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!
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. More »
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.
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.
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.
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. More »
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. More »
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. More »
ARTIST: Nine Inch Nails
TITLE: “Discipline”
DEBUT: April 22, 2008
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. More »
