Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social author of Darker with the Dawn, picks his essential Nick Cave tracks #nickcave thestrangebrew.co.uk/nick-cave-gr...

ICYMI i was in Minor Lits this week 😎

Happy Weekend Check out my Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Deepest Cuts playlist at Clash Magazine Featuring forgotten tracks, b-sides and some banging live versions! www.clashmusic.com/features/dar... #nickcaveandthebadseeds

Great piece here by Wyndham Wallace on Talk Talk's third album, The Colour Of Spring. It's a genuinely groundbreaking, innovative, and most importantly, Really Good album that deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock thequietus.com/opinion-and-... 1/2

Here I am on Better Known podcast – five things you feel need explaining to the world! Talking dictators, Peter Sellers, Love Is The Devil and swim teaching... betterknown.co.uk/2026/02/15/a... #betterknown

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Here I am on Better Known podcast – five things you feel need explaining to the world! Talking dictators, Peter Sellers, Love Is The Devil and swim teaching... betterknown.co.uk/2026/02/15/a... #betterknown

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

BBC Radio 6 Music 6 Music Artist in Residence Now Playing Paul McCartney Temporary Secretary

DEATH, LUSTMORD, KYLIE! EXPLORING THE BAD BLOOD BEHIND NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS MURDER BALLADS!  tinnitist.com/2023/11/30/r...

England's Dreaming (Again) Searching for St George’s Cross I travelled the girth of the nation, visited Northamptonshire’s most anarchic village local and scanned tonnes of online flag-shagging memes, so you don’t have to. thanks to The Culture We Deserve team substack.com/home/post/p-... #cov

Funny how all these awful shits banging on about "core British values" always mean racism. They never mean the post-war consensus of a welfare state, NHS, social housing that dominated and transformed the lives of most people currently alive in the UK.

Check out my new piece on the intimate value of Best-Of collections @ihavethatonvinyl.com viva ABBA! ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-b...

today at IHTOV: @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social takes us on a journey through best-of compilations and why they are sometimes the best way to get into a band ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-b...

@bradleymorgan.bsky.social Hey Bradley - are you looking for interview guests for NBN? My Nick Cave book is due to be reissued as paperback and audiobook in Spring!

TOMORROW! L I V I N G W I T H B U I L D I N G S – X SCREENING poetry films/documentaries/experimental shorts–exploring cities and urban spaces 7.30pm – WEDS 28/1/26 – PVC – Coventry fb.me/e/7AIfuxvhu D I S A P P E A R H E R E #peoplepoetryplace #coventry

including work from Daniel Gianfranceschi, Sharon Xuanling Zhang, Steinar Løding (tr. Jordan Berger) @zissenberg.bsky.social @wjdavies.bsky.social , David Vichnar @nameofauthor.bsky.social Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev), interviews with Antonio Moresco and Jennifer K. Dick, & more ...

L I V I N G W I T H B U I L D I N G S – X –SCREENING EVENT– Poetry films, documentaries and experimental shorts exploring cities and urban spaces. 7.30pm – WEDS 28/1/26 – PVC – Coventry fb.me/e/7AIfuxvhu DISCOVER – DISAPPEAR HERE #peoplepoetryplace #coventry

When I was writing my book, all I really wanted was to see in my local Waterstones one day. And now - there it is, between Matthew McConaughey and Paul McCartney! There's been plenty else going in the book's first week out in the world. Here are some particularly lovely things:

The Booksellers Association has said bookshops should also be considered alongside pubs as part of the government’s expected climbdown on business rates reforms 👇 #BookSky

My final farewell to David Bowie - commemorating Bowie's confrontation with death, through his collaborations with Nine Inch Nails and the legacy of Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) The music is everlasting. adamsteiner.uk/2021/01/08/w...

Happy Birthday to David Bowie's Scary Monsters single release! adamsteiner.uk/2023/09/02/f...

LONDON HAS FALLEN (AGAIN) WHY THE RIGHT-WING ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS OVER TRAIN GRAFFITI

Really fun to chat with @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social - Hope we can do it again sometime!

BRINGING THE FREAKS BACK HOME TO MOTHER - BOWIE ON SNL – 15 Dec 1979 Bowie performs with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias on SNL for a celebration of strangeness and innovation that brought the space oddity home to audiences across America! adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...

ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE – NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS BATTLE WITH THE BLUES My book Darker With The Dawn explores the musical universe of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. The book will be reissued as a paperback edition and an audiobook in early 2026! adamsteiner.uk/2024/09/01/n... #nickcave

Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation Of The Downward Spiral My deep dive was first published way back in 2020 – I am pleased to announce it is to be reissued as an audiobook! adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-na... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social #nineinchnails

Bowie Book Club Podcast – INTERVIEW Meet the creators of Bowie Book Club Podcast in their journey of reading every title from Bowie’s 100 book list check out my own Bowie book – Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters adamsteiner.uk/2025/12/07/b... #bowie

Nights at Osip, lunches at Mountain, ludicrously expensive handbags and cases of delicious wine – we've got some amazing prizes to be won in our festive prizedraw. Enter now, and help us turbocharge our growth for 2026. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...

Enclosure and Dispossession 📌 buff.ly/nRyUjt4 📚 buff.ly/rdRUYIN

Shocked to hear Mani has passed - one of the best bassists - ever - so much soul - unique - melodic - I Wanna Be Adored one of my favourite lines - and his playing completely shaped Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2q...

Writers have a tough time and nobody likes them either! Till they are dead. Then they become quite respectable and useful.

On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, @juderogers.bsky.social heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly, the disaster was barely referred to in Westminster and the national press www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...

This is outrageous from Keir Starmer. ‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ?? news.sky.com/story/starme...

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Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers. "The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

OFF THE GROUND is one year old. 🥳 “…a must read for serious Beatles fans.” 👇👍✌️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Not gonna lie, this was a dream commission to mark 25 years of @drownedinsound.org

Just finished William Golding's The Inheritors, some great moments of prose along a reach towards Neanderthal man's subjective-group mind – now Pincher Martin; man on a rock with lobster hands – this BBC doc on Golding is excellent @backlisted.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#NHSHeroes 👇👇👇👇👇👇

@philiphoare.bsky.social FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth Happy Birthday to Fashion – a Bowie banger that marks the sharp divide between trend following and totalitarianism adamsteiner.uk/2024/06/10/f...

SCREAM LIKE A BABY In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms. adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...

"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled her" –Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell adamsteiner.uk/2021/06/26/n...

Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons. "In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it." adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...

10/14/77: Bowie, with Heroes More via @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social: www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-... Guess we need to hear this more than ever: And the shame, was on the other side Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever Then we could be Heroes, just for one day www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp...

Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons. "In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it." adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...

NIN, controversy and gun control adamsteiner.uk/2023/10/26/b... #nineinchnails