Nine Inch Nails and Carly Rae Jepsen's “Call Me A Hole” Mashup

     So I finally listened to the "Head Like a Hole/Call Me Maybe" mash up “Call Me A Hole” that's making the rounds as I type, it's interesting but not something I would listen to again….I'll let you decide, tell me what you think.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Nine Inch Nails Are Back

    

    So it seems as though Trent Reznor has decided to awaken Nine Inch Nails from it's four year slumber according to a story from Pitchfork. 

    Plans for a tour to begin with some shows this summer and a full on tour this fall and to continue into 2014 is just some of the news he announced in a note, also a new band that includes: Trent of course, Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, Adrian Belew of King Crimson, Josh Eustis of electronic act Telefon Tel Aviv, as well as previous NIN collaborators Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin. 

   Here's the note from Trent

Trent Reznor's How to destroy angels release new video for "How long?"

   Trent Reznor's How to destroy angels have released a video for the song "How long?" which will be included on their upcoming album 'Welcome oblivion' which will be released via Columbia March the 5^th. 

   The video for the song is set in some post-apocalyptic world or maybe even an alternate universe, either way its dark, it's bleak and it's evil…and it goes with the track perfectly. Trent Reznor's wife Mariqueen Maandig Reznor is the female vocal and I have to admit her voice just melts my speakers when she sings. She's that good.

 How to destroy angels will make their live debut at this years Coachella.

Watch video below via NPR.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Trent Reznor's How to Destroy Angels releases New Video and LP Details

    If you're tired of waiting for some new Nine Inch Nails material Trent Reznor's side project How To Destroy Angels has released a new video called "The loop closes," it's taken from their 2012 EP An Omen, plus a date of March the 5^th has been given for the release of their forthcoming full-length, Welcome oblivion. Another bit of Trent news, he will appear on the new Queens of the Stone Age record.


Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Trent Reznor Tweets Us NOT To Buy "Pretty Hate Machine" Reissue

    Trent Reznor took to his Twitter account yesterday to tell NIN fans not to buy Universal Music’s newly reissued version of his 1989 classic “Pretty Hate Machine” , as Trent puts it “a record label bullshit move repackaging the old version. Ignore please”.

  Trent released a remastered version of PHM last November. 

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

“Hears a Track from our latest Album”....The words no concert goer ever wants to hear

         O.K., so let me set the record straight, I’m no musician, I’m no singer, I’m no songwriter in any sense of the word, so I don’t know how it feels when you have to write and record new songs, when you get that urge so bad that you have to share with others what’s floating around in your head, but there is one thing I do know...if you are an artist that has been around for more than 25 years..Nobody, and I mean Nobody wants to hear your “New Stuff” LIVE!!!

I guess most of you are wondering now what this little rant stems from? Here ya go.....

       So last weekend I was down on Yonge Street in Toronto at Sunrise Records where The Spoons were scheduled to do an in store performance, here’s where I fully admit a great admiration for The Spoons, the classic line up of Gord, Sandy, Rob and Derrick put out some really great New Wave hits in the early 80’s, and I can still throw on the Greatest hits CD today and listen to it the whole way through. Now, this was probably my bad (Do people still say that?), since I did already know that they had recently wrote, recorded and released a new cd called " Static In Transmission”, they would be playing stuff off of it, but to only play two old school tracks and all the rest was made up of new stuff...come on, give a dog a bone here.  I know the hardcore fans that were there (The two large guys both dressed in yellow singing word for word to every new song would fit that category) loved it, but the other 99% of us were there just for the “Hits”.

       I’ve have been too many shows over the years where you get the  “established” artists that decide to inflict on the crowd 4 or 5 new songs, then throw in a hit here or there . I’ve actually watched an entire audience of almost 20 thousand people sit down for 20 minutes or more while the band run’s through the new stuff, it’s kind of sad.  

               Back in September of 1995 myself and some friends got tickets to David Bowie’s Outside Tour that he was co-headlining with Nine Inch Nails. When this tour was announced it was a dream line up, how could you go wrong, here you have The Thin White Duke playing alongside Trent Reznor, it was just a very cool idea, then we got the word that Bowie had decided not to do any of his back catalog on this tour, he was only doing one “Classic” song per night and the rest was all new stuff…..oh David, now I’m into new music as much as the next guy, I’ve always considered myself to be pretty forward thinking when it comes to music, up on everything that comes along, but when I decided to go see Bowie (whom I had never seen before) I was looking forward to hearing all the classics…it was not what I or anyone else in attendance expected. Bowie was only 3 or 4 songs into his set and the crowd had started to leave, it wasn’t pretty. Now I stuck around to the end because if I pay money for a show I’m sticking around for the whole show, but for a performer like David Bowie to just play all “New Stuff” was a disastrous choice on his part.

          Now I know my little piece won’t have any effect on the big artists that continue to torture us with those new songs show after show, but if I can just get through to one young band that might grow up one day to fill the stadiums of the world and who will just play “The hits”…then my work here is done

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS