For four decades, Nick Cave has been at the edge of music, putting his spin on everything from punk rock to lovesick ballads. Then unspeakable tragedy and grief had their way with him, and his music had to change yet again.

A list of books recommended by Australian musician Nick Cave, from Baudelaire and Dostoyevsky to Marx and Faulkner.

Josef Sudek (1896 –1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. Sudek was originally a bookbinder. During ...

Nick Cave stuck around NYC after wrapping up his “Conversations With” Q&A tour to attend Monday's Met Gala...

I was just tagged so now I have to make a new book of random scheiße. Update: okay so I think I'm just gonna use this book as an excuse to post whatever's on my mind and just annoy you guys with random crap.

When I was an adolescent here in freedom’s land and bravery’s home, musicians all dispensed the same wisdom when they spoke to teenagers, more or less. Don’t do drugs, stay in school, practice safe sex, register to vote, reuse and recycle, and support our troops. (Of course I’m aware that not all of these items were on, say, Jello Biafra’s agenda, but I don’t remember him being asked to address a lot of tenth graders.) How much better to have attended the German gymnasium that was Blixa Bargeld’s alma mater, which he loved so much as a student that he firebombed it. As Blixa recalled in Neubauten’s oral history, No Beauty without Danger: One of the reasons I got kicked out of school was because I had started a fire. My expulsion had already been decided upon anyway, so I didn’t have anything to lose. But I was still the student body president, and tried to enforce my pseudo-democratic rights by decorating a “Schülermitverwaltungsversammlung”, a kind of student council assembly, with a fire bombing - in which no one was hurt - because I was no longer...

Bleddyn Butcher’s revealing photos of Nick Cave document the singer’s past 30 years, from the Birthday Party to the Bad Seeds