New NIN album - "Strobe Light" April Fool's!

Click here to download the best album of '09.


"To download NIN's new full-length album Strobe Light, PRODUCED BY TIMBALAND, enter a valid email address in the fields below. A download link will be sent to you immediately. Your credit card will be charged $18.98 plus a $10 digital delivery convenience fee. Your files will arrive as windows media files playable on quite a few players with your name embedded all over them just in case you lose them. You will also receive an exclusive photo and a free email account with our partner Google's Gmail service.

Your email will be kept confidential and will not be used for spam, unless we can make some money selling it."

"Strobe Light" track list:

intro skit
everybody's doing it (featuring chris martin, jay-z AND bono)
black t-shirt
pussygrinder (featuring sheryl crow)
coffin on the dancefloor
this rhythm is infected
slide to the dark side
even closer (featuring justin timberlake and maynard james keenan)
on the list (she's not)
clap trap crack slap
laid, paid and played (featuring fergie of the black eyed peas and al jourgensen)
feel like being dead again
still hurts (featuring alicia keys)
outro skit

"Your files will arrive as windows media files playable on quite a few players with your name embedded all over them just in case you lose them."

And the Kanye shades! Priceless.

Okay, I admit it. For a nanosecond there, we were about to cream our pants (before seeing the track list).

Download the Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction/Street Sweeper EP for free!

"Features exclusive unreleased tracks" from all the bands on the NIN|JA|SS tour bill this Spring/Summer. Download it at ninja2009.com ('cause Ninjass2009 just didn't make any sense).

Thanks, Trent!

NIN|JA Tour

So apparently I wasn't the only nerd to pair these acronymns together. Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction will be (stealthily) kicking ass and doing their own stunts at an amphitheater near you. Tour dates and video of NIN performing "The Fragile" in Adelaide, Australia below.

Jane's Addiction & Nine Inch Nails - 2009 Tour Dates:

Fri-May-08 / West Palm Beach, FL [Cruzan Amphitheatre]
Sat-May-09 / Tampa, FL [Ford Amphitheatre]
Sun-May-10 / Atlanta, GA [Lakewood Amphitheatre]
Thu-May-14 / Albuquerque, NM [Journal Pavilion]
Fri-May-15 / Phoenix, AZ [Cricket Wireless Pavilion]
Sat-May-16 / Chula Vista, CA [Cricket Wireless Amphitheater]
Mon-May-18 / Las Vegas, NV [The Pearl]
Wed-May-20 / Irvine, CA [Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Irvine Meadows]
Fri-May-22 / Mountain View, CA [Shoreline Amphitheatre]
May 23-25 / Gorge, WA (Sasquatch Festival)
Tue-May-26 / Englewood, CO [Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre]
Wed-May-27 / Kansas City, MO [Starlight Theatre]
*** Fri-May-29 Chicago, IL [Charter One Pavilion] NINE INCH NAILS Only
Sat-May-30 / Noblesville, IN [Verizon Wireless Music Center]
Sun-May-31 / Clarkston, MI [DTE Energy Music Theatre]
Tue-Jun-02 / Toronto, ON [Molson Amphitheatre]
Wed-Jun-03 / Darien Lake, NY [Darien Lake Amphitheatre]
Fri-Jun-05 / Camden, NJ [Tweeter Center At The Waterfront]
Sat-Jun-06 / Holmdel, NJ [PNC Bank Arts Center]
Sun-Jun-07 / Wantagh, NY [Nikon at Jones Beach Music Theater]
Tue-Jun-09 / Columbia, MD [Merriweather Post Pavilion]
Wed-Jun-10 / Burgettstown, PA [Post-Gazette Pavilion]
Fri-Jun-12 / Charlotte, NC [Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre]

via BrooklynVegan and NIN.com


NIN: The Fragile live from on stage, Adelaide 2.28.09 [HD] from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo

NO!!! YES!!!

Here's the bad news first from the proverbial horse's mouth (Trent Reznor) at NIN.com:

"In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I've been thinking for some time now it's time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year's "Lights in the Sky" tour was something I'm quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year - much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye."

Then, after fans the world over have been crushed, and are weeping desolately along to their copy of The Downward Spiral--the good news:

"I reached out to Jane's to see if they'd want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.
Does it feel right to us and does it seem like it will be fun for us and you? Yes it does.
Look for tour dates soon and I hope to see you out there."
I'm there.

photo posted by Reznor on nin.com

Nine Inch Addiction NIN|JA

There is speculation that Trent Reznor is producing Jane's Addiction's next album. Exciting news.

Front to back: Eric Avery, Dave Navarro, and Perry Farrell in the studio with Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nailed

I've never been disappointed at a Nine Inch Nails show. I saw them for the first time in 2005 on the With_Teeth club tour at The Warfield after having only experienced NIN's music through the albums. The intensity of the music and the band coupled with the comparatively small-scale venue made for an amazing two nights. It more than made up for the discomfiture we experienced standing in line one cold San Francisco morning to purchase tickets for the shows. I saw them again in 2005 at the Oakland Arena and that was fantastic. Regretfully, I had to miss the NIN and Bauhaus concert at the Shoreline in 2006, but last week, I saw them at Oracle Arena (formerly the Oakland Arena) again and it was glorious. I was very impressed by the visual aspect of the With_Teeth arena tour, but the visual design of NIN's current North American jaunt ups the ante considerably. Only by reading the feature in Wired about the tour's art production did I learn that the show was not completely staged.


WIRED
NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens
By Bryan Gardiner

A vast wall of swirling static dances on a giant screen as Trent Reznor and his band launch into their song, "Only." Initially obscured by this sea of visual white noise, the Nine Inch Nails front man intermittently appears to push through the particles of snow with his hands and body, popping in and out of view and opening up random tunnels in the chaos.

"Sometimes, I think I can see right through myself," he sings.

Nine Inch Nails fans are accustomed to such sonic and visual feasts whenever Reznor and company go out on tour. But this time around, NIN has pulled out all the stops, creating a groundbreaking, fully interactive visual display that is as much a part of the show as the band's instruments.

"I'm not really a purist," admits Reznor. "If I'm in the studio working on an album, I try to only please myself. But when it's a tour, it feels a bit more like I have a responsibility to some degree to entertain people." Read more