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"The period leading up to and culminating in the making of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ fifth studio album, Tender Prey, was a profusely fertile time for all the individual band members, overloaded with so much peripheral creative activity and personal turm

The dramatic procession of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds entered a new phase in 2003. The supremely crafted albums which came out towards the close of the century, Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call, affirmed what many have known since the band formed ou

The fact that Nick Cave opened his new outfit’s first album with a cover of a Leonard Cohen song, the delusional visionary brooding of "Avalanche," was a sign that he had moved in for good to what Cohen would later call ‘the tower of song’. Cohen’s origin

Names of North End Women is a collaborative record from Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree. "If you live long enough, you see a lot of people drift in and out of your life," says Ranaldo, explaining one of the loose themes linking the adventurous pieces that com

This colored vinyl 2LP release documents Throbbing Gristle's infamous live show recorded at their 2004 performance as part of Jake and Dinos Chapman's All Tomorrow's Parties festival. The performance was dedicated to their dear friend and co-conspirator,

Mission Of Dead Souls documents Throbbing Gristle's last live performance in San Francisco in 1981. It's a given that the band's studio work was noisy and abstract, but more was left to chance during gigs like this, with primitive synthesizers and other e