Nick Cave

Official(!) Review: Interpol, Our Love to Admire

Nick Cave’s Grinderman Live Tonight in SF (7/27)

Grinderman, Daft Punk, Sila & the Afrofunk Experience -- ASD’s Live Music Picks for Friday, July 27

Last Night: Grinderman at Great American

SF Weekly Best Albums of 2007: Michael Leaverton Weighs In

SF Weekly Best Albums of 2007 : John Graham Edition

MP3 of the Day: The Drones

"Apocalypse Night"

10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

MochipetOur hand picked list of events worth your spare time, for the price of your spare change. Zombie Beach Party (Friday)In San Francisco, Zombies never say die. When they're not "killing" people during flash mobs, they're going to the beach--indoors, of course, because the real sun would damage ... More >>

Recordings

MochipetOur hand picked list of events worth your spare time, for the price of your spare change. Zombie Beach Party (Friday)In San Francisco, Zombies never say die. When they're not "killing" people during flash mobs, they're going to the beach--indoors, of course, because the real sun would damage ... More >>

Track of the Day: The Drones

Despite having a name that could set S.F.'s noise nerds in a tizzy, Australia's Drones are an indie rock band. But they're a damn good one, especially when frontman Gareth Liddiard is unwinding one of his heavily accented, highly tortured yowls over a mess of noisy guitar riffage. (Think an early, s ... More >>

Hit and Myths

This promises to be an introspective year for art.

Bad Seeds bloom

This promises to be an introspective year for art.

Clockcleaner

Babylon Rules (Load)

My Tunes: Beth Lisick

When words and music are needed.

Blue-Ballin' Blues

Nick Cave's Grinderman is a raucous ride

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter

Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul (Barsuk)

Bringing It All Back Home

The latest, greatest acid-folk reissues

Poetry and Puncture Wounds

The latest, greatest acid-folk reissues

The Bad Seeds

Nick Cave pens a new breed of revisionist Western

Alvarius B

Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset

Tom's Cat

A musical about felines that boasts unexpected layers and killer tunes

Hipster San Diego

It's not all surf and silicone in America's Finest City

Six Eye Columbia

Judy at Carnegie Hall

Marianne Faithfull

Before the Poison

Shane's Addiction

Documentarian Sarah Share delivers the man, the music, the myth: MacGowan

Love Plus One

Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

House Of Tudor

Compulsive Numbers, retro-refracted Flaming Stars, and filmmaker Peter Sempel

She's Lost Control

The shit hits the fans

Pop Philosophy

Kicking against the pricks

House Of Tudor

Tour photographs; "Dark Wave"; Sacred steel; Dirty Three

House Of Tudor

Bamboleo, Pendulum, "Fetish 2000," Johnny Dowd

Hear This

Bamboleo, Pendulum, "Fetish 2000," Johnny Dowd

The House of Tudor

Bamboleo, Pendulum, "Fetish 2000," Johnny Dowd

Live

Q: What do Tori Amos, Nick Cave, and Lyricist Lounge have in common? A: Nothing.

House of Tudor

Q: What do Tori Amos, Nick Cave, and Lyricist Lounge have in common? A: Nothing.

Pew's Anatomy

Q: What do Tori Amos, Nick Cave, and Lyricist Lounge have in common? A: Nothing.

Night+Day

Q: What do Tori Amos, Nick Cave, and Lyricist Lounge have in common? A: Nothing.

Recordings

Q: What do Tori Amos, Nick Cave, and Lyricist Lounge have in common? A: Nothing.

Recordings

Q: What do Tori Amos, Nick Cave, and Lyricist Lounge have in common? A: Nothing.

Recordings

Q: What do Tori Amos, Nick Cave, and Lyricist Lounge have in common? A: Nothing.

RSVP for a Free Bash at YBC w/ Drag Queens, Street Food, and More

We usually round up the cheap events around the city on Fridays, but since the RSVP list for this one will most likely fill up fast, we're giving the heads up early. On Saturday, June 5, Yerba Buena Center is hosting a "Big Idea" party featuring grub from Mission Street Food; music from Pansy Divisi ... More >>

The Madness of Nick Cave

We usually round up the cheap events around the city on Fridays, but since the RSVP list for this one will most likely fill up fast, we're giving the heads up early. On Saturday, June 5, Yerba Buena Center is hosting a "Big Idea" party featuring grub from Mission Street Food; music from Pansy Divisi ... More >>

Track of the Day: Liars Get Insightful

​This is the time of year lots of folks get self-reflective, thinking about all the shit they shoulda fixed, tallying up all the ways next year's gonna be different. So it's the perfect season for a new tune about "someone realizing their own inadequacies" from the sound-shifting Liars. The band h ... More >>

Married to Drums and Keyboard

​This is the time of year lots of folks get self-reflective, thinking about all the shit they shoulda fixed, tallying up all the ways next year's gonna be different. So it's the perfect season for a new tune about "someone realizing their own inadequacies" from the sound-shifting Liars. The band h ... More >>

What To Do? Monday's Pick: Mates of State

​Mates of State @ Cafe du Nord The ingredients of Mates of State are so simple and few -- drums, organ, two voices, the infectious glow of marital bliss -- that you'd think the band would be treading water after five albums. Quite the opposite: The ever-harmonizing pop duo of Kori Gardner and Jas ... More >>

San Francisco's The Parties Party for the Right to Party

Abby Camaya​Dulcet-toned/floppy-haired locals The Parties released their second full-length album, Coast Garde, yesterday on Rainbow Quartz records, and they'll be celebrating the occasion this Friday at the Hemlock Tavern, along with The Love Dimension and Trevor Childs & The Beholders. The a ... More >>

In Which Nick Cave Humors One Terrified and Overcaffeinated Writer, Discusses Grinderman and Deep Fried Apple Pie

Deirdre O'CallaghanThat's Nick on the left, with fangs put away for the moment.​Confession: We, like many others, are terrified of Nick Cave. As excited as one would be to interview the demon prince of Australian rock ahead of tonight's Grinderman show at the Warfield, we also ran into considerabl ... More >>

Fay Th

Deirdre O'CallaghanThat's Nick on the left, with fangs put away for the moment.​Confession: We, like many others, are terrified of Nick Cave. As excited as one would be to interview the demon prince of Australian rock ahead of tonight's Grinderman show at the Warfield, we also ran into considerabl ... More >>

Nick Cave Spotted in S.F.: Apparently He Can Survive Sunlight

So he is human.​Nick Cave was spotted yesterday by a keen-eyed, Portuguese-speaking blogger in S.F. Looks like he's at the warming hut at Crissy Field with his kids. Notice the suave-as-fuck loafers and general sartorial awesomeness. Another photo after the jump.