Features
Monday, October 12 2009
The Myth and the Machine
The overlapping narratives of Nine Inch Nails within the control of the recording industry and Western culture moving through the Information Age combine in the band’s music as a sonic collage questioning the role of man in the machine.
Thursday, January 22 2009
Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu
From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.
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.
Reviews
Monday, January 16 2012
The Dear Hunter: The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection
The Color Spectrum runs the music spectrum gamut from hardcore rock to post-rock and everything in between. It’s a true tour de force -- and one of the best albums of 2011.
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.
Monday, September 15 2008
Nine Inch Nails
A slew of low-level music-to-sleep-to cuts amid several high-powered and impeccably well-performed songs meant that Trent Reznor, the audience, and the set often morphed into inanimate tedium.
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.
Blogs
Thursday, September 30 2010
Trent Reznor May Bring 'Dystopia' to the Small Screen
Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails and How to Destroy Angels, plans to develop a dystopic, science fiction television series based on Nine Inch Nails'…
Monday, June 7 2010
Kirk/Spock "Slashups" Cover Pulp and Nine Inch Nails
William Shatner's excellent Has Been featured his inimitable interpretation of Pulp's "Common People", which inspired YouTube user kirkslashspock to create this fun video. Edited together…
Thursday, March 25 2010
Trent Reznor Update - Twitter's Crankiest Rock Idol Sounds Positively Giddy
Nine Inch Nails svengali Trent Reznor is no stranger to controversy, whether it's the aggro lyrics to "Closer" (made somehow more compelling with a fan-made…
Friday, March 13 2009
Nine Inch Nails and Dillinger Escape Plan - "Wish" (video)
Dillinger Escape Plan joins Nine Inch Nails live at the Soundwave Festival in Perth, Australia on 2 March 2009.
Sunday, March 23 2008
Nine Inch Nails' experiment: A bigger bang than Radiohead?
After the Saul Williams album he produced didn't tear the charts, a frustrated Trent Reznor got pissy, saying that fans didn't want to support artists…
News
Tuesday, January 3 2012
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross band together on ‘Dragon Tattoo’
LOS ANGELES — As the lone artistic voice behind Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor regularly had the pleasure of answering to no one during NIN’s…
Monday, March 17 2008
Nine Inch Nails scares up sales with 'Ghosts'
In chaos, there is opportunity. And yes, cynics, that even applies to the free-fallin'-sales chaos of today's music industry. Just ask Trent Reznor. The Nine…
