Trent Reznor

Darkness Descends

A couple of new wave acolytes dig up some dusky sounds

Fall Guide 2012: Books

Q&A: Stephin Merritt On His Favorite Gear, His Reasons For The No-Synth Trilogy, And Being Scooped By Trent Reznor

The Magnetic Fields' new album Love At The Bottom Of The Sea (Merge) is the first in more than a decade to feature the shimmering synthesizer lines for which the endlessly malleable indiepop icons first became known. As I learned when writing this week's Voice profile of Magnetic Fields songwriter S ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: February 1-7, 2012

St. Vincent

Staten Island's PS22 Chorus Were The Only Remotely Competent Performers At The Oscars

Oh my dogg, the Oscars were terrible this year: Anyone who is not Trent Reznor, Randy Newman, or Cate Blanchett ("That's gross") is invited to take a seat. The only other entity that came out ahead: Staten Island's own PS22 Chorus, taking a break from prettying up tunes from Katy Perry, MGMT, Arie ... 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 >>

Top Ten Songs Named "Fuck You" Or The Immediate Equivalent

​On Friday Cee-Lo debuted a delightful new song with the simplest, most uncouth title possible: "Fuck You." It immediately joined the upper echelons of a surprisingly crowded genre -- from 50 Cent to Pharoahe Monch, the Avengers to Pussy Galore, Lil Kim to Atmosphere, there are lots of songs n ... More >>

Download: El-P, "Whores: The Movie"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Since the release of his critically acclaimed second record, 2007's I'll Sleep When Your Dead, all eyes have been on producer El-P, the tornado-culling Brooklyn naysayer whose creative displays of p ... More >>

Four Books, Three Films, and a Rotten Yorkshire in Red Riding Trilogy

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 >>

Saul Williams

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

This Week in the Voice

​Mark Farese "stole $150 from his grandfather to buy his first pair" of premium athletic shoes, specializing in the Air Force 1 variety. Now he has 1,400 pairs, and Nike sends him advance copies of new models. He is the Mayor of the fascinating world of sneakerdom, where pre-teens and grown-up ... More >>

Rampant Speculation: Nine Inch Nails to Play Both Discs of The Fragile Front-to-Back at Those Two Terminal 5 Shows

Yeah, their lighting scheme is that dark, except when it isn't. They will probably not play The Fragile in its entirety. OK, definitely not. But it's all NIN all the time in NYC right now -- as the Internet has probably already informed you, they did The Downward Spiral front-to-back at Webster ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails+the Horrors

TV Creatives Hungry for Emmy Respect Disrupt, Ruin Image of Twitter

​What kind of people use Twitter? Horrible celebrities, political obsessives -- and, it now appears, people who actually care that the Emmys changed their broadcast so that eight of the awards will not be presented live. The affected categories are (deep breath) best drama-series writing, bes ... More >>

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 >>

New York State, U.S. Governments Honor Trent Reznor for Helping Sick, Uninsured Man

While the state senate isn't getting much done, at least some state officials doing their jobs, including writing letters of commendation to Trent Reznor. The Nine Inch Nails auteur has been very active in the fight to get relief for 27-year-old severe cardiomyopathy sufferer Eric De La Cruz of Ne ... More >>

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 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 >>

Eva Mendes' Underwear Scene and Madonna's Strap-On!

And inside the women in Towelhead. Plus Rockwell paints a fucked-up Casanova.

Recommended: Nine Inch Nails at the Izod Center

FRESH RAGE

Trent Reznor rides his pretty hate machine to Jersey

Nine Inch Nails' The Slip: A First Impression

Yet More New, Free Music from Nine Inch Nails

BROTHAS & DRAGONS

Rappin’ and rockin’, NYC-style

Wednesday

The Quarterly Report: Best Albums of 2008 Thus Far

Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV

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

Download: TVT Records, 1985-2008

Remixes From the Masses

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

Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero: First Impressions

No Sleep for Brooklyn

Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns, as bombastically bleak as ever

Teutonic Techno Terror Dives Drunk, Yells at Schmucks, Flashes Bird and Butt

Horoscope

Lightwave Darkwaver Sticks Mostly to the Monotone He Knows Best

Play It to the Bone

Shadow of the thin man: Bale's method madness and goth-grunge ambience yield net loss

G-Spot

A new Village Italian bistro masquerades as a gastropub

Siren Wailing

Come on Back Eileen

Boy Toys

Age of Discovery

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Mammals on TV Do It

Worth 1000 Words (and Here’s 300)

Letters

All's Well That Ends Well

Much Ado About Nothing Records

Auf Wiedersehen

Nothing's Shocking

Who's Beautiful Now?