Last friday NIN opened up in Web Palm Beach, Florida with their NIN|JA 2009 tour or (Wave Good Bye tour) depending on how you look at it that includes Street Sweeper Social Club, Nine Inch Nails and Janes Addiction.  Well I’m an avid fan of NIN and how they push technology.  Some of you may know that a while ago he gave away one of his Albums for free on the net, with the hopes that it brings in more people to his show, web site, sells merchandise and basically gives anyone an opportunity for “free” to hear what NIN is.

About a month or so ago, they released their own iPhone Application called NIN Access, which gives you a peek inside of the world of Trent Reznor..

This application connects NIN fans together and allows them to listen to music, download images, video videos, talk with other NIN people using the iPhones built in GPS , so you can talk with local NIN people in your area if you want.

The cool thing is that you can like twitter send a message to the masses including an image and your location.  This can then be viewed on the app or on the NIN Access website with Google Earth Plugin.  So in real time you can watch the community talk about the show, post photos and such.

I decided since I wasn’t able to go to the show in Florida to record about 2 hrs of the web event that went on.  I took this footage and time lapsed it down to about 8 minutes but this gives you an idea of the communication going on before the show, during Street Sweeper Social Club and all when NIN was on stage.

I added the track  Nine Inch Nails – The Big Come Down(Long) to the video and uploaded it to both YouTube and Vimeo.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Anyhow, just figured I would do a small post about this, its been a long weekend and its time to veg.

Follow me on Twitter if you like and if your a member of the NIN website say hi to me , my user name is Gateway69.

Btw, I highly checking out the video interview that Kevin Rose did with Trent Reznor a while back  — Link

Can’t wait till NIN hits Mountain View, CA on 5/22 this month!  Ill be sure to take tons of pictures and video when ever possible!!

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)”

more..

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!

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.