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You won’t need to wait until next week’s season premiere to catch an epic collaboration between True Blood fans Nick Cave and Neko Case, as music supervisor/KCRW DJ Gary Calamar premiered their CC Adcock-produced “dark and sexy” cover of the Zombies’ “She’s Not There” today. Calamar also shared a few details about how the track came about, including this bit that conjures up a wonderful image of Nick Cave, theme park fan:
Neko sang her part in a small studio in Seattle… As it turns out Mr. Cave was coming to Los Angeles with his family for a vacation. In between trips with his kids to Universal Studios and Disneyland (can you imagine Nick Cave at Disneyland?) we got him down to the Redstar Studio in Silverlake to top off the track with his haunting, cavernous vocals.
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News Bits: Tom Waits, Mick Harvey, More
- Tom Waits gave us a glimpse into his forthcoming studio album today via the above photo of some new (awesome) lyrics drawn on a chalkboard next to his vocal microphone.
- Mick Harvey spoke to Drowned in Sound for a revealing interview, in which he offers a few clues regarding his split with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, working with PJ Harvey on Let England Shake, and much more.
- The Black Keys and their label, Nonesuch, are suing an ad agency for using their Brothers single “Tighten Up” in a bank commercial earlier this year without permission or compensation.
- Jens Lekman is at the “final mixes” stage of that new EP he promised would arrive this year. Possible new studio gems from Jens include “Cowboy Boots,” “Waiting for Kirsten,” and “Every Little Hair Knows Your Name.”
Video: UNKLE, Nick Cave: “Money & Run”
The new NSFW official clip for Nick Cave’s collaboration with UNKLE, “Money and Run,” arrived over the weekend, in which director Tom Haines unleashes a “crude allegory” about a group of gluttonous bankers and/or politicians taking their hedonism to some brutal, violent extremes. It can be tough to appreciate such a killer song with these despicable characters as the backdrop, so you may want to give the song an auditory-only spin here. Otherwise, go nuts above. Here’s UNKLE’s James Lavelle discussing the concept:
It has a sort of Clockwork Orange-esque feeling about it. It follows the idea of taking the money and running — how vulgar and gratuitous we are financially at this point in time. The story follows the excesses of rich individuals preying on the weak and poor.
In order to depict three distinct storylines and time periods — taking place in Mexico City during the World Cup in 2002, 2006, and 2010, respectively — “on a subliminal level,” writer/director Everardo Gout recruited three separate groups of composers for his new film, Days of Grace (Dias de Gracia): Nick Cave with Warren Ellis, Atticus Ross, and Shigeru Umebayashi.
Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in France this week, Gout’s film explores violence and police corruption through a fictional “breathlessly paced adrenaline rush,” according to one review. Gout enlisted Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for the ‘02 segment after hearing their work scoring The Proposition (the screenplay of which Cave also wrote) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. “They created a piece which superbly integrates sounds, noises, urban and animal backgrounds, that could have only been composed by them,” he said.
Atticus Ross worked on the score for the ‘06 story before famously winning an Academy Award this year with Trent Reznor for The Social Network. “He worked on the feeling of fear for the most part,” said Gout, “on something more visceral, more primal.”
Last year’s True Blood soundtrack boasted an impressive lineup that included the likes of Elvis Costello, M. Ward, Bob Dylan, and Lucinda Williams, not to mention a new track by Beck called “Bad Blood.” This season, however, the HBO vampire drama may have outdone itself with a track set to close out the premiere episode: Neko Case and Nick Cave covering the Zombies’ 1964 hit “She’s Not There.” Billboard reports that music supervisor Gary Calamar scrapped the script’s request to play Santana’s 1977 take on the song, as “the key to a good soundtrack is having fresh recordings,” in favor of a new recording by Cave and Case (not a bad name for a possible super-duo, right?).
