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Not long ago, the great Nick Cave took over the ornate London venue Alexandra Palace to record Idiot Prayer, an evening of solo-piano performances. At first, Idiot Prayer was a pay-per-view livestream, but it's about to become a live album and a film. For the occasion, Cave turned many of his Bad Seeds and Grinderman…

You will probably not be shocked to learn that Nick Cave, a 62-year-old white male artist whose work has been digging into dark human obsessions for decades, is not especially fond of the idea of "cancel culture." Cave said as much in his Red Hand Files newsletter earlier this year, when he wrote that he…

Last year, Nick Cave released his latest album, the crushing and gorgeous Ghosteen. It was another installment in a remarkably rich late-career stretch from a songwriting standpoint. But in recent years Cave has also undertaken a whole lot of other projects, in the process assuming a new and far more open public identity than he'd…

Last month, Nick Cave walked into London's Alexandra Ballroom to play a solo-piano concert without an audience. Cameras were there to film Cave, and he's made a live-concert film out of it. That movie is called Idiot Prayer, and it'll debut as a livestream later this week. We've already posted the Idiot Prayer trailer, which…