Chicago Tribune — Dirty Three: A rare sighting of this intensely eloquent instrumental trio from Australia, led by mad violinist Warren Ellis (also Nick Cave’s coconspirator in the Bad Seeds and Grinderman) and the peerless rhythm section of Mick Turner and Jim Whit... more info

Dlisted — Billie Piper (30) Tom Felton (25) Rima Fakih (27) Laura Vandervoort (28) Mireille Enos (37) Matthew Rush (40) Mystikal (42) Bonnie Hunt (51) Catherine Oxenberg (51) Scott Baio (52) Tai Babilonia (53) Andrea Bocelli (54) Joan Jett (54) Nick Cave (55) ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Nick Cave talks to the A.V. Club about writing the script for the film Lawless. Bookworm and the Jewish Chronicle interview Michael Chabon about his new novel, Telegraph Avenue. The Telegraph and Georgia Straight review the book. Flavorwire lists 10.... more info

Guardian Music — The Guardian reader commonly known as llamalpaca gives us his choices from last week's threadThis week's playlist has been selected by llamalpaca.Biblical, spiritual, mysterious and sometimes downright unbelievable: miracles have been two a penny thi... more info

Guardian Music — Six years ago the musician Nick Cave and the director John Hillcoat made the visually striking, ultra-violent outback western, The Proposition, a return to the glory days of Australian cinema.Their new film, similarly celebrating an intransigently in... more info

Guardian Music — The Killers Runaways (Island) Electing the Killers single of the week is like announcing your favourite food is Big Macs. Their God-punching comeback starts carefully, but then, one minute in, that rollicking drum stampede shoves a cherry bomb up Bra... more info

Guardian Music — Australian star will mark a quarter of a century in music by teaming up with a full orchestra to rerecord a selection of her hitsIf you've ever thought the only way Kylie Minogue's I Should Be So Lucky could be improved would be by the addition of an... more info

betterPropoganda — Posted at 9:15am, 9/5/2012 Our new album release list for the coming week goes up every Tuesday. Check out what's dropping September 5th, grab mp3s and catch up on what you missed from previous weeks. Wednesday, September 5th: Azure Ray: As Abov... more info

Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectDigby Vollrath writes a current music blog called Gruff Trade, focusing on "non-aggressive up-and-coming music from across platforms, with a special int... more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Nick Cave vowed to give up his dreams of an acting career after the entire cast and crew burst into laughter on a movie shoot when he delivered his line The Australian singersongwriter has enjoyed a handful of small film roles and bit-par... more info