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Alternative Press is reporting that Trent Reznor has asked Atari Teenage Riot to continue as openers for the upcoming North American Nine Inch Nails tour. The full article can be found here.

Trent Reznor won 'Suffering Artist of The Year' Award in the New York Times paper. This was a compliment though: Also, Newsday put thier "Music Year In Review" in their newspaper dated December 26th. 3 of the 5 Staff writers picked The Fragile as one of thier favorite albums. Here's what they said: Many Thanks again to Ca9 for this news.

Cristiano, a nin fan from Italy, has told us that there will be an interview on Italian Television (channel TMC2) with Trent Reznor and Charlie Clouser. The interview will be featured on a program called "File" and will air 2:30pm (Italian time) on Thursday, December 30, 1999. Thanks to Cris for letting us know!

On a side note, the staff at the NIN hotline hopes you are continuing to have merry holidays and hope you keep checking back for news as it happens! It looks like news is running somewhat thin during the holidays, but we have some surprises in store soon and news to report!

|esoteric|, resident channel fiend, managed to snag over 60 stills from the MTV Fragility Tour Special that aired on December 21. You can view the 60+ stills in their glory at his Fragility v1.0 site. Big thanks to eso for snagging all the stills and throwing them in an easy-to-use navigation!

The hotline has recieved the complete transcript of the MTV.com / Yahoo / Sonicnet online chat with Trent Reznor featured last night. You can read through the article here. There are some typos that were copied directly from the chat so bear with them.

Hotline reporter WhitechapelMolly has recieved a press release direct from a Nothing Records source. It reads as follows:

Programmer Keith Hillebrandt from Nine Inch Nails is currently in search of a male vocalist to work with on a new project at Nothing Studios in New Orleans. The project is described as "moody and atmospheric, along the lines of Keith's remixes and reconstructions, with more of an obvious song structure". Guitarist Danny Lohner (nin) and drummer James Basor (Thrill Kill Kult) have already contributed to the project which so far consists of about 20 tracks. Any interested vocalists can send there demo kits to:

Diffusion
PO Box 56637
New Orleans, LA 70156-6637

With the hotline having all of its updating and mail difficulties, updates have been obviously sparse. But we are close to getting this fixed. For now, we have some news items we've recieved the past couple days. Thanks for being patient with us!

• Huge Interview in German Magazine: Visions. You can read it here. Many thanks to Sabrina!
• NIN Article in Aussie Mag. spotted by Scott
• Ninjaw has posted some amazing live photographs from the NIN show in Paris. Go check them out here!

Thanks to all who have submitted news. Don't be discouraged as we are getting back on our feet and should be running better than ever here soon!

Many thanks to smashedupsanity.com for providing us with the press release Nothing Records sent out on the 15th.The issued statement explains that nin.com and mtv.com will feature an online chat with Trent Reznor in conjunction with a half-hour special on MTV displaying footage from the European Fragility 1999 tour.

Please note: because of an excruciatingly slow DNS switchover process, we may not be getting all the emails you need us to here at the hotline. Please contact us at [email protected] until everything blows over. Thanks for hanging in there.

As you may have noticed, The NIN hotline has been going through some difficulties during the server change. It seems our DNS entries took longer then expected to change over, so different parts of the world were seeing various versions of the hotline. But finally, it appears it is slowly making its way to the majority of the world. With the DNS problems, also come e-mail problems: so if you submit or have submitted news and we don't update with it, it's not because we don't like you, we might have not recieved it. So please be patient with us as we try and bring things up to speed. There will be a full update on v3.2 when all of the changes are complete. Thank you for sticking with us as we slowly make a change for the better!

Alot of people, including me, have recieved thier copy of We're In This Together from The Weathermen. Just like to note that the CDs came with a "Made in Sweden" sticker on it. All three CDs come in plastic digipack cases (like the head like a hole maxi, sin).

There have been many different rumours about what will be on MTVtonight at 10:30. IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THERE WILL BE A SHOW ON NIN tonight on MTV. Some listings say there will be a NIN Special, but many say that the Tom Green show, or "Prince TV" will be on.

EmpireDirt of Stuck in this Dream made an interesting comparison of a recent tr photo in Rolling Stone. Click here to make your own comparison, it looks pretty convincing. The said character, Kamui, is from the anime flick X/1999, "one of my favorite movies" EmpireDirt adds.

Starfucked said that the Virgin records store in Vancouver recieved all three of the We're In This Together single. All three say 'Made in Germany' on the cd and sell for 9.99 (Canadian) each. All three come in a cd single jewel case.

If I were you, I'd check your local CD stores in the next couple days, it should be there soon.

The Tower Sunset in Los Angeles has recieved the first two parts of the We're In This Together single. The Cds come with a 'Made in Germany' sticker, and sell for 7.99 each. Thanks [email protected].

In the latest issue of Spin Magazine (with Reznor on cover), they compare many 'Rock Myths' from the 70s and the 90s. In this article, Trent Reznor is put up against Jimmy Page in a fight to see whose been involved in the stranger rumour. Heres what it said:

'70s ROCK MYTH: "Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page made a deal with the Devil at the crossroads in exchange for fame, fortune, and the privelege of performing obscene acts on groupies using seafood." '90s ROCK MYTH: "Technological wizard Trent Reznor is actually an intelligence agent who was rewarded with rock superstardom for his services to the C.I.A. Playing The Downward Spiral backward reveals the key to his strange spy 'code.' "

WINNER: PAGE

Remember, this is not comparing the music of either guy, so please dont get offended. It was just a joke that mentioned Reznor. Thanks [email protected].

Meathead, our local columnist and area duck junkie has recently recieved an exclusive from Nothing Records regarding Halo Seventeen due out early 2000. Being the up-to-the-minute news source we are, we have asked meathead to post his scoop to replace this weeks Meathead Perspective. Thanks to meathead for this extreme exclusive!

During the movie "Tuesdays with Morrie", Hank Azaria describes how much Morrie (played by Jack Lemon) loves to dance. He used the quote "...he could Jitterbug to anything, name a band...Nine Inch Nails". Amusing, eh? Thanks: Natalia MD.

In an article entitled The Untimely Demise of Industrial Music, a primarily positive review is put forth by Bill Aicher of music-critic.com. The review covers the strong and weak points of the album, and tags The Fragile with a 4.0 out of 5.0 rating. Thanks to David for sending the link :)

#nin99 regular howisya speaks of Weird Al's latest video. The song, which parodies Closer, Reznor's remixes of I'm Afraid of Americans, and most noticably, Terrible Lie. HowIsYa's friend, munkyfieces[sic], describes the video: There you have it. Thanks a lot HowIsYa, MunkyFieces :)

Huge thanks to David of Fountain of Decay for sending us the following (very nice) pics from the upcoming Spin magazine, where The Fragile is named album of the year. Check them out :)

Here's the setlist from the show on December 1st in London. The set contains mainly the same set as the other European shows. This date marks the last date in Europe for Nine Inch Nails. They have the rest of December off. In January they will hit Japan and Australia's Big Day Out Festival.

Carson Daily, DJ for MTVs Total Request Live will be running their special of the hundred greatest videos of all time. As posted yesterday, Closer< /i> was rated the seventeenth best music video ever. Heres the catch, MTV has been advertising that Carson Daily will be dressing up as EVERYONE on the countdown. That means Carson Daily will be dressed as Trent Reznor. Someone please take a picture of that :-)