Stream Entire New Nick Cave/Bad Seeds Album

With the March 3rd release date looming ever closer, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have decided to give fans a sneak peek at their entire new album. ??Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!??. It's now available for streaming on the group's Myspace. listen to the tracks here: http://www.myspace.com/nickcaveandthebadseedsOn February 18 the title track to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds new album "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" was released as the first single - on CD, limited edition 7", and as a digital download, with "Accidents Will Happen" as the B-side.Cave, explaing the inspiration for the album on the group's website:

Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it. Traumatized, actually. We are all, of course, in awe of the greatest of Christ's miracles - raising a man from the dead - but I couldn't help but wonder how Lazarus felt about it. As a child it gave me the creeps, to be honest. I've taken Lazarus and stuck him in New York City, in order to give the song, a hip, contemporary feel. I was also thinking about Harry Houdini who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists who were cashing in on the bereaved. He believed there was nothing going on beyond the grave. He was the second greatest escapologist, Harry was, Lazarus, of course, being the greatest. I wanted to create a kind of vehicle, a medium, for Houdini to speak to us if he so desires, you know, from beyond the grave.

Currently, the group is touring most of Europe.