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Eric Bana stars as the eponymous Chopper, Australia’s most notorious and celebrated criminal figure, in what’s been lauded as the “performance of a lifetime”. This brutally gripping true-crime feature received critical acclaim on its original release in 2000, and now Andrew Dominik’s directorial debut is available as a Limited Edition Blu-ray from Second Sight Films. It is also available in a Standard Blu-ray format.

Dominik’s (Blonde, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) shocking and darkly entertaining film takes us into the violent world of Australia’s most infamous figure – Mark ‘Chopper’ Read – who conquered Victoria’s brutal underworld single-handedly, in a film based on his memoirs.

Bana shows his acting chops in this seminal, career defining role of bonafide villain Chopper, and he brings the outrageous true story to the screen with maximum force. The brutality and nonchalance of the life and crimes of the one-man mafia,...

Founding member of The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Serge Gainsbourg song stylist Mick Harvey with Ed Bahlman on arriving in London: “The Pop Group were held very dear by the band as a kind of guide for how things could be, if you want to be that extreme. And The Fall were very much loved.”

In the second installment of Mick Harvey’s conversation with music producer and 99 Records founder, Ed Bahlman, on Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party, they discussed The Birthday Party leaving Melbourne in 1980 to live in London; the differing life experiences at that time for him, Phill Calvert, and Tracy Pew, compared to Nick Cave and Rowland S Howard; British bands - The Fall, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, The Pop Group and Mark Stewart; Lindsay Gravina’s on-camera interviews; Richard Lowenstein and...

Mick Harvey on The Boys Next Door with Tracy Pew, Phill Calvert, Rowland S Howard and Nick Cave, and the group name change before going to London: “We had some discussions and we came up with The Birthday Party.”

In the first instalment with Mick Harvey we started out discussing his appearance in Wim Wenders’ Wings Of Desire as a member of Bad Seeds and Crime and the City Solution; Wenders’ latest films, Anselm (Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit on Anselm Kiefer) and Perfect Days (Japan’s Oscar submission); Pj Harvey, and Mick’s take on translating and recording four albums of Serge Gainsbourg songs in English, and Jane Birkin (performing at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York).

Mick Harvey with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on William Friedkin’s The Birthday Party film (screenplay by Harold Pinter) and the name change: “We thought, yeah, that’s good.

Portrait of post-punk band’s debauched journey from Melbourne to London is a scuzzy time capsule filled with juicy revelations about Nick Cave and co

The Birthday Party: the danger, drugs and rancour behind Nick Cave’s post-punk band

Fans of the legendary post-punk band the Birthday Party will take to Ian White’s new film like pigs to slop, relishing the debaucherous badassery of its subjects and their drug-addled journey to greatness.

The uninitiated will probably also have a good time with this full-tilt boogie, sonic assault of a documentary, which paints a warts-and-all portrait of the band and its members: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rowland S Howard, Phill Calvert and Tracy Pew. These wrong-side-of-the-tracks artists played by their own rules, spat in the face of decorum and decency, and through a haze of putrid indulgence succeeded against the odds.

Nick Cave’s iconic post-punk band The Birthday Party are the subject of the new documentary Mutiny in Heaven from filmmaker Ian White, and in a newly released first look at the project, the band look back on the “monstrous beast” that was their live show. Check out the clip below.

The Birthday Party were sort of like The Velvet Underground; they may not have sold a ton of records, but everyone who did pick up a release from the group was probably inspired to make music of their own. Of course, the Melbourne/London/Berlin band skewed much darker than the New York art rockers, and their live gigs often erupted into violence.

Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard, and Phil Calvert look back on those turbulent days in a new clip, appropriately titled “A Monstrous Beast Live.” Thanks to a lot of drugs and alcohol, as well...

A new documentary, Mutiny in Heaven, will explore the history and legacy of the gothic-tinged art-punk group the Birthday Party, which featured singer Nick Cave and lasted from the late Seventies through 1983. The doc will premiere in the U.S. later this week.

A clip from the film shows how loose and unwieldy the band’s concerts could get. In the clip, drummer Phill Calvert describes gigs circa 1981 as “very violent and dangerous between the band and the audience.” Multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey, who is also one of the film’s producers,...

Busan Funding Revealed

The Busan festival’s Asian Cinema Fund has announced 14 film projects to which it will give financial support. Three projects at script stage, black comedy “Chronicles of a Confession,” by Prateek Vats (India), “To Kill a Mongolian Horse” by China’s Jiang Xioaxuan and Suraj Paudel “Where the Rivers Run South” (Nepal) each receive a KRW10 million cash grant and will be invited to the 2023 edition of the festival’s Asian Project Market.

