Now that the cat’s out of the bag—well, sort of, in that we’ve got a blurry 40-second music clip—about How to Destroy Angels, Trent Reznor’s first announced project since the demise of Nine Inch Nails as a live entity, it’s high time for the internet to kick in and do what it was made to do: gossiping, guessing and predicting the outcome of entertainment ventures.
Like a garage sale specifically aimed at the most ardent of Nine Inch Nails fans, Trent Reznor and Co. have taken to eBay to sell their touring equipment. The band’s last live gig was at the Los Angeles Wiltern Theatre on September 10, so why not unload some guitars, amplifiers and pedal boards on the people?
Right now there are only 20 items listed on the ebay site, but Reznor has promised to put up hundreds more over the coming weeks. Items set to go up for sale inclue guitars, keyboards, amps, drums, cables and effects pedals.
Trent Reznor and his Nine Inch Nails band mates recently performed in London, with 80′s music icon Gary Numan. Numan is best known for being a new wave pioneer with his synthesized tunes. Reznor released two videos from their on stage collaboration, which features the songs “Cars” and “Metal”
Take a look at the band in action in HD…
Portishead, the influential experimental band from Bristol, England, have already begun work on the followup to their highly successful 2008 album Third. Geoff Barrow was recently interviewed by NME and it’s clear that this will be a very unconventional release.
According to Barrow, the band is not currently under contract and are now weighing options on how to release their next batch of new songs. Barrow declined to give specifics but he did say Portishead has “big plans” for a new project that will “come from a different angle.”
Not long after saying goodbye to his millions of fans Trent Reznor is already back, although not in the capacity that you would expect from the Nine Inch Nails front man. Reznor is reportedly in talks to work with new wave pioneer Gary Numan on a collaboration set for late this year.
Trent Reznor sure knows how to keep things interesting. Big news out of the Big Apple with word that Sunday night at Webster Hall Nine Inch Nails played its 1994 classic The Downward Spiral in its entirety for the first time ever.
Reznor and Co. are currently on a farewell tour of small venues – the ‘Wave Goodbye Tour,’ as it were.
According to Billboard, once Reznor was halfway through “Mr. Self Destruct,” it was becoming clear to everyone in attendance the band was set to run through all of The Downward Spiral – in sequence.
Reznor later told the audience, “I’ve always wanted to play that whole record, and this seemed like the time to do it.”
Reports are out that the Michael Jackson publicity event funeral cost the cash strapped city of Los Angeles somewhere between $1.4-$4 Million dollars. Good thing because I needed to hear from Al Sharpton that Michael Jackson was the most important person ever in the history of black civil rights (apparently Jackie Robinson and MLK ran a close second). Since no riots broke out and we got to hear a cringe worthy version of “We Are The World” I would say it was a rousing success. Mission accomplished.
Anyway, just think of all of the awesome concert tickets the city of Los Angeles could have bought with that $1.4 million dollars. That’s like 280,000 Fugazi concert tickets or 7 No Doubt orchestra seats. Or they could have chosen something from this list of concert on sales from this week. Check these out…
In February, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor announced on the Nine Inch Nails official site that after a tour with Jane’s Addiction across the globe during 2009, the band would then go on hiatus indefinitely. He also said at Bonnaroo, during the NIN set, that it would be the band’s “last show ever in the United States”
Now Trent is backpedaling. On Tuesday he posted on the NIN Blog that the band will play a final “handful of shows” in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles beginning August 22. From the post:
“Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight – it just didn’t feel right to end NIN that way.”
Bonnaroo 2009 has some of the biggest names in music at the head of its lineup this year, including the reunited Phish, Beastie Boys, Wilco, Snoop Dogg, Nine Inch Nails, Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mars Volta, Animal Collective, Femi Kuti and Bruce Springsteen.
“If there was such a thing as a recession-proof lineup this year, this had to be it,” said Ashley Capps, the co-founder of Bonnaroo and president of AC Entertainment.
Enticing fans to pay $250 to $300 for tickets to the festival is no easy task, and its producers have definitely played it safe, with over 100 must-see bands spread out across six stages.
