Ok, quickie, did you tough that NIN's latest single had a Meathead <-> disco dancing vibe to it? -Well, they seem to agree. Trent posted this wonderful fan art and called it the official video!
Enjoy you guys. I'm going to the beach. (more on this later)
08 october 2007: big news
hello everyone. i've waited a long time to be able to make the
following announcement: as of right now nine inch nails is a totally
free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. i have
been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the
business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very
different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a
direct relationship with the audience as i see fit and appropriate.
look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008.
exciting times, indeed.
posted by trent reznor at 10:45 am.
"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 couple of examples that quickly come to mind:
* The ABSURD retail pricing of Year Zero in Australia. Shame on you, UMG. Year Zero is selling for $34.99 Australian dollars ($29.10 US). No wonder people steal music. Avril Lavigne's record in the same store was $21.99 ($18.21 US).
By the way, when I asked a label rep about this his response was: "It's because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out - you know, true fans. It's the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy."
So... I guess as a reward for being a "true fan" you get ripped off.
* The dreaded EURO Maxi-single. Nothing but a consumer rip-off that I've been talked into my whole career. No more.
The point is, I am trying my best to make sure the music and items NIN puts in the marketplace have value, substance and are worth you considering purchasing. I am not allowing Capital G to be repackaged into several configurations that result in you getting ripped off.
We are planning a full-length remix collection of substance that will be announced soon."
Year Zero, Nine Inch Nails new album was officially released today. And a few more surprises came with it.
After hearing it on repeat for about 3 hours, when i finally removed the cd from my macbook, the CD had turned from grayish into white revealing some binary code that (after some googling) "I" discovered could be translated to a link to another secret site!
And i though that it was just my macbook going _Extra_ hot this time!!
This is the beginning....
Nine Inch Nails made their _entire_ album available on their website!
Even the almighty RIAA can't stop them now
Art is resistance!
Nine Inch Nails, confirming their status as the Greatest Band in the World (for their fans at least) has just posted the multi-track files for survivalism in garageband format.
Just download listen and remix for fun! No strings attached. Just the ~100 mb download.
Better yet, according to their site, and i quote :
"We plan to release every track on the album this way over the next few months..."
The Wow (sic) is here.
My favortie band is doing the geekiest promo thing to promote their upcoming album!
The plot is somewhat reminiscent of Blair Witch Project's, wich if you remeber, included TV reportings of some missing students, an audio tape found in one of the boys car and even a book with all the case documents (including interrogation transcripts and all) just before the movie was revealed. And even them some people refused to accept that it was just good publicity and some acting talent.
It started with a hidden message in the new tour t-shirts..
(can you see it?? hint: look for what seems out of place)
...that lead people to a strange web site and from there on to a series of strange web sites that can be found if if follow the recursive leads found in each one of them.
Just yesterday a story popped up all over the net (well, the right places to look for a sory like this, that is) about a lost USB thumbdrive "lost" in a bathroom after the last concert in Portugal where an mp3 file (My Violent Heart - great song!!!) was found and made it to the net. Now it gets funny... if you play the file and use a spectrographic visualization plugin (i used this one (for itunes on mac) ) you will see something like this...
(the presence!!!!)
Follow the white rabbit down this link for the full story so far.
By the way, there are some hidden images in the new album mini site. Can you find those?
Photo credits: Found all over the net, really.
This was a _GREAT_ weekend!
Nine Inch Nails were here in Lisbon for 3 nights in a row, playing at the "Coliseu", one of the best concert halls in Portugal.
I was luky enough to go to both the first and the last of the three concerts and all i can say is UAUUUUU!!!!! (and this is me being reasonably distant so i can make a serious review....)
Day 1 (February 10, 2006)
The show started with The Popo heating up the room with a competent yet somewhat boring display of atari-teenage-riotesque furios beat and rage-against-the-machine-like lyrics. They might be giants in the future, but right now they just make a good enough proof of concept.
Being the first shows of the upcoming tour, and after 7 months off stage (more one this one another post) I expected NIN to be somewhat rusty and the first (shocking) image of how fat Trent was has he entered the stage led me to believe I was going to see a decadent display of vulgarity from a former star. Images of Axel Rose at Rock in Rio were going trough my mind and they were not pleasent as you might remeber if you saw that show.
But boy, was i wrong!!
The scenario was set with over 3.000 people (ok, its just a guess) dressed in the same black that taint their souls, as lost as Ian Curtis' , screaming Trent's name.
By the end of "Terrible Lie",the lights on stage went out and this was when i realised NIN where in town for business. What might have been the only moment where something was not planned, Trent took things into his hands and shouted "We're not here to fuck around. Turn the house light on and we'll keep playing". And they did. They played "March of the Pigs" on a pit black stage. Wow.
An hour and a half of angry dark feelings and emotions, soud waves coming from a place close to the hell where the lyrics to "Hurt" were first bled, the show remarkably orchestrated by Trent and his acolytes, ended leaving a (still) full room expecting and in extasy.
There was no encore. But there were two more shows to play.
My rating : 18 out of 20
Playlist:
Mr. Self Distruct
Last
Terrible Lies
March Of The Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
The Line Begins to Blur
Closer
Burn
Wish
Help Me I'm In Hell
Eraser
La Mer
Into The Void
No You Don't
Only
You Know What You Are
Hurt
Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Hole
Day 2 (February 12, 2006)
Well this was a very special show for me for several reasons, namely:
I had my girlfrind there with me
I wasn't so hesterical to see NIN, because after all I had seen them just 48 hours earlier
It was the first concert in a more civilized Portugal
The Popo were no surprise. They played the same songs (probably the only ones they know how to...) or at least they all sounded pretty much the same. No surprises here.
As for the NIN show... Well, i never tought they would give so much for Portugal. I mean, it was the third night in a row and they played louder, more intensely that in the first day!
On a side note, I had went to the oficial site earlier that day and there was a visual reference thare to their shows in Lisbon. That felt great!
(screen capture of the nin.com front page on monday)
Back to the show now. They played the whole set with the stage lights out, using instead a light show that included strobs and other parafernalia that I can't really name.
That light game provided an even better ambiance to the show, which by itself proved even more intense, more powerfull than the first.
To my great surprise they even played a cover from Adam Ant (get down, make love) wich is a hidden track on the Burn EP.
I just love that song, and their version gives it an extra something.
Again, in under two hours of screaming, crazy feedback ridden riffs Nine Inch Nails proved to be in great shape, no matter how fat or old Trent looks right now. I bet that at this rate by the end of March he'll be back to his old fantastic shape. I just hope he can hold it together and stay clean. At least I could have sworn he was sober for the entire show.
If you missed it, do your best to see them during this tour. You will never regret it
My Rating: 20 out of 20
Playlist:
Pinion
Love Is Not Enough
Sin
Terrible Lie
March Of The Pigs
The Line Begins To Blur
Closer
Reptile
Deep
No You Don't
Even Deeper
Help Me I'm In Hell
Eraser
Fragile
All That Could Have Been
Into The Void
Wish
Make Love (Adam Ant cover!!!)
Down In It
Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Hole
Image credits:
All the images in this post are from the NIN official site and are here because I think I can use them. If you know diferent, please let me know.
