Guardian Music — Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell. Read by Philip GlenisterCSA Word £16.16 6hrsThe year of Orwell's dystopia is now long past, but it's frightening to realise just how much of it has come true. The novel, with those dreadful child spies busy repor... more info

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The Playlist — Reiterating what's already been reported in the trades at the beginning of October — and not just random rumors —  director John Hillcoat ("The Road," "The Proposition") has his eye on his next project which is an adaptation of Matt ... more info

Sixeyes — Nick Cave put his own spin on the oft recorded story about Lee "Stag Lee" Shelton, and called his take "Stagger Lee", on the classic 1996 album Murder Ballads. I say "his take" because other recordings have various versions of the name (and details)... more info

NME Radio — 1. Thursday is in for a musical kicking, and a special guest. Today from 10am on NME Radio there’ll be a stack of decent music to be heard, discovered, loved, and no doubt, hated. This includes the bloody ace North Atlantic Oscillation , Devendra... more info

The Vinyl Villain — After the end of the Morrissey series the other week, I did contemplate looking at the singles ever released by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. But I thought that I just couldnt inflict all of that on you dear listeners. But it will become an occasional f... more info

Tastes Like Caramel — Yesterday while we were out CMJ-ing Fever Ray released a brand new video for the cover of Nick Cave and Anita Lane’s Stranger Than Kindness. The creepily sexy tune recreates the amazing feeling we felt last month when seeing Fever Ray play Webster ... more info

My Old Kentucky — I don't really know if the news here is that Fever Ray has a new video or that they debuted it with Vanity Fair. Reaching out to new audiences?Andreas Nilsson directed this cover of Nick Cave's Stranger Than Kindness.Speaking of Nick Cave, you can s... more info

Stereogum — Karin Dreijer's take on Nick Cave, Anita Lane, and, really, Blixa Bargeld's "Stranger Than Kindness" has graduated from that limited-edition tour 7" to a spot on the second disc of the new Fever Ray Deluxe Edition. You'll find her Vashti Bunyan co... more info