If you go through the entire animation and wait until it turns black and right click on it and hit "play" it'll suddenly flickers images of what look like new artwork from TFA. The artwork is accompanied by a screeching noise and then you get forwarded to nothingrecords.com.

Thanks John, Screaming Slave and NiceDream.

The statement, from Big FD Entertainment, confirmed that Finck, who recorded with GN'R for two years before returning to his old band, Nine Inch Nails, is back in the fold. Also confirmed is the long-rumored addition of avant-garde guitarist Buckethead to the group.

NINE INCH NAILS
Things Falling Apart
Island CID 8102, �14.99

Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor has a habit of releasing a second, remix album shortly after is "proper" albums come out. Things Falling Apart contains remixes and reworkings of tracks from The Fragile, as well as an outtake from the same sessions, The Great Collapse, and a cover version of Gary Numan's Metal. For those who recognise Reznor's tortured genius, but can't handle the nonstop assault of industrial music, these remix albums, which give equal time (well, nearly) to the subtler side of his writing, are a godsend. While almost all the tracks build into a loud, insistent mantra, they do so by way of passages spare enough to reveal some of the stunning individual layers that, in the original mixes, are hidden in the overall blast of noise. As such, Things Falling Apart offers a fascinating insight into the building blocks that make up Reznor's wall of sound.

Robin Finck had previously recorded on tracks for the upcoming Gn'R release, The Chinese Democracy, but shortly after Nine Inch Nails announced they were playing the 1999 Video Music Awards [with a line-up including Finck], Rose announced that all material Robin had recorded for that new record was to be scrapped and re-recorded.

Thanks go out to blu, NINXPX, and jreese for the emails!

For example, in the first verse of "My Generation," Durst cops script from two songs (Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" and his own "Take a Look Around") and a movie (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), but it's his blatant lifting from Nine Inch Nails' hits "The Perfect Drug" and "Closer" that bugs us most. And, yes, we know he credits NIN in the album and got permission, so he's not really stealing, it's just a little lazy, OK? ...

We suppose it could be some form of mockery towards Reznor, in retaliation for the Durst diss in Nine Inch Nails' "Starfuckers, Inc." video, but that may be giving Durst too much credit. Creative juices stagnant, perhaps?

What a great time :)

Thanks Judy.

At this time, we would like to take a moment to remind you that a press release was issued on October 10 in regards to the release date of the remix EP. The current release date is slated to be November 21st. The Best Buy advertisements are simply misprints, in reference to an older scheduled release date.

For the live DVD, Reznor got fully into 5.1 mode, which was unfamiliar territory for him. With the surround mix, he chose to feed stems into his SSL, which he fitted with a Martinsound MultiMAX. But when it came time for the PCM stereo mixes, the decision was made to go back to Pro Tools.

"I thought, every single thing is in the computer now, because we recorded everything live to 48-track digital and worked with it in Pro Tools," he says. "And I thought, 'this is stupid, why are we even doing this?' So we wheeled out the ProControl and set all the automation in that way � riding the faders. And that made me think, OK, now I've got a 72-input giant analog piece of gear that I really don't need that much anymore because I can do most of it inside the computer.

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The Weathermen

The Weathermen is also offering pre-orders of Things Falling Apart for $14.99, including the Australian import version (same tracks) for $18.99.