A bad seed, Warren Ellis, is joining Nick Cave for a tour of the U.S. and Canada beginning in March. In support of the duo’s first record together, Carnage, Cave and Ellis are scheduled to perform 17 shows throughout the whole month and the start of April next year. Their first show is at the Thomas […]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds just released another unheard track “Earthlings” in lieu of the upcoming B-Sides & Rarities Part II. [embedded content] The song has been resurrected from the 2018 and 2019 sessions that resulted in the group’s highly acclaimed album, Ghosteen. Sounding like a monologue from Les Miserables’ Javert, it literally becomes […]
Back in 2005, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released B-Sides & Rarities, a collection that’s exactly as its title describes. Now, 16 years later, the group has another volume of obscurities on the way. Out on Oct. 22, B-Sides & Rarities Part II was compiled by Cave and Warren Ellis, and contains 27 rare and […]
Early Bad Seeds collaborator Anita Lane died early this week. In the latest edition of his Red Hand Files newsletter, Nick Cave remembered Lane as “the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far” and called her a “lighting in a bottle.” “You think you’ve become grief-savvy — stronger, wiser, more resilient — you think that there is nothing […]
Nick Cave detailed his process for overcoming writer’s block in his latest Red Hand Files post. The songwriter — answering the fan question, “What do you do when the lyrics just aren’t coming?” — examined how many musicians misdiagnose their own slow pace as a blanket lack of inspiration. “In my experience, lyrics are almost […]