Four projects receive post-production funding and are expected to make their world premieres at Busan this year. They are “Concerning My Daughter,” by Lee Mirang, and “Lay Off” by Park Hongjun, both from Korea. They are joined by “Solids by the Seashore,” from Thailand’s Patiparn Boontarig and “The Spark,” by Indian veteran Rajesh S. Jala.

Seven feature documentary projects each receive up to KRW20 million from the Asian Network of Documentary Fund. The...

Back in 1988, Shannon Strong was a scrappy young Denver punk musician playing in a band called the Pagan Cowboys while dreaming of something else. Inspired by the magazine ads of Neve recording consoles she taped on her bedroom wall as a kid and the flashing buttons at the fingertips of Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura, she wanted to be behind the recording desk as well as in front of it.

She fled the shackles of Reagan’s America first for London, then, after witnessing a “mindblowing” Einstürzende Neubauten gig, decided to explore Berlin.

Scream rewired the horror audience in 1996, exploring anew the connective tissue that bridged the history of the genre with its future patrons and purveyors. The resulting franchise encompassed a host of familiar tropes of both the slasher and “whodunit” variety, comprising ringing phones accompanied by mysterious callers, self-aware and snarky young adults and rules to survive by that, perhaps by design, often don’t hold all that true in the end.

But just as important as any recurring narrative beat or cameoing survivor is a song. While it only plays for what amounts to a handful of minutes over the course of five films, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand” is as instrumental to the atmosphere of the Scream franchise as the looming threat of those who hide behind the trademark white mask caught in its silent howl.

First coined by 17th century poet John Milton in his 1667 epic Paradise Lost,...

Ten years ago, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their 15th studio album Push the Sky Away. The record marked their first without Mick Harvey, but saw the return of Barry Adamson. A few days after its release, the band performed the full record at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles.

To commemorate the album’s 10th anniversary, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have released the full concert they captured on film that night to stream for free for a limited time. Live at the Fonda Theatre (2013) is...

After several years fronting gothy art-punks the Birthday Party, Nick Cave ventured out as a solo artist with a new band, the more traditionally rock-focused Bad Seeds, in 1983. In addition to his Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey, the longest tenured original member of the group was Blixa Bargeld, who played expressionistic guitar in the Bad Seeds as a side gig to his long-running industrial group, Einstürzende Neubauten.

During his 20-year Bad Seeds tenure, Bargeld cowrote a handful songs, including the haunting “Stranger Than Kindness,” and occasionally duetted with Cave, notably on “The Weeping Song.

Nick Cave described Anita Lane — the late singer-songwriter who worked extensively with the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — as “the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far,” in a tribute shared on his “Red Hand Files” site. Lane’s death was announced Wednesday, April 28th, though a cause and exact date of death have yet to be revealed.

“You think you know grief, you think you’ve worked out its mechanics, you think you’ve become grief-savvy — stronger, wiser, more resilient — you think...

The music world has lost a true icon: Anita Lane, the Bad Seed who helped redefine the spirit of evil in rock & roll. “Once there came a storm in the form of a girl,” Nick Cave famously sang, and for many fans, Anita Lane was that storm. She was a key Cave collaborator, but also an artist and cult figure in her own right, with solo gems like Dirty Pearl and Sex O’Clock. She co-wrote classics like “From Her to Eternity” and “Stranger Than Kindness,” the song that provided...

Anita Lane, the singer-songwriter who cowrote some of the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ most memorable songs, has died at age 61. Rolling Stone has confirmed Lane’s death; a cause and date of death has yet to be revealed.

As a solo artist, Lane wrote dark, luscious chamber pop that owed a debt to Burt Bacharach and Serge Gainsbourg. Her light, airy falsetto had a knack for cutting through collaborator Mick Harvey’s arrangements. As a lyricist working with the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds,...

There’s no perfect way to describe the gloriously gloomy music of Rowland S. Howard, the slender guitar slinger whose dusky disposition was deeply imprinted onto the music of his bands — the Birthday Party, Crime and the City Solution, and These Immortal Souls —and his own solo recordings.

“The color of Rowland Howard’s music is a deep-purple bruise,” says Lydia Lunch, who collaborated with Howard several times.

“His guitar playing was like the stab of a switchblade,” says Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace, one of the many musicians he inspired.

