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So, how does the currently in vogue "bands will make all of their money on the road" model work in a time of economic uncertainty? Perhaps we should ask Trent Reznor, who many people have held up as a paragon of "making it work" in the current "paying for records"-averse climate, and whose recent show in Columbus was marked by the arena's top tier being roped off and tickets being discounted to $17 at the last minute. (I'm sure some Pangloss 2.0 out there will swoop in and tell me that there's a good reason for this, or that he's making it up in merch or something, but really, if the top-tier bands are booking shows in places where they have to engage in last-minute price-slashing, what does it mean for everyone else?) [DoneWaiting]

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what to wear

Seven Affordable Halloween Costumes Culled From Seven Great Music Videos

Halloween is only four days away! Although the fun is rapidly being sucked from the whole holiday thanks to church-sponsored "Harvest Festivals" and the jackass who thinks a "FBI: Female Body Inspector" t-shirt is a costume, we hope to help you, the reader, inject a bit more excitement into the celebration with some costume ideas from your favorite music videos. More »

11:00 AM on Tue Oct 28 2008
By Dan Gibson
2,263 views, 6 comments

jeux sans frontieres

Trent Reznor Taps His Way Into Your iPhones

Trent Reznor will soon offer up a Nine Inch Nails edition of the iPhone/iPod Touch rhythm game Tap Tap Revenge. His version will not be free, though $4.99 is not exactly a king's ransom for the pleasure of tapping along to the 7/8 beat on "March of the Pigs"... oh, wait! The tracks will only come from Nine Inch Nails' last two records. The game will also feature a NiN theme, which means that we can expect lots of primary colors, happy clouds, and chirping bug-eyed animals. Reznor really is to be commended to be one of the more "with it" artists out there from a business perspective. The guy sees an opportunity to make money and delight his fairly obsessive fans, and he goes for it. Dude needs to have a talk with Angus Young. [Macworld]

2:30 PM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By Lucas Jensen
323 views, 4 comments

Latest by Lucas Jensen: @sparkletone: Yeah. Really good point there. Too bad. more »

corporate rock still sells

Zack De La Rocha Comes Out Of Hiding

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he looks at new singles from Rage Against The Machine's frontman, a '90s one-hit wonder, and Metallica: More »

12:00 PM on Tue Sep 23 2008
By Al Shipley
2,020 views, 16 comments

songs we love to not love

Which Alt-Rock Classics Do We Hate Most?

Earlier today, the R&B blog SoulBounce came up with an idea we're kicking ourselves for not having come up with first: the editors' and their friends' (and their comments box's) choices for the "Universally-Adored Soul Classic That [They] Hate." (Funniest moment: site editor nOvaMatic's dis of Frankie Beverly and Maze's "Before I Let Go," one of two: "My god, is this song potato salad? Must it be at every Black gathering?" Funny it appears here so soon after they named it one of the all-time greatest soul songs, but then nOva didn't write that one.) We like this idea so much that we've decided to rip it off, using a different category. After the jump, we'll will pick our Universally Adored (or so it seems) Alt-Rock Classics We Hate. More »

5:15 PM on Wed Aug 13 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
3,505 views, 100 comments

Latest by the rich girls are weeping: @MTS: Ok. The Wishing Chair is still a hell of a record, though. more »

get well soon

Trent Reznor's Aching Throat Forces Nine Inch Nails To Postpone Another Show

Nine Inch Nails has postponed tonight's show in Worcester, Mass., because Trent Reznor has been suffering from a "recurrent throat ailment," the second time in a week that said illness has resulted in a last-minute rescheduling. (Saturday's show at the Target Center in Minneapolis was rescheduled to late November; the band's US tour opened on July 26.) "Just want to personally say how sorry I am to have to do this. I never take postponing a show lightly and if there were any possible way I could pull this off I would. This is a very frustrating and maddening situation for me and I appreciate your understanding. I'll make it up to you," Reznor said on his official site. Here's hoping he isn't going the "pay what you like" route for his health insurance... [nin.com]

11:00 AM on Fri Aug 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
281 views, 3 comments

Latest by octobersky: Saw them on the kick off date in Seattle. It was friggin' amazing, seriously one of the best if not the best show I've ever been to. And Ive been to ALOT of shows and this was my fourth time more »

i need your digipak

Nine Inch Nails To Give Away 200,000 CDs Of "The Slip"... For Money

The Slip, Nine Inch Nails' digital album that only cost an e-mail address, will now be available for purchase as a limited-edition Digipak with a DVD and a big neato booklet full of shiny pictures. Dude, Trent, you know the cool thing to do would be to just give all of this away. That would show your fans on the free music forefront that you truly stand for freedom, and provide a positive example for them when they discover that no one wants to pay them for what they do either. You'll also be able to hear this ProTools epic on vinyl, the amount of copies of which will only be limited by those who think this rather digital recording is best heard in a pure analog state. And the MP3s? Free forever, baby! The future is now! More »

10:00 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Anthony Miccio
803 views, 12 comments

Latest by Anthony Miccio: @coolfer: I dunno, each disc is numbered, and Al says they sold that many copies of Year Zero in one week, so it sounds like a limited run to me (not that he might not change their mind if it more »

a little ep of my friends

Nine Inch Nails Offer A Free Taste Of Their Summer Line-Up


This week in free Nine Inch Nails shit: Trent is offering a free EP of tracks from bands on his upcoming "Lights In The Sky" summer tour: A Place To Bury Strangers, Crystal Castles, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, and Deerhunter, as well as the Ninnies themselves. It may not be as awesome as another free album (see, Trent, you give us everything and we only want more, more, more! It's just like one of your lyrics), but it's totally free and might inspire fans of the headliner to show up early and recognize at least one song by each of the openers. Not that Trent's live act won't blow them all off the stage. [NIN/YouTube]

