Trent Reznor

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, April 13 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival EMPIRE POLO CLUB Although it's unlikely that the Rolling Stones and their sprawling entourage will descend on this sun-baked music festival for a surprise set, as was rumored earlier this year, there are still many intriguing storylines scatte ... More >>

Thavius Beck, Connoisseur of All Things Geeky

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Thavius Beck might be the least geeky self-proclaimed geek I've ever met. After all, we meet up on a Friday afternoon at Amoeba Records, right before the ... More >>

Virtual Boy's Intergalactic Love Story

Henry Allen and Preston Walker of Virtual Boy are two modest guys, mild-mannered to the point of shyness. They are prompt and polite; their hair isn't shaved ridiculously. Their music isn't the product of drug-fueled benders or nightclub culture. They are the opposite of what you'd expect from a ris ... More >>

Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club

Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others

Oghr - El Rey Theatre - 12/11/11

Lina Lecaro Ogre and Bill Moseley scare up some noise​Oghr El Rey Theatre 12/11/11 Better than: Trent Reznor scoring a horror film. Like so many industrial artists, collaboration fuels the fiendish sounds of Nivek Ogre. The same is true of his latest project, Ohgr, his group with composer M ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Limp Bizkit Had An Amazing Run

They don't like hairy buttholes​Fred Durst was the Kanye West of his day. Not to say he was as talented. But at the height of Limp Bizkit's fame -- and make no mistake, this was hundreds of millions of dollars of fame -- he was the same type of beloved villain. He succeed in that era's popul ... More >>

Ministry Movie Screens Tonight; See Al Jourgensen Cooking, Smoking and Tying Off

Fifteen years in the making, FIX: The Ministry Movie screens at the Echoplex tonight. The long-delayed documentary focuses mostly on volatile frontman Al Jourgensen, and also features interviews with folks like Trent Reznor and Lemmy, who offer their takes on Jourgensen. A founder of industrial ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head Returns to MTV October 27: Here's Our Top Ten Music Video Moments From the Old Show

Get More: Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV Shows It's official: The Beavis and Butt-Head re-boot now has a premiere date on MTV: Thursday, October 27th at 10PM. Exciting for fans, but will it be as edgy as it once was? When it debuted in 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head displayed a pathological lack of compass ... 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 >>

Eleven Weirdo Rock Star Alter Egos

​Something about achieving major fame in music seems to drive creative artists to assume new personae. Whether it be fodder for an epic concept album, a stab at a different genre or just plain boredom, many of our favorite stars have conjured up characters in order to explore and indulge their fan ... More >>

SXSW Recap: Japan Nite Raises Money for Earthquake Relief

photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

The Dirt Master: Neil Strauss Talks Rockers, Hookers, Drugs and Getting Hate Mail from his Ultimate Nemesis, Phil Collins

​You'll be seeing a lot in the blogosphere and beyond about Neil Strauss' revealing new book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, (out this week). The tome reveals shocking things about -and intimate moments with- the author's vast array of interview subjects over the years: Lady Gaga bawling ... More >>

William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details

William Shatner is back in the studio working on yet another great big pile of Shat-mazing, Incredibly Strange music.  It's been over a week since Shatner first formally proclaimed Zakk Wylde's mad skills via Twitter( http://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/30113065924034560 "Best, Bill"), but o ... 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"

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Discusses First Tour in 10 Years

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Talks First Tour in 10 Years

Across the Universe: Reznor Previews 'Social Network' Soundtrack, Vanilla Ice Hawks Houses, 'Borat' Star to Play Freddie Mercury

Across the Universe: Reznor Previews 'Social Network' Soundtrack, Vanilla Ice Hawks Houses, 'Borat' Star to Play Freddie Mercury

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 >>

Autolux: A Lot of Hours of Insanity and Escape

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 >>

Ladies and Gentlemen... Fartbarf

Ladies and Gentlemen... Fartbarf

A New Documentary Profiles Obsessed Depeche Mode Fans Around the World

Depeche Mode ought to reach out and touch British filmmakers Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller for making the most loving and life-affirming documentary about their fans. First off, Trent Reznor pops up for a sizeable interview, and when the elusive Mr. Self Destruct talks about his influences, you dr ... More >>

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison and Donovan Leitch List Ten Important Cultural Moments of the 1990s

Editor's note: In honor of the final week of Camp Freddy's December residency, which happens tonight at the Roxy, West Coast Sound asked members of the band to chime in on their favorite music of the decades. Two weeks ago Billy Morrison highlighted his favorite things about the 1970s. Last week Don ... More >>

Rock Picks: Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson, Miss Jilly, Mission of Burma, The Mountain Goats

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 >>

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

The Last Supper: Mansonites Converge at El Coyote

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 >>

Rock Picks: Black Lips, Maria Taylor, Audacity, Irina Bjorklund

Also, Gangi, Chris Cornell, Joe Lally, Useless Keys and others

The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#10-1) (Sponsored By My Secret Identity )

And people acted surprised when Jerry O' Connell landed Rebecca Romjin. 10. Why? Alopecia (Anticon) It's tough to write about Why?'s breakout record without anxiously jotting down a few choice lyrics from songwriter Yoni Wolf's notebook. Not to downplay its musicianship, but Alopecia is forem ... More >>

Idealist Propaganda: The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman

Photos by Erin Broadley. Click images for entire Idealist Propaganda slideshow."Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavitie ... More >>

The 10 Songs/Albums That No One Should Ever Have Sex to Again

Because playing these albums in flagrante delicto is the only romantic gesture lamer than offering a woman a fish sandwich. 10. Cornball Stevie Wonder Songs (I.E. "You are the Sunshine of My Life." "I Just Called to Say I Love You") I'm not going to tell you that these songs don't serve a ... 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 >>

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

Monsters of Reality

Bow Down!

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

Clusterfucked

Smog Pop

The musical life of air pollution

Rock in Total Retrograde!

How do you solve a problem like the Mars Volta?

Penetration

Today’s Iron Maiden sticks it to ya

Better Than Alright

The good news about the kids in Our Town

Miracle in the Desert

Ask Mr. Gold

Marilyn:
A Re-Examination

Skull Skratchers

System of a Down’s cure for metal illness

Music Reviews

Breaking the Law

Rob Halford outside the metal machine