Grinderman

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Grinderman

Background information
Origin	Australia
Genre(s)	Garage Rock
Years active	2006–present
Label(s)	Mute (2006–present)
Associated acts	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three
Website	Official MySpace
Members
Nick Cave Warren Ellis Martyn Casey Jim Sclavunos

Grinderman is a garage rock band formed by Nick Cave (vocals, electric guitar, organ, piano), Warren Ellis (electric bouzouki, Fendocastor, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals); all members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

The band was described in an initial press release^[1] as "Foul-mouthed, noisy, hairy, and damn well old enough to know better." Their debut album Grinderman was released in March 2007. Cave plays guitar in the group; with his former band, The Bad Seeds, he played guitar on only one song ("Rye Whiskey") and his admittedly primitive playing has changed the sound of the group's music.

Three songs from the band's album can be heard on their MySpace page. These songs are "No Pussy Blues", which was released as a single on 19 February, "Get It On", which was released as a single on 8 January 2007 and Love Bomb. The self-titled album was released in the UK on 5 March 2007 and will be released in the US on 10th April 2007.

The band also launched the official Grinderman website in March. Amongst other things, the website includes The Grinderman Podcast featuring a series of fragments of recordings from the band's writing sessions^[2]. These will not be complete songs but will instead offer a unique insight into the workings of the band. New episodes will appear regularly over the coming weeks.