Nine Inch Nails

Party Pick of the Week: Rump Shaker

Premiere 1710 Las Palmas, Hlywd., Fri., Oct. 4, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $5 admission; 18 and older The '90s are officially retro. For real this time! Some clubs tried to make it happen before, but it finally seems to have that pop! pow! wow! factor. The Spice Girls and 'N Sync now are the so-called classic ... More >>

REDCAT'S New Original Works Festival Shows How Visual Innovation Can Make Theater More Relevant

Baby Music Sucks

Any self-respecting parent who's gotten high and hooked up and read Camus and shit wants their offspring to grow up cool. And in today's ultra-competitive child-rearing environment, we all know that hipness starts at home. So, the popularity of the Rockabye Baby series is understandable; it's a se ... More >>

Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome

See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>

5 Music Records You Probably Didn't Think to Listen to While Having Sex

So you're having sex. Usually it's sudden and furtive, the heat of the moment incinerating your civility as you chase that shining golden moment lying in puddles down the gutter. But when you have a little more time to plan your coital rendezvous - what music should you listen to while you're havi ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Is Back; Dave Navarro Talks Their New Album and Why He Fucking Hates The Media

See also our review of Jane's Addiction at the John Anson Ford Theatre, 10/3/11 Jane's Addiction play the Ford tonight and tomorrow. The venue is an important part of their history. Back in 1989, the band performed seven straight nights there, launching Nothing's Shocking. They also offered a glimp ... More >>

Filter and Saliva - Key Club - 7/31/11

Richard Patrick of Filter at Key Club​WHO: Filter and Saliva WHERE: Key Club WHEN: 7/31/11 Better Than... Staying home for KROQ's '90s weekend. If the 90's were good to you, then you were probably at the Key Club last night for Filter and Saliva. At the packed house the scent of cheap weed o ... More >>

The Five Best Cover Songs Ever Covered, Rediscovered!

​ Sometimes the artist who authored a song does a bang-up job in the recording and you never need hear from the song again, except to hear it over and over and enjoy its overwhelming awesomeness. And sometimes an artist writes an incredible song and does an amazing job, and later on, some oth ... More >>

Lollapalooza Lineup: L.A. Bands Make a Strong Showing!

​ Is it already time to think about summer music festivals? Indeed, with SXSW and Coachella firmly behind us, we must now turn to the upcoming festival of festivals that has come to mark every summer. First major fest to reveal its lineup is Lollapalooza, which celebrates its 20th anniversary ... More >>

LA Session Drummer to the Stars Will Be Your Personal Manbitch If You Buy $75K Version of His Album

​Everybody has a price. Josh Freese, studio drummer to the stars (Weezer, Devo, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N Roses) is up to his old tricks with the upcoming announcement of his plans for his latest solo album, Since 1972. He listed his album for sale in packages ranging from $7 for a straightf ... More >>

Trent Reznor Confirms Collaboration with Rage Against The Machine Track Is "Out There" and Discusses Collaborations with Tool's Maynard James Keenan and Soundtrack Work

Trent Reznor Says Rage Against The Machine Collaboration "Out There"

EMEK: An Interview with the Iconic '90s LA Music Poster Artist, Signing Tomorrow at Mr. Musichead

EMEKEmek's typically detailed artwork for Erykah Badu​ Not all of us are as audacious or as talented to only be known by one name, but there is an LA-born poster maker who gets away with being both. You may recognize EMEK's work from the LA Weekly's political art pages in 2004, but more likel ... More >>

Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Branded

Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Hitched

Filter Frontman Richard Patrick Talks Headlining Gig at Sunset Strip Music Festival and New Album 'The Trouble with Angels,' Rejects Mellowing with Age

Filter's Richard Patrick​File this under one of those "only in L.A." moments: You're at a concert with your arms crossed cooly, head nodding up and down, perhaps even stomping your foot once the chorus to your favorite song kicks in. Then suddenly, the Terminator T-1000 (yeah, the liquid silve ... More >>

Shocker! Naked Internet Gun Lover Rockglockcock Is a Bonnaroo Festival Kinda Guy

The imaged that launched a thousand lunches towards the bottom of the toilet: Rockglockcock in all his glory​ The wonderful Lisa Carver has tracked down naked Internet gun enthusiast Rockglockcock, the model for one of the most meme-tastic photos that tends to illustrate many heated arguments ... More >>

Trent Reznor Finally Delivers Theme Song for 2009's Cyberpunk Film "Tetsuo: The Bullet Man"

​(Via Pitchfork/Some Kind of Awesome!) Trent Reznor is a busy man. Whether touring, working on several assignments as Nine Inch Nails or himself, or releasing ambitious, format-busting projects (and don't forget: getting all buff), Reznor keeps his sizable fanbase steadily entertained. But e ... More >>

Music Picks: Laura Veirs, Experience Hendrix, Boyz II Men, Earthworm Ensemble

Also, David Scott Stone, Slow Club, Little Boots and others

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight AND Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight! Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Nine Inch Nails Auctions Tour Gear on eBay: Get Your Own Banjitar

As we are all very aware by now, Nine Inch Nails is done touring. Finished. Want proof? Drowned in Sound scooped us that a whole chunk of the band's gear is for sale on eBay right now. This is a banjitar, presumably used on Nine Inch Nails' bluegrass songs. ​ Specifically, the first batch i ... More >>

New Thavius Beck Album Arrives Three Months Early (MP3)

Even if you haven't heard of Thavius Beck, you've probably run into him or his work. In fact, used to be you couldn't enter Amoeba's rap aisle without physically running into the natural-sporting, facially pierced producer/emcee. But when he wasn't stocking hip-hop at the record store, Thavius was s ... More >>

Gitmo Torture Music: Songs That Will Break You

Music by Pearl Jam, NIN, R.E.M. used at Gitmo, musicians protest.

