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Written by Adam Dubbin
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Sunday, 03 May 2009 |
 Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Courtesy of NIN.com
On the heels of two recently released albums, one of which is free to download, Reznor and his supporting cast will embark on a tour with rock legends Jane’s Addiction this summer. NIN will finish the American leg of their world tour in Manchester, Tenn., on June 13. As quickly as they arrive, they’ll be off to Austria to play across Europe.
Reznor’s accomplishments with Nine Inch Nails run much deeper than just the millions of records he has sold, the tours he has been on (including the first Lollapalooza), and the work he has done for films (including a cover of “Lost Souls” by Joy Division for “The Crow” soundtrack and the song “The Perfect Drug” for David Lynch’s “Lost Highway”). Nine Inch Nails bridged the gap between the 80s techno-industrial electronica of bands like Kraftwerk, Nitzer Ebb and Front 242 into the mainstream music scene of the 90s and is responsible in part for the proliferation of the modern techno scene.
Nine Inch Nails now stands with eight full albums and countless remixes and B-side releases (all of which can be tracked sequentially using the ‘Halo’ numbering system – the current ‘Halo’ value is 27 for the album “The Slip”). It is my personal hope that they play a little of everything at Bonnaroo: from the early beats of “PHM” to the crunching guitars of “Broken” to the more modern beats of “The Slip.”
So why should you catch Nine Inch Nails? So you can witness a musical pioneer and legend perform live. I can promise I’ll be there.
[NIN, NIN2, NIN Wiki, Front page image courtesy of Nine Inch Nails official Web site]
Adam Dubbin, TheSequitur.com's assistant managing editor, is a second year graduate student in audiology at the University of South Florida.
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