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Modwheelmood, the project of former NIN beeps n' boops player, Alessandro Cortini and Forever Red guitarist, Pelle Hillström, is getting ready to embark on a tour across the West/South next week, and the band updated their website with the following - Head here to check out the new song and head here to see the dates that have been announced so far.

Sunday morning afternoon update - CDs WILL be available at the shows. There was a shipping scare but it looks like everything has been worked out.

The screening of Colin Cooper's LITS edit in Pittsburgh on June 7th has been canceled due to circumstances beyond the organizer's control. However, they are looking to reschedule the event elsewhere so please feel free to send emails to the following address - suicidecontrition@gmail.com

There is a 6 page (including photos) interview with Trent Reznor in this month's MOJO, where he talks about his future plans, reflections on the making of Antichrist Superstar, being homeless during the Self Destruct tour, and several other things.

Here is a link to a readable photo album of the interview. If anyone fancies creating some proper hi-res scans of this interview at some point, ping me and I'll edit this post with a link to them! Click here for hi-res scans of the interview - thanks Sheepdean!

Thanks to Trains for bringing the interview to our attention.

For those in the Pittsburgh area who might want to warm up for the June 10th Burgettstown show with a little Lights In The Sky action:

The Carnegie Library of Homestead will be holding a completely free screening of Colin Cooper's edit of the Victoria show in their Music Hall on Sunday, June 7th @ 6pm.

The event is titled Zeros & Ones. The library is located at 510 East 10th Avenue in Munhall. The show will be projected in HD.

Attendance is limited to 500 folks on a first-come first-served basis.

For more information on the event, please visit the following websites: https://www.myspace.com/zerosandonespgh - and - https://www.librarymusichall.com/nin.html

From TR:



Not that you should need any motivation to donate to something like this if you have the spare funds, but with enticements like those it's a real no brainer. Even if you're not attending any shows, you can still donate a tenner or whatever you have spare. Head over here for more details.

If you've got an existing Reddit account, you can enter a contest to win one of two tickets to Friday's gig in Mountain View. All you have to do to win is "Guess the number of Twitter followers @trent_reznor will have at exactly 23:59 Pacific tonight. Entries must be made by 23:00 Pacific" and post your guess in this thread on Reddit. There are more details on the first link, so go check it out.

This is a little off-topic, but I thought it was good enough to share. I had some time to kill yesterday, for the first time in a while, and I got the following email from a Texan who goes by Irit Staff:

Now, I've gotten a few emails from people who are upset over the thwarting of their destiny to get hitched to and have babies with Trent Reznor, and I usually ignore them. But like I said, I had time to kill, so, engage!

Irit then goes on to tell me what he thinks about Trent's girlfriend, how he believes Trent is "back on dope", vehemently denies that he is gay, that I've created a fantasy around Trent Reznor, and after I told him that I didn't think he was gay, but that I thought he was a girl, he got really upset, telling me
I must have touched a nerve! That last line gave me douche chills. Anyhow, I wanted to send an email to Irit and let him know how laughable the notion is that anyone in my company would care about the rantings of a groupie and my replies, and it's okay to be gay, or to be a woman (aw shucks, or both!), but he asked me to not write back to him. I hope that when he does call my work, we put him on speakerphone and have a good laugh. If he needs to show them a copy of our conversation, I've put the whole thing online here. You know, in the interest of full disclosure. "No joke, that's how I roll."

After playing two dates in Florida and one in Georgia, surprises to the setlist include songs that haven't been performed live in 14+ years, songs that have never been played before, and a surprise on-stage collaboration with Saul Williams. Among the songs that make me wish I could make it to more than one show this tour, NIN have played Now I'm Nothing, I'm Afraid of Americans, Metal, Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now), I Do Not Want This, Gone Still, Lights in the Sky, Physical, Heresy, The Downward Spiral... this is not a tour to be missed. Saul showed up to sing along on Survivalism lastnight before going into a live rendition of Banged & Blown Through from Niggy Tardust.

There's also some great merch available this time around, with the two most talked about items being the onsie (start 'em young) and a NIN messenger bag. There are a number of photos of the merch booth over at Echoing the Sound, the photo from the left being taken from a post by Febronia on nin.com. Oh, hey, here's a really big picture of the merch booth by grattage, who goes on to mention that


Another online community has cropped up recently and has been trying to organize audio and video from the new tour - Reflecting in the Chrome.

Also of note: Peter L wrote in with details about his experience at the show - and noted that "when I [picked up] the tickets, the NIN.com rep said that all pre-sale ticket holders could attend the sound check," something he wished he'd known about before because he'd already made pre-show plans. He also noted that "there was special VIP parking for pre-sale ticket holders that was much closer to the amphitheater than the regular parking."

And as usual, don't forget the picture and video galleries at nin.com, where folks have been tagging their YouTube and Flickr photos from the appropriate shows and they've been aggregated and accumulated.

I guess "fangasm" would be a good way to sum up this tour so far. Thanks to everyone who wrote in!

The crew over at Moshcam.com have put together their own edit of the Portland multi cam footage that became available last year. I just received a standard def. version on dvd from their director Paul Hannigan and i've gotta say it's really, really good! Go check it out in HQ over at their home page: Moshcam.com


I'll organize a torrent of the standard def. version very shortly.


While you're over there, check out the gigs section to view numerous streaming shows they've shot themselves at various Aussie venues. There's some great stuff including Amanda Palmer, Mogwai, Public Enemy, The Dandy Warhols and many others.




