From nin.com: We are pleased to offer you The New Regime's debut album 'Coup' as a free digital download. The music is available in high-quality MP3s, 320kbps.

For those of you interested in physical products you can purchase Coup on CD or the Coup Deluxe package featuring vinyl, CD, DVD w/ live performances and interview, 16-page booklet, and more available EXCLUSIVELY at The New Regime Store.

Click here to get your free copy now, and if you like what you hear, please buy!

And thanks to Tony B., Digg it!

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that a track called "Potions" was being release by Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan's catch-all music/performance outlet), and it warranted mentioning here because it featured Trent Reznor in the writing credits, lending to the theory that it's some form of a song written during the TapeWorm sessions in 2003. As we briefly mentioned The six track EP was released on Amazon's MP3 store and iTunes on Tuesday, and not only is Potions a really good track, it's also a pretty good representation of the quality of the rest of the EP.

It's worth noting that the version of Potions appearing on the EP is the "Deliverance Mix" - perhaps the original version will surface eventually.

NIN drummer Ilan Rubin's band, The New Regime has a Deluxe Edition release of their 2008 debut, Coup available for preorder now. The package includes:

• 180 gram vinyl
• CD
• DVD with Live performances, interviews and more
• 16 page color booklet with photos, liner notes and lyrics
• Instrumental Mixes
• And more!

Limited to 1,000 copies, they are hand numbered and signed. Visit The New Regime's site for more information and to order your copy now!

Capital_M was able to capture some great pictures, video and the setlist from tonight's debut Regime show at the Detroit Bar.

Don't forget! The New Regime is playing a show on 11/19 at the Viper Room in LA. You can buy tickets online for $10 here or $12 day of show. It's a 21+ show. Small cameras allowed, but no video.

Also, Jetsetter23 submitted a cute LA times article about Robin Finck, written by his neighbor. It's well worth a read!

If you're following rob sheridan on Twitter, you've already read this nugget, but if you're still keeping away from the microblogging service, we're here to share the goods with you:

Artists In Residence (A+R) were responsible for the deluxe editions of Ghosts. If you haven't started putting away money for this deluxe release, now's a good time to force some fiscal responsibility on yourself. If you start saving now, you won't have to neglect your utility bills to get in on the pre-sale for this one.

Over at the official NIN merch store, you can find the Echoplex hoodie from the NINJA tour ($49.99), as well as the "Wave Goodbye" 'digital lines' shirt ($19.99) sold on that same tour. Dating back even further, it looks like they've got those gray tshirts from the release of And All That Could Have Been for $19.99, and the With Teeth 2006 tour program you bought for too much money on eBay a couple of years ago, selling at (wait for it) $19.99. Thank to everyone who wrote in on these!

We got a nice write-up and recognition from New Security Action, the group heading up the Close Gitmo Now effort. Thanks again to everyone who participated in this effort.

By Friday evening, at least 150 of you participated in this effort! Thank you so much, you guys are awesome. We've updated the archive of sample emails . Well, unsurprisingly, we haven't heard anything about Liz Cheney doing the right thing and apologizing for her group's statements, but that doesn't mean you should give up. Click here to see what you can do next. While we're at it, NIN got a mention on last night's Colbert Report; after taking a cheap shot, Stephen interviewed Roseanne Cash and lent his name to the cause:



Keep up the good work, everybody!

Hey folks. Keep the emails going -- 111 so far (in 24 hours)! Great work, and we'll post some of the best emails later tonight. We just wanted to clear up some evident confusion, though. Please be sure to read the Washington Times article and our posts below carefully -- the offensive comments were made by Keep America Safe's director, Ms. Burlingame, and not Liz Cheney herself. We feel the apology should come from Ms. Cheney, however, as the group's founder.

If you've been following the latest news about the protest by Trent and other musicians of the use of their music at Guantanamo Bay, you'll know that on Friday, Debra Burlingame, a director for Liz Cheney's right-wing group "Keep America Safe," reportedly made the outrageous comments that the musicians' protest is "pathetic," and "It's almost laughable to think that heavy metal bands like Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine have a moral authority on national security issues." Thinking this over, we at the NIN Hotline have decided this is an insult that goes too far. It's perfectly fine and healthy for our national debate to disagree with the politics of the issue and to disagree with the President or the Democratic Party. But it's another thing entirely to attack Trent and other artists as having no moral authority -- in our minds, this implies a view that they are immoral -- and to claim that Trent and the others therefore have no right to complain about the unauthorized use of their music to torture people.

