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Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and KORN Headline Louder Than Life Fest
Festivals are coming back in a big way. Events like Life Is Beautiful, Governors Ball, Outside Lands and Ohana Festival all announced lineups and are slated to return at the end of the summer and early fall and now, we can add Louder Than Life to this growing list. Metallica will play two nights – and two unique sets — along with Nine Inch Nails, KORN, Judas Priest, Snoop Dogg, Jane’s Addiction and more at Louisville-based festival on Sept. 23- 26. It takes place at the Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center. Also performing are Staind, Rise Against, Mudvayne, Cypress Hill, Machine Gun Kelly, Anthrax, Gojira, Ghostemane, Seether, Pennywise, Beartooth, The Distillers, Killswitch Engage and more. “‘Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting ov...
Nine Inch Nails to Return to Cleveland for Only Shows of 2021
For what appears to be their only scheduled shows for 2021, Nine Inch Nails will be returning to their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio for a pair of concerts on Sept. 21 and 23. The shows obviously mark the band’s first venture back to the city since they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year, and according to a post on their official Instagram, will be “the only NIN headline shows of 2021,” which seems to leave the door open for festival appearances and such. Tickets go on sale on May 14 at 10 am ET, and they’ll be bringing the Pixies along with them. Plus, the venue (Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica) is just a couple of miles from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and right next door to the aquarium, so you can really hit most of what Cleveland has to offer while i...
HEALTH Team With Nine Inch Nails For New Single, ‘ISN’T EVERYONE’
After a couple of days of teasing a new collaboration on social media, the Los Angeles noise rock darlings and caps lock connoisseurs in HEALTH finally released their new track with Nine Inch Nails, “ISN’T EVERYONE” (via Loma Vista Recordings). The track is also produced by the two bands and mixed by Trent Reznor’s go-to collaborator for winning major awards, Atticus Ross. The track is HEALTH’s first since October’s Disco 4 :: Part I collaboration collection, and feels like a more proper followup to 2019’s Vol. 4: Slaves of Fear. Of course, even though the genre-bending trio aren’t exactly unknown or “underground” in a lot of circles almost 14 years after they first broke on to the scene with “Crimewave,” they still seem pretty stoked to be working with such a legendary band...
Trent Reznor Says That New Nine Inch Nails Music Is Imminent
Good news for Nine Inch Nails fans. After a year of composing music, it seems like Trent Reznor is ready to write some new Nine Inch Nails songs. Moments after accepting the Oscar for Best Original Score for the film Soul at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, Reznor and Ross told reporters that “We [Nine Inch Nails] should be on tour but COVID has prevented that. We are planning on working on Nine Inch Nails material as soon as, probably tomorrow.” Joining his third collaborator, Late Show With Stephen Colbert bandleader Jon Batiste, backstage after the trio’s win, Reznor answered a reporter’s query about film work versus band work. Ten years ago, when we did The Social Network, which is the first film that we worked on, it was such a great experience. We just came out ...
The Most Influential Artists: #5 Nine Inch Nails
As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #5. From Cleveland, Ohio, here is Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails. CREDIT: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Long before Trent Reznor was sitting for thoughtful, lightly acerbic interviews, sitting in on Beats Music executive meetings and steadily amassing Academy Award nominations with Atticus Ross, he was an exceptionally angry young pop auteur. While Nine Inch Nails is a revolving door, Reznor is the door: a patient perfectionist who runs a tight ship, doesn’t suffer major label fools lightly and is largely responsible for legitimizing and popularizing industrial pop in the U.S. The bracing 1992 EP Broken is a conceptual work, recorded covertly, in agitation against Reznor...
Trent Reznor, Dua Lipa and The Killers Dig Deep in Song Exploder Season Two Trailer
The second season Song Exploder, the Netflix series based on the podcast of the same name, premieres globally on Dec. 15 and just dropped its first trailer. In it, one of the most powerful moments is when Trent Reznor is seen listening to the classic Nine Nails song “Hurt” and reflecting, “I felt alone. That’s me not knowing who I am anymore: I think I said ‘I’m sorry.’ Then it exploded unexpectedly.” In addition to Nine Inch Nails, the series features The Killers, Dua Lipa and Natalia Lafourcade. The lineup was initially announced in October. A deep dive into the “deeply personal” Killers hit “When You Were Young” reveals that “those first three chords awakened us,” while Lafourcade shares that to get beyond a block for “Hasta La Raíz” where “the music did fe...
