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Nick Cave's Grinderman Return With New Album and Tour

Nick Cave has revisited his sleaze-rock outfit Grinderman, recording a new album and booking an ... Read More »

Josh Ritter Prepping First Novel, 'Bright's Passage'

While not every musician can dabble into long-form fiction, Nick Cave and Joe Pernice -- who both ... Read More »

The National Get Help From Famous Friends on 'High Violet'

Despite their slow-and-steady climb to full-fledged musical notoriety, Brooklyn's the National ... Read More »

Mates of State Covering Death Cab for Cutie, Tom Waits and More on 'Crushes'

Nada Surf's 'If I Had a Hi-Fi' won't be the only significant indie-rock covers album of 2010. ... Read More »

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds Make Friends at SXSW

It's easy at SXSW to lose sight of the fact that indie rock didn't originate with hip bands from ... Read More »

'I Put a Spell on You' Sees Poor Sales Due to 'Musical Snobbery'

The musical snobbery of Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie (pictured, right) is being singled out ... Read More »

Shane MacGowan and Friends Release Video of Haiti Benefit Single

As previously reported, Pogues singer Shane MacGowan enlisted a group of alt-rock musicians -- and ... Read More »

Extracurrockular Activities: Unlikely Rock Star Hobbies

When they're not getting their gold records framed or breaking in the new wing at the rehab clinic, ... Read More »

'Everybody Hurts' Dominates the Charts

With sales of more than 453,000 copies in its first week of release, 'Everybody Hurts,' the Helping ... Read More »

Around the UK in 80 Venues: London Bush Hall

Location: 310 Uxbridge Road, London W12 7LJ Website: http://www.bushhallmusic.co.uk/ Capacity: 400 ... Read More »

Shane MacGowan and Friends Record Haiti Fundraising Single

Following last week's Spinner report on what could be the most bizarre charity record ever, former ... Read More »

Leonard Cohen: He's Grammy's Man

Some artists, like the Rolling Stones back in 1986, get their Grammy lifetime achievement ... Read More »

Shane MacGowan 'Assembles Haitian Charity Line-Up'

It has the potential to be the most bizarre charity record since Lou Reed teamed up with opera ... Read More »

Folk Singer Kate McGarrigle Dead at 63

Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, best known as the matriarch of the Montreal musical clan that ... Read More »

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Bring 'Lighter Touch' to 'The Road'

Despite the stark tone of his post-apocolyptic film 'The Road,' director John Hillcoat thought the ... Read More »

Alkaline Trio Honored to Start Their Own Label With Epitaph

When it came time for Alkaline Trio to start work on their seventh studio album, 'This Addiction,' ... Read More »