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Now that Halloween season is over, it feels a little empty playing eerie soundtracks and revisiting favorite nightmares. The atmosphere just isn't quite there. But that's easily fixed, and few things build atmosphere more deftly than music. I've spent improper amounts of time trying to find artists who evoke the spirit of horror and Gothic fiction, but since music isn't a narrative genre by definition, it can be a nebulous process. Some musicians just go perfectly with certain storytellers, though. Here are five performers who complement a few of my favorite authors scarily well:

Clive Barker and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Both hailing from England and rising to fame in the same decade, Barker and Cave seem like a duo destined for emotional evisceration. Barker’s stories evoke an urban landscape that's gritty and hard, but also full of transcendent wonder. His language is high, poetic, and epic...

It's hard to believe we're already into week three of Dancing With the Stars!

On Monday night, the 11 remaining contestants danced their hearts out to routines inspired by their ultimate guilty pleasures. From the most technical lifts to the sassiest performances, Et's breaking down all the best choreography moments we saw in the ballroom.

Watch: 'Dancing With the Stars' Pays Tribute to the Victims of Las Vegas Massacre With Touching Opening Message

Drew Scott & Emma Slater - Argentine Tango, "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Dance highlight: We've patiently been waiting to see more lifts this season, and this week, we got them! Drew and Emma kicked off the night with a true crime-inspired piece, with the Property Brothers star holding his pro partner in the air at the 0:52 mark.

Judges' score: 23/30.

Et's score: 21/30. We found it a bit surprising that the judges' gave this pair such high scores, when some of...

The competition on Dancing With Stars is heating up!

The 11 remaining contestants will take the floor once again on Monday night, performing dances inspired by their ultimate guilty pleasures, a brand new theme for the dance competition show.

But before the stars and their pro partners show off their skills, Et's breaking down everything you need to know about what to expect in the ballroom!

Who's on top of the leaderboard?

1. Frankie Muniz & Witney Carson: 25/30

2. Tie! Jordan Fisher & Lindsay Arnold, Lindsey Stirling & Mark Ballas: 24/30

3. Vanessa Lachey & Maksim Chmerkovskiy: 23/30

Watch: Nikki Bella Dishes On Her & John Cena's Real-Life 'Red Room' Ahead of 'DWTS' Guilty Pleasures Night

Who's in danger of elimination?

Nikki Bella & Artem Chigvintsev received the lowest score from the judges last Tuesday, 18/30. They were followed closely behind with a three-way tie between Derek Fisher & Sharna Burgess, Terrell Owens & Cheryl Burke and Nick Lachey & Peta Murgatroyd, who all received...

“When a child was a child…”A man’s voice is heard, reading out words as they are written in thick ink on paper.…it didn’t know it was a child”He continues, some of the words delivered in sing-song, joyfully, as if they were a children’s nursery song:“Everything was full of life/And all life was one...”His voice is friendly voice; a comforting voice; a voice that we will soon learn belongs to Damiel (Bruno Ganz), an angel who watches over the city of Berlin and its inhabitants with the curiosity and reverence of a child. Damiel has such deep affection for human life that he is willing to eschew immortality for earthly pleasures and the most intoxicating human experience of all: love. Both Damiel’s voice and those of the humans he consoles and studies feature prominently on the film’s soundtrack, sometimes in isolation,...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Beacon Theatre, NYC June 15, 2017

Much is being written that Nick Cave's current tour of Skeleton Tree may be his best yet. Seeing Mr. Cave and The Bad Seeds' performance last night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, I would agree. Playing every song from that album except "Rings of Saturn" plus another eleven classic songs (set list here) from his catalog, it was a show that will be difficult to rival by any touring act this year or quite possibly until Mr. Cave decides to tour again. Quite remarkable given that he's a few months shy of his 60th year on Earth.

Channeling both rage and ragged beauty, he is singer of staggering charisma. Plunging himself into the open arms of adoring fans almost from the start, his rich, booming baritone never missed a note in any of songs, even those...

Happy New Year! It's been a tumultuous year for me and for many of us of a certain age. I lost a brother. The world lost a slew of pop culture -- Carrie Fisher, Alan Richman, Craig Sager, John Glenn -- and music icons -- Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, et al. One comfort for me was music and my rediscovery of vinyl. The warm, comforting sound of analog became my daily meditative fix. Quite literarily. Seeking out vinyl "nuggets" became a quest to help me deal with my own pain and depression. Chasing down albums that I owned thirty years, abadonded at the advent of those shiny new things called compact discs. Restorative analog power reigned o'er me. One of my chief caveats: I would not purchase anything on vinyl that I already owned on compact disc. Well, that rule didn't last long as I found comfort in...

