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Jethro Lazenby, Nick Cave’s Son, Dies at 31
Jethro Lazenby, a model and the son of musician Nick Cave, had died at the age of 31. No cause of death was announced. Cave confirmed his son’s passing in a statement today (May 9). “With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,” he said. “We would be grateful for family privacy at this time.” Lazenby was living in Australia at the time of his death. His mother is Melbourne-based model Beau Lazenby, who was in a relationship with Cave when Lazenby was born in 1991. Cave told The Guardian in 2008 that he didn’t meet Jethro until Jethro was around seven or eight years old. “To my eternal regret, I didn’t make much contact with Jethro in the early years, but I now have a great relationship with him,” he said. Lazenby was released on bail last Thursday from M...
Nick Cave, Warren Ellis Detail Forthcoming Spoken Word Album
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are collaborating together yet again. The duo announced their upcoming spoken-word record, Seven Songs. Seven Songs was recorded during the same time as the duo’s 2021 Carnage, but instead of pure music, according to a statement, the new record will feature “seven spoken word pieces set to music.” The album is out June 17 and is available for pre-order. “While in lockdown I wrote a number of psalms, or small, sacred songs — one a day for a week,” Cave says. “The seven psalms are presented as one long meditation — on faith, rage, love, grief, mercy, sex and praise. A strange, contemplative offering borne of an uncertain time. I hope you like it.” Seven Songs will be pressed on 10″ vinyl, with all the spoken-word tracks on one side and a 12...
Flea Joins Nick Cave and Warren for Performance of ‘We No Who U R’
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea joined Nick Cave and Warren Ellis on stage at their show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. During the duo’s second encore, the bassist joined the group for a performance of “We No Who U R.” This is the first time Cave had played the song since 2015. It was originally on Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 2012 album Push the Sky Away. [embedded content][embedded content] Despite the happy reunion, Cave and Red Hot Chili Peppers have not always gotten along. According to NME, Cave in 2004 reportedly said in response to a review of the band’s Stadium Arcadium, “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” Also according to NME, Flea responded to Cave’s comment stating: “For a second that hu...
Watch the Trailer for Upcoming Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Documentary
Ahead of its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival later this month, the trailer for the upcoming Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ documentary has been revealed. Titled This Much I Know To Be True, it explores the inner workings behind their most-recent albums, Ghosteen and Carnage. [embedded content][embedded content] “I would have defined myself as a musician or a writer,” Cave says at the beginning of the new clip, “and I’m trying to wean myself off those definitions of myself that are about my occupation, and see myself as a person. … As a husband, and father, and friend, and citizen that makes music and writes stuff. Rather than the other way around.” Directed by Andrew Dominik, This Much I Know To Be True, has yet to receive an official release date. It will premiere sometim...
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Team Up for French Nature Documentary Soundtrack
After recently announcing their joint spring tour of North America, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis just unveiled yet another joint record. Following this year’s Carnage, the duo is set to release their own soundtrack for the upcoming French nature documentary La Panthère Des Neiges. Today, they shared “We Are Not Alone.” [embedded content][embedded content] The new track’s title may be a reference to Cave’s own “Galleon Ship” off Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 2019 Ghosteen, but regardless is a caressing ode to the animal neighbors we share the world with. Cave and Ellis have worked on film scores together since 2005, yet this is Ellis’ first time composing an entire original score. “There is something about the heart of this film that draws you in. I realised after a day, that I wanted to ...
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Detail Spring Tour
A bad seed, Warren Ellis, is joining Nick Cave for a tour of the U.S. and Canada beginning in March. In support of the duo’s first record together, Carnage, Cave and Ellis are scheduled to perform 17 shows throughout the whole month and the start of April next year. Their first show is at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina, and they will stop in Texas, California, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Canada. The tour precedes Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds‘ own summer European stint that will run until August. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. EST this Friday, November 19, on Cave’s website. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis will play 17 shows across the US and Canada in spring 2022. Tickets on sale Friday, November 19 at 10am (local time): https://t.co/vPgEY...
