauty, he is singer of staggering charisma. Plunging himself into the open arms of adoring fans almost from the start, his rich, booming baritone never missed a note in any of songs, even those...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have unveiled a previously-unreleased song 'Give Us A Kiss'.

The track features in upcoming film 20,000 Days on Earth.

It is released as a digital single today (September 4), backed with 'Jubilee Street' (Live from The Sydney Opera House). A limited edition 10" vinyl follows on November 10.

"'Jubilee Street' forced its way into our film," said directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

"We'd planned to end with 'Push The Sky Away' and its pertinent lyrics about rock 'n' roll getting you right down to your soul; but after the band played 'Jubilee Street' at Sydney Opera House, we didn't stand a chance.

"Only four songs in and there was Nick, transforming in front of us. Our lives haven't been the same since."

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, Barry Adamson and George Vjestica.

Their last album...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are getting ready to bow their first album in five years when "Push the Sky Away" drops on Feb. 19. In between, Cave has been busy in Grinderman. In fact, two-thirds of the ensemble for "Sky" have been busy with the same thing. Multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey and percussionist Jim Sclavunos, in addition to Cave, made up Grinderman in its last incarnation in 2011; Bad Seeds alumni Thomas Wydler (drums) and Conway Savage (vocals) return as well. Mick Harvey is still M.I.A. since he and Cave had a parting of ways after more...

John Hillcoat likes to refer to Nick Cave – a key collaborator on all of his movies including his latest, the stylish gangster epic Lawless – as his right hand man or ‘the master”. It’s easy to see why. Cave, the musician and author, is Hillcoat’s creative soul mate. Lawless is the third movie Cave has written for Hillcoat and he’s also compiled a brilliant, haunting soundtrack for the film featuring bluegrass artists performing contemporary rock classics, like Velvet Undergound’s White Light/ White Heat.

And sharp-eyed fans of Cave might well spot him making a cameo appearance in Lawless too. “Yes, I am actually in Lawless,” Cave smiles. “There’s a scene in Chicago at the very start with a dead gangster in a car – well, I’m the dead gangster.”

So Cave is clearly in tune with Hillcoat and was involved with Lawless from the very start of the project.

Nick Cave and crew's "Grinderman 2" is a filthy, loathsome, blown-out excuse of an album. And I highly recommend it. I say excuse because it's abusively clear that Cave is using this Bad Seeds side project-turned-real deal to muse about his favorite things, "Chicks. Death. Love," and just sound tremendously tough while doing it.

And Grinderman 2 is tough, make no mistake, like guitars strung with hair from Warren Ellis' beard, tough. But these are love songs nonetheless -- for rogue men, hungry wolf men that dream broken dreams. "You are the moon! Who needs the moon? / You are the stars! Who needs the stars? / O cling to me little baby in this broken dream," Cave howls on "Evil."

Musically, you have to go back to say, 1968 and the primitive psychedelic blues-rock of bands like Blue Cheer to find the roots of this malevolence. The band strives for a raw sound...

Nick Cave has claimed that forming Grinderman has turned the Bad Seeds "upside down". Grinderman is made up of Cave together with his Bad Seeds bandmates Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos. The band release their second album Grinderman 2 on September 13. Discussing the impact of founding the spinoff group, Cave told The Guardian: "It just had a kind of cataclysmic effect, you know? It just turned things upside down. For me, sonically, there was just too much going on in the Bad Seeds. "There's a sound that's really unique to them, this kind of monstrous sound, and there's nothing I like more than going onstage with them and having this monstrous kind of thing about me." He continued: "But something had happened where it felt really difficult to make a record like The Boatman's Call (more)...

Nick Cave made our headlines last month as rumor spreads he may be re-writing "The Crow" for the big screen. If this small screen presentation of his band Grinderman's "Heathen Child" is any indication for future cinematic endeavor, then I'm attending drunk. The track is culled from the act's forthcoming "Grinderman 2" album, due Sept. 13 via Anti-. The rest of the crew is rounded out by some of Cave's Bad Seeds, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos. The clip is directed by John Hillcoat, who worked with Cave on "The Road" and "The Proposition." In it is featured B-movie...

Nick Cave is a busy man outside the Bad Seeds, writing screenplays, and when not scoring films with Warren Ellis, the two are ripping it as Grinderman with bandmates Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos.

Grinderman will release their second studio album, Grinderman 2, via Mute on September 13th and via Anti- Records in the U.S. on September 14th. They released a stream of this growling, carnal single "Heathen Child," which gets a release ahead of the full album on September 6th. A further limited edition double A-side 12" Coloured Vinyl will offer the two single tracks, a poster, plus the bonus track "Super Heathen Child" that features King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp.

Grinderman lists the tracks as:

1. Side A: Heathen Child/ Star Charmer

2. Side AA: Super Heathen Child (w/ Robert Fripp)

They're both too tough for one to be on the B-side, obviously.

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And director John Hillcoat...