Tag: Nick Cave

New releases: Slowdive, Nick Cave, Belinda Carlisle, Love Tractor, Missing Persons

New releases: Slowdive, Nick Cave, Belinda Carlisle, Love Tractor, Missing Persons

This week sees the release of a new album from Slowdive, a Nick Cave live set, a Belinda Carlisle box set, a live album from Missing Persons, and a Love Tractor reissue.

Nick Cave plots North American solo tour accompanied by Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood

Nick Cave plots North American solo tour accompanied by Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood

Nick Cave will head back out onto the road in North America for a solo this fall accompanied only by bassist Colin Greenwood of Radiohead.

Nick Cave teases new film “This Much I Know To Be True” ahead of tour with Warren Ellis

Nick Cave teases new film “This Much I Know To Be True” ahead of tour with Warren Ellis

Nick Cave is offering fans a first glimpse at the new film “This Much I Know To Be True,” which will document Cave’s creative partnership with bandmate Warren Ellis.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cancel U.S. tour over coronavirus, eye new dates in 2021

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cancel U.S. tour over coronavirus, eye new dates in 2021

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have canceled — not just postponed — their planned 18-date North American tour this fall in support of the band’s 2019 double album Ghosteen. But the band’s already looking to 2021. Full details right here.

Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Alt.Rewind: Week of May 1, 2020

Watch: Strangeways Radio + Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Alt.Rewind: Week of May 1, 2020

Our good friends at Strangeways Radio are putting together a week-in-review video series — newly rechristened Alt. Rewind — that will recap the news posted at Slicing Up Eyeballs and on the Strangeways site throughout the preceding week, hosted by Velvet Rebel. Watch the latest installment right here.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to embark on 18-date North American tour this fall

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to embark on 18-date North American tour this fall

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds today announced plans for an 18-date North American tour this fall in support of the band’s 2019 double album Ghosteen.  The trek, which opens Sept. 16 in Minneapolis, finds the band playing theaters and arenas through an Oct. 17 date in Vancouver, B.C.

Watch: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ full concert film ‘Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen’

Watch: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ full concert film ‘Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen’

On this Christmas Eve, Nick Cave has dropped a little gift for Bad Seeds fans: He’s streaming the band’s recent 2-hour, 23-minute concert film “Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen” — filmed on Oct. 20, 2017, at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen — on YouTube for free. Watch it right here.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to release 10-song double album ‘Ghosteen’ next week

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to release 10-song double album ‘Ghosteen’ next week

Nick Cave used his fan Q&A newsletter “The Red Hand Files” to announce this morning the release next week of a new Bad Seeds record, a double album called Ghosteen that will include eight songs on Part 1 and a two “long songs” linked by a spoken-word piece on Part 2. Check out the tracklist and cover art here.

Conway Savage, longtime keyboardist for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 1960-2018

Conway Savage, longtime keyboardist for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, 1960-2018

Conway Savage, the Australian musician who played piano and organ, and provided backing vocals, for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds for more than a quarter-century, died Sunday night, about 10 months after the band revealed he was being treated for a brain tumor. He was 58.

Conway Savage of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds recovering from brain tumor surgery

Conway Savage of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds recovering from brain tumor surgery

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds today revealed that Conway Savage, who plays piano and organ, and provides backing vocals, has been absent from this year’s Bad Seeds tour because he underwent surgery that was “largely a success” for a recently diagnosed brain tumor. Read the full statement from the band.

Watch: Nick Cave finds Bobby Gillespie in London audience for show-closing duet

Watch: Nick Cave finds Bobby Gillespie in London audience for show-closing duet

Nick Cave has been ending the shows on his current tour with the Bad Seeds by filling the stage with fans during blistering performances of “Stagger Lee,” then bringing things way down with a trance-like “Push the Sky Away” in which he often climbs out into the audience. Saturday night in London, he found a friend in the crowd.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to release sprawling new best-of ‘Lovely Creatures’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to release sprawling new best-of ‘Lovely Creatures’

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds today announced a sprawling new best-of collection that’s “designed to be a way into three decades of music making” and which will be released in multiple formats: a standard 2CD set, a triple LP collection, a deluxe 3CD/1DVD version and a super-deluxe edition that adds a 256-page hardback book.

New releases: Trip Shakespeare, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Melvins, The Misfits

New releases: Trip Shakespeare, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Melvins, The Misfits

This week’s new releases include a pair of bonus-laden CD reissues from Trip Shakespeare, plus vinyl re-releases from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (From Her to Eternity, Firstborn is Dead, Kicking Against the Pricks, Your Funeral… My Trial), The Misfits and The Melvins.