Maggie Lee

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>

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August 25, 2021 at 5:53 a.m.

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"If no one gets hurt, it'll be boring," snickers the archvillain of "The Target," a South Korean remake of Fred Cavaye's Gallic suspenser "Point Blank" (2010). In keeping with that...

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