Nine Inch Nails

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Friday, May 16, 2008

Allow Myself to Introduce ... Myself

Last Night: Nine Inch Nails at American Airlines Center

Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

The Five Worst Album Covers of 2008

5. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow StairsA cover that seems created to cause migraines. I suppose this shit's supposed to be a comment on our modern condition or something. If so, spare me.

King of the mild frontier

Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor

Star maker

Can Interscope do for four local bands what it did for Nine Inch Nails and Snoop Dogg?

The Master Cleanser: Day 4

Status: Green Weight: 162.0 (-9.1) Mood: Edgy Enraged Ecstatic Not a big fan of singing. Truth be told, I'm not head-over-heels in love with showers, either. But I'll be damned if I didn't find myself singing in the shower this morning. Granted it was an apropos Nine Inch Nails diddy - do ... More >>

Planting seeds

Ugly Mus-tard is taking its industrial to the industry

Today in Music News: NIN Shares Video, Zeppelin Ain't Performing, Phish Sets A Tour, and Dre Gets Leaked

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 9, 2009... If you have a lot of bandwidth and extra time on your hands you can download HD footage for Nine Inch Nails shows and make your own concert video! I should've joined the high school A.V. Club when I had the chance... I gues ... More >>

Out There

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, January 9, 2009... If you have a lot of bandwidth and extra time on your hands you can download HD footage for Nine Inch Nails shows and make your own concert video! I should've joined the high school A.V. Club when I had the chance... I gues ... More >>

Today In Music News: Metallica goes digital, NIN announces (last?) tour, Suge Knight gets a beatdown and Madonna gets sold.

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 17, 2009... Metallica is now embracing digital music... as long as "digital music" doesn't mean "illegal downloads". The band is releasing its entire music catalogue digitally via iTunes on March 31 and then everywhere ... More >>

Deerhunters' Bradford Cox isn't Going Sane Just Yet

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 17, 2009... Metallica is now embracing digital music... as long as "digital music" doesn't mean "illegal downloads". The band is releasing its entire music catalogue digitally via iTunes on March 31 and then everywhere ... More >>

Something For Nothing

Just how much sense (and, um, cents) does it make for an indie band to give away its music for free?

Shoe Strung

A Place To Bury Strangers isn't shoegaze. Or is it?

While Trent Reznor Broods, Saul Williams Celebrates Their Music Download Experiment

A Place To Bury Strangers isn't shoegaze. Or is it?

Otep

Thursday, December 14, at the Curtain Club

Soft Core

The revenge of the nerds is bitter

Bark Bark Bark

Friday, August 3, at the Monkey Bar|Saturday, August 4, with the Paper Chase and the Great Tyrant, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton

Gotharinas

Ballet meets Reznor at the DMA

Strung Up

CMH Records is having a classical gas with every band, like, ever

Cutting Crew

The Scissor Sisters are gay, dorky and big in Japan

Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, TV on the Radio

Saturday, June 3, at Smirnoff Music Centre

Pop Rocks

The shiniest and catchiest of 2005's snap and fizz

Pretty Sad Machine

Love, sex, obsession, pain-- it's all in a day's work for Trent Reznor

Tweaker

2 a.m. wake-up call (Artist Direct BMG)

The Cooper Temple Clause

March 19

Dead Dance

Ballerinas rattle their bones

Circle of Stars

You only think A Perfect Circle is Tool singer Maynard James Keenan's band

Kids Play

The Moss Brothers are a novelty act -- until you hear them

Critics' Picks

Blink-182, Bad Religion

Take these records, please

Or: Yes, it was as bad as you think

The weak in rock

Or: Yes, it was as bad as you think

We're in this together

Weathermen Records hammers down success with Nine Inch Nails

Blogaroo '09: At Least The Comics Are Keeping Things Light...

As of Friday at noonish, nothing at the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has happened the way I've expected it to. Or the way I've thought it should've gone. Or the way Triumph the Insult Comic Dog thought it would either, for that matter.No surprise that there are lines for everything, but th ... More >>

Bonnaroo: Peace, Love, Music... and Anarchy

As of Friday at noonish, nothing at the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has happened the way I've expected it to. Or the way I've thought it should've gone. Or the way Triumph the Insult Comic Dog thought it would either, for that matter.No surprise that there are lines for everything, but th ... More >>

Gig Alert: VNV Nation and War Tapes at the Granada Tonight

VNV NationListening to VNV Nation is reminiscent of listening to alternative music when it was a viable and legitimate form of music. The band isn't something you're going to hear on a traditional modern rock radio station; combining elements of electronica, dance music and a little bit of industria ... More >>

Because I'm Better Than Bitter, 20 Things I Love

I love sports and stuff and, oh yeah, freaky things like, say, baby heads in glass vases.​No, no, no. You got me all wrong. Am I skeptical? Cynical? Inquisitive? Smart-assy? Guilty. But bitter? Hardly. I consider myself more tell-it-like-it-is realistic rather than jump-off-the-hi ... More >>

A Couple New DJ Mixtapes Worth Checking Out...

