Nine Inch Nails
As expected, Nine Inch Nails announced a full Blu Ray/DVD/digital release for their !!TENSION!! tour video (coming in April 2014), two thirds of which you can watch, right now, for free and in HD.
For those who have seen it, shit, watch it again, it's fucking spectacular.
For those who haven't, see above.
Here's the link: nine inch nails tension
Also, Hesitation Marks received a nomination for Best Alternative Album in the 2014 Grammys.
And Trent could not give less of a fuck.
They Might Be Giants
TMBG have announced that 2014 will be about creating music and not about playing music. They're planning on recording and releasing TWO new albums*. Is there any chance that the new "adult" album will be better than or as good as Nanobots? Only time will tell.
Beck
Well, here's a funny thing.
According to some lucky cockmouth at Rolling Stone who's already fucking heard it because it's been done for months, there is a new Beck album.***
It's coming in February and it has a title, Morning Phase.
It's not a "sequel" to Sea Change, but it seems to sound like one.
Also, it's the second full album Beck has completed since 2008's Modern Guilt, the other one (which was compared to Odelay, most likely the one he was going to call Rococo before some other band had a album with a song of the same title on it and Beck became as shy as a teenager at junior prom) has been named as the source of some of those random tracks that have popped up on vinyl throughout the year, specifically "Gimme" and "I Won't Be Long" AND, Beck said, he hopes to release the whole album in that form.
So it looks like I will, as it turns out, be purchasing a Beck album for a hundred dollars or so.
Such bittersweet rage inside me right now...like a candy bar on fire.
But, fuck it.
I wanted new Beck and I'm getting new Beck.
Woo ha!
You can check out all the stuff I just told you about, but in much more pretentious music journalist detail here.
NEW ST. VINCENT SONG AND TOUR AND ALBUM!!!!!! The album's called St. Vincent, the tour starts in New York on February 26th (the day after the album drops) and the new song, "Birth In Reverse" is here. So very, very excited for this. Her album with David Byrne, Love This Giant, was one of my favorites of 2012 and I can't wait to see what touring with him for a year has done to her sound.
I also just learned about a new Tori Amos album coming in May 2014 titled Unrepentant Geraldines.
Nothing more than that at the moment, but, if her last few releases have been any indication, it's going to be some impenetrable, brave and epic stuff.
NEXT UP: The Small Handful Of Music I Did Not Hate This Year
* Although, since one is going to be a children's album, I'm not really counting that.**
** Unless it's a follow up to No! and not another Disney-funded baby fart.
*** Written by, recorded by, produced by and even FEATURING Beck!
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