The Music Fix — Nick Cave and pals are back more info

Undercover, Australia — Grinderman, the band featuring Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos, will release a second album in September. more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Deirdre O'Callaghan In 2007, Nick Cave rounded up a crew of Bad Seeds vets to form Grinderman, the awesomely squalid side project that led Cave back toward the sexed-up noise that he made when he led the Birthday Party. Grinderman's self... more info

NME — Nick Cave and co set for September record release more info

Guardian Music — (XL)Karen Elson's debut certainly doesn't fight shy of inviting cynicism. She is a supermodel turned musician. Her band includes husband Jack White (producing and on drums), members of My Morning Jacket and the Dead Weather, and even Jackson – so... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Zoran Orlic In 2009 Chicago band Welcome To Ashley released a nice set of songs on their Absent Man EP. With their mix of PIL and The Smiths they sounded very alt.rock, the kind of music that is in heavy rotation on college radio. The follow-... more info

Detroit Free Press — If you're looking for some of the best in artfully gloomy indie-rock, then choose the National, whose doleful but compelling fifth album "High Violet" (*** out of four stars, out Tuesday on 4AD) is perfect for introspective shoe-gazers. Baritone... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Move over wolves, crystals, girls and bears. Caves are cool now. Following in the footsteps of cave granddaddies Cave-In (who recently reunited to cash in on the cave phenomenon) and Nick Cave, there seems to be a sudden influx... more info

The Quietus — Copies of the Record Store Day vinyl up for grabs more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonLou Reed has promised "a night of deep noise" based around Metal Machine Music, the notorious hour of howling feedback that nearly killed his career stone dead on its release in 1975. Whatever that means, the assembled audi... more info