​A couple of area DJs released some impressive mixtapes this week--good listening, I'd say, especially as you count down the minutes until, your weekend officially gets started. First up, check out the latest from Wanz Dover, aka Blixaboy, called, quite simply enough, "Summer Bass Mix." Like most ... More >>

Dallas Company Looks To Apps to Replace CDs, MP3s

​According to this press release, Dallas-based company PlayApp is looking to replace the current process of publishing music in compact disc and mp3 form with doing so via individual program applications--y'know, as in, "There's an app for that." The idea? As opposed to even mp3s, the music ap ... More >>

Music and the Munchies: A Day of Mourning

I attempt to lift my pen peck my keyboard today with a heavy heart, and an empty stomach. For, alas, two staples of my life's diet are no more. R.I.P., NIN. And Luby's, 4:45 p.m. dinners will never taste the same. Trent Reznor, one of the most chaotic, rhythmic, unique and dark nois ... More >>

The 10 Musical Acts I'd See If I Was on Death Row

Basia - Because it is, after all, MY list.​Last Thursday I saw a band called MuteMath at The Palladium. Very decent, but in the big picture not quite funky enough or not nearly hard enough for my musical lusting. While there I was thinking - ya know, like you do - whether I'd like ... More >>

Today In Music News: Trent Reznor Gives Good Presents, Mellencamp And King Get Musical, And What Acts Have "Jumped The Shark?"

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 28, 2009...Trent Reznor has released his concert video Another Version of The Truth: The Gift as a free download. Oh, and he promises new NIN material in the new year. John Mellencamp and Stephen King's all-star musical Ghost Brothers of ... More >>

Last Night: BT at House Of Blues

BTHouse Of Blues DallasMarch 16, 2010​Slightly better than: The Stars' upset victory a few blocks away. I don't know much about hockey. How often does a team win by six points? Brian Wayne Transeu, a.k.a. BT, is, if anything, a huge music nerd. His experience with electronic music and classical c ... More >>

The Problem With... Ke$ha's "Your Love Is My Drug"

I think I'm going crazy, folks. Ever since I started this column by reviewing the song "TiK ToK" by Ke$ha, I've been haunted by the song every time I step out of the house. On the radio, it's there. On TV, it's there. While watching trashy- but-privileged people walking down the street, I see the dr ... More >>

Gig Alert: Hypernova and The Yellow Dogs Tonight at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton

It's not often that a band from Iran makes its way to our area, much less a pair of them, so tonight's Hypernova/The Yellow Dogs performance at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios should provide a good reason to head to Denton. Now based out of New York, Hypernova has gone through quite a journey jus ... More >>

Today In Music News: Year Zero Mini-Series In The Works, The Boss Is A Regular Dude And DJ Break Record

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, September 29, 2010...A mini-series based on Nine Inch Nails Year Zero album is in the works.Bruce Springsteen proved he's a just like you and me by posing in a couple's engagement pictures.I'm not sure what is more impressive - DJing for 60 hour ... More >>

The Oscars: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Funny, but I don't think Justin Timberlake is Banksy. Is he? 9. As far as early-year Super Bowls of industries go, give me football (Super Bowl), followed by music (Grammys), auto racing (Daytona 500) and movies (Oscars). 8. Original score? Original song? Sound mixing? Sound editing? En ... More >>

BUZZ KILL: Fifteen Songs About What Happens To You When You Do Drugs.

​Good morning, potheads. Enjoy your wake and bake? Good, good, glad to hear it. We hope your early-morning sesh was, like, "totally killer."Where were we, you ask?Oh. About that. Well, sorry to "harsh your mellow" and all, but, um, some of us don't work behind the counter at the local head shop; w ... More >>

The Ten Best Music Videos Banned by MTV

​MTV has gotten some flack for censorship over the course of its 30 years on the air. The station, in addition to helping proliferate the music video concept, is equally known, it seems, for bleeping words, playing only censored versions of certain videos, relegating racy videos to late-night pla ... More >>