The Bad Seeds’ vocalist revives Grinderman in Mojave. Photo: Jason Kempin, Getty Images Nick Cave is such a cocky genius. His dirty rock band and Bad Seeds alter ego Grinderman put on a loud and ...

It is always interesting to see an offshoot of a prolific rock band attempt to forge new identities and find new sounds. What is even more interesting is the case with Nick Cave's new band, Grinderman ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nick Cave needed Grinderman to break free. After a decade that saw two albums of mournful love songs, one career-first critically ...

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 ...

In recent years, Nick Cave has made an about-face that's the musical equivalent of trading the family sedan for a convertible. In 2007, a skeezy-looking Cave, wearing a mustache, slicked-back hair and ...

It had been over eight years since Nick Cave last played in Minnesota (the Bad Seeds played the State Theatre in April 2002), so as you can imagine, the anticipation and energy of the crowd at First ...

Nick Cave describes women a lot in the company of his tall, hairy, dark-suited, middle-aged new band, Grinderman. At times he does proper literary comparison: someone is put forth as a “lupine child” ...

On September 13th, Nick Cave will return with his second Grinderman record, titled simply Grinderman 2. The album is the anticipated follow-up to Grinderman’s breakout debut, which found the Bad Seeds ...

We mentioned that Blur and The Stone Roses are reuniting for Coachella 2013, and as usual there some other interesting reunions at the festival too. Violent Femmes, who called it quits in 2009, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As Nick Cave and his fellow Grindermen opened with the blistering first ...