Spinner Conor Oberst, Peaches, Shout Out Out Out Out

Spinner has a bunch of good albums this week highlighted by St. Vincent and Shout Out Out Out Out. But also including Peaches, the New York Dolls, Ben Harper and the NIN supported Horrors.

Jane's Addiction and NIN to Tour Together

Oh how I wish it were 1993.  Will it be amazing or a flop?  Via NIN.com, from Trent Reznor:  

2.16.09: A note from Trent and a wave goodbye

Towards the beginning of my career in Nine Inch Nails, our biggest break came in the form of an invitation to perform a series of shows with Jane's Addiction. These performances essentially created and defined the term "alternative" rock in the US, created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set the stage for Nirvana to shift popular taste a few months later, and were really fucking FUN to play and attend - truly the best times I've had. The shows were epic. So epic, they propelled NIN to the "next level" (whatever that means), but caused Jane's to implode. The band broke up at the end of that tour.

Fast forward to the present. Corporate rock STILL sucks. A friend tells me they saw the original Jane's lineup play a tiny show in LA that was unbelievable. I break out my Jane's records and am amazed by how vital they sound. These guys were the real deal and in this current climate mostly dominated by poseurs and pussies it was refreshing to hear something that sounded dangerous, volatile, beautiful and SINCERE.
Emails were sent, phone calls were made, dinner was arranged, ideas were discussed and the next thing I know we're in the studio experimenting. We laugh, we get to know each other, we cry, we yell, we almost quit, we record LOTS of guitar solos, we discuss, we actually begin to all communicate, we yell some more, we become FRIENDS, we laugh again and we do some great things. I get to see first hand why they broke up all those years ago but I also get the chance to see four distinct personalities that become an INCREDIBLE band when they're in the same room.

In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I've been thinking for some time now it's time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year's "Lights in the Sky" tour was something I'm quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year - much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye. I reached out to Jane's to see if they'd want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.
Does it feel right to us and does it seem like it will be fun for us and you? Yes it does.
Look for tour dates soon and I hope to see you out there.

Trent

New Free Nine Inch Nails "The Slip"

Trent Reznor is at it again! NIN's new album called The Slip is available right now. Go here to claim your copy for free. This from NIN.com.

as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away
the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via
nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including
high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD
quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all
downloads
include a PDF with artwork and credits.
for those of you
interested in
physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this
release available
on CD and vinyl in july. details coming
soon.

we encourage you to remix
it share it with your
friends, post it on your blog,play it on
your podcast,give it to strangers,
etc.

Tracklisting:

01 999,999

02 1,000,000

03 Letting You

04 Discipline

05 Echoplex

06 Head Down

07 Lights in the Sky

08 Corona Radiata

09 The Four of Us Are Dying

10 Demon Seed

New NIN...Again: Free Download Discipline

More news on the Nine Inch Nails front.

This from Trent:

Some of you may have heard a new Nine Inch Nails track on your radio today. You will be able to download your own copy of the track right here later tonight for free - stop back in a few hours.

Go here for the free download. Whenever it's available.

March Band Of The Month

Each month we will post our current favorite band for the present month. It will be based on opinion. Strictly opinion and growth of said opinion. For Example, Radiohead are always held in high regard here at Musicolgy nyc, so even though they were very active this month and In Rainbows is still playing away like crazy, it will be very difficult for them to win a band of the month award because it would be nearly impossible for us to love them anymore than we do.
This month we have a lot of veterans that were in high contention for the reward. And the winner will not surprise anyone. There will be no discovery of new artists this month. A couple contenders were the Grand Archives, Thao Nguyen and NIN, but with the release of the new REM album and the new Portishead on heavy rotation it really only came down to those two artists.

And the winner is...

As if you can't tell from the attached photo...

Portishead, by a landslide. What a great album they have coming out this month. We cannot wait to see them live, when they will probably win this award again.

Your prize can be collected when you contact me.

LOLLAPALOOZA Rumors - Radiohead, NIN, Rage Against The Machine, Wilco, Stone Temple Pilots

If these rumors end up being true this is without a doubt the best of the summer festivals. Per PSNYC, and others, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, Wilco, Stone Temple Pilots will join, MGMT, Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Coldplay, Flogging Molly, Stone Temple Pilots, Black Lips, Bloc Party and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings.

Nine Inch Nails "free" download

What a day for downloads! Fresh on the heals of the free download of his Saul Williams production, NIN frontman Trent Reznor is giving away more for free. This from the Website:

This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as... something.

The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we're able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed - from a 100% DRM-free, high-quality download, to the most luxurious physical package we've ever created.

You have many options to get the album. Look here. It is an instrumental album.

NIN Secret

Who knows what Trent Reznor is up to, but this here is from the Nine Inch Nails website:

We have been very busy doing secret things. We'll start to tell you about them soon.