The fourth season of True Blood’s premiere, which takes its name from the song itself, will air on June 26. In the meantime, you can get psyched to hear this to-be-incredible rendition by revisiting Cave’s cover song archives and watching the Zombies perform “She’s Not There” below:
Hear Grinderman & Matt Berninger - “Evil” (Silver Alert Remix)
The National’s Matt Berninger stepped in for baritone brother Nick Cave on this Silver Alert (Peter Mavrogeorgis and vinyl shop aficionado/drummer Jim Sclavunos) remix of Grinderman’s “Evil” for a side off their Record Store Day 12”. The result is the unsurprisingly seamless take on Cave and Co.’s dark love song streaming above (via NME), in which Berninger wraps his soothing voice around haunted lyrics about “crying like a demon in your daddy’s hands” amid an appropriately creepy backdrop.
Stream: Nick Cave & UNKLE - “Money and Run”
Among an impressive array of upcoming projects from Nick Cave, which we rounded up last month, is the latest new recording from the Grinderman frontman/Pinocchio music consultant/Bad Seeds leader: a collaboration with London outfit UNKLE for their forthcoming Only The Lonely EP. Now, a month ahead of its official release, you can hear the excellent, menacing new Cave-led UNKLE tune, “Money and Run.” This pairing works so well, they should make a whole record together, I’d say. You can stream it above, via the band’s SoundCloud page.
Before Nick Cave begins his next string of tour dates with Grinderman this summer, he’ll be sharing a few other projects with us: a piece of new material, music consulting on Guillermo del Toro’s 3D stop-motion Pinocchio adaptation, and four double-disc reissues of his Bad Seeds-backed records Let Love In, Murder Ballads, The Boatman’s Call, and No More Shall We Part.
First up, London trip-hop outfit UNKLE announced that their forthcoming EP, Only The Lonely, features all brand new songs, opening with the Nick Cave-led track “Money and Run.” That 5-track effort, which also includes guest performances by the Duke Spirit’s Liela Moss, Gavin Clark, and ex-Sleepy Sun singer Rachel Fannan, arrives on April 4, one week ahead of an extended re-release of last year’s Where Did The Night Fall – Another Night Out. (The Cave, Moss, and Fannan tracks are included on the Another Night bonus disc.)
One month later, Cave and the Bad Seeds will reissue the aforementioned albums with bonus tracks, videos, and the latest installment of Lain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s interview-based making-of documentary. You can check out the full tracklisting for each reissue over at Slicing Up Eyeballs, and watch 13 minutes of footage from the doc, Do You Love Me Like I Love You, which includes Q&As with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle, Interpol’s Paul Banks, photographer Autumn de Wilde, Bad Seeds members such as Blixa Bargeld, and more, here or below.
Last but not least, Deadline reports that Cave has signed on as the music consultant for a forthcoming Pinocchio adaptation co-produced by Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro. After setting the project aside for a number of years, del Toro and co. kick-started the project again in 2008: “[W]e added some great ideas that made it funnier and livelier, and we enlisted the aid of Nick Cave,” he said. “For me, it was most important to find that voice and a big part of that is the music of the movie.” Check out more details alongside frames from the project (note the creepy model to the left), which will begin production later this year, here.
And now for a few links that caught my eye today…
- Jack White’s Third Man Records gets an intriguing, lengthy profile by Nashville Scene, complete with interviews and interesting bits about their live venue (“I think at the first couple shows we did people felt like they were in an art museum or something.”)
- First Aid Kit’s TMR single “It Hurts Me Too” is now streaming at All Songs Considered.
- Nick Cave has been offered driving lessons in lieu of prosecution for crashing his Jaguar into a speed camera last month. The Grinderman frontman should be done with driver’s ed. in time to promote John Hillcoat’s The Wettest Country in the World, a once-shelved film starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy that features a Cave-penned script. Hear him mention the film among many other topics in an interview with Triple R.
- John Vanderslice covered Atlas Sound’s “Walkabout” as a bonus track in an exclusive bundle for his new LP, White Wilderness.
- Best Coast have been performing Loretta Lynn’s 1968 song “Fist City” on tour with Wavves recently. Enjoy some audience-shot footage of the cover here or below.
While it was a pleasant surprise (it literally woke me up) to hear Nick Cave soundtrack a poignant scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, the back-story just might bring the moment a bit more depth. As it turns out, the man behind our latest cover song feature actually beat out Radiohead, Spiritualized, and other film soundtrack usual suspects for Harry and Hermione’s dance sequence. Music supervisor Matt Biffa tells Pop & Hiss: