Nick Cave

Judging from the play count on my laptop's music player, Moderat's record this year is well on its way to ranking as one of my favorites in 2009. Read More

Without question, the last decade has seen a massive shift in the way we collect music, with an emphasis on the collect – thanks to mp3s, music has become one big all-you-can-eat buffet, devaluing everything from bootlegs to boxed sets while changing the definition of "huge collection" from hundreds of CDs to tens of thousands of binary files. Read More

If you're in the mood for lounging, laughing and a little irreverence, then Bent on Food is the place to be this Saturday evening. Read More

Pearl Jam's dominance in the modern rock scene is never something I was entirely comfortable with, despite them playing a pivotal role in my teenage years. Read More

Delivering this year's Orwell Memorial Lecture to a packed house at Birkbeck College, Hilary Mantel understandably chose to talk about Thomas Crom-well, the hero of her Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall. Read More

HE urged us to Feed The World - but 25 years after Band Aid, Eighties star Marilyn seems only to have fed his FACE. Read More

Having made Johnny Cash hip again, the producer Rick Rubin applied his less-is-more magic to the squarest crooner of the lot. Read More

ON SMALL twists of fate life-changing moments can swing. Read More

Just in time for Mardi Gras, Ya-Ka-May, Galactic's second album from Anti- Records, a label whose great roster includes Neko Case, Nick Cave and Tom Waits, debuts Feb. 2. Read More

'When you're writing a song, it's like you're the director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, everything. Read More