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The New York Times has a interview/overview of Trent Reznor today. In it he shares his thoughts on the state of digital music:
Mr. Reznor has no global solution for how to sustain a long-term career as a recording musician, much less start one, when listeners take free digital music for granted.
“It’s all out there,” he [...]

 

Trent Reznor today announced another free music download, the line up for his touring band and took the opportunity to trash Windows along the way:
I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We’ve added, we’ve subtracted and we’ve wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I’ve [...]

 

NPR’s World Cafe has a great interview with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor about Ghosts I-IV.
Trent Reznor left his major record label to self-release Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV. A week after its release, his Web site reported more than 750,000 purchases and downloads. In this interview, Reznor talks with host David Dye about his [...]

 

The 2 CD version of Ghosts I - IV is out now in the UK, Australia, Canada and the US.
Other release dates are as follows:

Benelux: 4/11
Scandinavia: 4/14
Poland: 4/14
Germany: 4/18
Italy: 4/18

If you ordered from nin.com:

The standard CD is shipping today.

The Deluxe Package:

Pre orders made on or before 4/6 will ship 5/1
Pre orders made 4/7 or later [...]

 

What do you think - is this or is this not just about the hottest gear porn video ever?
via NIN

 

CNet has an interesting interview with Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor on his recent experiment with Saul Williams’ debut CD, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust.
Reznor and Williams made NiggyTardust available as a free download, but also let you purchase a higher-quality version for a nominal fee. In the interview, Reznor talks about his [...]

 

You may remember a story from last month, Nine Inch Nails F***’s Major Labels Like An Animal, when Nine Inch Nails announced at its site that it is going forward without a major-label contract.
Well, what comes around goes around.
Nine Inch Nails has been planning for a long time to try an interesting experiment with their [...]

 

New York Magazine has an interesting interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. While the focus is on Reznor’s collaboration with Saul Williams, Reznor also cuts loose on the state of the music industry.
“It’s just an awkward time right now to be a musician,” says Reznor. “The reality is that people think it’s okay [...]

 

Grammy-nominated musician Moby joined with Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, to demand that Congress reject upcoming legislation that could allow AT&T, Verizon, and other telecommunications giants to take over the Internet.
“If Congress guts Net Neutrality, independent music and news sites would be choked off, consumer [...]