Archives by Tag: Nine Inch Nails
Worth Your Consideration 013 - A GF5 Linkdump
- The official Website for Nine Inch Nails is getting updated far more frequently these days, now that the band is on tour again. Only trouble is: there is no official archive of the front-page articles that are coming fast and furious. Enter the NIN Blog & Media Archive. It is simply a must-bookmark for any serious Nine Inch Nails fan.
- In other NIN news, Rolling Stone has a full set-list from and a nice write-up of the private rehearsal show I mentioned last Thursday. The setlist that Rolling Stone has up says that the Ghosts songs played were 1, 25, 19, and 31.
- DarkUFO, Ain’t It Cool News, and the Lostpedia Blog have write-ups of the Lost panel held at the San Diego Comic-Con. Among the many teases provided by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse was a tidbit about the apparently ageless Richard Alpert. It turns out that the number of toes on Richard’s feet may have some significance. You do remember the statue with four toes at the end of season 2, right? There was also a new Marvin Candle/Mark Wickmund/Edgar Halliwax video shown, which was available on YouTube for a short while. That was really interesting, and I encourage you to check it out if you can find it. Apparently, Marvin/Mark/Edgar is actually a guy named Pierre Cheng. And he seems to have a bit of knowledge about his future that maybe he shouldn’t have.
- Also at Comic-Con: the one and only Kevin Smith. Kev was there pimping a bunch of things, but primarily his upcoming film Zack and Miri Make a Porno. News Askew has you covered on that front. The thing that piqued my interest the most was that the clip shown at the convention featured Justin “I’m a Mac” Long and Brandon “I’m Superman” Routh as a gay couple. The casting news on this just keeps getting better, doesn’t it?
- Lastly, AICN gets its second mention in today’s linkdump for providing the trailer to Oliver Stone’s George Bush biopic W. The accents don’t seem right, but the casting seems superb.
Topics: Lost, View Askew, Nine Inch Nails, Geekforce Reserves
Nine Inch Nails Begin Touring North America on Friday
It used to be that, if you were a Nine Inch Nails fan, you were waiting for new NIN more than you experiencing new NIN. There would be five years between albums, maybe more. And the wait was excruciating, because you knew how awesome the next experience was going to be, but you also knew that it might not happen for a very long time.
That’s changed in the past three years. In 2005, we got With Teeth, which was followed by one tour, after another, after another. Then, in February of 2007, we got a live video of the With Teeth-era line-up called Beside You in Time. A few months after that, in April 2007, we got Year Zero, another full-length album. Not even a year after that, in March 2008, we got Ghosts I-IV, a thirty-six song instrumental masterpiece. And, most recently, back in May, we got The Slip, yet another full-length album, and a free one at that (a not-free physical release came out this week).
If the middle of this decade has been a great time to be a Boston sports fan (it has), then it has been an amazing time to be a Nine Inch Nails fan. And here’s the really awesome thing: it’s only going to get better.
Trent Reznor and company begin their North American tour in British Columbia tomorrow night, a tour which will bring them through New England for at least two dates that I’m aware of, one of which I believe I have a ticket to. And, after reading accounts of a recent private show in L.A., I am exceptionally pumped about that. It sounds like they’re planning on doing a solid mix of classics and new songs, and it appears as if the same improvisational spirit which brought us the undeniably cool “Closer/The Only Time” mash-up on the last tour is still in full effect. A performance of “25 Ghosts III” was said to have included a significant jam, for instance.
Good times.
Trent Reznor On Keeping His Private Life Private
Imhotep has an interview with Trent Reznor. In the piece, we get to hear Trent talk about the second part of Year Zero, the difference in his writing process for With Teeth versus the process used to compose the more recent albums, and, most interestingly to me, why he has made a conscious decision to keep his private life private:
I don’t really want my fans to see me. What I’ve tried to do in the media is not to let my personality get in the way of the music. In a way, that creates its own aura. Today with the Internet and MTV it is easy to reach out and overexpose yourself to people, and I don’t mean like I was embarrassed about myself, but when you listen to a Nine Inch Nails record, I don’t want you to know what I look like, I want you to create your own version about the record.
As I’ve written in my Oeuvre Blog entries, I’ve always been a listener more concerned with answering the question “How does this lyric apply to my own life, to my own experience?” than most. And I suppose my obsession with Nine Inch Nails has a lot to do with the fact that I don’t think about Trent Reznor when I’m listening to the music. I think about me, and about the lyrics, and about whether or not I’m going to break something as I dance around my house like a maniac.
Worth Your Consideration 006 - A GF5 Linkdump
- Nine Inch Nails and Pitchfork.tv have followed up on Monday’s posting of the rehearsal of “1,000,000” with two more clips of tour rehearsal footage, one for “Letting You” and a second for “Echoplex”. These clips further solidify the fact that I am an idiot for not having a ticket to see NIN on this tour yet. Good grief, this new line-up is good!
- In other NIN news, check out the picture above for a sneak peek at how the band is using Google Earth to enhance the tour experience this time around, and check out the notes on the photo on Flickr for a more details. It almost makes me want to download Google Earth. Almost. (Why can’t that program run in a browser yet?)
- And, lastly, in non-NIN news, and on a much more somber note, please do read Kevin Smith’s thoughts on George Carlin’s passing, which show just how much the filmmaker admired the late comic and his work.
Topics: View Askew, Nine Inch Nails
NIN 2008 Rehearsal Footage (Video)
Pitchfork.tv has “the first of three exclusive videos filmed during rehearsals for [Nine Inch Nails’] upcoming tour” and it’s a doozy. The band performs the song “1,000,000” (embedded above) and they really tear through the thing. A while back, I worried about Robin Finck rejoining the band but the dude has totally shut me up.
Of course, this just makes me that much sadder that I don’t have a ticket to either one of the band’s shows in the area (August 7 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT; and August 8 at DCU Center in Worcester, MA). But, hey, I’ve still got time to sell a kidney, right?
