Adam Steiner’s book DARKER WITH THE DAWN: Nick Cave’s Songs of Love and Death takes on the ambitious task of tracing that evolution across eras, albums, and emotional states. Originally published in hardback and now reissued in paperback and audiobook by Bloomsbury, the book offers a deep dive into Cave’s work that feels both analytical and deeply personal.
Over the course of nearly two decades, Denmark’s Vinyl Floor have quietly built a catalog that refuses to sit still. Their latest release, Balancing Act, feels like both a continuation and a widening of that arc.
Photo by Johnny Giles The story of ‘Mean’ Mary James (who is perhaps best known as the intrepid, banjo-wielding songstress behind the inspired storytelling of 2013’s Year of the Sparrow, and the genre-bending follow-up Sweet) reads like a page from some lost rock ‘n roll memoir. She learned to read music before words; she wrote... Continue Reading →
While many will associate the Meat Puppets with the ’90s (thanks in no small part to their drop-in on Nirvana’s famed 1994 unplugged set), the Arizona band has quietly spent the past decade releasing one fantastic album after another. Derrick Bostrom, who recently reunited with the Kirkwood brothers after a two-decade hiatus from the group, was kind... Continue Reading →