The Horrors: London’s Burning

Prowling cobblestone streets, telling tales of murder with bloodcurdling screams

Goth for Life? A View from the Dark Side

When I stumbled upon Emily Gordon's Lemondrop post "A Secret Most Dark (I Was a Teenage Goth)," I read it eagerly. While it was an amusing, slice-of-life piece, I couldn't understand why Gordon would be embarrassed by her goth past. Is it any different than having been a hippie in the '60s or a punk ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails, Health, Gary Numan, Eric Avery, Mike Garson Cover Gang of Four's "Anthrax"

Here are Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery and HEALTH doing Gang of Four's "Anthrax" at the Fonda on Tuesday night. Have a good weekend.

Reznor Nails It One Last Time

Last Night: Nine Inch Nails at the Henry Fonda Theater

Amidst false stops and starts, including a scheduling lapse that caused us to miss Health (we're hoping to see them tonight at the Troubadour), the Nine Inch Nails show last night at the Henry Fonda Theater was punctuated by interruptions and surprises, most of them pleasant, and all mediated in r ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails at Palladium: Sweat and Darkness

Never let it be said that Trent Reznor can't admit when he's wrong. Last spring's co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction was an exciting idea; two alt-rock giants -- one exiting the music scene, the other re-entering -- hitting the road together. But it wasn't NIN's tour to ste ... More >>

HEALTH: Color-Coded

L.A. noiseniks reveal the hidden inspirations behind their remarkable new album

LA Flashback: Nine Inch Nails Live at Helter Skelter

Tonight, Nine Inch Nails begins a streak of gigs at relatively small clubs across Los Angeles. While this may seem like a strange decision for a band at the end of a wildly successful career, Trent Reznor and company are no strangers to the LA club scene. Below, we found video stemming from NIN's Fe ... More >>

Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

NIN.com Debuts New Horrors Video

Nine Inch Nails' website just debuted the new Horrors video, and it's a pretty beautiful thing, if you dig late 90s HTML design and vivid, pixilated flowers. For more info check NIN.com. The Horrors play the El Rey on October 1, and the Glasshouse on Oct. 2. For the entire itinerary, check here. ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Rejected: Trent Reznor is Pissed, Posts E-Mail from Apple on NIN Forum

On May 2 Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor broke the news via Twitter that Apple had rejected the updated NIN iPhone app because it contained "objectionable content," specifically lyrics on the album The Downward Spiral. Needless to say, Reznor is pissed. After posting Apple's rejection e-mail on the NI ... More >>

Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008

No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more

Live in L.A.: Nine Inch Nails, the Forum, September 6

By Siran Babayan Somebody owes Mr. Self Destruct a great big apology. You know him, Trent Reznor, he who hates everyone. Radio hasn’t given Nine Inch Nails the airplay it used to. And at the risk of setting off torch-wielding fans, NIN’s last two albums, 2007’s Year Zero and this year’s The ... More >>

Cherry Bomb: Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's Ultimate How-To for Budding Rock Chicks

Mrs. Chris Vrenna has composed a tome for women who fancy their boys scrawny, not brawny

Another Free Download from NIN

Yet another free download from Trent Reznor is available from the Nine Inch Nails website. No new full-length LP this time - in fact no new NIN music at all, but a batch of songs from the bands that are opening for them on their summer tour. Here's what you get for the cheap price of coughing up ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Free Music and Creative Competition

Trade your heroes for ghosts

Trent Reznor's Awesome Package

Love or hate the music, I'll argue with you for hours (if we've got beer), that the physical album cover of Radiohead's In Rainbows sucks. And love or hate the music on Nine Inch Nails' four-part Ghosts project, I'll similarly argue (again, if we've got beer), that the artwork on that album is quit ... More >>

Bedroom Confidential: New Crop of Boutique Record Labels in Town

Corporate counterparts may want to study this model

Why Torture Porn Isn't

Notes on the contemporary horror movie

Lights Out, Spud Dick

Bow Down!

Nine Inch Nails, with Bauhaus and Peaches at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, July 7

Music Picks

For the week of July 6 -13

Sweet, Horny, Hot and Wet

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

Nightranger

Live at Coachella ’05

After this, we promise we won’t even mention Coachella for a year

Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult

A highly opinionated user’s guide

Werewolves of Hollywood

Edited by Kateri Butler

Serious Racket

The intersection of art and decibels