• Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree / One More Time With Feeling

    This album is bad for your health. I know that because it’s all I’ve listened to since it was released last Friday and I’ve been nothing but melancholy since. There are a few precedents for material this mournful in popular music: Van Morrison’s ‘TB Sheets’, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Famous Blue...
  • IMPACT Music’s 2015 Halloween Playlist

    Its that time of year again. Do you go for sexy or try to look like as much of a prat as possible? Do you have a choice? Either way: hearing ‘Monster Mash’ for the 1000th time isn’t going to help your Halloween go of with the chills you...
  • An Introduction To: Nina Simone

    Nina Simone is a unique voice in the annuls of soul history. Trained as a classical pianist in segregated North Carolina, and retaining a desire to perform such material while upholding one of the most acclaimed vocal jazz careers of the sixties. Her war-like persona is almost as famous...
  • Book of the Month: September

    “In three hours he will move through the empty city, crossing vast rivers, driving along tremendous, multi-laned highways, under darkening skies, like a small God, to be with you, tonight.” Page 6 TITLE: THE SICK BAG SONG AUTHOR: NICK CAVE GENRE: FICTION/POETRY PUBLISHER: CANONGATE BOOKS PUBLISHED: JUNE 2015 PAGES:...
  • Album Review: Iceage – ‘Plowing Into The Field Of Love’

    Denmark’s finest confirm themselves as the band of our generation with their third album – a captivating concoction of contemporary, accessible punk and beautiful, experimental post-punk. Their second, You’re Nothing, was an undoubted musical progression from 2011’s brutal debut New Brigade, but the hyperbola of their progress grows ever...
  • Review – 20,000 Days On Earth

    “I’ve always been an ostentatious bastard”. During his 57 years on earth, Nick Cave has been a part of four bands, scripted three films (a new version of The Crow is also in the works), scored a dozen, and published four novels and poetry collections. His singular approach to his art...