nine-inch nails
Software
Apple Caves In: NIN’s iPhone App Approved Without Alteration
4:30AM Sean Fallon | Straight from the twitter account of the man himself, the NIN iPhone app has been approved and will be available sometime later today “unchanged” from the version that Apple found objectionable. More »
Software
Trent Reznor On App Store Hypocrisy, Mobile OSes
9:24PM John Herrman | The technologically-inclined NIN frontman is notoriously vocal about tech, media and censorship issues, but Apple’s recent rejection of his iPhone app really sent Trent Reznor over the edge, and onto his forums. More »
Software
Heresy! Apple Rejects Trent Reznor’s NIN iPhone App Update For ‘Objectionable Content’
1:00AM Jack Loftus | I Do Not Want This news to be true, but it is: Apple rejected the NIN app update for “objectionable content.” I have never felt Closer to Trent Reznor than I do today, little Piggy. More »
Music
My First Album
5:20AM Sean Fallon | Unlike Jason, I have a reason to be proud of my first album purchase. It was Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine on cassette. More »
Software
Nine Inch Nails Shows Every Other Band How to Make an Awesome iPhone App
11:00AM Matt Buchanan | Other bands might have been first, but Trent Reznor is about to blow them all way with NIN’s coming iPhone app, which completely enshrines his place as the Highlander of musicians on the internet. More »
Games
Nine Inch Nails Version of Tap Tap Revenge Coming to iTunes
2:40PM Gizmodo US Edition | Tapulous—the creators of that Perfect Drug of an app, Tap Tap Revenge–is partnering up with Nine Inch Nails to put over a dozen of the band’s songs in the game. The alliance will be one of the first to bring licensed content to iPhone apps and, depending on how successful it is, could mark a surge of similar musician/application deals. Considering how addictive the game (with a Capital G) is, this NIN-bundle could be the thing that’ll suck you Into The Tap Tap Revenge Void. [TechCrunch] More »
Entertainment
The Amazing Tech, Lasers and Lights Behind a Nine Inch Nails Concert
5:00AM Jack Loftus | Trent Reznor, front man for Nine Inch Nails, is no stranger to cool tech, incredibly in-depth viral and ARG marketing campaigns, and new ways to entertain his fans live in concert. During their current Lights in the Sky tour, they let Wired writer Brian Gardiner and photographer Jon Snyder record and catalog basically everything that goes on behind the scenes to make things tick. That includes a system run entirely by Linux; hundreds of LED lights, lasers; intentional BSoD’s, and “Stealth Screens”—huge, interactive marvels of tech and engineering that Reznor and his band mates can pass through and control in real time as the concert unfolds. “I’m not really a purist,” Reznor told Wired. “If I’m in the studio working on an album, I try to only please myself. But when it’s a tour, it feels a bit more like I have a responsibility to some degree to entertain people.” No shit. [Wired] More »
Entertainment
BSOD Repeatedly Strikes Nine Inch Nails Concerts
12:43AM Sean Fallon | BSODs have been plaguing NIN on their current tour. In fact, one has been popping up on the giant display behind them at just about every concert. So what’s the deal? Will Trent be forced to fire his tech guy? Hardly. The truth is that it is all part of the act. The BSOD pops up for a split second near the end of the song The Great Destroyer, and there are videos after the break from two separate concerts to prove it. We all know Trent is a Mac man—so this is obviously a subliminal jab at Windows. I’m sure the nerds in the audience get a kick out of it. More »
Entertainment
Nine Inch Nails Releases Free Album In High Definition Audio
11:50PM Jesus Diaz | Trent Reznor is not only breaking the old distribution model, he’s even breaking the newest, like Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want: Nine Inch Nails’ latest album—The Slip—is 100% free, no payment required in any case, not even when you download the whooping 1.2GB version—which includes high definition WAVE 24/96 files (better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio.) You can also choose from high-quality MP3s, FLAC lossless and M4A lossless. Note to record labels: drop dead. [NIN]
Online
3:15PM Nick Broughall | Ars Technica is reporting that the deluxe packages of Trent Reznor’s Ghosts I-IV online album experiment has already sold out. Considering there was only 2,500 packages costing US$300 each, the Nine Inch Nails Frontman looks to have netted himself a cool US$750,000, just three days after the packages were made available. Who said you couldn’t make money off music online? More »
Trent Reznor Makes Himself At Least US$750,000 With Ghosts I-IV
3:15PM Nick Broughall | Ars Technica is reporting that the deluxe packages of Trent Reznor’s Ghosts I-IV online album experiment has already sold out. Considering there was only 2,500 packages costing US$300 each, the Nine Inch Nails Frontman looks to have netted himself a cool US$750,000, just three days after the packages were made available. Who said you couldn’t make money off music online? More » 