And now we’ve arrived at the end of the calendar year. As the final push for year-end viewing continues at a furious pace, some of the last unknown films of 2016 will finally make their way to audiences. To help focus your viewing choices, here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)

If you’re interested in what still might be in a theater near you, check out our November Release Guide. For those curious what 2017 might bring, you can also visit our calendar page, which has releases through the beginning of the new year.

Happy watching!

Week of December 2 Wide

Incarnate

Director: Brad Peyton

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, Catalina Sandino Moreno, David Mazouz, John Pirruccello, Keir O’Donnell, Matthew Nable

Synopsis: A scientist with the ability to enter the...

“I don’t believe in narrative anymore… I don’t think life is a story,” Nick Cave says early in Andrew Dominik’s documentary One More Time With Feeling. He’s explaining—haltingly yet articulately, as he does throughout—the reasons why the songs he’s written lately have taken a turn toward the abstractly expressive, away from the precisely realized murder ballads and apocalyptic love songs for which he’s known. His songs no longer follow any linear sense or strive for satisfying resolution, Cave says, because life doesn’t work that way. And even though the director interjects to disagree, his film doesn’t strive to tell a story either. Rather it’s a loose assemblage of studio vignettes, interviews, and poetic musings structured around the completion of The Bad Seeds’ 16th album, The Skeleton Tree, one that’s often deliberately ramshackle in its fumbling improvisations and inclusion...

Andrew Dominik’s “One More Time With Feeling” originally began as a performance-based concept film centered around the making of a brand new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, but it evolved into something much more complex and emotional. Dominik and Cave eventually sought to dive more deeply into the personal backdrop of the writing and recording of the album, one that was marked by intense personal tragedy, as Cave had recently lost his young son when the film went into production.

As our Ben Croll explained in his Venice review of the film, “Understandably, the singer didn’t want to tap that raw nerve with every Tom, Dick and Harry doing press rounds, so instead he tapped friend and collaborator Andrew Dominik (Cave wrote the score to ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’) to wrangle some kind of promo doc-cum-earnest exploration, and to improvise it all on the fly.

Iron Spyder..

Iron Spyder, a short film directed and produced by Melbourne filmmakers Christopher Mitchell and Yoav Lester, has made its world premiere at the Us.s biggest genre festival, Fantastic Fest.

Shot at an underground wrestling event in Melbourne, the film blurs documentary and drama as it follows a young wrestler's experiences on fight night..

Mitchell said his two biggest directorial influences in making the film were Terrence Malik and Gaspar Noé.

The film.s score was composed by Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pj Harvey) and Michael Lira (The Hunter, Wyrmwood) with sound design from Big Bang Sound's Wayne Pashley (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Lego Movie) and cinematography by veteran Australian camera operator Leigh Mackenzie (The Thin Red Line, Blood Diamond).

.We were lucky enough to secure our Dop Leigh Mackenzie —.who in fact shot a great deal of The Thin Red Line.— purely...

Last year Nick Cave and Warren Ellis reunited to score David Mackenzie’s “Hell or High Water,” which premiered at Cannes in May ahead of its theatrical release. The duo released the official soundtrack to the critically acclaimed film this past August, and have now shared the music video for the song “Comancheria.”

The two-minute clip doesn’t feature the artists, instead we are shown slow-moving shots from the movie starring Chris Pine and Ben Foster.

Read More: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Share Emotional Trailer For ‘Skeleton Tree’ Album & Film – Watch

“Hell or High Water,” which was previously titled “Comancheria,” follows two brothers who team up to rob a bank to save their family’s farm. Jeff Bridges plays an “almost retired” Texas ranger in pursuit of the crime doers.

Cave and Ellis have previously worked together on the soundtracks to the 2005 film “The Proposition” and 2007’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their new album “Skeleton Tree” last night, and along with it an emotional black and white video for “I Need You.”

The King of Darkness is no stranger to the emotionally intense, and the album was hailed by The Guardian as “a masterpiece of love and devastation.” The video comes from the 3D film “One More Time With Feeling,” from director Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”).

