Friday, April 8 2011
Robbie Robertson: How to Become Clairvoyant
On his fifth proper solo album, Robertson puts a lot of effort into trying to sound effortless.
Friday, November 12 2010
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: The Social Network Soundtrack
Even if Reznor and Ross produce little that would not have felt at home on their recent collaborations, Fincher's application of their unsettling abilities to his unnerving movie feels like one of the project's multiple strokes of inspired genius.
Monday, November 16 2009
Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut
Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.
Thursday, October 1 2009
Nine Inch Nails: 26 August 2009 - New York
Trent Reznor has been on the ol' Debbie Downer kick for 20 years, always singing about things dying and ending and breaking, and it's probably time to close up shop.
Tuesday, May 13 2008
Nine Inch Nails: The Slip
One more in the coffin of the record industry. Seven more to go?
Friday, May 9 2008
Nine Inch Nails: The Slip
Unlike the "release everything we came up with" aesthetic of Ghosts I-IV, The Slip actually sounds like an album.
Wednesday, April 18 2007
Grappling with NIN’s noise at Year Zero
Trent Reznor is becoming a very narrowly defined auteur. His entire output could play like one long album, and Year Zero is no exception.


































