Because I haven't written about Nick Cave in a while...

Hello Children,

I just finished "The Death of Bunny Monroe" and I gotta say it was pretty awesome--the depths of sexual depravity, excessive substance abuse, all things that are good...I highly recommend you check it out, especially if you're a fan of Nick Cave's works en masse.  

Also, in more Cave news, the score to The Road, penned by Cave and menacing hobo brother Warren Ellis (I kid...I love the man), is due out upon the release of the film on 11/25.  Lord knows, I'll probably check it out, I haven't been disappointed yet by any of Cave's forays into the world of film, be it acting, writing or composing.  

In additional Nick Cave related news, Cinefamily will be doing Los Angeles a favor by screening ATP The Film on 12/1, which features performances from a few bands that I don't really like all that much: Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Animal Collective, Dirty Three, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Daniel Johnston, Lightning Bolt, Battles and a small band from the UK called Grinderman.

So yeah get your asses out there, and if anybody boos Grinderman, I will get so Manson up in this motherfucker (Charles, not Marilyn).

It's a long story but basically my roommate and I went to see Grinderman at Madison Square Garden a few years ago opening for The White Stripes and basically everybody in the room looked like this:

That is to say, with the help of The DB1, that everybody there was a hot chick with their requisite douchebag of the "frat" douche variety.  And the ingrate sitting next to me (who looked astonishingly like Mr. Sunburnt Vagina above left) was mustering every bit of wind in his Busch Light ravaged belly to let it be known to Mr. Cave and his motley band that they were not welcome.  I almost started a fist fight with him, it would be my first time ever seeing Nick in the flesh, and sadly he was forced off stage by a torrential downpour of hisses and boos.  I shudder to think of it...anyway this little video is also pretty cool.

The Mint Chicks

I love these dudes! So bummed that they don't get the respect and attention they deserve. The other day, I was talking to some of my friends about the scene in Portland and was confused as to why the only band making any headway is Glass Candy. The stars aligned last night and I had a dream which featured my favorite Mint Chicks song "Post No Bills." When I drove to work this morning, it came on my iPod shuffle...coincidence or divine intervention? I vote the latter! They're originally from New Zealand, hailing from the beyond legendary Flying Nun scene which gave us bands like The Clean and Tall Dwarfs. Anyway, as of the last few years they've relocated to Portland. I saw them for the first time maybe in 2004 at the one of the danker undercarriages of New York's music scene, the Delancey. The lead singer was hanging from a tube in the ceiling singing upside down while the band ripped through what could only be described as At The Drive In machine gun power pop. I was so into it, I ordered their record online the very next day



Either way, they're up to some really great things these days, their last record Screens is pretty epic. Veeeerrry power pop, but with a bizarre kiwi infusion all their own. You can stream those lovely sounds here.

Nick Cave shaved his mustache and tickled the ivories with one of my all time favorites, the Warren Ellis fronted The Dirty Three.  


Also lest we forget, Sheriffs tomorrow at 3 Clubs. Come on down!

Screaming Females

Check out The Screaming Females, they're from Jersey and they rock the Brooklyn scene.  It's nice to see a chick punker doing something other than "shitgaze" these days.  Check out the jam "Boyfriend," it's almost a bit like a more garagey X-Ray-Spex if Polly Styrene were to damage her larynx, badly.

P.S. This is just awesome.   Here Nick Cave reads Chapter 10 from Bunny Munro.  What a badass.

Nick Cave - The Death of Bunny Munro/Other Things

This is my first post, fitting that it should be Nick Cave related.

So homeboy is coming around on tour, promoting his new book "The Death of Bunny Munro."  It comes out 9/3/09.

Official Website

His only date in the US is in N.Y.C.  That's 9/14/09 for anybody so inclined...couldn't help but notice Los Angeles was conspicuously left off the itinerary...

In other news, the film version of "The Road," based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, comes out 10/16/09, featuring a score by none other than the man in question and his epicly bearded partner in crime, the mad fiddler and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis.

In other news, I am really digging The Smith Westerns.  I extremely dorkily pre-ordered their UK 7" that isn't out until October.  I regret nothing.