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Nick Cave

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Nick Cave: Novelist

Monday, September 14, 2009

Australian songwriter Nick Cave is a multimedia provocateur. He’s been an intimidating stage performer with the Birthday Party, a warts-and-all composer of songs about God and sex with The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and the screenwriter of a grisly Western, The Proposition. Today, Cave joins us to talk about his ...

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From Books to Beats: The Oprah Bump

Monday, September 14, 2009

Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Jay-Z are the latest pop stars to get the Oprah treatment. Today: how celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and new American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres are becoming tastemakers in the music world. And later: the racy new novel from songwriter Nick Cave might not make Oprah's ...

Nick Cave

Friday, March 07, 2008

Nick Cave scored an unlikely (and potty-mouthed) hit last year with the debut of his side project, Grinderman. Now, the 50-year-old Australian songwriter is back with his longtime backing band, the Bad Seeds, for "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" Good news: Grinderman’s howling rage has rubbed off on Cave's longtime ensemble.

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Nick Cave

Friday, July 27, 2007

Australian songwriter Nick Cave enlisted three members of his regular band, The Bad Seeds, for a raucous side project called Grinderman. Cave and drummer Jim Sclavunos join us to share the group's self-titled debut.

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Debating England's National Composer

Friday, July 27, 2007

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Sir Edward Elgar. While the composer of "Pomp and Circumstance" is being feted everywhere from Gloucester, England to Bard College in upstate New York, not everyone agrees on his greatness and his links to England's imperialist past. Today, a debate on Elgar with ...