Read More: Nick Cave Faces Tragedy In Illuminating, Intimate ‘One More Time With Feeling’ – Venice Film Festival Review

The film was the first opportunity to hear “Skeleton Tree,” which was initially intended as a performance-based portrait of the album. The result is an interwoven collection of interviews, improvised insights and footage that explores the tragic inspiration for the work. Enjoy the visceral cut from the film below.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ new album, Skeleton Tree—just released today—is kind of a gut punch. More so than even your typical collection of Nick Cave songs. Recorded shortly after the tragic falling death of his 15-year-old son, the tracks are saturated with grief.

For reasons that seem sort of masochistic, Cave invited a film crew into the studio for the recording process. The result is Andrew Dominik’s making-of documentary One More Time With Feeling, featuring interviews with the Seeds and narration by Cave himself. To coincide with Skeleton Tree’s release, he had this excerpt from the film uploaded to YouTube. If you heard “I Need You” already and didn’t think it could get more emotionally grueling, prepare to be wrong.

One More Time With Feeling began its very short theatrical run yesterday. The musician’s website says it’s only in cinemas until ...

Alejandra Amarilla with Recycled Orchestra members Noelia Ríos, Azucena Azcona and Ada Ríos Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

There is Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth's buoyant 20,000 Days On Earth on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with Kylie Minogue, Warren Ellis, Blixa Bargeld and Ray Winstone, and Morgan Neville's far-reaching The Music Of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Now comes the Landfill Harmonic, directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley, co-directed and co-produced by Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus, where the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, conducted by Favio Chávez, meet Megadeth's David Ellefson, Dave Mustaine, Shawn Drover, and Chris Broderick to perform with them Symphony Of Destruction.

Producer and co-director Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus on Favio Chávez: "I saw the potential in Favio." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus, co-producer Alejandra Amarilla, musical director Favio Chávez and members of the Recycled Orchestra met with me for a conversation...

Shrouded in grief and chilly to the core, Andrew Dominik’s mournful documentary “One More Time With Feeling” is at once sobering in tone and intoxicating in style. The intimate film follows singer Nick Cave in and out of the studio as lays down tracks for his upcoming album “Skeleton Tree,” doing so in the face of tremendous personal loss. Though it will undoubtedly hit fans the hardest, even those less familiar with the Australian rocker will find much to admire in this lyrical portrait of sorrow, creativity and perseverance, shot in luscious black and white 3D.

Cave commissioned the film himself, intending it to be his first, last and only public statement to support the release of his latest album, and it’s easy to understand why. In July 2015, Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur died, falling off a cliff in the English town of Brighton. Arthur died before Cave...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have shared the first single Jesus Alone, from their new album The Skeleton Tree — with an accompanying video featuring footage from their new film, One More Time With Feeling. After receiving a nebulous trailer for the forthcoming film/album dual release featuring short sound clips, we get the first proper single and it is as harrowing and imbued with tragedy as the trailer suggested about the new music going into this project. Cave, who suffered a great loss with the death of his son in July 2015, wrote a new album following the critically...read more...

Andrew Dominik.s new film, One More Time With Feeling, marks new territory for the director on two counts: it's in 3D and it's in black and white.

Screening globally from September 8, the documentary chronicles the recording of Skeleton Tree, the new album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

"When Nick approached me about making a film around the recording and performing of the new Bad Seeds album, I.d been seeing quite a lot of him as we rallied around him and his family at the time of his son.s death," said Dominik, whose credits include Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly..

"My immediate response was 'Why do you want to do this?' Nick told me that he had some things he needed to say, but he didn.t know who to say them to. The idea of a traditional interview,...

Nick Cave is addressing the passing of his son, Arthur, for the first time since his tragic death last year. Cave provides the voiceover in an emotional trailer for the film “One More Time With Feeling,” a documentary on the recording of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ album “Skeleton Tree.” As the band’s frontman, Cave provides a […]...

Australian singer Nick Cave is speaking out for the first time about the loss of his son Arthur - more than a year after the 15-year-old fell to his death while under the influence of LSD. In the somber trailer for the new documentary One More Time with Feeling - which chronicles Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' recording of their new album - the 58-year-old frontman calls the event "catastrophic." "Most of us don't want to change really," he says in voiceover. "But what happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic that you just change?" "You change...

Australian singer Nick Cave is speaking out for the first time about the loss of his son Arthur - more than a year after the 15-year-old fell to his death while under the influence of LSD. In the somber trailer for the new documentary One More Time with Feeling - which chronicles Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' recording of their new album - the 58-year-old frontman calls the event "catastrophic." "Most of us don't want to change really," he says in voiceover. "But what happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic that you just change?" "You change...

