Nine Inch Nails New Album 'Strobe Light' Produced by Timbaland

Leave it Trent Reznor to push his evolving musical aesthetic in ever-more daring and innovative directions. Reznor announced the release of a brand new Nine Inch Nails album, Strobe Light, on Wednesday —...

Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails 2009 Tour Dates and Tickets

As NowPublic previously reported, a newly reformed Jane's Addiction will be performing alongside Trent Reznor's soon-to-be-on-hiatus band Nine Inch Nails for the first time since 1991. The two bands will perform an initial string of dates beginning May 8th in West Palm Beach,...

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...

Bonnaroo 2009 Festival Lineup: Springsteen, Phish, Beasties Boys

UPDATE: February 3rd | 08:14am PST -- It's official: the 2009 Bonnaroo lineup has officially been released and it's not quite what the leaked 'fake' version anticipated! This year's festival will feature performances...

Trent Reznor's 'Free' Album Becomes Amazon's Bestseller of 2008

In a surprising turn from free downloaders into paying customers, Trent Reznor's loyal fans helped the latest Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV, to become Amazon's top selling-album of 2008. The much-hype album...

Trent Reznor Rumoured to Retire From Music

After trying to beat Radiohead at their own 'reinventing the music industry' game earlier this year, Trent Reznor has built up some understandable frustrations with the biz.Now the Nine Inch Nails frontman is...

Nine Inch Nails Gives Away Another Free Album

In recognition of his fans' support of Nine Inch Nails -- and their recent payment-optional release Ghosts -- Trent Reznor is giving another new NIN album away totally free starting today. Get your industrial...

Radiohead vs. NIN: User-Gen Battle Royale

[cue booming, monster truck madness-style announcer's voice]Welcome to Fan-demonium, where fans of bands can play to win!Two bands enter... One band leaves......with a winning, user-generated, free music...

Trent Reznor is Going Visual with His New Album "Ghosts" and He Wants Your Id...

Trent Reznor of NIN has announced today that he's going to expand his brand new album "Ghosts I-IV" into the visual arts world. The plan, he has joined with YouTube and will host a virtual “film festival”...

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...

Nails Tapping into Radiohead Model for Music Distribution

As Radiohead went, so goes Nine Inch Nails. And NIN is going one better, by allowing users to mashup their tracks, at least for non-commercial use. Out in the world there is a ten year-old nascent musician who will mess around with computers, music, and mashups, post his or...

TVT Record Label Files for Bankruptcy

I thought the days of Big Bad Record Companies messing with the lives of artists on their roster were over. Apparently not. Oh right, it was the days when record companies were able to earn a profit. To quote Lil...

The begin of the end of the big music publishers

Nine Inch Nails went independent."as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently...

Queens of the Stone Age leak Era Vulgaris track

In an effort to promote their new album, Era Vulgaris, Queens of the Stone Age have released a track entitled "Era Vulgaris" to a lucky few fans to be distributed around the internet. The track was originally...

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