Oh boy. NIN has added an Atlantic City stop at the House of Blues on November 6th, 2008. The show is going to be stripped-down and not as production-heavy as the rest of this year's tour. Check out the tour page for more info. Presale and on sale dates haven't been announced yet, but let me be the first to say, you need to check them out in AC. It'll be amazing.

Head on over to nin.com and check out the newly revamped website. New additions to the site include a brand spanking new forum and an irc chat room. Stick around the chat and you might bump into a few familiar faces. Join the party! Here's Trent's official introduction to the site -

"Welcome to the beginning of the new nin.com! There's a lot of new stuff here we've been working on for quite some time and MUCH more coming over the next few weeks. We're aiming to create the ultimate community and resource for all things related to nine inch nails. Be sure to register to create your own profile and take full advantage of what's here - it's 100% free and will remain that way.

Once you've registered and logged in, you can set up your user profile by clicking on your username in the top right of the page. You'll also have access to our new live chat rooms and our new forums, which are already active and filled with great content and discussion. Here are some useful forum destinations to get you started:

- Introduce yourself in the Community Forum, and please check this message before posting.
- Read what people have been saying about recent shows (and add your own thoughts if you've attended) in the Previous Shows Forum, and talk about future shows in the Upcoming Shows Forum.
- View and share photos and video from the Lights In The Sky Tour in this thread.
- Need help? Check the Tech Support Forum."

I haven't bothered to do up a fancy design for our profile yet, but at twitter.com/ninhotline I may start posting random anecdotal crap that's not necessarily front-page worthy, or if I'm on my phone and don't have time to actually update the site. If you don't know what Twitter is and haven't figured out how Google works yet, here's the Wikipedia entry. Twitter didn't make a lot of sense to me at first, but eventually it kind of did. So, yeah, follow us, it'll be totally insightful and behind the scenes and AWESOME.

The 2008 Voodoo Experience is offering Nine Inch Nails fans an exclusive presale ticket opportunity for the festival in New Orleans. For 48 hours beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, September 3rd, single-day presale tickets will be available for $35, instead of the face value of $50. You will also be able to purchase a 3-day ticket for $115, instead of the face value of $125. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 5th. Nine Inch Nails are playing on Saturday, October 25, 2008.

You can purchase presale tickets via Ticketmaster, beginning at 9 a.m. EDT tomorrow (Wednesday, September 3rd). You'll have to enter the following code when prompted: voonin

Good luck, and remember: these tickets go fast, so I wouldn't sit around too long after 9 a.m. tomorrow.

P.S. My NIN Hotline email is back up and working. If you've emailed me any time in the past 7 months, I promise I wasn't ignoring you ... my email was just broken! Email me with any NIN news that needs posting.

OK, this is kinda neat. Jeff emailed us over the weekend about a writeup that Billboard.com put up a few weeks ago about Nine Inch Nails at 20. It isn't anything that any NIN fan can't find on the NIN Wikipedia page or the NINWiki, but it's still neat nonetheless. It's featured right now on Billboard's main page. Check it out here.

Also, as we reported earlier, presale and on sale dates are slowly trickeling in over at nin.com's performance page. As of right now, a presale date (Sept. 2nd, 2008) has been announced for Orlando, Jacksonville, Charlottesville, & Montreal. Obviously, expect more to show up soon.

Some stuff we've heard before, but all in all a pretty good read:

Trent Reznor: Back From The Abyss

Thanks to instantisolation over at ETS



p.s - Have fun in Philly everyone!

You may or may not have seen the post on nin.com Trent made regarding the re-release of The Downward Spiral - here's an archived copy. Heck, here are his exact words:

Kinda shitty! Well, I got an email from Gary B, who apparently spoke to what records in the UK, where he gleaned that this is apparently being released as part of the 60th Anniversary of Vinyl, which I take to be fancy talk for "Universal wants to see just how profitable vinyl re-release sales can be." While I think it really sucks that this is being done without any input from, you know, the guy who made the record, ~$30 for a new copy of TDS on vinyl beats $200+ for a used copy of the promo 2x12" put out in 94. Tower Records (they still exist?) has it on pre-sale for $21.49, which I imagine Amazon will price-match very soon (thanks nothing_void), and AcousticSounds has it for ~$30 as well (thanks Mr9InchNail).

FYI, The Meathead Perspective has been updated again, JSYK. Kinda sorta. Whatever. Hi, I'm Meathead.

Pre-sales dates for the upcoming North American tour are slowly being added to nin.com at the moment (along with general on sale dates). If you're interested in seeing a show and want to try and score pre-sale tickets your best bet is to check tour.nin.com frequently. Also, don't forget you need to register - all the instructions are on tour.nin.com - thanks LJ nin_news community for the heads up.

You can read the interview with Alessandro in Electronic Musician on their website here. Yes, I know this was posted last month but given the physical copy of the magazine is now available I thought it pertinent.
And I added some articles from the last few months (NY Times, Rolling Stone etc) to the article archive.

..in the midst of live shows and other things.

- There are a shit-ton of reviews for this tour in every American publication in existence right now. Google news, and the NIN-spotting thread in your forum of choice, are your friends
- Justin and Allesandro feature on the cover of Bass Player and Electronic Musician this month. Get down to your local book conglomerate for a copy.
- Apple are spouting some marketing rubbish on this webpage. Apparently you can download something Nine Inch Nails related that you couldn't do so sexily before.


I think that's about it for now. Red Rocks is a week from today - shouldn't you be queueing already?

Hey everyone! I'm proud-ish to present something that will undoubtedly make your Nine Inch Nails concert experience at least 35 percent more enjoyable: Meathead's Lights In The Sky Tour Companion and Fun Book. That is, unless the tour has already passed through your area, in which case you're pretty much screwed. Sorry.

(Note: If you had trouble downloading the torrent earlier, it's because I'm an idiot. It should be functioning properly now.)

But fuck them. I didn't mind slapping their ugly logo on this site from year to year, it was kind of a fun pissing match with other fansite webmasters, but it became increasingly evident that if your band wasn't fairly British, chances were that no matter how many people voted for your site, you weren't going to break the top 10. When we did make the short list in 2005, no one contacted us about it (although our site got thumbnailed in the program for the award ceremony, apparently). So, yeah, get fucked BT.

If you've been keeping up with your subscription to the NIN Tour on Google Earth, you may have noticed that a new question mark has propped up off Route 6 in Ohio, somewhere between Fairview Lanes and Huron. For any more information, check out Echoing the Sound, or download Google Earth yourself, and subscribe to the NIN Tour KML file at tour.nin.com.

We just received news that Trent Reznor has been officially nominated for AskMen.com's Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2008 reader's poll. The poll, which has become an increasingly popular feature of this site, reflects which men in popular culture have had the most influence on other men in general over the last 12 months, or who may have actually changed the way they act, dress and even think.

Based on the above criteria, TR has made the shortlist of candidates, with the final 49 to be determined mainly by readers votes. You can vote as many times as you like (that's AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE) and the final votes will be combined with those from the site's staff to provide the final result.

Something a bit different than the usual 'best band/live show/etc' eh?

You can vote, as many times as you like, right here , under the 'Musicians' section...Final results to be tallied October 21st


And while you're at it, why not DIGG IT too?

We reported about a post at theprp.com mentioning a September 9 release of The Downward Spiral on vinyl, but missed the update on August 11 about how the 2xLP re-release has been pushed back to September 23rd. We haven't really found any place where you can pre-order it yet, though.