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds are gearing up for the launch of their sixteenth studio album “Skeleton Tree.” But before the LP is released, the rock band shared the first trailer for its accompanying film, “One More Time With Feeling”

Directed by Andrew Dominik, the documentary takes an in-depth look at the making of the album and features interviews and footage which details Cave’s struggle with the recent death of his son.

Read More: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Team With Director Andrew Dominik for Concert Film ‘One More Time With Feeling’

“Most of us don’t want to change, really. I mean, why should we?” wonders Cave in the black-and-white trailer. “But what happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic that you just change? You change from the known person to an unknown person. So that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you...

This summer, fans of director Andrew Dominik and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds received some surprising and welcome news: the band would release a new album The Skeleton Tree, and the filmmaker had directed a new documentary about it, due in cinemas this fall. And the first real look at the movie has arrived. Read […]

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Reaching for the Moon director Bruno Barreto: "Héctor’s greatest film 'Pixote'. Poetry and violence fill the screen in a ruthless way." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Héctor Babenco died on July 13, 2016. His adaptation of Manuel Puig's Kiss Of The Spider Woman, screenplay Leonard Schrader, starring Raúl Juliá, William Hurt and Sônia Braga, received four Oscar nominations - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay with Hurt winning Best Actor.

Tom Waits was in two of Babenco's films, William Kennedy's Ironweed, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (both Oscar nominated) and the adaptation of Peter Matthiessen's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, screenplay by Babenco, Jean-Claude Carrière and Vincent Patrick, starring Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Kathy Bates.

"One of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema - Fernando Ramos da Silva (Pixote) is nursed by Marília Pêra (the...

2016 marks the 25th anniversary of Wim Wenders' masterwork Until the End of the World. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Sam Shepard's influence before he worked with Volker Schlöndorff on Max Frisch's Homo Faber (Voyager), Peter Carey and the script, Yasujiro Ozu actors Chishû Ryû and Kuniko Miyake, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and The Man Who Knew Too Much, Chen Kaige, Robby Müller and Vermeer, Yohji Yamamoto, Notebook on Cities and Clothes, Lord Byron and much more are inspected here.

Until The End Of The World stars Solveig Dommartin, Max von Sydow, William Hurt, Jeanne Moreau, Rüdiger Vogler and Sam Neill and an extraordinary soundtrack featuring Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, U2, Julee Cruise, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Crime and the City Solution, Neneh Cherry, R.E.M., Patti Smith, Daniel Lanois, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Jane Siberry, k.d. lang with uncredited performances by David Byrne with Talking Heads, Tom Waits...

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Serial killers have long been a source of inspiration for musicians, especially those within genres such as metal and rock which frequently display an interest in dark subject matter and controversial topics. Think about Guns N’ Roses covering Charles Manson’s Look At Your Game, Girl, or Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds creating a record of fictional Murder Ballads. Then, of course, there’s the fact that practically the entire lyrical focus of genres such as death metal and grindcore are about morbid themes like killing, grotesque experiments and mass murder.

Most intriguingly and creepily, there have been hundreds and hundreds of songs by rock, metal and hip-hop artists that have gone one step further than merely exploring these issues. Instead, these songs are about real-life serial killers and, in the most horrifying and eerie examples, often involve the singer taking on the identity of the murderer. The...

Sad news for Nick Cave. The Bad Seeds singer’s 15-year-old son Arthur died Tuesday after falling from a cliff, according to the Sussex Police. Police said that the younger Cave fell from the cliffs of Ovingdean Gap and was found with life-threatening injuries at 6 p.m. Tuesday. He later died of those injuries after being transported to a hospital. See photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 Foul play is not suspected in Cave’s death, police said. In a statement, Nick Cave and his wife Susie called Arthur (pictured at left) their “beautiful, happy, loving boy.” “Our son Arthur died on Tuesday evening.

It seems all too appropriate that the beautifully spooky trailer for "Crimson Peak" is premiering on Friday the 13th. Writer/director Guillermo del Toro's putting the goth in gothic with this ghostly fairy tale about a young newlywed who discovers that her new husband has some rather ghastly secrets.

