LargeHeartedBoy — Vampire Weekend's second album, Contra, is the first highly buzzed release of 2010, which adds Latin American music influences to their mix. If you saw the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy'sThe Road, you know how effective Nick Cave and... more info

BBC 6 Music — Director John Hillcoat and Warren Ellis discuss The Road soundtrack penned with Nick Cave more info

Undercover, Australia — The funeral of Boys Next Door/Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard was held yesterday in St Kilda. Rowland`s former band-mate Nick Cave could not attend but send a Eulogy to be read for the mourners. more info

The Playlist — Self-professed audiobook fan Nick Cave describes his own audiobook for 'Bunny Munro' as "an extraordinary and psychedelic experience" that includes, among other things, "sounds effects that sound like their physically touching you" and a new score by... more info

Guardian Music — Lean, ravaged and always with a cigarette dangling from his lips, the Birthday Party's Rowland S Howard pummelled his guitar until it could howl no moreI first saw Rowland S Howard, who died from liver cancer on 30 December, play live when he tore my... more info

Guardian Music — Apollo theatre, LondonCamille O'Sullivan's appeal isn't immediately obvious. A torch singer in the Ute Lemper mould, her voice has a sultry beauty, but rarely strikes you as exceptional. Her repertoire ranges from the usual alternative-cabaret offeri... more info

The Music Fix — Capsule Review: There's a knock on your door. Some sharp-dressed young man is standing there - with a suit clearly costing more than the bulk of your wardrobe. His red sports car is skewed across the street and as he makes eye contact with you his t... more info

Guardian Music — Plaintive piano-violin interplay is too slight to leave much impressionThe end of the world has never been far from Cave's thoughts in his rock-star guise, so in his film-composer one it's only fitting that he should soundtrack The Road's post-apocal... more info

Undercover, Australia — Nick Cave has said a few words about his late bandmate and former Boys Next Door / The Birthday Party founder Rowland S. Howard. more info

Guardian Music — (Real World)This English songwriter has been dubbed "la grande sensation de 2009" by the French, who bought enough copies of Hobo to make it one of the biggest selling albums of the year over there. At home, though, it was completely overlooked, prob... more info