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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds News

Nick Cave says that parents won't let their children sing in his choir

'They don't want their children around words like snatch,' says Bad Seeds singer

  • May 14, 2013

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds unveil new track 'Animal X' – listen

The song was a special release for Record Store Day

  • Apr 22, 2013

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Tame Impala, Local Natives for La Route Du Rock festival

!!!, Hot Chip, Godspeed You Black Emperor will also play the French festival this August

  • Mar 25, 2013

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds added to Open'er Festival

Kings Of Leon, Blur, Arctic Monkeys and Queens Of The Stone Age to headline the Polish festival

  • Mar 13, 2013

Nick Cave tells SXSW that forming a band to get girls 'actually works!'

The Bad Seeds frontman also spoke about Kylie, sanitary towels, giving birth to watermelons, heroin and the NME

  • Mar 12, 2013

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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Reviews

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, 'Mermaids'

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, 'Mermaids'

Perverted poetry

  • May 17, 2013

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Push The Sky Away'

The grand lord of gothic lushness is 55 and still in his prime on this majestic and desolate masterpiece

  • Feb 15, 2013

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

New sermons from the old prince of darkness. Carling Academy, Glasgow (May 4)

  • May 15, 2008

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

More News From Nowhere

  • Apr 28, 2008

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

  • Feb 21, 2008

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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Biography

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band that was formed in London, United Kingdom in 1983 by frontman Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey, keyboardist Conway Savage, and percussionists Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). The band has released fifteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.

The band was founded after the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group The Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Victoria, Australia. Deviating from the noise rock roots of their contemporaries, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have produced alternative rock that has been influenced by various genres, such as punk rock, gothic rock, no wave and blues. Their early material--From Her to Eternity (1984), The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Your Funeral... My Trial (1986) and Tender Prey (1988)--primarily featured a post-punk sound. The band has progressively incorporated other songwriting elements; for example, the 2008 release Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! experimented with garage rock, also an influence of the side project Grinderman. Synthesizers and minimal guitar work feature prominently on their newest album, Push the Sky Away (2013), recorded after the departure of Harvey in 2009.

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