Nine Inch Nails To Play Five Canadian Shows

Nine Inch Nails will make five Canadian stops on their North American tour, and they'll have Toronto's Crystal Castles on the bill for three of them.

Nine Inch Nails issued different versions of the Ghosts I-IV instrumental album on their website on March 2 and main man Trent Reznor netted $1.6 million from sales in the first 10 days it was available.

Without warning, NIN made their new "Discipline" single available on their site for free download on April 22. A supposedly big announcement is slated to be made on the site on Monday.

The tour will include the return of guitarist Robin Finck to the NIN fold. He toured with the group from 1994 to 1997 and again in 2000 and 2001, but most recently he's been a member of Guns N' Roses. He left Axl Rose and company suddenly, which prompted GNR to post this message on their website on April 20:

"Only Robin knows what Robin's doing.

"Neither we nor management, etc., know any more in this regard and we prefer not to speculate or offer opinions at this time.

"Robin's Robin. We're in negotiations for the release of Chinese Democracy and things are going well.

"When we begin to put tour plans together, we'll see where things are. Until then, Robin's touring with NIN and we're working with management on our game plans."

In addition to NIN's previously announced appearance at the Pemberton Festival in Pemberton, B.C. on July 25, the band will also play these Canadian shows:

July 28 Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place w/Crystal Castles ?
July 29 Calgary, AB @ Pengrowth Saddledome w/Crystal Castles ?
July 31 Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre w/Crystal Castles ?
Aug. 5 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre w/Deerhunter