Nick Cave’s and Pj Harvey’s music have always shared a similar gloomy sensibility, but where his was often stark and gothic, hers was ethereal and impressionistic. The two artists’ worlds collided in the mid Nineties; they collaborated on the morose “Henry Lee” for Cave’s album Murder Ballads and dated for about a year, and their time together inspired several songs on Cave’s The Boatman’s Call. Since then, they’ve neared orbits — both writing songs for the same Marianne Faithfull album, Harvey welcoming Cave’s former...

Depeche Mode, Moby, New Order and Einstürzende Neubauten are among the artists who are performing composer John Cage’s famously tacit work, 4’33” on a new compilation. The avant-garde composer issued the work in 1952, confounding critics and musicians alike for decades by making the sound of the room the piece is “performed” in the lead instrument; musicians are asked not to play. The musicians’ new recordings of the piece will appear on STUMM433, a Mute Records compilation, and all are past or present artists on the label’s roster. It’s due out in May.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Breaking Bad, the beloved series will collect five LPs-worth of music that featured during the show’s five seasons for a limited-edition, vinyl-only box set.

Limited to 5,000 copies, the Breaking Bad Original Soundtrack arrives November 30th and boasts five “Albuquerque crystal”-colored 10″ records, each housed in a jacket that represents one of the series’ five seasons.

The set also features “a lift off box set with Breaking Bad logo on front with special drip-off varnish,” an exclusive poster and “Los Pollos Hermanos” plastic ID...

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...

My summer has been filled with deep loss. My younger brother David succumbed to major injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on June 1st. Along with the comfort and love from my family and friends, music was a necessary daily elixir. Many nights I would listen to vinyl in my mother's home, albums I'd left there years ago, or a handful of new/used pieces I picked up at one of my favorite Akron, Oh vinyl shops.The ritual of cleaning each piece, placing it on the turntable, dropping the needle, studying the album art, reading the liner notes... it was a much-needed distraction. Here are three new pieces that have aided me in my latest life's journey.

Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)

Mr. Cave lost his teenage son in a tragic accident last July and is set to release Skeleton Key in September, his...

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 ...

On Feb. 8, a huge blizzard began on the east coast, and it looks like it’s going to be a white weekend! Celebrities such as Justin, Sarah Hyland, and Sherri Shepard have taken to Twitter to react.

Nemo’s catchphrase might be “Just keep swimming,” but he should change it to “Just keep snowing,” as a huge blizzard has been named after the cute Pixar clownfish! On the morning on Feb. 8, snowflakes began falling thick and fast on the northeast coast, and all of your favorite celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Sarah Hyland and William Shatner have reacted on Twitter about the impending blizzard. Read on to see what they had to say about the snow day.

Celebrities Tweet About Snow Storm Nemo

Justin is currently in New York City to host Saturday Night Live on Feb. 9, and his fans are starting to worry if the show might be cancelled!

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are getting ready to bow their first album in five years when "Push the Sky Away" drops on Feb. 19. In between, Cave has been busy in Grinderman. In fact, two-thirds of the ensemble for "Sky" have been busy with the same thing. Multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey and percussionist Jim Sclavunos, in addition to Cave, made up Grinderman in its last incarnation in 2011; Bad Seeds alumni Thomas Wydler (drums) and Conway Savage (vocals) return as well. Mick Harvey is still M.I.A. since he and Cave had a parting of ways after more...

The Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) Award for best Australian short was awarded to Sophie Miller.s Spine at Melbourne.s Greater Union Cinema.

Spine deals with Nick, a young quadriplegic who witnesses a violent crime. The award came with a handsome cash prize of $7000 contributed by Film Victoria with Miller and producer Sheila Jayadev on hand to accept the award.

Judges included local filmmaker Genevieve Bailey, renowned Radio National film critic Julie Rigg and musician and record producer Mick Harvey, who presented the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film.

Miff, which is regarded as one of the premier short-film competitions in the southern hemisphere, gives filmmakers from home and abroad the opportunity to win seven prizes valued at $42,000 in total.

Another Aussie to win an award was Melbourne-based filmmaker Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leondard, who won the Swinburne Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker for his film Kin, which...

Directed by Lynn-Maree Milburn in collaboration with Richard Lowenstein for Ghost Pictures, Autoluminescent tells the story of Melbourne musician Rowland S Howard.

A key figure in the Melbourne underground music scene, Howard was a member of The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party. He penned their biggest song ‘Shivers’ when he was just 16.