Mia Wasikowska stars as Edith Cushing, a curious young author who's just married and moved in with Sir Thomas Sharpe, played by Tom Hiddleston. Unfortunately, it seems they have to share their sprawling castle of a love nest with his sister Lady Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain), and whatever unruly ghosts roam the halls of Crimson Peak. Charlie Hunnam plays Dr. Alan McMichael, an old friend of Edith's who seems to be rather smitten with her. Who could blame him?

"Crimson Peak" looks absolutely delectable, with lots of creepy Victorian touches, fabulous costumes, and an eerie cover of "Red Right Hand,...

After the half ­drunk, half­ melodies of a Jeff Tweedy look alike and the smooth, heartfelt schtick of Uke-­Hunt, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds took the stage in denim jackets, striped shirts and swaths of spring reverb.For those unacquainted, Kid Congo Powers has had a long history in music, playing with such legendary acts as The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and The Fall. At 55 years old, it’s clear he has no intentions of slowing down with The Pink Monkey Birds, whose two chord, high energy garage punk had the audience bouncing, shouting and laughing along […]...

By most accounts, Nick Cave is a particular taste, only occasionally entering pop culture by covering iconic songs or collaborating with pop superstars like Kylie Minogue. Yet the man who “sings every line like a Batman villain” thrives on film. His idiosyncratic brand of storytelling songwriting morphs to the occasion. It’s a strange phenomenon of film – that particular songs about particular experiences can become so universal in the right filmmaker’s hands. But this isn’t merely a songwriter whose early work is continually reembraced and reimagined like Leonard Cohen. Nick Cave is a ghost who haunts cinema with his melancholy and anger, and a noticeable presence within it – creating, scoring and performing for the camera. 20,000 Days on Earth, out this week, reinforces his image as the cinematic preacher, depicting 24 fictional hours of his life, but his life on screen stretches much farther – especially in these 7 glorious uses of his music and presence. Wings of Desire...

From Battlestar Galactica to Farscape, Doctor Who and more, Juliette cheers on 10 TV characters who made a big first impression...

Some characters slip onto our TV screens quietly and sneak into our hearts slowly. We watch them develop and grow, and come to love them over time, sometimes despite very inauspicious beginnings (being eaten by a wheelie bin springs to mind).

Others make more of an impression from the get-go.

In this list, we’re celebrating some of the most memorable and impressive entrances of characters from TV shows. To make the list, a character had to be (or eventually become) a regular or frequently recurring character – no one-shot wonders here. And note this is a list for TV characters, so you won’t see any Captain Jack Sparrow or even the Borg Queen – all of these had to make their big impression on the small screen.

10. Madame Vastra and Jenny,...

Peaky Blinders series 2 will feature a Pj Harvey version of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 'Red Right Hand'.

Star of the BBC drama Cillian Murphy and the show's music producer Flood announced details of the show's soundtrack on BBC Radio 6 Music today (September 24).

Flood spoke about reworking Harvey's music for the show, saying: "I was trying to do something very different, which is to deconstruct all of Polly's [Pj Harvey's] old material and then weave it through in the underscore to make it very cutting edge, very post-modern, and set about creating music for the historical period but that was also fresh."

The soundtrack to Peaky Blinders series 2 will also feature music by Paul Hartnoll (Orbital), Johnny Cash and Arctic Monkeys.

Peaky Blinders returns to BBC Two on October 2 at 9pm.

Digital Spy named the soundtrack to the show's first series as one of the ten coolest on TV last year.

Films from notables Nick Cave, Kevin Smith and Terry Gilliam, and another featuring Downton Abbey vet Dan Stevens are helping fill this weekend’s box office, despite studio blockbuster debuts for The Maze Runner and This Is Where I Leave You.

In all, 14 specialty films are debuting this weekend, at the front edge of awards season and the time of year when “serious” films hit the screens left and right. We have The Guest, with Stevens; The Zero Theorem by Gilliam; Smith’s Tusk; Tracks, the latest from the producers of The King’s Speech; and Cave’s doc 20,000 Days On Earth.

And, like a TV informercial, there’s more: the doc Pump, boundary-jumper Stop The Pounding Heart; and Swim Little Fish Swim. Just to fill out the marquees, we also have Tribeca-winning doc Keep On Keepin’ On; Flamenco, Flamenco; Hector And The Search For Happiness; Iceman; Hollidaysburg; and Not Cool.