The 10 Best Indie and Alternative Leonard Cohen Covers
Leonard Cohen is the definition of a songwriter’s songwriter, the kind of artist you’d seldom hear on the radio, but was revered by countless musicians as one of the greatest lyricists in the world. An accomplished poet and novelist before he ever recorded an album, Cohen’s songs were vivid and literary, full of politics, dark humor, and frank sexuality. Though classic rock icons like Billy Joel and James Taylor have covered him, and Pentatonix has moronically attempted to make “Hallelujah” into a Christmas standard, Leonard Cohen’s legacy has grown more when he’s been covered by artists who share Cohen’s subversive edge or name-checked in songs like Nirvana’s “Pennyroyal Tea.” November 7 marks the 5th anniversary of the Canadian legend’s death in 2016, so here’s a look back at 10 of the b...
Nick Cave Announces Memoir Faith, Hope & Carnage
After years of relative silence (outside of his Red Hand Files newsletter) Nick Cave announced his first memoir, Faith, Hope & Carnage. The book is set to arrive in the fall of 2022 via Canongate, and is comprised of over 40 hours of conversation between Observer journalist Sean O’Hagan and Cave. “This is the first interview I’ve given in years,” Cave said in a statement. “It’s over 40 hours long. That should do me for the duration, I think. “It has been a strange, anchoring pleasure to talk to Sean O’Hagan through these uncertain times, and a pleasure to continue my relationship with Canongate, who are as ever committed and passionate.” Faith, Hope & Carnage discuss Cave’s thoughts and tribulations during the global pandemic, and his personal life the last six years after the deat...
The 100 Greatest Rock Stars Since That Was A Thing
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one either. Because that isn’t possible — actually, it is, if you wanted some compilation of who sold the most records/concert tickets/has the most fans/got the most death threats, etc., and someone could come up with a bunch of very empirical metrics and create a “heat index” or something, and could deliver an actual scientific ranking! But we, um, didn’t do that. In fact we didn’t even, technically, do the “we...
Beck, Gorillaz, Nick Cave, Pavement and More Slated for Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival 2022
While 2021 festivals are coming fast and furious, festival fans have something to look forward to in 2022, thanks to Beck, Gorillaz, Nick Cave, The Strokes, Pavement and more slated for the jam-packed Primavera Sound Festival. The two-day fest in Barcelona will also see Massive Attack, Tame Impala, the National and Tyler, The Creator on the first weekend. The second will see some acts repeating, but joined by such luminaries as Lorde, Dua Lipa, Megan Thee Stallion, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Interpol. But wait, there’s more. Primavera also nabbed such cool names as Bauhaus, Bikini Kill, Einstürzende Neubáuten, Kacey Musgraves, Earl Sweatshirt, Jawbox, Beach House, Charli XCX, Mavis Staples, Sharon Van Etten, Dinosaur Jr., slowthai, girl in red, and IDLES. Jumping on th...
Nick Cave Remembers Former Collaborator Anita Lane: ‘The Smartest and Most Talented of All of Us’
Early Bad Seeds collaborator Anita Lane died early this week. In the latest edition of his Red Hand Files newsletter, Nick Cave remembered Lane as “the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far” and called her a “lighting in a bottle.” “You think you’ve become grief-savvy — stronger, wiser, more resilient — you think that there is nothing more that can hurt you in this world, and then Anita dies,” he wrote. Cave admired Lane’s myriad accomplishments and sometimes contradictory qualities, saying, that “She was the brains behind The Birthday Party, wrote a bunch of their songs, wrote ‘From Her to Eternity,’ ‘The World’s a Girl,’ ‘Sugar in a Hurricane’ and my favourite Bad Seeds song, ‘Stranger Than Kindness.’ but was much more than that.” He al...
Nick Cave Offers Fans Advice on the Role Talent Plays in ‘Making It’ in Music
Two Nick Cave fans, Paula and Stella, wrote separately to the singer with similar questions, the gist summed up in Stella’s query: “I want to do music and I love it so much. It means everything to me but I worry that I don’t have any talent. How important is talent?” Answering via his Red Hand Files newsletter, Cave told the story of his humble if self-aware beginnings. Speaking about coming up in Melbourne, Australia in the late ’70s. “You couldn’t walk through St Kilda or Carlton waving a stick without hitting a talented musician. I was one of those talented people — I just wasn’t that talented,” he wrote. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “obj”: {“id”:”25115″,”width...
