I am so ashamed. I used to be so cutting age. Back in my radio days I knew everything indie rock. Hell, people would be reading bits in CMJ and I’d be like ‘yeah, I heard about that months ago.’ And it wasn’t posturing. Well, maybe a little, but it was still true.

So when I discovered today that there’s a new Nick Cave project on the shelves, I was floored. Grinderman is a new project that includes a subset of the Bad Seeds with Nick playing guitar. GUITAR!!! It would have to be a work of rustic beauty, right? Very unique sound. Combines some of the more melodious elements of recent Bad Seeds stuff with a ton of energy like we haven’t heard since The Birthday Party.

Neato Mosquito.

I’d feel a lot better if I didn’t stumble across it on Amazon while looking up how much the Prisoner DVD box set is going for these days.

Amazon. Sheesh.