Grinderman

Indie "supergroup" Grinderman (featuring Bad Seed Martyn P. Casey, Warren Ellis of the Dirty Three, and drummer Jim Sclavunos) were hardly on a par commercially with million-selling behemoths of Asia or Bad Company (or even the Raconteurs for that matter), but Grinderman also boasted the cult figure's cult figure in Nick Cave. By no means a vanity project or a tepid exercise in reclaiming past glories, rather the raging, primal blues of Grinderman's 2007debut made for a howling musical catharsis that recalled Nick the Stripper's earlier band, the Birthday Party.

• rock
• pop
• garage rock
• 2000s