Nick Cave

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Sharon Van Etten - Beacon Theatre - 3/30/13

Better Than: Happiness. About halfway through his band's set on Saturday night, Nick Cave took a moment. He'd just finished a roaring rendition of "From Her to Eternity," the thumping, chaotic song from the Bad Seeds 1984 debut album of the same name. This was the Australian's final evening at the ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/29/13

Please get out and do something. Your roommates are worried about you.

Why Artists Should Stop Playing Their Seminal Albums Live

On a wispy evening last October, my housemate and I went to see GZA perform his magnum opus Liquid Swords in full at D.C.'s swanky Howard Theater. I wasn't the only one with high expectations. The crowd's hunger escalated with Killer Mike slaying his opening set, pulling out perfectly punctuated sho ... More >>

The Five Biggest Sellouts at SXSW

SXSW is not a music festival so much as it is an experiment in excess. In honor of the world's most bloated city this week, we present the five biggest sellouts at SXSW. See also: Why We'll All Try to See Justin Timberlake at SXSW, and Why That's Completely Wrong

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Penrose

The Five Biggest Male Crotches In Music

A lot of music acts sell millions of units, but if they don't have one very special one betwen their legs, they're socially worthless. According to the book The Official Book of Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N' Roll Lists by Judy McGuire, here are five of the very biggest c***s in r**k. 1) Nick Cave Bigge ... More >>

Eight Musicians Who've Proved Themselves Damn Fine Authors

Thanks to Frankenstorm, a whole slate of concerts has been wiped out tonight and tomorrow, including this evening's Joshua Radin/A Fine Frenzy gig at Best Buy Theater--it's been rescheduled for Sunday, Nov. 4. As it turns out, Alison Sudol, the brainy beauty behind AFF, is about more than just music ... More >>

In Prohibition Drama Lawless, Looks Trump Drama

Hillbillies versus peacocks

Marianne Faithfull

Facebook + Music: Most People Are DJs

The site's foray into music and the act of performative listening

Q&A: Marianne Faithfull On Her Critics, Her Voice, And The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones

​ "Either you like my voice or you don't," Marianne Faithfull says in a deep, husky breath. "If people come to my music expecting my pretty voice, or anything pretty, they're going to be disappointed and they're going to hate it. It's much better to come to my work and say, 'This is going to b ... More >>

Dirty Beaches

Stephen Petronio Venures Into a Dark World, Chunky Move Lights One Up

Choreographers and Australia….

The Ten Best Musician/Comic Artist Friendships

Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>

Metamorphosis Does Kafka by Way of Iceland

Things get buggy at BAM

Week In Review: We Also Accept Your Future Apology In Advance

Everybody just stop yelling, OK? Photo by Daniel Snyder.​In the week we talked about Odd Future, kidnapping and murder, and why we sometimes like the things that repel us, we also saw the group live--alongside every other music critic in the city. They struck a weird balance to the other big r ... More >>

Q&A: Nick Cave On the Grinderman Lyrics That Infuriate His Wife the Most

Cave is the one...aw, hell, you already know which one he is. Photo by Deirdre O'Callaghan.​Nick Cave is a busy man. Over the past year, the underground rock hero has released a novel, scored a Viggo Mortensen movie, re-released some of his Bad Seeds records, rewritten the screenplay for a rem ... More >>

ROAD KILL

Recycling the dead

Cable+Liturgy+Goes Cube

This Week's Voice: Fall Arts Guide, The Beatles Box Set, Jay-Z's Blueprint 3, Yo La Tengo, Whitney Houston, and More

​In this week's Village Voice, we unveil our 2009 Fall Arts Guide: Dan Weiss on the Jane Austen alt-rock of Brooklyn locals the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Jed Lipinski in conversation with George Packer on the occasion of the author's forthcoming Interesting Times: Writings From a Turbulent ... More >>

Nick Cave's New Novel Is No Birthday Party

Dirty Three

This Week's Voice: Nine Inch Nails, Warp Records, Rock-Star Lit, Whit Stillman, The September Issue, and More

Tina ChouTrent Reznor says hi​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla is live from Nine Inch Nails' retirement party at Webster Hall: "And then, our stick-figure arms raised ironically heavenward, our fingers clenched into tight, bone-snapping balls of cartoonish fury, we all scream, 'FIST ... More >>

Lit Seen: Momus, Joe Pernice, and Nick Cave Trade Guitar Picks for Pens

On the improbable return of the rock-star novel

This Week in the Voice

​Mark Farese "stole $150 from his grandfather to buy his first pair" of premium athletic shoes, specializing in the Air Force 1 variety. Now he has 1,400 pairs, and Nike sends him advance copies of new models. He is the Mayor of the fascinating world of sneakerdom, where pre-teens and grown-up ... More >>

Beat Circus

Hugs and Kisses 74: Everett True DJ'd ATP Australia, Neener-Neener

In this week's installment of Hugs and Kisses, Everett True reports back on his DJ set, the one he was fretting over last week. One week less than last week nine more months until ATP NY [sigh]. Hugs and Kisses The Down Under Outbursts of Everett True This week: ATP Australia, part two So t ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 73: ATP Australia

This week's installment of Hugs and Kisses from Brisbane-based Everett True comes a few days early. Only nine more months until ATP NY [sigh]. Hugs and Kisses The Down Under Outbursts of Everett True This week: ATP Australia ATP Australia is nearly upon us--and man, it's nice to be feeling ... More >>

What CMJ Could Learn from POP Montreal

BAD SEED

Iceland's Vesturport Theatre gets help from Nick Cave

Wednesday

SECOND THAT EMOTION

Movement that just might compel you

Nick Cave Shit-Talks His PLUG Award

Nick Cave: Still Venting

The Bad Seeds chief will accept your compliments, but he wouldn't mind a little derision

HOMETOWN ADVANTAGE

Brooklyn indie rockers get BAMmed

That Which We Cranked

Charting our myriad obsessions, amusements, and confusions

Three 2007 Albums That Got Away

Hugs and Kisses #21: Kate Nash, Animals And Men

Optimo Demolish the Subgenre

Live: The White Stripes Transcend at Madison Square Garden

Price on Request

The Brothers Grim

A brutal outback oater in the best western tradition

Vision Quest

Get your avant-garde fix with plenty of experimental cinema this season

Let me defrock you, oh liar of the orifice, but about yer blues . . .

Not Hop, Stomp

What I Like About You

Capital-'R' Romantics and Secular Priests

From Safety to Where

Total Systems Failure