Now Playing @6Music tracklist May 27, 2011

Nick Cave was your chosen topic for this week’s Now Playing. The guitarist who plays with his Bad Seeds, and more recently Grinderman, has helped score a new film Dias de Gracia (Days of Grace) directed by Everado Valerio Gout.



After recent screenings at the Cannes Film Festival, the Mexican thriller weaves three storylines across three football World Cups, with a different musical team composing the soundtrack for each thread in the movie.

As well as Cave, we had a Triple Treat surrounding the return of The Horrors. Their new track was played on Zane Lowe before appearing on YouTube and becoming the talk of the blogs.

We also welcomed God is in the TV and CMU into 6 Music - and my word did they perform with some awesome track selections and insightful blogs.

Check out all the tracks and reasons behind them below.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig

Grinderman - Palaces of Montezuma (via Facebook)

PJ Harvey - 50 Ft Queenie (via Spotify)

#Digital Digest

* The new video from Tom Vek is up on YouTube. World of Doubt is the second single taken from his forthcoming album Leisure Seizure – both out on June 6.



* According to the Guardian, Jeff Bezos, President and CEO of Amazon, the founders of Google and YouTube make the top ten most powerful figures in music while iTunes comes in fourth. Simon Cowell is third while Team Adele – the people behind 2011’s most successful UK artist so far - topped the chart.



* Tokyo Police Club’s Graham Wright has gone solo and has revealed details of his debut album, Shirts vs. Skins. Taster track Soviet Race is available as a free download exclusively at Filter.



* You can now download, in exchange for your e-mail address, a track recorded during the sessions for Brian Eno’s forthcoming album Drums Between Bells. It is called Imagine New Times and you can get it from Eno’s official website.



* And the return of The Horrors is huge news this week online after new single Still Life was uploaded to YouTube. The band also have a new album called Skying, their first full record since Primary Colours over two years ago.

Leonard Cohen - Avalanche (via Facebook and E-Mail)

#Blogged - Owain from God is in the TV Zine

Alex Dingley - Oriole

#nowplaying

Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You

Johnny Cash - Mercy Seat (via Facebook)

Triple Treat - The Horrors

Magistrates - Heartbreak (via Facebook)

Gary Numan - Cars (via Facebook)

My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me with Your Kiss (via Facebook)

Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan - What a Wonderful World (via Facebook)

The Birthday Party - Junkyard (via Facebook)

#nowplaying

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

#Digital Digest

* iTunes made Bon Iver’s new album available for download a month early, reported Rolling Stone. Due for release at the end of June, some people were apparently able to download the full record when single Calgary went live.

* Wild Beasts’ new single, Bed of Nails, is being made available as a postcard – with artwork from acclaimed photographer Jason Evans on one side, and a download code on the other.



* Lady Gaga’s album Born This Way is likely to sell a million copies this week, largely thanks to Amazon making it available to download for just 99 cents in America. On Monday, fans crashed the online distributor’s site and Pop Crush are estimating the promotion could cost Amazon almost $3 million.



* Elbow and 6 Music’s Guy Garvey has revealed on Twitter how band mate Pete Turner knocked Everything Everything bassist Jeremy Pritchard’s tooth out during a night out in Manchester.

* And a vast array of new music is currently available to stream online ahead of release. NPR has My Morning Jacket, Cults and Death Cab for Cutie’s new albums – but it is Arcade’s Fire collaboration with David Byrne, Speaking in Tongues, which is being passed around and blogged by most. Have a listen for yourselves.

Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow (via Facebook & Twitter)

#Blogged - Andy from CMU

Seerauber Jenny - Push it Away

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - I Found a Peanut (via the Blog and Text)

#Listener's Mix - from James Adamczuk: essential listening for me on any journey

Doves - Pounding (This song reminds me of when my first son Isaac was born - he's now just turned eight - it's such a powerful happy song and I remember spinning Isaac round and round when I played it.)

Goldfrapp - A&E (beautiful and gorgeous and Alison Goldfrapp has such a unique voice - it just makes me happy to be alive.)

Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream (I was driving home from the airport the first time I heard it. It was instant on me so I got home, logged on, and bought the video straight away.)

Pharrell Williams - Frontin' (This song has just a great hook, and it is a bit of a show off song, like "who's the Daddy" :-) )

The Thrills- One Horse Town (This is the first ever song I bought using my mobile - just makes me laugh and I can never work out if there is a banjo on the track!! I like the whole leaving on a one way ticket tonight lyric as it tends to be my going home song!)

I Am Kloot - Northern Skies (Like all things Northern this record is emotional, and when I look out of an aircraft window at 37000 feet it genuinely brings a tear to me eye)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song (via everything possible!!)