Adam Steiner
@adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social
WRITER – culture/music/street art
Into The Never — Nine Inch Nails & The Downward Spiral
Silhouettes And Shadows – David Bowie & Scary Monsters
Darker With The Dawn – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Clash / Louder Than War / the Quietus
Into The Never — Nine Inch Nails & The Downward Spiral
Silhouettes And Shadows – David Bowie & Scary Monsters
Darker With The Dawn – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Clash / Louder Than War / the Quietus
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[Into The Never] – Nine Inch Nails Book – INTRODUCTION – Adam Steiner
At once, the most chart-friendly and overtly controversial single from The Downward Spiral, “Closer” is a hymn to the joy of sex, by way of sado-masochistic self-flagellation...
adamsteiner.uk
Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation Of The Downward Spiral
My deep dive was first published way back in 2020 – I am pleased to announce it is to be reissued as an audiobook!
adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-na...
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
#nineinchnails
My deep dive was first published way back in 2020 – I am pleased to announce it is to be reissued as an audiobook!
adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-na...
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
#nineinchnails
BRINGING THE FREAKS BACK HOME TO MOTHER - BOWIE ON SNL – 15 Dec 1979
Bowie performs with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias on SNL for a celebration of strangeness and innovation that brought the space oddity home to audiences across America!
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
Bowie performs with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias on SNL for a celebration of strangeness and innovation that brought the space oddity home to audiences across America!
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
SCREAM LIKE A BABY – DAVID BOWIE’S CLASH WITH TYRANNY – Adam Steiner
In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms. The so...
adamsteiner.uk
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
BRINGING THE FREAKS BACK HOME TO MOTHER - BOWIE ON SNL – 15 Dec 1979
Bowie performs with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias on SNL for a celebration of strangeness and innovation that brought the space oddity home to audiences across America!
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
Bowie performs with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias on SNL for a celebration of strangeness and innovation that brought the space oddity home to audiences across America!
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE – NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS BATTLE WITH THE BLUES
My book Darker With The Dawn explores the musical universe of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
The book will be reissued as a paperback edition and an audiobook in early 2026!
adamsteiner.uk/2024/09/01/n...
#nickcave
My book Darker With The Dawn explores the musical universe of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
The book will be reissued as a paperback edition and an audiobook in early 2026!
adamsteiner.uk/2024/09/01/n...
#nickcave
ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE – NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS BATTLE WITH THE BLUES – PART I – Adam Steiner
From his earliest days with The Birthday Party, Nick Cave has turned traditional blues music on its head to realise an alternative sound that goes beyond genre
adamsteiner.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE – NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS BATTLE WITH THE BLUES
My book Darker With The Dawn explores the musical universe of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
The book will be reissued as a paperback edition and an audiobook in early 2026!
adamsteiner.uk/2024/09/01/n...
#nickcave
My book Darker With The Dawn explores the musical universe of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
The book will be reissued as a paperback edition and an audiobook in early 2026!
adamsteiner.uk/2024/09/01/n...
#nickcave
Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation Of The Downward Spiral
My deep dive was first published way back in 2020 – I am pleased to announce it is to be reissued as an audiobook!
adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-na...
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
#nineinchnails
My deep dive was first published way back in 2020 – I am pleased to announce it is to be reissued as an audiobook!
adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-na...
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
#nineinchnails
[Into The Never] – Nine Inch Nails Book – INTRODUCTION – Adam Steiner
At once, the most chart-friendly and overtly controversial single from The Downward Spiral, “Closer” is a hymn to the joy of sex, by way of sado-masochistic self-flagellation...
adamsteiner.uk
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation Of The Downward Spiral
My deep dive was first published way back in 2020 – I am pleased to announce it is to be reissued as an audiobook!
adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-na...
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
#nineinchnails
My deep dive was first published way back in 2020 – I am pleased to announce it is to be reissued as an audiobook!
adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-na...
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
#nineinchnails
Bowie Book Club Podcast – INTERVIEW
Meet the creators of Bowie Book Club Podcast in their journey of reading every title from Bowie’s 100 book list
check out my own Bowie book – Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters
adamsteiner.uk/2025/12/07/b...
#bowie
Meet the creators of Bowie Book Club Podcast in their journey of reading every title from Bowie’s 100 book list
check out my own Bowie book – Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters
adamsteiner.uk/2025/12/07/b...
#bowie
Bowie Book Club Podcast – interview – 11/11/2025 – Adam Steiner
Now into its second season, Bowie Book Club is exploring a more speculative, but no less considered, list of books that they feel had a significant connection to the David Bowie universe. In this inte...
adamsteiner.uk
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bowie Book Club Podcast – INTERVIEW
Meet the creators of Bowie Book Club Podcast in their journey of reading every title from Bowie’s 100 book list
check out my own Bowie book – Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters
adamsteiner.uk/2025/12/07/b...
#bowie
Meet the creators of Bowie Book Club Podcast in their journey of reading every title from Bowie’s 100 book list
check out my own Bowie book – Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters
adamsteiner.uk/2025/12/07/b...
#bowie
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Nights at Osip, lunches at Mountain, ludicrously expensive handbags and cases of delicious wine – we've got some amazing prizes to be won in our festive prizedraw. Enter now, and help us turbocharge our growth for 2026.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Nights at Osip, lunches at Mountain, ludicrously expensive handbags and cases of delicious wine – we've got some amazing prizes to be won in our festive prizedraw. Enter now, and help us turbocharge our growth for 2026.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Shocked to hear Mani has passed - one of the best bassists - ever - so much soul - unique - melodic - I Wanna Be Adored one of my favourite lines - and his playing completely shaped Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2q...
