GRINDERMAN, NYC show with The White Stripes, and nominated for MOJO's Best Album Award
Grinderman announce a one off London date at the Forum on June 20th with NY punk legends Suicide and blues man Seasick Steve.
Grinderman have been invited to play with The White Stripes at Madison Square Garden on 24th July they will then play their own shows in Chicago and San Francisco.
Grinderman’s debut eponymously titled album is nominated for MOJO’s Best Album Award. This is a readers voted award for an “instant classic”.
US Dates:
July 24th Madison Square Garden, NYC (Supporting The White Stripes) July 25th Metro, Chicago July 26th Great American Music Hall, San Francisco July 27th Slims, San Francisco
For further information please contact Hector Martinez, hector@epitaph.com, 213.413.7353
GRINDERMAN PRESS QUTOES
“one of Cave’s hardest-rocking records, but also one of his funniest.” – SPIN
“11 tracks that scorch the earth lesser bands traipse on….Grinderman have no intention of saving rock’n’roll: they’ve chosen to stuff the corpse with dynamite and get it the hell our of the way of progress. Young pups and old-timers who have lost their way, take note.” – ALTERNATIVE PRESS
“this is some of the singer’s rawest music since he fronted the Birthday Party in the ‘80s.” – ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“wickedly funny and downright explosive.” – PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
“The group’s self-titled debut is a 40-minute slog of coarseness and vexation. And it sounds terrific, in a turbulent fashion.” – NEW YORK TIMES
“this slab of gritty thud is one of the year’s gnarliest, funniest albums, a perfect midway point between the Bad Seed’s polished, melodramatic torch-rock and the primal howl generated by Cave’s first band, the almighty Birthday Party. Raw and moving, rude and roaring, Grinderman is that rarest of rock bands – noisy, thrilling and smartly adult.” – AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN
“An album more raw than an infected, 10-day-old open head wound.” – URB
“The Grinderman hat seems to have tilted the basic Bad Seeds stance brilliantly on its side, bringing out a new humor and a grumpy-old-rocker gravitas.” – UNCUT
“A witty, wild and impressive return to his past.” – THE GUARDIAN
“Grinderman achieves the impossible feat of being a side project that rises above all the negative aspects that usually define such a venture, and it sits crookedly and uneasily alongside the very best work of Nick Cave’s remarkable career.” – POPMATTERS
“the fact is that on this, his latest side project, Nick Cave sounds positively rejuvenated. He also appears to have in no uncertain terms, the major horn. This is a filthy, feral record that oozes sexual tension; sleazy, obstreperous garage rock of the sort last heard back in the Bad Seeds’ earliest days.” – HARP
“Listening to “Grinderman” loud feels like getting mugged by a seedy philosophy professor. Smart and soulful, Cave can also rant ‘n ‘roll to beat any dirty young punk.” – Newark Star Ledger
“These are songs to chew on, get knocked down by, guffaw at, and take deep inside your own shadow side to celebrate. Grinderman is the impure rock & roll album to beat in 2007.” - All Music Guide
“With Grinderman, the testosterone-drenched alter-ego of literate alt-rock auteur Nick Cave and his band of derelict co-conspirators (including Bad Seeds members -- violinist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey and drummer Jim Sclavunos), the group discharges a libido-driven litany of menacing foul-mouthed rants, lascivious obsessions and scornful, punch-drunk love songs. Their jarring self-titled debut is a heaving cauldron of visceral juggernauts that borrow Leonard Cohen’s wry lyrical wit, The Stooges’ raw bravado, late 70s/early 80s New York no-wave and sinewy delta blues to create a sweltering nihilistic vision reverberating with the pent-up aggressions that defined Cave’s legendary band Birthday Party. Cuts like “Get It On”, organ-fuelled wailer "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)", “Electric Alice”, the nefariously tongue-in-cheek "No Pussy Blues," “When My Love Comes Down” and the thunderous "Depth Charge Ethel” are the set’s most resonant assaults proving that the aging rocker hasn’t lost any of his wicked humor or venomous edge.” - BPM