If you are as outraged by these comments as we are, then we encourage you to get in touch with "Keep America Safe" and demand a public apology by the group's founder, Liz Cheney, to Trent Reznor, Tom Morello, and all the other "immoral" musicians they've insulted. You can call "Keep America Safe" at (202) 525-4608 and (202) 365-3102. You can also email them at the following email addresses:

aharison@keepamericasafe.com
info@keepamericasafe.com

Please cc: theninhotline@gmail.com if you choose to send an email, we can try to keep track of how many emails get sent.

As we are addressing a matter of respect, please be respectful - but no less direct - about what you think. In other words, don't be a jerk.

Also, if you happen to frequent websites or messageboards of the other bands involved -- including RATM/Tom Morello, Pearl Jam, REM -- please contact the powers that be at those sites to see if you can expand this effort beyond the NIN fanbase.

Let's stand together, NIN fans, regardless of your political stripe. This isn't about the politics of the issue -- it's about blatant disrespect, plain and simple. Let Liz Cheney and "Keep America Safe" know that their position is unacceptable and that they owe an apology to all the awesome musicians who have enriched American culture and deserve to have their rights respected, not dismissed.

The political group "Keep America Safe," formed by former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter and prominent birther, Liz Cheney, and right-wing pundit and Palin fanatic, Bill Kristol, has assaulted the efforts by Trent and other rock musicians to keep their music from being used for torture enhanced interrogation techniques as "pathetic" and "laughable". A "Keep America Safe" spokesperson went so far as to say "It's almost laughable to think that heavy metal bands like Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine have a moral authority on national security issues." I guess they don't think there's anything immoral in using someone else's creative talent and output in a way the artist finds reprehensible. If you're inclined to disagree with "Keep America Safe" on this issue and want to support Trent's efforts, check out the website closegitmonow.org and see how you can make a difference, including by making a contribution and spreading the word.

*edit*The Washington Times article mistakenly lists "March of the Pigs" as one of Tom Morello's songs. Thanks to those who wrote in to point that out.

nine inch nails "the downward spiral : live"

As soon as I heard about the TDS set the band performed at Webster Hall last August, I immediately jumped on my computer and started collecting footage (especially since the show hadn't been filmed professionally).

With a little over 11 sources, this is likely to be the only DVD of that historic, first ever live performance of The Downward Spiral. You can download it as a DVD Torrent or a iPod-friendly MP4 on its dedicated feature page right here. You'll also find a general FAQ section as well as the full credits for the DVD.

Finally, the whole show will gradually be added to YouTube in HD 720p. Bookmark this playlist, it'll be updated as more tracks are uploaded :



Also, keep looking at twitter.com/thisoneisonus for regular updates concerning the imminent release of Another Version Of The Truth, too...

Trent Reznor and other prominent musicians, such as Tom Morello, Pearl Jam, and REM, have asserted a formal protest against the use of their music during "enhanced interrogation" sessions at the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and have joined the "National Campaign to Close Guantanamo," according to this article. The group also announced plans to file a lawsuit to compel the declassification of documents concerning the use of their music. (It is certainly conceivable that blasting "Shiny, Happy People" for 72 hours straight might constitute torture, at least to some folks.)

Shannon sent in news about a new promo for "Fringe," J.J. Abrams' show that's sort of like X-files meets The Outer Limits, with a quirky sense of humor. EW's Hollywood Insider reports:

If you haven't already been watching Fringe, you can catch up with the show via Hulu (if you're in the US, anyway) - that's where I've been watching it since it's debut last year, and it's cool to get an excuse to plug the show on my site.

Synthetik, over at nin.com, is organising a "professionally mixed, professionally edited multi-cam Blu-ray of Nine Inch Nails' final show at the Wiltern, comprised exclusively of HD video footage (which will also be released in torrent form), and it’s shaping up to be amazing".

The project is still collecting HD video sources, so if you or anyone you know recorded ANY of the show in HD, please email the group at synthetikz@gmail.com, ASAP. They are looking for as many sources as possible

Head here to read more about the project.

And for the latest information, Follow synthetikz on his Twitter.

If you're not still hung over from Pretty Hate Machine's frat party, click here for the interview with Alan Moulder - there are several quotes from Trent and discussion with Alan about The Fragile.