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Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Review: Ty Segall makes hooky racket at Metro

Ty Segall stood at far stage left in a kitschy cowboy shirt, calmly tuning his guitar. Fellow guitarist Emmett Kelly (in a matching cowboy shirt) stood at stage right, doing...
Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Review: Jenny Lewis, on a night of ups and downs

Back in 2006, Jenny Lewis celebrated the release of her solo debut "Rabbit Fur Coat" with an understated performance at Park West. Ten years have passed and Lewis was celebrating...
Singer/film subject Mavis Staples performs after the New York premiere of HBO's documentary film "MAVIS!" at Florence Gould Hall on Feb. 24, 2016.

Mavis Staples propels, compels at Thalia Hall

"Come go with me," implored Mavis Staples at the start of her sold-out Thalia Hall set Saturday night. The crowd was already bobbing and grooving, losing itself in the funky...
Lee Ann Womack, during a recent performance in Nashville.

Lee Ann Womack finds her own perfection

"It's gonna crack," warned a slightly under the weather Lee Ann Womack. "And I'm gonna miss notes." But Womack has been around long enough to know that everybody has a...