Known to some as a remixer and producer on the rise, to others as one-fourth of the always awesome Metronomy … and to people of a certain vintage as a member of the underground titans Akira, Olugbenga has been on the scene a while, but is now ready to steal the spotlight in no little style.
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"I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. I wasn't particularly influenced by my contemporaries. They weren't very good."
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"I stick my fingers in your biscuit jar and crush all your gingerbread men!" he leers at a woman in the front row with whom he appears to have forged an intense, in-gig relationship.
Read MoreNick Cave & The Bad Seeds have partnered with Rollingstone.com to premiere a new video of a stunning and uncensored rendition of "Mermaids," captured live in dramatic black and white by directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on February 21 at Los Angeles' Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater.
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"It's not about the music, man, it's about the festival experience."
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have unveiled a brand new track titled 'Animal X' – scroll down to listen to it.
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Peel back the surface and look past the picturesque valley backdrop.
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This year's Coachella lineup was underwhelming from the start, so much so that I didn't plan on going until a pass fell in my lap about a week before the festival.
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The final day of the Coachella Valley Festival of Music and Arts took place yesterday (April 14) in Indio, California.
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SpaceGhostPurrp doesn't really scream Sunday brunch hour entertainment, but he and his crew Raider Klan were one of the acts to kick off Day 3 of Coachella.
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"It's the homeland!" one of the girls on the hotel shuttle yelped as we neared the festival.
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For me, Nick Cave has always been at his best when he's full of hellfire and wrath and is on stage, fervently preaching about love and death and the death of love, growling at us through his aggressive anger, fanatically slamming his fists and wildly stomping his feet.
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On March 28th at New York's Beacon Theater, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds followed a spectacular encore thrashing of "Tupelo" – a swampy homage to Elvis Presley and John Lee Hooker on the 1985 album The Firstborn Is Dead – with shocking stillness: the title track from the group's new album, Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed).
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Coachella will stream a number of this weekend's sets live on YouTube , including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phoenix, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Postal Service, How to Destroy Angels, Grinderman, Vampire Weekend, New Order, The xx, Tame Impala, James Blake, Father John Misty, Bat For Lashes, Beach House, Hot Chip, Descendents, Portugal. the Man, Janelle Monáe, Passion Pit, Local Natives, Japandroids, Purity Ring, Jessie Ware, and Palma Violets, among others.
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On 20th May, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release 'Mermaids', the third track to be taken from their new album Push The Sky Away.
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It's been five years since Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have toured America, and in the unique and never-predictable story of Nick Cave, five years is a long time.
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Nick Cave in the light of day is a shocking site, and the singer knows it.
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Nick Cave took part in an 'In Conversation' session covering his life and career earlier today (March 12) as part of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
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As part of our Nick Cave cover story in the current issue of Uncut, I spoke to film maker John Hillcoat.
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We're delighted to give you the chance to hear exclusive previews of two songs from the soundtrack to Lawless , the new film written by Nick Cave. The tracks are "Fire And Brimstone" and "Midnight Run". "
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After two albums with the raucous Bad Seed alter ego, Grinderman, and one album with the Bad Seeds which shared much of the machismo of their other selves, Nick Cave has brought back the Bad Seeds proper for a suite of nine subdued ballads.
Read MoreOver the last decade or so, Nick Cave has been juggling quite a few balls, work-wise, and somehow managing not to drop them.
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Fresh from his album of the week honor, Nick Cave easily sold out the Fonda Theater in Hollywood by rolling out Push The Sky Away in its entirety backed by an orchestra and the children from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds celebrated the release of their Push the Sky Away album with a revivalist's fervor last night at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood.
Read MoreEven when he was a fresh-faced punk, Nick Cave never sounded like a fresh-faced punk.
Read MoreIf the dirty-old-man noise rock in Grinderman, Nick Cave's other band, was an orgy, the relentlessly laconic Push the Sky Away is pure hangover, an exhausted guy at the end of the bar mumbling about love's chill and telling creepy conquest stories ("She was a catch/We were a match/I was the match/That would fire up her snatch" – do tell!).
Read MoreOver the last decade or so, Nick Cave has been juggling quite a few balls, work-wise, and somehow managing not to drop them.
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Push the Sky Away is the 15th official album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , but it could almost be their first.
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Tonight is the unveiling of Push the Sky Away, the band's 15th studio album, and their first in five years.
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A beast less frenzied than we heard on 'Dig!!!
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Yeah I don't have an opinion on the Grammys.
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It's about as difficult to claim a favorite Nick Cave album as it is to claim a Tom Waits one.
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Recent years have seen messageboards, pop gossip sites and magazines indulging in the pursuit of Brighton-based Nick Cave spotting.
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Push The Sky Away , the new album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , is a quieter affair than its predecessor Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! or the two albums that Cave recorded with his Grinderman band, but its not necessarily any more forgiving.
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A couple of years after 2004's double-album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus , Nick Cave and various Bad Seeds turned to a fledgling project they named Grinderman as a means of escaping the weight and expectation of their established act.
Read MoreNick Cave certainly knows his way around an evocative phrase.
Read MoreI might as well get this out of the way quickly, because every year some idiot shows up here thinking the views expressed in these posts truly reflect my honest opinions of the artists I choose to critique.
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The twice-as-nice American alt-pop party has disclosed its 2013 artist listings in one go, dividing its headline credits between The Stone Roses, Blur, The xx, The Postal Service, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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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.
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The line up for this year's Coachella has been unveiled, with The Stone Roses, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline.
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