Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. More »
In this week’s edition of On The Shelf, Idolator’s weekly look at select releases coming out on Tuesday: Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero at long last arrives, as do new albums from Avril Lavigne, Mark Ronson, and Bucky Covington.
Faronheit has an MP3 of “Era Vulgaris,” a collaboration between Queens Of The Stone Age and Trent Reznor that was slated to appear on the upcoming Queens album of the same name. More »
This month’s Artist Of The Month poll on MSN started out as a five-way battle between Avril Lavigne, Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, The Bravery, and Pam Tillis; somehow, The Bravery pulled into the top slot. Fishy? Sure. But while we’d be content to just roll our eyes at yet another Internet poll of no consequence, Web-enabled Nine Inch Nails fans are rising up and re-engineering the poll–literally. In response to what they percieved as Geffen’s rigging of the results, the nerd squad over at Digg and some other code geeks have crafted some Reznor-friendly bots who can vote multiple times, making the results somewhat hilarious:
Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero made its way to the Internet yesterday; we’re not sure if the leak is yet another part of Trent Reznor’s drawn-out marketing campaign for the album–which comes out on April 17–but we do know that Trent can still inflame the inner 15-year-old who still rages inside our… More »
Not to toot our own horns, but today we got a nice little bit of confirmation that those Nine Inch Nails leaks from a month or so ago were actually the work of Trent Reznor, and that the RIAA acted a bit too hastily in calling in their lawyers. More »
Remember that crazy Nine Inch Nails viral-marketing scheme, in which Trent Reznor’s minions supposedly left MP3-loaded flash drives in bathroom stalls, and for which Reznor created a weird apocalytpic online game? Well, the campaign backfired for at least one German blogger, according to P2P Blog:
Christoph Boecken wanted to take part in the game as well. He didn’t want to get accused of spreading unauthorized MP3s though, which is why he posted a Flash player on his blog that allowed streaming, but not downloading one of the songs.
A few days later Boecken received a letter from a well-known German law firm that handles piracy cases for NIN’s label Universal Music, accusing him of copyright infringement. The letter didn’t only demand him taking down the MP3 file in question, but also paying 500 Euro (about 675 USD) to cover the expenses for sending this letter. Invoices like this are regularly part of cease and desist letters in Germany.:
The apparently Sliver-inspired clip for Nine Inch Nails’ “Survivalism” starts off rather snoozy, but then comes the nudity, and the gay sex, and the SWAT team. It’s the sort of video that would have blown Stewart Stevenson’s mind back in 1993. More »
Culture Bully and Deaf Indie Elephants point us in the direction of “In This Twilight,” yet another intentionally-unintentional “leak” from Nine Inch Nails’ upcoming Year Zero album. More »
Thanks to Deaf Indie Elephants for the heads-up that yet another track from Nine Inch Nails’ upcoming Year Zero has leaked. Considering that “Me, I’m Not.” More »
