Tag: TRENTREZNOR

"In the age of over-sharing and hyper-real versions of people presenting and representing themselves on the Web," says Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, "that if as many people really listened to Joy Division as list them on their Facebook page, Joy Division would be bigger than U2." The goth god has been making headlines recently for his critically acclaimed soundtrack to David Fincher's ...

The beginning of David Fincher's masterpiece 'Se7en' is bleak and haunting, one of the most memorable moments in the film. It not only lays the thematic groundwork for the rest of the movie, but, at the time of its release, changed the way credit sequences could be created. The grinding, gritty music trudging through the background is a lesser-known edit of Nine Inch Nails' mega-hit "Closer" ...

Share For over two months, music bloggers and journalists have been plagued by an intricate, creepy and riveting mystery: the identity of the mysterious and macabre iamamiwhoami. In December, a 55-second clip of a hyper-saturated, eerie (Scandinavian?) forest appeared on YouTube, making its way through critics' circles because of its catchy, pretty sounding music. No information was given, ...

Trent Reznor, the man behind industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails (NIN), is no straggler when it comes to embracing the Internet-age. Way back in 2007, months before Radiohead offered its album 'In Rainbows' for free via download, Trent straight-up told fans at a show in Australia to steal music via peer-to-peer sites. Several months later, in 2008, he gave away the first part of NIN's four-part ...

Some musicians have criticized Twitter for being the "highest form of narcissism," but, over the last few weeks, Twitter users have given thousands of reasons to prove that the microblogging community will overwhelmingly come to the aid of others. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, with the help of the band Jane's Addiction, has managed to raise $850,000, thanks in part to Twitter, for a fan in ...

Trent Reznor and his conspirators in Nine Inch Nails are hard at work trying to destroy the music industry as we know it. Following a year in which Reznor told his fans to steal his music and then produced an album for Saul Williams that he gave away for free, the dark Prince (as in Prince, the artist, not Satan) has cobbled together a new album of material and is offering the first installment ...

With the successful release of Radiohead's 7th album, 'In Rainbows,' today, an experiment in treating fans like fans and not just empty-headed money dispensers has begun. We thought we'd take a look at the other artists going the label-free route. British pop rock stars and Beatles worshipers Oasis recently parted ways with their record label. The band has already announced that their next ...

Perennial geek idol and gloomy music star Trent Reznor is not making any friends at his record label, Universal Media Group (UMG). At a concert Sunday night in Sydney, Reznor let loose on the music industry. Commenting on the fact that CD prices had not dropped after an outburst in May (see below), he asked, "Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means - STEAL IT. ...