ThingsFallingApart.com Updated with Track Clips and More!
ThingsFallingApart.com has just been updated. The site now offers a high bandwidth version of the site, and a low bandwidth version. The high bandwidth version offers sound (highly recommended). When you open up the high bandwidth version, you will hear an unreleased mix of The New Flesh providing a sonic backdrop to the site.. Once you click around the flash, you'll find a tracklisting, information on Things Falling Apart and a "Trailer" section that is yet to be implemented. There are also many new images from the upcoming EP and assorted promotional items. If you click on the Tracklisting button, you can hear a brief clip of every song. Don't forget to check around for the kind of hidden goodies notoriously buried in NIN websites ;) Thanks to Brent from the.void for the email
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Trent seen at Manson State Palace show
Last night, at the State Palace Theater in New Orleans, Trent was spotted by fans at the Mairlyn Manson show. However, he did not make any special performance with the band. Here's a bit from Daniel, who attended the show: Near the beginning of his set, Marilyn said, (directed at the fans in the pit), "You motherfuckers would be lucky if you were sitting up there in the balcony, because there's a man named Trent Reznor up there!" At this remark most of the crowd cheered, some of them flicked Trent off (maybe a sign of respect rather than otherwise). Trent smiled and laughed, and Marilyn went into his next song. Also, an interview with Manson was submitted from the New Orleans Times-Picayune a few days ago, but had not shown up on the net yet. Nancy was nice enough to send it in to us. About midway, Marilyn discusses working in New Orleans, and why he can never work at Nothing Studios or with Trent again. He has most likely said it all before, but he seemed to feel the need to have it show up prominently in the big newspaper of Trent's current headquarters. Here's a clip from the article: "Antichrist Superstar" was crafted in Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor's Magazine Street studio, a former funeral parlor outfitted with a door from the house where Charles Manson's followers murdered actress Sharon Tate. Much of "Holy Wood" was recorded in Harry Houdini's allegedly haunted Hollywood Hills mansion. Both places offer more mystique than conventional recording studios. Manson feeds off such mystique while recording. "Sometimes it's positive and deliberate, other times it ends up being an inspiration that you didn't know until you're finished," he said. "When making 'Antichrist Superstar,' the album was about destroying yourself to become something else. It may not have been conscious how destructive the environment was in New Orleans, 'cause there were a lot of outside forces sucking you in every direction. The environment in the studio itself, between my wanting to change what I was and Trent's depression and his self-destructiveness all bleeding together, really comes out on the record. But it wasn't necessarily apparent when we were doing it; you only can see it in hindsight." Manson also tried a bit of method acting while recording "Holy Wood." "I wanted to capture the isolation and disenfranchised feeling of being out in the middle of nowhere in Death Valley, so there were field trips made into the desert," he said. "The Houdini house was very secluded and, I wouldn't say haunted, but it had an eerie vibe to it. Nothing that made me frightened, but it was something that stimulated creativity, I guess. There was a great sense of loneliness and a sense of one person against the world on this album; that was only achieved by isolating myself from the world. (Houdini) was an escape artist, and this record was my escape from the media and from the world." Bad memories of New Orleans Manson would consider working in New Orleans again, despite the emotional baggage that now comes with the town. "I never minded New Orleans, but there were a lot of bad memories attached to working in (Reznor's) studio, stuff that you wouldn't want to go back and try and relive. But to go back to New Orleans is always cool. I have friends there, and it has a similar magic to it that Hollywood does, because it has a lot of history. It's an old city, and it has a lot of magic and voodoo and things to it. I always like that." Last year, Manson and his mentor Reznor had a much-publicized falling-out, followed by a reconciliation this summer. "We settled our problems from the past. Where the future stands is uncertain," Manson said. "I don't think we ever would work together again, because we did everything that we could do. It's hard to go back and work with someone again, particularly with two artists that both have very strong opinions, sometimes different opinions." Still curious? Read the whole article here.