12:30 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Anthony Miccio
332 views, 5 comments

Latest by owenmeany: How 'bout if Mr. Biceps shows some REAL bawls and gives out free TICKETS to the shows - he can keep his whack new recordings... more »

corporate rock still sells

An Avalanche Of A-List Rock Debuts, Topped By The Freakin' Offspring

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he observes a few shake-ups on the normally staid Modern Rock and Active Rock charts. More »

10:00 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Al Shipley
1,411 views, 3 comments

well, how about that

"The Slip": The New Nine Inch Nails Album That's "One Hundred Percent Free" (With An E-Mail Address)

Over the weekend, a new Nine Inch Nails song emerged, and that would seem to have been the warmup for this morning's wee-hour release of the slip, a.k.a. Halo 27; the 10-track, 43-minute album is free to all takers as long as you give the NIN site's robots an e-mail address. "Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years—this one's on me," Reznor said in a parenthetical aside on his blog. Someone buy that man a protein shake! Details of the release after the jump. More »

8:00 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,271 views, 7 comments

Latest by punkybunky: The first three tracks make "Discipline" & "Echoplex" seem like welcome respites. Reminds me of a harsher version of Witha-Teetha so far, which I really liked after I got used to it. Seeing a cornball title like "Demon Seed" worries more »

bow down before the one you serve

Trent Reznor Will Only Bring The Best New Music On Tour With Him

Opening for this summer's Nine Inch Nails tour, which kicks off at the Pemberton Festival before fanning out across the country: Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, A Place To Bury Strangers, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, and White Williams. Average Pitchfork score of the five openers' albums: 7.14—but it goes up to 8.3 if you toss out Tom Ewing's pan of the Does It Offend You, Yeah? album. Tour dates and openers after the jump. More »

8:55 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Maura Johnston
786 views, 7 comments

Another day, another festival lineup announcement; this time the Voodoo Music Experience, scheduled for October 24-26 in New Orleans. No real surprises though, with Sasquatch's R.E.M. joining Bumbershoot's Stone Temple Pilots and Pemberton/Lollapalooza/Virgin Festival's Nine Inch Nails. The local acts that make Voodoo a little more interesting than your average fest include the Neville Brothers and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Also a nice touch: not inviting Tiesto back. [Billboard]

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100% intentional leak of the day

Trent Reznor Leaves A Package On Radio Programmers' Doorsteps

ARTIST: Nine Inch Nails
TITLE: "Discipline"
DEBUT: April 22, 2008 More »
burning questions

Robin Finck Rejoins Nine Inch Nails--Does That Mean He's Not Going To Tour With Axl Anymore?

Trent Reznor announced on Friday that former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck would be back in the fold for his band's summer tour, which will hit Lollapalooza and the Pemberton Festival before traveling to various arenas and amphitheaters. Now, given that Finck was a touring guitarist with Guns N' Roses, and given that Axl has been making noise about maybe putting Chinese Democracy out in time to give everyone in the country a fizzy drink, and given that there's all that Velvet Revolver drama, what does this mean for Axl and his possible touring plans for the next few months? I'm sure that the speculation will be far, far better than whatever actually winds up happening, so, y'know, have at it. [Blabbermouth]

5:10 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
756 views, 2 comments

Latest by Superawesomerad: All it means is that yet another person is sick of Axl's shit. more »

The Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, and Stone Temple Pilots will headline 1999's this year's Virgin Mobile Festival, which takes place at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Aug. 9-10. [Baltimore Sun]

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what we need more of is pseudo-science

Songkick's "Battle Of The Bands" Gives Internet-Beloved Artists A Chance To Shine

The new music-recommendation service Songkick—which sends out e-mail alerts to users when their favorite artists come to town, and uses a last.fm-like recommendation engine to tell its users about "similar artists" being out on tour—has developed a Battle Of The Bands application, which is sort of like Googlefight with the added nebulousness of using data from MySpace (like number of friends and number of song streams added per week) and Amazon. We put it to the test with three artists who have recently made headlines by using the Internet as part of their distribution strategy, and the results may surprise you: More »

11:30 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
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spats

Trent Reznor Sez Radiohead Didn't Really Mean It (At Least Enough To Satisfy Him)

Not content to sit back and mentally count the windfall from the first-week sales of his self-released opus Ghosts I-IV, Trent Reznor now has some words for Thom, Johnny, the bald one I always identified with, and the other two; since Trent's venture into online retail was so successful and offered higher-quality audio downloads (as well as CDs and various special editions), he feels Radiohead may have rushed the downloadable In Rainbows to market in order to look cool for all us media types, rather than because they were honestly trying to push the Web-age sales model forward. More »

4:45 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Jess Harvell
3,929 views, 12 comments

Latest by stix: A post that once again encourages me to conclude that Radiohead fans are the most delusional on the planet. more »

Canada adds another giant outdoor music festival thingee to 2008's pile; running from July 25 to 27, the British Columbia-area Pemberton Festival will feature "bands such as Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails and the Tragically Hip." Curse you, CanCon guidelines. (Also in about 10 years I'm totally going to look like the lead singer from the Tragically Hip. If by 10 years, I mean "pretty much now.") [Vancouver Sun via Daily Swarm]

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