saul williams' niggy tardust is 'really good™'. that's officially my rating. 4/5 stars, something like that. you should know that means i like it enough that i'm going to have it on incessant repeat on my stereo, my mp3 player, my mind, for the rest of the week and then some. it's right up there with NIN's with_teeth and year-zero, and a step/giant ( Read more... )

some people have been compared year-zero to El-P. I happened across El-P's newest release playing on the listening booth at Kim's video and gave it a whirl. Not bad, although I don't really see the comparison to year-zero ( Read more... )

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Nothing particularly new here, but here's a repost of what I wrote on a NIN fan board

( My real criticism is that the political content seems too shallow for my taste. Sometimes TR overcomes this by leaving the speakers of a song unnamed... But beyond punning on who the speaker of a song's ideology is, the ideologies themselves seem rather flat and shallow... To put it differently, Trent could be a truly great songwriter, as opposed to 'just' a great songcrafter, if he studied the irony of a Dylan or Ani DiFranco a bit. )

NIN NIN's record company, Interscope is holding listening parties around the country for the new album, like they did for With_Teeth: http://yearzero.nin.com/listen/Read more... )

Appolgies for the bad CSS. LJ seems to strip 'position:absolute'. Intended layout was: http://shadowplay.homeunix.com/ubuntu/testabs.html
So impressed with all you do
Tried so hard to be like you
Flew too high and burnt the wing
Lost my faith in everything
So ( Read more... )

Video of Trent very seriously announcing the new single, and then playing it, Somewhere in Europe. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Nine Inch Nails knows how to make money without seeming like that's all they're after. When the 2005 album With_Teeth was released, the *whole album* was available to listen to on mySpace. Hordes of NIN fans went out and bought the album ( Read more... )

You can listen to two tracks: "survivalism" and "my violent heart", from the forthcoming Album _Year Zero_ on nin's myspace player. Release date is april 17th 2007. That's what, about four years early for a Trent Reznor production?

on [12_13_2006], Trent said:Is it possible I am actually finished writing and recording a new nine inch nails ( Read more... )

Who might want a single ticket to the 7/7 NIN/Bauhaus/Peaches show ( Read more... )