In the doco, musicians Nick Cave, Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds), Henry Rollins (Black Flag & Rollins Band) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) all sing Howard’s praises who died in 2009.

The film opens Thursday and is distributed by Umbrella Entertainment.

Pj Harvey has announced a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall this autumn. The singer-songwriter plays the London venue on October 30. Her live band will feature Mick Harvey, John Parish and Jean-Marc Butty. The concert follows previously-announced shows in Manchester and Glasgow next month. Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 12. Harvey's eighth studio album Let England Shake has been nominated for the (more)...

With Arcade Fire winning Album of the Year at the 53rd Grammy Awards and the Decemberists recently finding their way to the top of the Billboard album chart, could 2011 be the year that indie rock breaks through (again)? Polly Jean Harvey has spent the better part of two decades grinding out an ever-morphing hybrid of blues, folk and electronic music that has seen both highs (1993's breakthrough Rid of Me, 2000's intense and moody Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea) and lows (1998's sleepy Is This Desire? and 2007's even sleepier White Chalk). For her new album Let England Shake (which hits store shelves today), Harvey has left the soft piano tinkling of White Chalk behind in favor of her core guitar-driven sound. Is Harvey's return to form a welcome experiment or an exercise in treading water?

According to the reviews, everybody seems completely on board with Harvey's latest work.

British singer/songwriter Pj Harvey will release her eighth studio album, “Let England Shake,” Feb. 14 on Island Records. Harvey recorded the album in a 19th century church in Dorset, England with co-producer Flood, as well as longtime collaborators, John Parish and Mick Harvey, according to her website. Harvey had previously announced a largely-sold out European tour that kicks off Feb. 18 in Brussels. There is no word on U.S. dates yet, although Harvey is expected to add a number of festival dates to her schedule. In addition to Mick Harvey and Parish, her live band will include Jean-Marc Butty. “Let England...

Courtesy of Icon Home Entertainment, we have Paul Goldman’s Suburban Mayhem and Dean Murphy’s Strange Bedfellows on Blu-ray.

Strange Bedfellows is the 2004 comedy hit starring Michael Caton and Paul Hogan as two very straight mates trying to pass as a gay couple to take advantage of a new tax law – inspiration for Hollywood’s I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry?

Suburban Mayhem stars Emily Barclay as a 19-year old single mum living in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and cheap sex… and she’s trying to get away with murder! It’s inspired by real events and received the 2006 Awgie for Best Original Feature Film and the AFI Award for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Hayes) and Best Original Score (Mick Harvey).

It’s a perfect moment to discover them, either for the first time, or revisit them on high definition!

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Breaking Bad soundtrackBreaking Bad is currently in the midst of its third season, with episodes airing on Sunday nights at 10 Pm Et on AMC and a new item will be released this week that will surely be a hit with fans of this series. The Breaking Bad soundtrack will be released on May 18 and to celebrate this new CD release we have a contest lined up at the site where we're not only giving away copies of the soundtrack CD, but we're also giving away Season 3 posters for the show as well. You know these hot items will go fast, so be sure to enter this contest today.

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1. Breaking Bad Main Title Theme (extended) - Dave Porter2. Mick Harvey "Out of Time Man"3. Los Cuatos De Sinaloa "Negro y Azul:...

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds founding member Mick Harvey has left the band after a quarter of a century. The multi-instrumentalist said that he is leaving for "personal and professional" reasons, reports NME. Harvey, who has been with the award-winning Australian group since its formation in 1983, said in a statement: "For a variety of personal and professional reasons I have chosen to discontinue my ongoing involvement with Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. "After 25 years I feel I am leaving (more)...

• Ten Canoes, the most critically acclaimed Australian film of the year, swept the Australian Film Institute awards last week. The film depicts the cautionary tale of lust and loyalty that an Aboriginal tribe recounts to a young member. Incredibly it is first feature from Australia made in a language indigenous. The film, directed by the experienced Rolf de Heer and newcomer Peter Djigirr, has been generating award buzz since it was selected, and won a Special Jury Prize, at Cannes earlier this year. On Thursday the film won, Best Direction, the much deserved Best Cinematography for Ian Jones, Best Editing, Best Sound and Best Original Screenplay. Unsurprisingly Ten Canoes also managed to secure the L’Oreal Paris AFI Award for Best Film. De Heer was further honoured with the Brian Kennedy Award, an award that is given in respect of a filmmaker’s relentless pursuit of excellence in filmmaking.

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