The 35 Best Videos of the Last 35 Years
SPIN launched in the peak MTV era, when an innovative — or even just salacious — music video could make or break an artist. Thirty five years later, YouTube is an obligatory part of any promotional push, but no one’s counting on a mind-blowing clip to sell a record. (The views do often matter — just not always the creativity.) A sizable chunk of the best videos came out during the ‘90s alternative bloom, when directors like Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Hype Williams experimented with the style and substance of this malleable medium. But the format hasn’t died with MTV: artists like Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar and Miley Cyrus all made this list for a reason — and it wasn’t to meet a decade quota. Here are the top 35 from the last 35. Ready or not, here we go again. – Ryan Reed 3...
Trent Reznor Gives Nine Inch Nails’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Speech: ‘This Journey’s Far From Over’
Last night, Nine Inch Nails were one of six acts inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a two-hour virtual ceremony. Before bandleader Trent Reznor spoke on NIN’s inclusion of the class of 2020, Iggy Pop, Miley Cyrus, St. Vincent, and Saul Williams all praised the band for its innovative sound. During Reznor’s acceptance speech, he thanked Iggy, the fellow inductees, and NIN’s devoted fans. “Even now, music’s always been the thing that keeps me going, and, as an artist, I think the most significant accomplishment or feeling is realizing something you’ve created from a fragile and intimate place has reached out, resonated and affected someone else, possibly changing how they see the world. So as to whatever being in a hall of fame means, thank you for the recognition,” he said....
Nine Inch Nails Members Share Thoughts on Their 2020 Rock Hall Induction
The members of Nine Inch Nails, in separate statements on the band’s website, shared what their 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction means to each of them, although singer Trent Reznor did not participate in the group endeavor. Danny Lohner, who plays guitar, bass, and keyboards for the band live, stated “In 1993, while still in my early 20’s, I joined my favorite band – Nine Inch Nails. Now it’s 2020, I’m just a few months shy of 50 years old, and I’ve been given the surreal honor of joining Trent and the boys in their induction into the RnR Hall Of Fame. All these years later, I still can’t believe my luck….” The band’s Atticus Ross, in a lengthy statement, said in part that, “Trent remains the musician I most admire. Year after year we’ve toiled, unraveling life and music, whe...
St. Vincent Covers Nine Inch Nails to Honor NIN’s Rock Hall 2020 Induction
In honor of the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony happening this weekend, Amazon Music just released a special series of covers honoring this year’s class of inductees. St. Vincent and Jehnny Beth of Savages put their flair on Nine Inch Nails’ “Piggy” and “Closer” respectively. Eyelids took on Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” off 1990’s Violator, while Real Estate covered “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers. And while T. Rex was honored with a tribute album of covers this year, The Kills will be covering their iconic track, “Cosmic Dancer.” To honor the late Whitney Houston, Brandy will be covering one of the singer’s tracks, which will release in 2021. In other Amazon Music news, the service re-released The Birth of Biggie on the&nbs...
Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Dua Lipa to Feature on Latest Episodes of Netflix’s Song Exploder
The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Dua Lipa and Natalia Lafourcade are the artists tapped to take dives into specific, career-changing hits on Volume 2 of Netflix’s Song Exploder. The new season will premiere globally on Dec. 15, 2020. Trent Reznor will discuss his iconic Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt,” which has been famously covered by Johnny Cash and others. Reznor, an Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning composer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, wrote “Hurt” in 1994 and it’s the final track on NIN’s second studio album, The Downward Spiral. “I first interviewed Trent Reznor for a Nine Inch Nails episode of the podcast back in 2017, and afterward, as I was packing up my microphone and laptop, he asked me, ‘Have you ever thought about making this into a TV show?’” Song Exploder host and...
Dave Grohl, Bruce Springsteen, Sean Combs, Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys to Appear at Virtual Rock Hall of Fame Ceremony
This year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony (that was supposed to take place in Cleveland) was first pushed, then pushed again before finally being moved to a virtual ceremony. It would have been a monumental event with this year’s inductees: Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex. A virtual ceremony — the next best thing to being there — will air on HBO on Nov. 7, and in it, a number of incredible special guests will pay tribute to this year’s inductees. Without further ado, here are the folks who will honor the above Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020: Luke Bryan, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Miley Cyrus, Billy Gibbons, Dave Grohl, Don Henley, Jennifer Hudson, Billy Idol, Iggy Pop, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, Chris...