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (Official Video)
YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Shocked to hear Mani has passed - one of the best bassists - ever - so much soul - unique - melodic - I Wanna Be Adored one of my favourite lines - and his playing completely shaped Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2q...
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Writers have a tough time and nobody likes them either! Till they are dead. Then they become quite respectable and useful.
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Writers have a tough time and nobody likes them either! Till they are dead. Then they become quite respectable and useful.
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On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, @juderogers.bsky.social heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly, the disaster was barely referred to in Westminster and the national press
www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, @juderogers.bsky.social heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly, the disaster was barely referred to in Westminster and the national press
www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
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This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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@minorliteratures.bsky.social will open for fiction submissions December 1st
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
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OFF THE GROUND is one year old. 🥳 “…a must read for serious Beatles fans.” 👇👍✌️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
OFF THE GROUND is one year old. 🥳 “…a must read for serious Beatles fans.” 👇👍✌️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Not gonna lie, this was a dream commission to mark 25 years of @drownedinsound.org
As music journalism marches towards oblivion, a plea from @seaninsound.threads.net.ap.brid.gy for salvation
www.huckmag.com/article/musi...
www.huckmag.com/article/musi...
Music journalism faces oblivion, here’s why we need to save it
On reaching 25 years of Drowned in Sound, Sean Adams explores how music journalism is still limping, and why he set up The Association of Music Editors.
www.huckmag.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not gonna lie, this was a dream commission to mark 25 years of @drownedinsound.org
Just finished William Golding's The Inheritors, some great moments of prose along a reach towards Neanderthal man's subjective-group mind – now Pincher Martin; man on a rock with lobster hands – this BBC doc on Golding is excellent @backlisted.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Arena - The Dreams of William Golding
An insight into the private obsessions and insecurities of the author of Lord of the Flies. With contributions from his daughter and son and bestselling author Stephen King.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just finished William Golding's The Inheritors, some great moments of prose along a reach towards Neanderthal man's subjective-group mind – now Pincher Martin; man on a rock with lobster hands – this BBC doc on Golding is excellent @backlisted.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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#NHSHeroes 👇👇👇👇👇👇
Wes Streeting says "little or no support" for striking docs. Let's prove this cunt wrong. Repost if you wanna show solidarity with essential workers fighting for their rights after years of underfunding and real terms pay cuts. Who's with me?
#NHSHeroes
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#NHSHeroes
✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government will not 'be held to ransom' by doctors strike, says Wes Streeting
The health secretary is refusing to make concessions on pay after the BMA announced a further walkout.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#NHSHeroes 👇👇👇👇👇👇
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@philiphoare.bsky.social FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth
Happy Birthday to Fashion – a Bowie banger that marks the sharp divide between trend following and totalitarianism
adamsteiner.uk/2024/06/10/f...
Happy Birthday to Fashion – a Bowie banger that marks the sharp divide between trend following and totalitarianism
adamsteiner.uk/2024/06/10/f...
FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth – Adam Steiner
Fashion plays with the extremes of political trends which by 1980 would enter a new radical phase with the arrival of Margaret Thatcher's right-wing Conservative government. ICH BIN EIN LONDONER David...
adamsteiner.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
@philiphoare.bsky.social FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth
Happy Birthday to Fashion – a Bowie banger that marks the sharp divide between trend following and totalitarianism
adamsteiner.uk/2024/06/10/f...
Happy Birthday to Fashion – a Bowie banger that marks the sharp divide between trend following and totalitarianism
adamsteiner.uk/2024/06/10/f...
SCREAM LIKE A BABY
In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms.
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms.
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
SCREAM LIKE A BABY – DAVID BOWIE’S CLASH WITH TYRANNY – Adam Steiner
In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms. The so...
adamsteiner.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
SCREAM LIKE A BABY
In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms.
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms.
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/19/s...
"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled her"
–Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
adamsteiner.uk/2021/06/26/n...
–Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
adamsteiner.uk/2021/06/26/n...
REPTILE: REZNOR, BEAUTY, AND SELF (COURTNEY) LOVE – Adam Steiner
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled herArthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell On Reptile, Trent Reznor reveals the ugliest side of his persona, wounded by broken relati...
adamsteiner.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled her"
–Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
adamsteiner.uk/2021/06/26/n...
–Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
adamsteiner.uk/2021/06/26/n...
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Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...
GHOSTEEN – NICK CAVE'S MASTERPIECE
It’s a strange thing to look back to the release of Ghosteen on October 4th 2019 with anything other than stilted wonder. A beautiful, wounded record, it would come to suit the times, overshadowed by ...
adamsteiner.uk
October 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...
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10/14/77: Bowie, with Heroes
More via @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social: www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-...
Guess we need to hear this more than ever:
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp...
More via @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social: www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-...
Guess we need to hear this more than ever:
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp...
David Bowie - Heroes
YouTube video by Broken Ridge Records
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
10/14/77: Bowie, with Heroes
More via @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social: www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-...
Guess we need to hear this more than ever:
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp...
More via @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social: www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-...
Guess we need to hear this more than ever:
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYp...
Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...
GHOSTEEN – NICK CAVE'S MASTERPIECE
It’s a strange thing to look back to the release of Ghosteen on October 4th 2019 with anything other than stilted wonder. A beautiful, wounded record, it would come to suit the times, overshadowed by ...
adamsteiner.uk
October 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy Birthday to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen – still one of my favourite records for difficult but important reasons.
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...
"In 2019 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds would return with their new album Ghosteen – an openhearted reckoning with grief, and life beyond it."
adamsteiner.uk/2025/10/05/f...