Though he’s never been a superstar, after four decades of making music there is no question that Nick Cave is a legend. Singer, songwriter and occasional composer, Cave has been playing in bands since he was in his teens, from his post-punk group The Birthday Party, to his back-to-basics side project Grinderman, to his solo work and his band, The Bad Seeds, for over 30 years. Though his music has only ever crossed over into the mainstream a few times (notably the soundtrack staple “Red Right Hand” and Kylie Minogue duet “Where The Wild Roses Grow”), he has nevertheless amassed an army of dedicated fans all over the world. The new documentary “20,000 Days On Earth” is neither the career retrospective nor concert film you might expect, but rather a snapshot of the musician, now 57, still trying to connect with his muse. Far from your ordinary music doc, the film is...

One of the most unlikely collaborations in pop history came in 1995, when Kylie Minogue appeared on Nick Cave's Murder Ballad 'Where The Wild Roses Grow'.

The pair remained friends and have reunited, Minogue appearing in Cave's upcoming film 20,000 Days on Earth.

"Kylie, we just on the off chance, we got her to sing this song. It became this kind of minor hit in its day," Cave said.

"She came in this beam of light into our lives for a short time.

"It was a beautiful thing to be sitting with her in this way driving around in this car. it was great."

Other guests in Cave's car during the movie include Ray Winstone and former Bad Seed Blixa Bargeld.

A special screening of 20,000 Days on Earth takes place on Wednesday (September 17) at The Barbican.

It will be beamed into 150 cinemas across the UK followed by a unique...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have unveiled a previously-unreleased song 'Give Us A Kiss'.

The track features in upcoming film 20,000 Days on Earth.

It is released as a digital single today (September 4), backed with 'Jubilee Street' (Live from The Sydney Opera House). A limited edition 10" vinyl follows on November 10.

"'Jubilee Street' forced its way into our film," said directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

"We'd planned to end with 'Push The Sky Away' and its pertinent lyrics about rock 'n' roll getting you right down to your soul; but after the band played 'Jubilee Street' at Sydney Opera House, we didn't stand a chance.

"Only four songs in and there was Nick, transforming in front of us. Our lives haven't been the same since."

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, Barry Adamson and George Vjestica.

Their last album...

No one could ever accuse Jonathan Glazer of opting for quantity over quality. The British filmmaker has made only three movies in the span of 14 years, including his latest, Under the Skin. During that time, and before he made his feature debut in 2000 with Sexy Beast, Glazer directed music videos for Radiohead, Unkle, Massive Attack, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and more of your favorite bands. He also has done commercials for Nike, Audi, Guinness and Motorola. Glazer has a résumé to brag about. He’s done well for himself, which is probably why our interview with him is at the Chateau Marmont, which smells of money. Maybe it’s all the 20-year-olds coming in and out with their Rolls-Royces that gives it that scent. Still, the rather cozy and surprisingly low-key hotel is an ideal place to speak with Glazer. And the 49-year-old director is in good spirits when we meet him. He...

The lineup for one of the largest musical festivals of the year is out — and filled with huge names! From Kanye and A$AP Ferg to Elton John and Lionel Richie, Bonnaroo has the most diverse lineup ever.

Hopefully Kanye West won’t walk off stage this time! The rapper is headlining Bonnaroo, along with Elton John, and it will be his big return to the festival since he left the stage six years ago after being booed! See the full lineup below, and get the details on where and when to get your tickets!

Bonaroo Lineup Revealed

Are you ready for this? On Feb. 22, tickets for Bonnaroo go on sale at 12:00 Pm Est, and we’ve got a feeling they’re going to go fast. You can purchase general admission tickets as well as VIP packages right here. On June 12-15th, more than 125 bands and 20 comedic acts...

The Bonnaroo Music Festival, which runs for four days in Manchester Tenn., recently announced their 2014 lineup.

Headlining the 13th annual Bonnaroo will be Elton John, Kanye West, Jack White, Lionel Richie, Vampire Weekend, The Avett Brothers, Phoenix, Skrillex, Arctic Monkeys, Frank Ocean and The Flaming Lips.

Also heading to the Great Stage Park this summer will be Neutral Milk Hotel, Wiz Khalifa, Cut Copy, The Head and the Heart, Lauryn Hill, Broken Bells, Ice Cube, Slightly Stoopid, Fitz and The Tantrums, Cake, Janelle Monae, Amos Lee and John Butler Trio.

West was a surprise choice for the festival, which hasn’t had the rapper in their lineup since 2008 when he walked onto the stage nearly two hours after his scheduled set time. Though he tried to blame Pearl Jam’s extended set, the crowd united in booing him.

