Head on over to nin.com or dl.nin.com

Here is a quote from Nin.com today, as pointed out in the free track Discipline they said in the ID Tags to visit NIN.com on May 5th… Happy Cinco De Mayo

“05 May 2008:HALO 27

Click HERE to get the new full-length nine inch nails record: the slip

(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)”

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as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

for those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in july. details coming soon.”

And if your live in the Bay Area, get ready because NIN is coming to town.

9/5/08 Oakland, CA [Oracle Arena]
Pre Sale: 6/12 (5:00PM)
On Sale: 6/15 (10AM)

The Crew over at NIN or Trent is at it again, giving away a free track titled “Discipline”.  You need to simply head on over to this site, enter your email and zip code, a email will be sent to you with a link to download this free track.

Here is a screen shot of the singles cover and we found something interesting looking at the id tags stating to visit www.nin.com on May 5th…  Hmm makes you wonder whats going on next.

Here is a screen shot of the Id Tag pulled from iTunes.

Trent seems to amaze me at the things they are pushing with web technology and releasing more media in digital format.  I hope just more artist pick up on this type of stuff and move to more towards digital downloads, screw the Record Companies!

The other day my friends and I wanted to check out an upcoming DJ show in San Francisco, so we followed the link from the site and it took us to ticketmaster, ok thats fine, i’m used to a bit of extra charges and I can usually add in few bucks here to get my ticket mailed to me or printed out, but low and behold, a $35 show ticket ended up costing me $52.30.

WTF is that about?

Thats an additional $17.30 extra added onto my ticket price. Holy outrage Batman, what the hell are they getting away with here. Ok let me look at my order again to make sure I didn’t accidentally order the gold plated ticket.

Here is the break down:

Main Ticket: $35
Total Convenience Charge: $9.56 (wtf thats not a convenience)
Order Processing Charge: $5.15 (you know processing feeds for cc’s are about 2-3%, thats about $1.05 buddy)
Ticket Fast: $2.50 (oh sure, I just wanted to print my ticket, so you charged me more than a stamp, envelope, paper and mailing it)

I could drove from my house, across the Golden Gate Bridge, paid the $5 fee to go across the bridge, then went down to the Warfield ticket office probably paid $37.45 (im taking into consideration 7% tax), That still leaves me almost $10, where I could of went to this cheap Thai place for some good ass spicy drunken noodle.

This is a complete outrage as to what these companies get to charge now. I mean things on the web are supposed to be cheaper. WTF kind of rip off is this Ticketmaster?

Sasha and Digweed, I need to have a nice chat with you guys at the show, this is really crazy, at least if they threw in a free drink or two I would be happy but I sure feel ripped off.

Mark one of my friends and 1/2 of the Momu crew told me the other day about a new remix they did of a great song from Jan van Lier’ titled “One Through Seven”. This has been one of my favorite tracks over the last week and figured I would share it with the rest of your electronic dance freaks. You can listen to this if you head over to their my space page here.

These guys really rock the break beat genre and put on a great show.  They are local to the San Francisco crowd and really busy on their upcoming cd which i’m lucky enough to have a preview or early version of.

Check out their last cd on iTunes and let me know what you think.

Not much to really report on the front this week, I have been keeping pretty busy with a deadline at work on some new stuff we are working which of course I can’t commit on, but you guys will be the first to know when I can announce what I’m doing.

This is a new track off of the upcoming cd titled “Oblivion with Bells” which is due out some time in October 2007.

Quicktime version (different): Crocodile Video

Youtube version:

I saw them last Friday at the Warfield in San Francisco and deff have to say they rocked the house. I have seen them many times but Carl had a lot of energy at this show and I think they where pretty excited to play in San Francisco.. Check out their new cd when its out or check here for any updates about Underworld.

On October 16th, Side One Recordings will release Underworld’s Oblivion with Bells, the duo’s fifth studio album and their first since A Hundred Days Off in 2002. On Oblivion with Bells, the Underworld palette is richer than ever: epic techno nestles next to frail acoustics, beatific prose next to sharp, urban observation, amazing sound texturing mix with mobile phone recordings.

You can pre order the cd by visiting this site and get a free limited addition t shirt

Here is a before and after photo of the new Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero CD. Apparently after playing the cd the black goes away and reveals some thing below, a hidden message? We don’t know but thought It was a pretty neat gimmick.

Here is some more information I found on the Year Zero Wiki about this CD.

“Year Zero features a thermo-chrome heat-sensitive CD face. Appearing mostly black (except for the title), when heated the disc turns mostly white, hiding the title and revealing lines, blocks, the copyright notice and a series of zeros and ones. The binary sequence translates into “exterminal.net“, leading to a website sharing the same URL.”

If you visit the Exterminal site, click the menu item and then Inmate - exhibit A, which then will play the track “Capital G” off of the new Year Zero cd (.wav file), or you can click here for a direct link to the song.

It looks like Nine Inch Nails (NIN) have allowed for a early preview of their new cd Year Zero which is coming out on April 17, 2007. If you head on over to the Year Zero site and click on the “listen to year zero” in the top right hand corner you will be prompted to enter your email address and phone number (you can make something up) and flash player will open up letting you listen to the entire new cd. Enjoy if your a NIN Fan.