Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction to Tour Together in 2009

It's like Lollapalooza '91 all over again: Nine Inch Nails and a reunited Jane's Addiction will head out on a world tour together later this year, according to NIN's Trent Reznor. No tour dates have been announced...

Charles Manson releases free album online: scared?

If anyone has the guts to listen to the album--I'm sworn off sociopathic music--please review it in a comment below." Well, Charlie don't surf, but he does pay attention to modern trends. Convicted mass...

Who's the Indy-est? Reznor vs. Radiohead

Wired has a great comparison of what two industry breakers have taught us about the future of music distribution."Reznor vs. Radiohead: Innovation SmackdownBy Eliot Van Buskirk Email 03.27.08 | 12:00...

Reznor: Radiohead Offering was Insincere, Industry is Inept

Trent Reznor is blasting Radiohead and the music industry for their apparent failed online distribution attempts. While Radiohead hasn't released any numbers, they've stated they made more money on their online...

NIN: New Album Pulls In $1.6M In First Week

As we reported last week, Trent Reznor's mixed price point distribution model for the latest NIN album has been paying off in spades. Initial estimates put the first few days of sales at $750,000.Now that dollar...

Trent Reznor makes $750k by giving music away

Is this a viable new model for selling music? Post a few freebies, circulate some cheap digital tunes, and then offer an ultra-mega-super-uber-deluxe package for a few hundred a piece. Where it failed for Niggy...

Can Artists Be Labels? Reznor, Radiohead, and the Mass Market

While artists rail against exploitative labels, those labels do fulfill a role in the entertainment-biz ecosystem: basically, everything other than actually recording and performing the music. However, thigs are...

Nine Inch Nails Goes Deep with Marketing Campaign

Trent Reznor, the brains behind Nine Inch Nails, is utilizing the interactive nature of the web to challenge his fans to piece together his concept album. Brilliant. Can marketing work as a game? Only if it works! "Trent Reznor could have just given a few interviews to...

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