For John and Richie, two veterans in the music industry, this will...

The always epic Bonnaroo — a four-day music and camping festival on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn. — boasts some huge names this year. The festival has just confirmed its headliners will be Kanye West, Elton John, Jack White and Lionel Richie. Watch the festival's teaser video and check out the 125 plus artists on the lineup below. The festival’s thirteenth year, which goes down June 12-15, will mark the surprising return of West, whose headlining set in 2008 turned into a disaster when his Glow In The Dark-themed light show didn’t start until after sunrise. Ye posted an angry rant on his blog blaming Bonnaroo organizers, but it seems that all is now forgiven. This year will mark Elton John and Lionel Richie’s first ever appearance. Tickets go on sale Feb. 22 at noon Est. Here’s the full Bonnaroo lineup: Elton John Kanye West Jack White Lionel Richie Vampire Weekend...

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2014 is already underway and looking set to be one of the most impressive years for music fans of the 21st century. With already-confirmed new releases from artists such as Morrissey and Palma Violets, it seems a rock resurgence is definitely on its way to overthrow the vicious dictatorship of mindless pop music that has been decimating the charts of recent years.

This musical upheaval has been longed for by many for years now, with it seemingly beginning to come into fruition almost exactly a year ago with a return from the Thin White Duke himself (David Bowie) and his first album in ten years “The Next Day”. Alongside this was stellar new albums from Primal Scream (More Light), Queens of the Stone Age (…Like Clockwork) as well as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Push the Sky Away), which wowed the public and critics alike.

However, whilst these may be fairly conventional rock releases,...

The first clip from Nick Cave's upcoming film 20,000 Days on Earth has been released.

The 50-second snippet shows the singer sat at a typewriter, while in a voiceover he contemplates the writing process.

Directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, 20,000 Days on Earth is a fictionalised account of the 20,000th day of Cave's life.

The film is narrated by Cave and features an appearance by actor Ray Winstone, as well as a cameo by the 56-year-old's one-time collaborator Kylie Minogue.

Last November, Minogue joined Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on stage at London's Koko for a performance of their 1995 hit 'Where the Wild Roses Grow'.

The duet was also filmed for inclusion in the movie, which is scheduled for release later this year.

Watch the music video for the song below:...

Though he’s never been a superstar, after four decades of making music there is no question that Nick Cave is a legend. Singer, songwriter and occasional composer, Cave has been playing in bands since he was in his teens, from his post-punk group The Birthday Party, to his back-to-basics side project Grinderman, to his solo work and his band for over 30 years, The Bad Seeds. Though his music has only ever crossed over into the mainstream a few times (the soundtrack staple “Red Right Hand” and Kylie Minogue duet “Where The Wild Roses Grow”), he has nevertheless amassed an army of dedicated fans all over the world. The new documentary “20,000 Days On Earth” is neither the career retrospective or concert film you might expect, but rather a snapshot of the musician, now 57, still trying to connect with his muse. Far from your ordinary music doc, the film is loosely...

Slightly overshadowed by the Oscar nominations early this morning, the 2014 New Music Express Awards unveiled their list of hopefuls today (January 16).

In an interesting twist, the NME’s category for Villain of the Year included nominees like Russell Brand, Robin Thicke, Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, David Cameron and Vladimir Putin.

Furthermore, the Worst Band contenders are 30 Seconds to Mars, The 1975, Muse, Imagine Dragons, One Direction and The Wanted.

Of course, there are also plenty of positive categories such as Hero of the Year, with nominees like Alex Turner, David Bowie, Pussy Riot, Lou Reed, Este Haim, and Russell Brand.

The 2014 NME Awards nominees are:

Best British Band

Arctic Monkeys

Biffy Clyro

Disclosure

Foals

Palma Violets

Two Door Cinema Club

Best International Band supported by Austin, Texas

Arcade Fire

Haim

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Phoenix

Vampire Weekend

Queens Of The Stone Age

Best Solo Artist

David Bowie

Jake Bugg

Kanye West...

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have been one of the most interesting acts in music over the past 20 years. Defining them as ‘goth-rock’ is a bit like calling Led Zeppelin heavy rock – it doesn’t do the amazing variety of their tracks justice. While Cave himself is the only member of the group that has remained throughout its tenure, the countless roster changes have become seamless and have allowed the group to constantly evolve in a way that remains thrilling for its audience.

