Catching Up With Swans' Michael Gira

"Once we started to record, I knew that I was going to just throttle this beast until I killed it."  read more

Swans' New Song "Mother of the World" Available to Stream

Swans released a new ten-minute track, “Mother of the World,” which is now streaming on NPR. The song is one of the many longer tracks on their upcoming album The Seer. Consequence of Sound reports that Swans founding member Michael Gira described the new record as a “culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined.”...  read more

Nick Cave writes book, curates/headlines Aussie ATP

Nick Cave sure is busy these days. After the critically acclaimed release of Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (accompanied later by a little book) and a tour filled year, Cave has announced plans to release a new book entitled The Death of Bunny Munro. This will be, of course, his second work of fiction after releasing And the Ass Saw the Angel in 1989....  read more