Nine Inch Nails

Nearly All the Big Acts Playing Lollapalooza 2013 Have Played Lollapalooza Before

Thanks to Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune, Lollapalooza's headliners have been revealed, and it appears that Perry Farrell & Co. are dipping into the past few years of the Chicago-based festival's lineup history for a little inspiration. Mumford & Sons, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, and the Killers have ... More >>

The Naked and Famous

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 10: will.i.am Featuring Mick Jagger And Jennifer Lopez, "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)"

​The Song: will.i.am feat. Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez, "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)" The Crimes: Overhashtagging, sub-"Dancing In The Streets" incoherence from Jagger, using "feces" as a term of braggadocio. Sometimes I feel bad for the music industry, which has had a rough go of it these ... More >>

Happy Halloween: 7 Scary Movies With Pretty Good Soundtracks

​ It's almost Halloween, and if you're like me, you've been spending your free time watching scary movies and thinking up costume ideas. These sorts of movies are usually known for blood, boobs, and bad jokes, but the music that accompanies them is important, too. For instance, high-pitched s ... More >>

TWEET YR IDOLS

A look at fandom in the 21st century

Tonight: Smart People Read About Music In Brooklyn And Manhattan

​Tonight is a fine night for staying indoors and listening to people chat about music, and New York has two fine options: Friend of SotC Daphne Carr is throwing a party for her 33 1/3 series entry on Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine at The Sackett (661 Sackett Street, Brooklyn); there will ... More >>

Reba McEntire Sings Beyoncé and 5 Other Cross-Genre Covers Done in Earnest

Reba McEntire's new album, All the Women I Am, features a spirited rendition of Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy," which you can hear above, and which got us thinking again about the tricky nature of cross-genre cover songs. McEntire remains true to the song's melody, save the addition of her country tw ... More >>

Listen: Nine Inch Nails' Stupendous Cover Of Queen's "Get Down, Make Love"

​The news that Trent Reznor is readying a personally approved remaster of Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut Pretty Hate Machine (and promising "a greatly improved sonic experience") is excellent news in the event you haven't bought that record like five times already, particularly due to the new pac ... More >>

The Downward Spiral of TVT Records

How the ambitious NYC indie nearly brought artists from Ambulance LTD to Lil Jon down with it

Download: Yvette, "With Fangs"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Yvette are the hard-edged, ultraviolent, spooktacular response to years of the fluttery squish of Animal Collective and HEALTH. Built on the barely legible guitars of Noah Kardos-Fein and the heavil ... More >>

Live: Rihanna Drops By Hammerstein Ballroom

Like I said, silver and pantless. CREDIT​Rihanna Hammerstein Ballroom Thursday, December 3 Rihanna these days is basically carrying on as though she's fronting Nine Inch Nails. And who can blame her. Navigate a truly chaotic, hey-quit-pushing scene outside the Hammerstein (a free show, you se ... More >>

Trent Reznor Marries Celebrity Nude

​NIN doomboy Trent Reznor has had an epic year. Having allegedly retired from the game in August, he got married this Saturday to Mariqueen Maandig -- or, as she is now known on Facebook, Mariqueen Maandig Reznor -- former singer for West Indian Girl and Playboy model (photos here). The nup ... More >>

Live: Owl City (And Taylor Swift!!!!!!!) Hold Dance Party At Bowery Ballroom

​Owl City Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, September 16 Yep, America's Kanye-Addled Sweetheart herself, holding court in the balcony as the giggly teenage masses below fired up their digital cameras and Death Cab for Cutie blared over the PA, which is fairly brazen, considering that Owl City, a/k/ ... More >>

Thursday

Listen: Nine Inch Nails Say Farewell to New York, Terminal 5

Tina Chou​The inimitable nyctaper was standing directly in front of the soundboard at Terminal 5 for Nine Inch Nails' final night in New York, which means the absolutely bonkers and overheated crowd can be heard on the recording he brought back with the same clarity as Reznor's own fierce and ... More >>

Week in Review: More Topless Women Than Non-Topless Women

photo from Girl Talk's Pool Party show by Sam Horine But seriously, this was a really depressing week. We said goodbye to Teddy Kennedy through song and so did Orrin Hatch. Ellie Greenwich, the woman who wrote "Be My Baby" also passed, as did 29 year old New York DJ Josh Link. Speaking of death, M ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Nine Inch Nails, Warp Records, Rock-Star Lit, Whit Stillman, The September Issue, and More

Tina ChouTrent Reznor says hi​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla is live from Nine Inch Nails' retirement party at Webster Hall: "And then, our stick-figure arms raised ironically heavenward, our fingers clenched into tight, bone-snapping balls of cartoonish fury, we all scream, 'FIST ... More >>

Live From Nine Inch Nails' Retirement Party

In praise of Trent Reznor, the nihilist-turned-populist, waving goodbye

Nine Inch Nails+the Horrors

News Roundup: Nine Inch Nails, Peter King, Beck, Online Radio

-- After abruptly announcing that Nine Inch Nails's appearance at Bonnaroo last month would be the band's last US show ever, Trent Reznor has decided to let fans down a little slower. NIN will play a series of holy-shit-they're-playing-there club shows later this summer to mark the band's supposed f ... More >>

Jane's Addiction's Relapse

With everyone (finally) on board, one of the last great rock bands rides again

News Roundup: Trent Reznor, Eminem, M.I.A., Pearl Jam

--Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails+Jane's Addiction

Nine Inch Nails Turns Where the Wild Things Are Trailer Into Troll

Further evidence that Arcade Fire remain the best band in the universe for turning a sleepover jam into a Martin Scorsese resurrection tale: a remix swapping Nine Inch Nails' "Just Like You Imagined" in place of "Wake Up." Backed by to Win and Régine, Where the Wild Things Are is a joyous, life- ... More >>

IN THE GROOVE

Excepter and pals welcome spring

Nine Inch Nails and Dillinger Escape Plan Tear Down "Wish"

NIN: Wish live with Ben & Greg from The Dillinger Escape Plan - Adelaide, 2.28.09 [HD] from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo. Can't quite locate a moment in my own biography where this combination would've moved me (I was, uh, way done with one before I made it to the other)--unless it's right now, maybe? ... More >>

SEEK THE LIGHT

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Photos from the 2008 Virgin Mobile Festival

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 37

Nine Inch Nails' The Slip: A First Impression

Tonight and Tomorrow: Ministry Give Their Fans One Final Pummeling

Thursday 05/01

RAISING HELL

Ministry give their fans one final pummeling

Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV

Trent makes a middling ambient record. So can you, incidentally.

The Year's Best Music Videos

Remixes From the Masses

Trent Reznor embraces populism, and another great NIN remix album is born

Live: Blonde Redhead Vs. Machines

Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero: First Impressions

A Not-Going-to-SXSW Playlist

SNL Narnia-Rap Skit: Better Than Actual Rap?

Nine Inch Nails Take Credit for Paris Riots

Alien Game's Truth Is Way Out There; Old Skool Phone Fun

Thrill Kill Cult

Heard It on the X

There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face

The Lesbian Cock

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Sodalite

Sleepwalking, sleepdancing

A Tree Grows In Dunsinane