Grinderman

My favorite records of 2007:

1)Grinderman (Nick Cave, et al)
2) Jam Skate - Mr Quintron
3) Dangerous Game - Mary Weiss
4)I'm Your Man - Harlan T Bobo
5)Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John - Peter Case (Grammy nominee!!)
6)A Year in the Wilderness - John Doe
7)At My Age - Nick Lowe
8)Notes From the Underground - Deadbeat Poets
9)What Is?! - King Khan & the Shrines
10)Sweet Warrior - Richard Thompson
11)Shrunken Heads - Ian Hunter
Best of Re-issues/Box Sets/Previously released material
12)the... MORE

While my 2007 best of the year movie list will appear in the first Maroon of the quarter, I will not be submitting a music list this year. I have admittedly weird tastes, yes, but this year, my weird taste has been validated more in the press than in past years. For instance, my favorite song of the year, hands down, was "No Pussy Blues" by Grinderman, Nick Cave's latest project. This deadpan, 100% irony-free song is about just what is sounds like, one of the oldest rock s... MORE

Rating: 7.8 Nick Cave is the perfect example of why music will never die - after the last notes are discovered, after every possible melody, rhythm, and lyric are exhausted, there's still gonna be someone who comes by and does it all over again...with attitude. It's this elusive (a little too elusive in today's musical goulash, if you ask me) thingamajig called attitude that Nick Cave simply smoulders in. Not the eyeliner caked my-stepdad-is-a-douch kind of attitude,... MORE

Grinderman
(Slim's, San Francisco CA, 07/27/07)

"Holy shit!" That's what I find myself saying out loud at least half a dozen times throughout Grinderman's utterly primal performance. The long review I wrote follows in the comments. Its bottom line: A memorable showcase of raw musical synergy which had moments of perfection in the art of dissonant noise.

The Grinderman record has got to be one of the best of the year so far. But, must pale in comparison to their live performances, as demonstrated by this footage from British tv.

1. Grinderman, GRINDERMAN
2. Deerhoof, FRIEND OPPORTUNITY
3. Bjork, VOLTA
4. Field Music, TONES OF TOWN
5. Blonde Redhead, 23
6. The Clientele, GOD SAVE THE CLIENTELE
7. Rose Kemp, A HANDFUL OF HURRICANES
8. Laura Veirs, SALTBREAKERS
9. Patty Griffin, CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH
10. Royal Wood, A GOOD ENOUGH DAY
11. Shellac, EXCELLENT ITALIAN GREYHOUND
12. Charlotte Gainsbourg, 5:55
13. Dinosaur Jr, BEYOND
14. Elk City, NEW BELIEVERS
15. Kristin Hersh, LEARN TO SING LIKE A STAR
16. Elvis Perkins, ASH WEDNESDAY
17. Keren Ann, KEREN AN

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Nick Cave's new group, Grinderman recently announced they will be making a few stops in the US on thier current tour, according to Pitchfork. Grinder man consists of Austrailia's legendary rocker Nick Cave, who plays guitar in the group. He is backed by members of his former band, The Bad Seeds: Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos. Under the monkier Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have released more than 13 albums from the time of their conception in 1984. Grinde... MORE

I Guess he's not getting any! Genius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_TjpoHOJc Saw Grinderman do this on Later last night too early for it to be on Youtube but I found this. These guys are scary. I love the guitarist's tiny guitar sounding like it's been unleashed from hell. Listening to Junkyard by the Birthday Party in the 80s as a 16-year-old truly scared me. Glad to see ol' Nick's lost none of his anger!

Ever hear of Nick Cave? Well, if you haven't, he's one angry aussie. Grinderman is a side project for him and his original band (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). Grinderman was described as "Foul-mouthed, noisy, hairy, and damn well old enough to know better" at their initial press release. They play a fusion of blues and garage rock that is deliberately dirty, raw and unprocessed. They're lyrics consist of some of the raunchiest things to come out of a singers mouth, while a... MORE

GRINDERMAN – GRINDERMAN (2007) On a recent interview for BBC’s Culture Show the usually elusive Nick Cave explained Grinderman’s conception, and insisted that although he’s pulled together the various members of The Bad Seeds, the new long player is fresh territory with subtle differences in the recording process and individual instrumental responsibility. Firstly, Cave has ditched the Piano in favour of his more rudimentary Guitar skills. Secondly, he has left much of t... MORE

So there I was, sitting in my gloom with a downloaded copy of The Stooges’ new album The Weirdness, my hopes for rock music circa 2007 shot to hell. Who could have guessed that, after the supercharged live shows Iggy and the Asheton brothers have put on since getting back together around 2003, their efforts at creativity would fall so flat? I was hoping for another Funhouse, and instead Iggy and crew delivered something more properly called Outhouse. Yep, Iggy's new one ... MORE

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Nick Cave: vocals, electric guitar, organ, pianoWarren Ellis: electric bouzouki, Fendocaster, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocalsMartyn Casey: bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocalsJim Sclavunos: drums, percussion, backing vocals. The story of Grinderman begins within the working processes of another band: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. At the start of 2004, when Nick Cave took a small team of Bad Seeds members - violinist Warren Ellis, ... MORE

The Baddest Seed of them all comes right at you with a new single this week. http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/ reports that the 7" single was released monday