Thursday, 7/16/09

NY, Chicago and LA ticket prices are available

The short version: Shows at the smaller venues, with tickets are being sold exclusively through nin.com, are $65 per ticket. All other tickets are $55 + service fees. There is a limit of two tickets per person, per show.

To check this out yourself, go to tour.nin.com, log in, scroll down to the show you're interested in going to, click on pre-sale info, then click on the "more info" link to the left of the specific venue. If you're already logged in, you can just click here to go right to the presale overview page.

Reported by leviathant at 16:23

Tuesday, 7/14/09

Officially licensed fan-made tshirts from DYSD

Many of you likely remember the fiasco surrounding chronic over-promiser Jason Lynes (aka Faction), who designed tshirts based on Nine Inch Nails concepts and artwork in an effort to seek out an official license. If you weren't around for that, it ended quite poorly - Jason not only had a bad string of printers, but apparently the concept of a proof was alien to him, and he'd take orders for shirts that he had never seen printed before.

Around the same time, though, I was contacted by a fellow named Aaron, who similarly was seeking out official license to print his own Nine Inch Nails tshirts. As the Faction thing fell apart, I told Aaron that I was going to wait at least a year and check back on his operation, to see if he could handle running things on his own. The last thing I wanted to do was give another fuckup any space on my website, only to have them fall behind, take the money and hide.

That was over a year ago. I've occasionally checked in and checked around, and I've heard good things about how they handle things at DYSD. Their line of shirts is still fairly limited, but that's partially due to the fact that the license they have to print their own designs is more expensive than what the larger companies have to pay. Nonetheless, they've been working hard over the last 15 months and I feel it's okay to send you along to check it out for yourself. On their very first blog they even mention holding off on taking pre-orders until they had their full inventory in stock.

You can view their NIN shirts here, with designs for Broken, Fixed, March of the Pigs, Closer to God, Further Down the Spiral, and Capital G currently available. This month all shirts happen to be on sale for $15 (Canadian), which as the old saying goes, is something like $5 US, right? (It's actually about $13.20) Check 'em out!

Reported by leviathant at 22:13

Sunday, 7/12/09

NIN Historian Site is BACK!

After a bit of server swapping and downtime. The NIN Historian site is back and updated:
http://www.theninhotline.net/nin_historian/
All recent Tour dates and future dates on the "Wave Goodbye" tour have been added and I created a section on the site just of my show reviews. I still have lots to do.. but wanted to let you know I'm not dead!

Also a ton of thanks to folks emailing me, sending ticket scans, and sharing their stories of seeing NIN on tour! Keep em coming!

NIN Historian

Reported by ninhistorian at 21:42

Friday, 7/10/09

NIN to perform at clubs in NYC, Chicago, and LA

Trent released the dates for the club performances via twitter, and tour.nin.com earlier today. Four nights in NYC, two nights in Chicago, and four nights in LA.

Reported by heroicraptor at 16:24

Information Technology, Innovation and Consumerism

Doing lots of catching up today! So back in February, we got an email from Ronnie Exley:

In the spirit of all the very cool fan related stuff going on in the world on NIN right now, I thought this would be a great time to submit something of my personal craft. In August I finished up an Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Under the Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major, I created my own field of research titled "Information Technology, Innovation and Consumerism". For six months I worked on the following dissertation regarding the future of the music industry in the wake of innovative technologies in digital music such as file-sharing, viral marketing and Creative Commons licensing. This work covers over 2 years of research that began in the fall of 2006. The work focuses largely on the efforts of Trent Reznor in leading the revolutionary methods of digital music distribution and marketing starting with the Year Zero effort. As it seems Trent is always on the verge of releasing something new and surprising, now is a perfect time to release this work to the NIN community as it is still highly relevant and takes into account his most current material.

If February was the perfect time to release this work, I sure blew that! Thankfully, he's been really good about keeping on my ass to get this posted. Ronnie sent me a copy of the 70-page paper, which is licensed under a Creative Commons license, and since he doesn't have any place to host it, I've made the 5.3mb PDF available for download here. I can't help it, I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, even though I've never worked in 'the industry.' If you are too, hopefully you'll find this to be an interesting read.

Reported by leviathant at 11:13

Jerome Dillon likes to score

If you've been wondering what Jerome Dillon has been up to since nearly went quiet, we got word that has composed the score for the upcoming horror/thriller film, The Collector. Not "I pick things up," but "He always takes one." If it's anything like what I've heard from the score he did for Vacancy 2, look for a mix of percussion, drone work, and electronics. The film is set for release on July 31st in select US theaters, and you can check out the trailer on YouTube.

Reported by leviathant at 10:42

Tuesday, 7/07/09

New shirts up at The NIN Hotline store

Quantities are limited, (particularly on the Demon Seed shirt), but we got 8 shirts and 2 babydolls from the Lights in the Sky tour over at The NIN Hotline Store. There are shirts for nearly every song on the Slip, and a couple of Ghosts shirts. All the tshirts are $12.99, and the babydoll shirts are $13.49

Pretty sure you're never going to see them for that price again, because once we're sold out, they're gone for good. Anyway, I didn't want to keep this to myself too long, so - enjoy!