Thanks to Paul

Now that the New NINJA tour is up and running, the Reflecting in the Chrome guys have this new announcement:

A week ago the guys at https://thisoneisonus.org came to me about collaborating on a new project for the NINJA tour. I thought it would be a great idea because of the fact I sent my Audio and Video footage to them for the use in their upcoming release of the NIN 405GB footage and all of the video show in Las Vegas called "Another Version of the Truth". I think they have put a lot of work into it and here is just a little snippet of the Las Vegas footage.

Basically what we are looking to accomplish here is to find all the sources for all 26 shows on the NINJA tour and with the varying setlist from night to night were gonna release a sort of AATCHB style footage. Where we will take a song from each night and edit all the different songs into one big video at the end. Of course here at RITC we will also do *FULL* show multi-cam works for every show that we get multiple sources. After the first night in WPB, it seems clear that we can have some great stuff to compile. stay tuned for more information, but for right now head over to the forums if you wanna discuss further projects or you have questions about taping. But it seems that security is WELL INFORMED about the open taping policy! I hope everyone enjoys the shows they are going to!

Tour documentation is already off to a great start with this guy streaming the show live last night, and these fantastic youtube videos surfacing already. Let's put these off the wall setlists to good use!

Your prayers have been answered! Meathead's NIN/JA Tour Fun Book has arrived, so now you don't have to worry about not having anything to color while you're at your stupid Trent Reznor concert! Sorry I wasn't able to get it out in time for the West Palm Beach show, but... well, let's not kid ourselves, who really gives a shit about West Palm Beach anyway. Nothing but a bunch of assholes if you ask me. Anyway, you Tampa folks are all set!

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO GO TO THE PAGE WHERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FUN BOOK TO YOUR COMPUTER

P.S. If you don't know how to download torrents, let me remind you that it's fucking 2009, and to please get with the program already. Ask your grandma to teach you how to use uTorrent.

Tonight marks the beginning of two important things in NIN world. The first is the beginning of the five-week NIN/JA 2009 tour with Jane's Addiction & Street Sweeper Social Club. If, for whatever reason, you haven't downloaded the NIN/JA EP, head to ninja2009.com to do so now to get an excellent preview of what to expect.

The other is that for all intents and purposes, this is the final Nine Inch Nails tour for the foreseeable future. Tonight marks the beginning of 14 straight weeks of NIN touring the globe for one final wave goodbye. Head to tour.nin.com to check out any dates and look for shows that still have tickets available in your area and get teary-eyed when looking at the top and bottom graphics.

As always, there are two places to document your experience: Echoing The Sound has a wonderful Tour Journal forum for members and guests who attended each show while forum.nin.com has a Previous Shows forum for the same purpose.

And of course, there is the NIN: Access application for the iPhone that will be getting its first test at a concert tonight in Florida. Head to the site to check out the live Google Earth feed where users in the area will be meeting up for the show, discussing the songs and sharing their photos.

*Edit* After speaking with our legal council, the title of this update has been changed. Enjoy!

The O'Reilly Radar interivewed Rob Sheridan about the iPhone App rejection recently, and the audio is up here if you want a listen.

In this interview with Rob Sheridan, Nine Inch Nails' Artistic Director, Rob discusses the experience of getting the rejection letter from Apple, and what effect it has on the band's plans to build community applications on the iPhone platform. You'll hear Sheridan express an uneasiness that Apple can act as judge and jury without providing any transparency into the approval process.


Also. Kaustik emailed to tell us about a NIN show in Madrid on the 30th July. His source looks to be from a promoter site, so I'll slip it in here.

A few weeks ago after the Digg Dialogg w/Kevin Rose was posted, Trent Reznor posted in the nin.com forums that he was up for answering some "true fan" questions in a video response. Two days of submitting questions, one week of a committee narrowing them down to 22 questions and two days of final voting later, we had 10 questions ready to go.

Bill Alsen, a.k.a. Papagolash interviewed Trent last night and asked him those 10 questions. Right now, all we have is a compressed .mov file of the interview, but there is a Vimeo link on its way and I'll post that in this update as soon as it's available (I'm told the file is over 1 GB, so it's going to take a bit of time).

Click here to view the video interview between Bill and Trent here (updated to a Megaupload link as of 1:45pm ET)

*5/7/09 Edit - As promised, here's the video from Vimeo.



Fans Q & A With Trent Reznor. from Questions for Trent on Vimeo.

Thanks go out to guilty for hosting and uploading the video, Bill for conducting the interview, and, of course, the communities of both Echoing The Sound and nin.com for making this all possible.

I got an email from Shawn Faherty about a video he created for 8 Ghosts I, which has been accepted into the SIGGRAPH 2009 Animation Festival, and into the Motion Graphics Festival 2009, and was the winner of the "Best Video" award at the Dead Video/Live Video Festival. The video grabbed my attention enough that I not only made it all the way through, but felt the need to ask if I could share it on the Hotline. Permission granted, so, here it is:

Ghosts 8 Nine Inch Nails Video Submission from massta on Vimeo

The final results from the 13th Annual Webby Awards have come in and Trent Reznor has been awarded the Weby Artist of The Year. Head here to see the full list of results in all sorts of online categories.

Also of note is 42 Entertainment's win in the Integrated Campaigns category for their Why So Serious? campaign to advertise last year's The Dark Knight movie. They were also nominated for the Viral Marketing category but lost out to Diesel.

Trent's personal life is no one's business but Trent's.

All of us at the nin hotline would like to extend our congratulations to former NIN drummer Meg White on her recent engagement and impending nuptials.

EDIT: Almost forgot, a special thanks to the countless people who submitted this breaking news.

Slashdot has a story up on the rejection of the new update for the iPhone NIN App. Apperently, Apple has labeled The Downward Spiral as "objectionable content". The comments from Slashdot users are quite interesting, as well.