Archives by Topic: Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails Get Disciplined
Nine Inch Nails fans who remember the days when we waited five years or so between NIN albums must be absolutely losing their shit right now. Over the course of the last five years, we’ve gotten With Teeth, Year Zero, Ghosts I-IV, a live DVD, and tour after tour. And now, Trent Reznor and company have released their latest single, “Discipline,” to radio, and to Internet fans the world over via their official Website. The chorus of the song features the line, “I need your discipline,” but, as longtime fan, I have to say to Mr. Reznor: “No you don’t!” Dude, if you were any more disciplined right now, you’d be Neidermeyer guest-starring in a Twisted Sister video.
Anyway, the single is “teh awesum,” as the kids say. Isn’t that what the kids say? Well, whatever it is the kids say nowadays to describe something wicked cool, that’s what this single is.
And perhaps it’s our first clue about what’s coming in two weeks.
Two Weeks Till NIN News
Trent Reznor has posted the cryptic message “2 weeks!” on nin.com for the second time this year. The last time he posted that message, it was two weeks before the impromptu release of the latest Nine Inch Nails record, Ghosts I-IV. What will come two weeks from now, on May 5? Another album? An update to the Website? Fans at Echoing the Sound are speculating even as I type this.
Me, I think the announcement will be that Hannah Montana really is opening for NIN this summer.
Geek Force FiveCast 011 (Video)
I took a break from prepping my classes for this week to geek out about the announcement of a three-hour Lost season finale and the arrival of my copy of the physical CD version of Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails.
Topics: Lost, Nine Inch Nails
Robin Finck Returns to Nine Inch Nails
If the official Nine Inch Nails Flickr stream is to be believed, guitarist Robin Finck has rejoined Nine Inch Nails. The Flickr peanut gallery seems to be very much behind this move. Me, I’m not loving it (yet). While I love Robin Finck, and while he will forever be a part of the “classic” NIN line-up in my mind, I think that the With Teeth-era line-up, the one featuring Aaron North and Jeordie White, put on far more entertaining and far more consistently solid shows than the Finck/Lohner line-up ever did. I challenge you to listen to In This Twilight (Live 2005-2007), the only Nine Inch Nails bootleg you simply need to own, and then tell me that the 2005-2007 version of Nine Inch Nails can ever be topped. These guys played songs like “Heresy” and “Last,” personal favorites of mine that older versions of the band seemed afraid to touch, and they pulled those songs off. They really did.
All that aside, you can be damn sure that I’m going to try my hardest to find the money and the time to see whatever version of the band is on the road this summer. They play the Worcester Centrum DCU Center on August 8. Anyone else going?
Y Kant Tori Read Comic Books?
Comic Book Resources has a new, vastly-improved layout today, as well as a story on a forthcoming comic book based on the music of Tori Amos. It sounds like it will be very interesting, and maybe even very good.
[Comic Book Tattoo] features no stories that simply illustrate her heavily narrative lyrics. “We didn’t want a book that just had interpretations of the songs; comic book versions of music videos,” Hoseley explained. “It was important to both Tori and I that this stand on its own as a killer set of comic stories regardless of whether you were a fan of Tori’s or, for that matter, if you were even aware of her music. The stories had to be great comic stories first and foremost, and that drove most of the creative and editorial choices.”
The “girls” that will be featured in the collection include “Leather,” “Caught A Light Sneeze,” and one of my personal favorites (yes, because of the backing vocals by Trent Reznor) “Past the Mission.”
It’s being put out by Image Comics and not Marvel, and so therefore doesn’t really fall under the umbrella of my Geek Force Five, but I’m going to file this one under Marvel Comics anyway, just because I can, and because it makes more sense there than under Geek Force Reserves.
Topics: Nine Inch Nails, Marvel Comics