Between Cave’s elegiac lyrics and the musicianship of the group – which has contained a who’s who of Australian rock- the Bad Seeds have become known for both tender love songs and disturbing menacing grooves, humourous lyrics as well as homages to the Bible and myths.

With such a list of great albums in their back...

Did that just happen? What a year for music! We had the return of some real musical behemoths (David Bowie, Daft Punk), we were gifted with some astronomical debut albums (Disclosure, Haim, London Grammar) – and as well as all this we were swimming in dazzling albums from bands that have stomped footprints over our hearts over the last decade: The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, The National.

Whilst cross-genre “Best Of” lists such as these can be derided by the cynic as being about as useful as comparing the day Tuesday with the colur blue, let’s not forget what lists like these are really for – a lot of fun. They allow us to celebrate the albums we played to death over the past 12 months, hopefully highlight some albums that our readers might have missed, and give you the chance to validate your taste in music (I’m joking!).

We recognise this...

How did we come up with our chart? By tallying the votes of our pop writers – and here's what they plumped for

Tim Jonze

Albums

John Wizards – John Wizards

Disclosure – Settle

Paramore – Paramore

Hebronix – Unreal

Kanye West – Yeezus

Christopher Owens – Lysandre

Julia Holter – Loud City Song

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time

British Sea Power – From The Sea To The Land Beyond

Tracks

Julia Holter – Hello Stranger

Miguel and Mariah Carey – #Beautiful

Drake – Hold On, We're Going Home

Sky Ferreira – You're Not the One

Justin Timberlake – Suit and Tie

Jeffrey Lewis – Wwprd

Paramore – Still Into You

Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge – White Noise

The 1975 – Chocolate

Stylo G – Soundbwoy

Tom Hughes

Albums

15-60-75 The Numbers Band – Jimmy Bell's Still in Town

Meat Wave – Meat Wave

The Drones – I See Seaweed 4

White Fence – Live in San Francisco

Ooga Boogas – Ooga Boogas

Superchunk – I Hate Music

Bits of...

U2, Nirvana, Depeche Mode, Arcade Fire, Joy Division, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds isn’t a shabby list of names to be associated with in any capacity, and those are just a few of the bands that Anton Corbijn has directed iconic music videos for. The renowned photographer and filmmaker has always presented his subjects through a vision of his own, leading to a long history of famous images. His feature films haven’t been huge hits with the public though. So far Corbijn has only made two pictures – Control and The American – and, by their own accord, they’re not for everybody. The American even downright angered some filmgoers expecting a more action-heavy Clooney picture, but those aren’t the viewers Corbijn is aiming to please. The director is the subject of a new documentary, Anton Corbijn Inside Out, and for the digital release of the film, Corbijn...

Earlier this year, Nick Cave and his longstanding collaborators, The Bad Seeds, released their first new album in five years, Push The Sky Away. The album proved true to form even after founding Bad Seed Mick Harvey’s departure in 2009, showing that as Cave ages, he’s yet to lose any of his signature bite. Now Cave the Bad Seeds have announced that they'll be going out on a North American tour in 2014 and releasing a live album, Live At Kcrw, during Record Store Day’s Black Friday event. The Seeds have yet to nail down any ...

"About Time" director Richard Curtis knows the value of a good piece of pop music. HitFix sat down with the director to talk about the new romantic time-traveling drama which stars Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.  Curtis acknowledges the importance of music in the film, which features key songs from The Killers, Ron Sexsmith and Ben Folds, plus the heartbreaking inclusion of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Into My Arms." "You've got lots of time to think about the soundtrack," he explains, "because it takes a long time to write the film. The music is very much part of the writing process...

Quite often, TV soundtracks are only mentioned when they're particularly bad. A clunking tune or wobbly composition can turn a beautiful, tense or dramatic TV moment and stink out the whole scene.

But what about the great soundtracks? The ones that make a good moment great. The tunes that give TV shows swagger. Digital Spy has picked out the 10 TV show soundtracks from 2013 that have rocked, helped us get our groove on or made us cry.

1. Peaky Blinders

The Brummie gangster drama, which ended this week, was beautifully shot, brilliantly acted and deliciously dark. The cherry on the top of the flat caps was the soundtrack. Tom Waits, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and a hefty topping of the brilliant Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

2. Broadchurch

The TV phenomenon of 2013's soundtrack matched its content. Eerie, brimming with drama and totally captivating, the music of Ólafur Arnalds was almost as...