LOLLA Day 3The humidity and heat returned for the final day of Lollapalooza but Obama was still a no show (Barack had been rumored to make an appearance all weekend). Nevertheless, the audience as well as the artists ramped up the energy, special guests & surprises. Nine Inch Nails battled versus Kayne for attention till the very end.Brazilian Girls' Sabina Sciubba makes an Marry Poppins-esque ...
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor recently hailed their group's upcoming tour as possibly one of the best ever. Reznor exalted his group, or this version of Nine Inch Nails,in a blog drenched in much praise and enthusiasm for his comrades. Excerpts from the group's official web site below:"I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of NINE INCH NAILS for the foreseeable future. We've...
Nine Inch Nails has made its new ten-song, 44-minute minute album entitled ??The Slip?? available for free download at www.nin.com (free signup required). The new set includes the songs "Echoplex" and "Discipline" which were both posted online during the last couple of weeks ahead of the new album release.Trent Reznor released the instrumental "Ghosts I-IV" album online on March 2. The two-hour...
As previously reported, NIN’s Trent Reznor, Rage’s Tom Morello, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, the Roots, Rise Against, Billy Bragg, Jackson Browne, and other famous musicians have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo and released a string of...
Nine Inch Nails mastermind, Trent Reznor, recently discussed what an honour it was to be covered by the late GREAT Johnny Cash. The song Cash covered, "Hurt," was originally released on Downward Spiral in 1994, then covered by Cash in 2002. Reznor revealed it was more important to him than any industry standard and that Cash gave him the best compliment ever. Reznor told the Sun, "He said af...
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has criticised the unconventional release of Radiohead’s album ??In Rainbows??, leveling claims of insincerity on the part of the Britsh mega-stars.Reznor said in an interview with ABC: "What they (Radiohead) did was a cool thing. But if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream. The.
Trent Reznor apparently has a bone to pick with the Universal Music Group. He claims the music compnay is ripping off their customers, and he is not going to stand by and let it happen. Trent was quoted as saying the following:As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more. A co...
Recently, Trent Reznor blogged about his song Discipline the new single by Nine Inch Nails. In it, he explained: "We're considering a real-time live webcast of me signing 2,500 copies of the just-arrived, super-ultra-mega-deluxe GHOSTS edition all day Thursday. These really turned out great and I can't wait to sign EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM."Then this showed up, a video on Youtube called "Spend ...
Today NIN confirmed summer tour dates in North America which kicks off their world tour in July. According to their press release, Trent Reznor, Alessandro Cortini and Josh Freese are joined by Robin Finck and new addition Rich Fownes. They'll be performing material from the recently released Ghosts I-IV plus music from the entire NIN catalogue.Trent Reznor:http://www.youtube.com/user/ninoffi...
Trent Reznor would like you to know that "This one's on me." No, he isn't buying you a round of Cinco De Mayo margaritas (bummer), instead the Nine Inch Nails frontman is giving away the band's new album The Slip for free. So, now you'll have more money for gas. The Slip is available right now as a free download at NIN.com. The band is looking to release a physical CD and vinyl in July.The quee...
What's the connection?Do you know I have had my Maxwell MTV Unplugged album with Maxwell singing, "Gotta Get Closer" since it came out and I had NO idea that Maxwell was covering Nine Inch Nail's song, "Closer." That's one of my favorite albums ever next to Michael Jackson's, "Off the Wall." Yes, I am giving maxwell that much props on that MTV Unplugged album.Listen to Nine Inch Nails here: I f...
Photo by Michael D. DunnTrent has posted some rather depressing news on NIN.com:First, he was given opportunity to film the latest live DVD in 3D but was unable to make it work thanks to a series of snags.Second, this year's series of concerts will be the last of this scale.Third, the tour dates announced in 2009 "will likely be the last for the foreseeable future".It's hard to express how disa...
Met up with Katrina, her good friend Amanda, and Lizzie for VMFest yesterday at the Pilmico Race Course. The girls had spent the weekend up in Baltimore and surely have things to report from Saturday's musical outpourings, but I'll give a little recap of what we saw on Sunday. Of course the main reason for attendance was NIN. Katrina and Amanda are absolutely nuts for Trent, and I've seen the...
When Trent Reznor started a beef with Chris Cornell on his Twitter by saying Cornell’s new album Scream is so bad it makes him feel embarrassed, it seemed unlikely that Cornell would respond. We at TwentyFourBit weren’t even sure it was newsworthy,...
Trent Reznor recently posted on NIN.com that they will be playing a group of small shows in August to end out NIN. Originally, it was believed that Bonnaroo would be the bands last US performance, but it Reznor explained they wanted to end it with a set of intimate shows. Getting right to the point, [...]