Nine Inch Nails
Joystiq has an excellent interview with independent noise harnessers, Trent Reznor and Rob Sheridan, of Nine Inch Nails fame. Unlikely guests for the ’stiq until they begin reminiscing about their Pong roots and flame-baiting the PS3 and Xbox 360 faithful. They also hint at near-term plans to develop “some entertainment-based video game-type stuff” while lambasting [...]
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HEALTH and Pictureplane make for logical tour partners. They’re Lovepump labelmates, and bands to watch, and they both find creative ways to fuck with their love for making people dance. (Or at least, move.) They kicked off a month of shows together at the Troubadour in Los Angeles the other night, with Dam Funk and [...]
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On the eve of a pair of Los Angeles shows in support of Nine Inch Nails, recently remixed noise-rockers HEALTH have released a self-directed video for Get Color standout “Die Slow.” (It just dawned on me: The song opens with the staccato feel of Big Black rewritten for synthesizer before it transitions into dark-wave territory.) [...]
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Bad news for ticketholding NIN fans: Trent’s sick, and tonight’s show at Henry Fonda has been canceled. No big deal, they can always just come back and … oh right. Sorry, Los Angeles. The good news is, overall, this NIN Wave Goodbye tour has been so spectacular that one can only wonder how Reznor can [...]
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Nine Inch Nails waved goodbye to New York this week with gigs at Bowery, Webster (featuring The Downward Spiral in its entirety), and Terminal 5 (featuring Peter Murphy). Chicago, Toronto, and LA are on deck, and then it’s an “indefinite hiatus” for NIN while Trent focuses on QAing Android apps or something. One thing’s clear, [...]
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