(If you were following us on Twitter, you've probably already put your order in)

Reported by leviathant at 20:00

New NIN tour dates at tiny venues announced, nin.com asplodes

If you aren't following us on Twitter, you may not have heard that NIN are playing intimate venues in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles in the near future. Trent tweeted about it and nin.com subsequently crashed.

Lucky for everyone, @she_shines92 thought fast and posted a screenshot of the news on Twitpic, where you can read it now while you wait for nin.com to brush itself off from the stampede.

The text of the update is as follows:
Getting right to the point, we're going to play a handful of shows in NYC, Chicago and LA starting August 22nd. They will be informal affairs in medium to small venues with longer set-lists, possible special guests, cool openers and other surprises. 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. An offer to headline a festival (being announced soon) set the idea in motion to play some FUN shows to end this up with. If we can get it together we'll film these shows, too.In NYC we'll be playing Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall and Terminal 5. In Chicago, the Aragon Ballroom. In LA we'll be at The Wiltern, The Henry Fonda, The Palladium and The Echoplex. These should be cool, unusual and unique shows and I hope you come out - this is it.So far, The Horrors will be joining us for some shows in NYC, Mew will be with us at other shows in NYC, Chicago and LA, and perhaps more.Details and ticket info will be announced shortly, so check back.Thanks,Trent

Reported by leviathant at 15:26

Monday, 7/06/09

Eric De La Cruz Passes Away

It is with heavy heart that I repost the message that appeared on the NIN.com front page early this morning:

Sadly, Eric De La Cruz has passed away. CLICK HERE to read a letter from his sister Veronica. Thank you all for your help and compassion with this.

Trent

Thanks also to all those who helped contribute to our Help Eric auctions over the past few weeks. While Eric has passed on, your generosity will not be forgotten, and will make its way to Eric's family in one form or another.


Reported by swindley at 18:10

Lucky Pierre music store launches

caspar from luckyPRICK sent word (over a week ago, whoops) that Kevin McMahon has launched a new website of his own - LuckyPierreMusic, along with a massive online store where you can pretty much buy his entire back catalog (as mp3s, FLACS and physical CDs) along with a bunch of new merch. Yeah, it's not really Nine Inch Nails news, but it's tangentially related and we post about tangentially related stuff when things get quiet here. So check it out when you get a moment.

Reported by leviathant at 14:23

Sunday, 7/05/09

Cleaned up the merch page

Being a three-day weekend, I've managed to get enough done that I was idle to the point of making some long-needed (albeit minor) adjustments to our merch page. I've refined the eBay auction filters to better exclude unofficial junk, and changed the menu from an ugly text menu to a series of selections with associated graphics. I've also removed the Google Adsense banners at the top and bottom of the page, as they brought in maybe $1 a month, were ugly, and typically were completely unrelated. The end result should be a little more pleasing on the eyes, and hopefully a quick stop whenever you've got that urge to blow cash on NIN stuff.

Reported by leviathant at 20:32

Saturday, 7/04/09

You might have heard that Michael Jackson died...

...but did you know that "He was a huge fan of Nine Inch Nails Downward Spiral"? From a gearslutz thread revolving around posts by producers who'd worked with Michael Jackson, via Tom.

Reported by leviathant at 17:25

Friday, 7/03/09

Bought tickets to Taipei for the last ever NIN show? consider visiting Korea that w/e

A tour date has been added to tour.nin.com, with the band now stopping off in Seoul, South Korea to perform at the ETP festival on August 15th. There's really not a whole lot more to post about this, so I'm going to quit typing and go outside to take in the awesome weather we're having in Philly.

Reported by leviathant at 13:17

Tuesday, 6/30/09

Merch Madness

It recently came to our attention that the Wave Goodbye Tour messenger bag that was being sold for $55 on the NINJA tour and going for about 60€ on the Euro tour recently sold on eBay for $1,025, which spawned a follow-up auction by someone else listing it as buy-it-now for $1,000.

Nine Inch Nails is still touring - and they are still selling the bag, it's not as rare as these auctions are making them out to be. In fact, there's a good chance it'll be up on NIN's merch site after the tour, or (if we're lucky) offered to other retailers such as Goodrock. Be patient and save your scrilla.

Reported by leviathant at 16:47

New German Audio interview

Wretchi wrote in to tell us about a recent radio interview from Berlin.


Today there was a about nin and the "wave goodbye"-tour at a radiostation in berlin. it contained a 15 min.-phone-interview with reznor which took place on the 23rd of june.
the uncut orginial file (without any translations) is now available at the website of the radio station
also you can listen to this file there or here where you can find a download of a summary of the show, including german translations, as well.

He talks about the current tour, his New Orleans home, and what he's doing next.


Note: Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails have been in Europe for the past two weeks. It is therefore unlikely that he died in Denver last week.

Reported by icklekitty at 03:52


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