Mar 20, 2013 | nowtoronto.com
Over more than 30 years as a musician, songwriter, novelist, screenwriter and jack of pretty much all trades, Nick Cave has gotten entangled in a number of creative partnerships.
While the mainstream continues to applaud manufactured pop entertainers whose banal, calculated recordings serve as advertisements for their celebrity, the best albums of 2012 came from independent artists who make original music, toil in small clubs and on festival side stages, and enjoy the allegiance of a relatively small but discriminating fan ... (more)