Another month of not nothing from NIN and its related subsidies.
First, we've gotten two remixes of the How To Destroy Angels track, "Ice age", the first by deadmaus (who is not as cool or innovative as he or anyone else thinks he is) and the second by Soft Moon, which is awesome. That one could also be called the "Joy Division remix" because of its sounds, but, whatever. Gift horse mouth bite feed hand don't.
Along with this, Dave Grohl announced that his documentary is going to come with a companion album, Real to Reel, the final track of which is called "Mantra" and which was created by Grohl, Josh Homme andTrent Reznor. It'll be out in February.
In further sort-of-Nine-Inch-Nails news, Reznor and Ross' Girl With The Dragon Tattoo score was nominated for two Grammys, one for best score and one for best deluxe packaging or special edition...which sounds silly.
And, finally, the best for last: in the December 17th issue of The New Yorker, Trent Reznor was profiled...and a new Nine Inch Nails album was announced...for 2014.
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It will be preceded by Interscope releasing a Nine Inch Nails "best of", to which Reznor will create/contribute/dig out, dust off and vomit up two brand new Nine Inch Nails songs.
My fingers are crossed for that cover of "Sex Dwarf".
So, in a nutshell, there were some remixes and the announcements of a song and some news about something happening more than a year from now.
Oh, almost forgot, the New Yorker article also talked about the streaming music service that Reznor has been developing with Beats By Dre.
Apparently it's going to be better than Spotify and Pandora...but I don't really understand how...or care really.
I've never actually used either and don't see myself ever doing so, so...yeah.
Congrats on that and let's hope it gets made obsolete really quickly.
Eels
A delightful and hilarious deleted scene starring E and Paul Rudd from the latest Apatow movie, This Is 40, popped up, making me want to see it even more. I mentioned it is hilarious, yes?
And, as foreseen, a super-adorable video for the euphoric new Eels' track, "Peach Blossom" was released, as well as another track from the album, "New Alphabet".
The new track is a bit darker, but more in a "when things get bad, here's how I deal with it" kind of way.
Not as great as "Peach Blossom" in my opinion, but still very solid.
February 5th cannot get here fast enough.
They Might Be Giants
So, while offering to answer any and all questions about their new album, I asked Flans (via Twitter) about the number of tracks and he told me and only me that it will consist of 25 tracks and clock in at about 45 minutes.
A day or so later, the band revealed the title (Nanobots), the release date (March 5th) and debuted a track on Rolling Stone's web site called "Call You Mom". It follows their tried and true sounds-happy-be-really-isn't-at-all formula that they've been rocking since '86. I like is SO much better than "Can't Keep Johnny Down" and that makes me so relieved. It's...raucous. And there are saxophones and Flansburgh yells in the background at one point.
Good stuff.
And, just a matter of hours ago, I attended the first and second of TMBG's New Year's Eve shows in Brooklyn. The first night was side A of Flood and side B of Lincoln (give or take "The World's Address" and "I've Got A Match" for some reason) and the second night, vice versa. While neither were the best shows I've ever seen, the first one featured five new songs from the upcoming Nanobots, namely, "Call You Mom" (amazing live), "Nanobots" (cannot wait to hear the album version of this), "Circular Karate Chop" (very catchy), "Lost My Mind" (seemed a bit flat) and "Insect Hospital" (which seemed less like a full song and more like a segue, although that may have just been the way they integrated it into the live shows...I suppose time will tell).
Finally, the "finyl vinyl" from the IFC is due to us by March.
Atoms for Peace announced their album title and release date as well as updating their site (www.atomsforpeace.info) with pre-order info and a weird, trippy visual component backed by some instrumental detritus. It's called Amok and it'll be out February 25th and I will buy it.
Aside from all this stuff that has yet to be released, I have actually been listening to something that is NOT Coil; specifically, Matt Berry's music from his show, Snuff Box. I'll forgo trying to make you understand how fucking weird this show is and just focus on the music. Each of the six episodes ends with one or both of the show's stars (Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher) turning to camera and singing a version of the show's theme, which was written and recorded by Berry. Apropos of nothing, although, sometimes, there are very emotional moments where (maybe?) words just aren't enough to exprress what the characters are feeling and that mihgt explain what the fuck is going on. The thing is? The theme is wicked fucking catchy. So much so that I bought it from iTunes and, along with a handful of other versions from the show and few pieces of incidental music posted on a BBC interview with Berry, have been listening to it for long stretches of time, about twenty minutes of music, over and over and over. And, beyond that, when I'm not listening to it, I'm humming or singing it AND I DON'T MIND because it's a good song.
It's really gotten into my head...we'll see what happens in the New Year.
And, speaking of which, be here tomorrow for something
Now leave.
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