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Category: Music
NIN’s Ghosts: The Numbers Are In!
Turns out Reznor’s download experiment paid off: the Nine Inch Nails frontman went public with the financial results of his first release free of a record label, ‘Ghosts: Volume I-IV.’
Iron Maiden’s Greatest Hits Album for Free! (Kind Of)
And yet another band makes a digital decision. This time legendary metal troupe Iron Maiden has decided to offer their Greatest Hits album, ‘Somewhere Back in Time – The Best of: 1980-1989,’ for free through their official website. The downloads will be high quality audio files (WMA) of the 15 tracks on the album. The …
Metallica Album in September?
Drummer Lars Ulrich recently spoke with Bruce “Legendary Singer for Iron Maiden” Dickinson on Dickinson’s BBC radio show and noted that Metallica’s new album is coming along and the band has their eye on a September ’08 release (perhaps if Ulrich would stop doing friggin’ radio interviews about the album he could focus on the …
‘Ghosts’ Lacks Some Substance
As we reported earlier this week, Nine Inch Nails released their first album free from a recording contract, entitled ‘Ghosts Volume I-IV.’ Through the release of his previous album, ‘Year Zero,’ Nine Inch Nails front (or only) man Trent Reznor was vocal about his displeasure with the record label, specifically about the limitations to releasing …
Gnarls Barkley Triggers Lightning in Your Brain
File this under “Bizarre News for the Day:” Gnarls Barkley’s video for the new song, ‘Run’ has failed the Harding test, meaning that it can trigger epileptic seizures and therefore cannot receive television airplay yet. I don’t know about you but this made me want to see the video all the more. So I did. …
Marley Biopic In the Works
Bob Marley will be gracing the silver screen soon. The Weinstein Co. is adapting to film Rita Marley’s 2004 autobiography, ‘No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley.’ So far, no casting decisions have been made yet, but it is planned that the film will show Bob at two stages of his life: as …
Van Halen Ain’t Van Happenin’
Who’d have thought this circus train would have derailed? Now, nothing’s officially cancelled (yet) but the latest Van Halen reunion tour has been hit with a few postponements and possible cancellations. Van Halen’s website states that Eddie is currently “undergoing a battery of comprehensive medical tests to determine a defined diagnosis and recommended medical procedures.” …
Lyric-Less Wonders: Great Instrumentals
In celebration of Nine Inch Nails’ new album, Ghosts Volume I-IV, an entirely instrumental collection, I thought it fitting to go back and look at a few stand out lyric-less tunes in the old music collection. For me, instrumentals have always been an exciting venture for an album. In a lot of ways, they express …
Chromeo: Love It!
I love Chromeo’s track “Fancy Footwork”. The electro-funk groove totally makes you want to get up and “Two step”. And, I think the song’s got a good a message, I mean, I’m always totally impressed by a guy that shows off his fancy footwork (especially when sportin’ some hot kicks).