Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails Rule At Wave Goodbye Festival Appearance

Trent Reznor made like Clint Eastwood on Sunday, riding into Toronto to save Virgin Festival Ontario and then presumably to vanish and possibly never be heard from again. Although Reznor and his Nine Inch Nails posse didn't exactly paint the Molson Amphitheatre red and change its name to Hell like Eastwood did in High Plains Drifter, they...
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Nine Inch Nails

Sasquatch!: Of Montreal Amazes

May 23 I'd prefer to start my day with a Rolling Rock than Starbucks. Cracking the former before noon indicates you're going to spend a day in the blistering heat enjoying a magical spread of the biggest buzz bands of the year. Pouring the latter into your mug means you're back at your desk cranking out doomsday copy in the moderately warm...
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Sasquatch! Festival (photo by Alyssa Noel)

Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails And The Industrial Uprising

Metal Machine Music is a frustrating film that's unable to commit to one subject. The title and back cover suggest a linkage between the Lou Reed album of the same name and the evolution and popularization of industrial music through the ascent of Nine Inch Nails. But Reed's noise-rock opus isn't even mentioned, and the industrial timeline only...
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Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails And The Industrial Uprising

Nine Inch Nails Thrive In Toronto

It's fitting that Nine Inch Nails blasted through a vital rendition of "Survivalism" as a sort of thrown-down gauntlet three-quarters of the way through their two-hour show at Toronto's Air Canada Centre. Outwardly, "Survivalism" was simply a puzzle piece from 2007's Year Zero near-dystopian concept album, and just another in a...
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Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Nine Inch Nails — The Slip

Trent Reznor is a marketing genius. With the release of the second Nine Inch Nails digital album in two months (this one's free), Reznor has managed to stick it to the record label man and promote the hell out of his band's upcoming tour. Recorded in less than two months, the 10 tracks on The Slip are a mash-up of Year Zero-ish rockers and Ghosts...
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The Slip

Nine Inch Nails — Y34rz3r0r3mix3d

Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D is the physical manifestation of Nine Inch Nails' elaborate exit strategy from the hands of those evil, corporate pigs at his old record label. Reznor's been sabre-rattling lately about going directly to the people from here on out and he makes good by including a bonus disc of separated audio files suitable for NIN fans/shut-ins...
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Nine Inch Nails — Year Zero

Since The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails albums have had a theme that entirely reflects frontman Trent Reznor's state of mind. On that record, he was at a creative peak, but seemed like he couldn't have cared less about any of it, more engaged in drugs than participating in the scene he was being asked to lead. The Fragile depicted him...
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Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero

Will The Real Bauhaus Please Stand Up?

Since I don't frequent black or goth metal shows on a regular basis, I'll likely never see more black T-shirts than on Saturday night at the Molson Amphitheatre, where legions congregated for the Nine Inch Nails/Bauhaus/Peaches tripleheader. With perfect weather and clear air, this was one of those nights that was made for an outdoor show. And...
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Bauhaus

Nine Inch Nails — With Teeth

The gloomy kids have had little to root for during the half-dozen years Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor spent out of the spotlight taming his vices. So it's most welcome then that Reznor's jarring industrial metal return will supplant the faux-angst of Evanesecence for at least a little while in the black, black hearts of the gothy set. With...
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Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

WATCH: Trent Reznor & Karen O cover Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"

Following their Academy Award-winning collaborative score for The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have again teamed up with director David Fincher  for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. By now you may have heard the song as the soundtrack is officially released and it features this chaotic cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song...
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I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2011

Trent Reznor would like you to know that the reissue of Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine is a "bullshit" record label move. So he doesn't want you buying it. OK? Stephen Malkmus would like you to come up with another word for "blowjob" here, and the winner will get their lyric recorded by him and a seven-inch single.Swans are working on...
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Trent Reznor

I Read The News Today... For June 27, 2011

Toronto alt.country band Cuff The Duke will return with a new album dubbed Morning Comes, which will come out through Paper Bag Records on Oct. 4. The first single is "Count On Me," and the LP reportedly includes an eight-minute tune dubbed "Bound To Your Advice." And it's the first part of a two-part album. Pixies frontman Black Francis will...
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Song Of The Day: Pretty Lights' Radiohead, Nirvana And Nine Inch Nails Mashup

We get that mashups are sooooooo 2005, but this one from Fort Collins, Colo.'s Pretty Lights (real name Derek Vincent Smith) is pretty amazing. Smith's taken Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place," Nirvana's "All Apologies" and Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" and put them together to make a chilled, laid back remix that's nothing remotely like Girl...
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Pretty Lights

I Read The News Today... For April 11, 2011

TheScore sports television network is releasing a compilation called TheScore Rocks on April 19. It'll feature all the jock rock jams you'd expect to hear at sports games, like tunes from Nickelback, Disturbed, Billy Talent, Shinedown and more. Limp Bizkit's Gold Cobra album has been pushed back to June 28. Can't they just push the release date...
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Limp Bizkit

I Read The News Today... For March 11, 2011

Aww, the screaming fat man and the little dandy are totally friends now. —MuchmusicOmar Rodriguez Lopez has announced a North American tour for fans of qwerrrrrrrYYYYYYYYYYYY44x4x4xbapbapbap#######@D@D@D@DYERPzzzz. —Rodriguez Lopez ProductionsBlack Lips have released the tracklist to Arabia Mountain, their forthcoming album out June 7. We're...
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Black Lips

I Read The News Today... For March 8, 2011

The New Pornographers are among those playing the inaugural Festival For Humanity from May 27 to 30 in Vernon, N.J. Other illustrious acts on the bill include Third Eye Blind and... Soul Asylum. What is this, 1996? —festivalforhumanity.com Surprise! Daniel Victor's Neverending White Lights are back. Victor and company are playing two shows at...
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The New Pornographers

Trent Reznor's Oscar Acceptance Speech Could've Been Better

Trent Reznor is just two awards away from an EGOT now because he won an Oscar last night for his score for David Fincher's The Social Network. All he needs is a Tony Award and Emmy Award. (But if he gets an Emmy, he at least has an EGO.)He and co-composer Atticus Ross made surprisingly brief speeches when accepting their awards, but that might be...
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Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor Nominated For Oscar

Trent Reznor's score for The Social Network already won him a Golden Globe Award earlier this month, and he could receive an even bigger honour for it in February. Reznor and Atticus Ross are up for the best original score Academy Award this year. They'll face stiff competition from A.R. Rahman's music for 127 Hours, John Powell's score for How To...
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Trent Reznor

I Read The News Today... For Jan. 17, 2011

Braids have announced some new North American dates in support of their Native Speaker debut album, which comes out tomorrow. They'll tour with Columbia, S.C. chillwaver Toro Y Moi in March. —FacebookCould this be a new era in Arcade Fire's history? One where they say "yes" to things? They're confirmed to perform at this year's BRIT Awards on Feb...
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Arcade Fire

I Read The News Today... For Jan. 14, 2011

The Dears have announced their first batch of dates in support of their upcoming Degeneration Street album, which comes out Feb. 15. They'll play gigs in Victoria, B.C., Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles before hitting up South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in March. —thedears.org Diamond Rings has announced some dates with PS I...
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The Dears
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