Nine Inch Nails
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Interview by Ned Raggett, Rock's Backpages audio, November 2012
Taking a break from Nine Inch Nails, Reznor talks about his How To Destroy Angels project: making their An Omen EP_ ; how he, Atticus Ross and Mariqueen Maandig work together; how the songs are constructed and recorded; how he manages his different projects, and how he’s kept evolving as an artist.
File format: mp3; file size: 26.2mb, interview length: 27' 15" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 22 February 1990
"IT'S NOT like I'm a horribly depressed person trying to come across as having a noose around my neck," says Trent Reznor, the sole member ...
Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (Island) ****
Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 23 February 1991
NINE INCH Nails is Trent Reznor, and it's fitting that his surname borders on 'razor' because Pretty Hate Machine is musical mutilation of the first ...
Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (Island)
Review by Neil Perry, Select, March 1991
TWO YEARS ago, Trent Reznor locked himself in a studio and took a long, hard digitally-sequenced look into his soul. Pretty Hate Machine was the ...
Guns N' Roses, Skid Row, Nine Inch Nails: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 7 September 1991
APPETITE FOR INSURRECTION ...
Nine Inch Nails: A Bang On The Gear
Report and Interview by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991
SAN FRANCISCO, city of peace and love. Perhaps the last refuge of the beautiful people who advocate making babies, not bombs. But, hey, get out ...
Nine Inch Nails: Bierkeller, Bristol
Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991
NINE DANKE! ...
Nine Inch Nails: International 2, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991
LOOSE SCREWS ...
Doing the slam: Tales from the mosh pit, where rock 'n' roll is a contact sport
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 23 February 1992
THESE DAYS, rock 'n' roll has become a contact sport. Not all rock 'n' roll, of course. You won't see slam dancing at a Moody ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, April 1994
Violence! Paranoia! Misery! Welcome to the nightmare world of NINE INCH NAILS! STEFFAN CHIRAZI gets inside the head of mainman TRENT REZNOR to discover the ...
Nine Inch Nails: Barrowlands, Glasgow
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 4 June 1994
IN HIS dreams, Trent Renzor is the last great warrior of industrial culture. As the Nine Inch Nails lynchpin. he wants to scare the living ...
Profile and Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, November 1994
"IF YOU'RE NOT ready for it, it's terrible, it's noise. It's the most uncommercial record that's ever been in the Top 50," says Trent Renzor ...
Nine Inch Nails: Madison Square Garden, New York City
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Spin, March 1995
FOR A LONG TIME NOW, there's been but one thing missing from Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails: Crackerjacks! ...
Nine Inch Nails: The Story Behind The Song: 'Head Like A Hole'
Retrospective by Cathi Unsworth, RAW, September 1995
"Synth faggot," that was how Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor attempted to describe himself to a bewildered press when he first appeared supporting Guns ...
David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails: Great Woods Amphitheater, Mansfield, MA
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 1995
THE MOMENT to remember was the two headliners playing together, the end of the Nine Inch Nails set fusing without pause into the beginning of ...
David Bowie/ Nine Inch Nails: Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey
Live Review by Cliff Jones, MOJO, December 1995
SOMEWHERE, ROUGHLY TWO THIRDS OF THE WAY through the non-linear-Gothic-drama-hyper-cycle-murder-mystery known as David Bowie's Outside, the seasoned pro lost his audience. What began with the ...
Trent Reznor: Sympathy for the Devil
Interview by Eric Weisbard, Spin, February 1996
POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS MAY HAVE BRANDED TRENT REZNOR MORALLY REPUGNANT, BUT YOU BRANDED HIM SPIN'S ARTIST OF THE YEAR. SENIOR EDITOR ERIC WEISBARD JOURNEYS TO REZNOR'S ADOPTED ...
An Interview with Trent Reznor
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 1999
THE PRINCE of pain has a severe case of the sniffles. Imprisoned in a swanky London hotel, Trent Reznor has been laid low by a ...
Charles Manson: The Man That You Fear
Retrospective by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 7 August 1999
Thirty years ago this week, followers of CHARLES MANSON committed a series of brutal murders that changed US culture forever. On the anniversary of the ...
Book Excerpt by uncredited writer, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001
Trent Reznor, b. Erie, Pennsylvania, USA ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, February 2005
FIVE YEARS. It's a long time by most people's standards, but when such a period passes between albums by Nine Inch Nails, the turbulent electro-noir ...
Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth (Interscope)
Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 29 April 2005
This is only the fourth album since 1989 from Trent Reznor, responsible for everything here save the drums, but the man's influence is pervasive. ...
Nine Inch Nails: Fighting Tooth And Nail
Interview by John Doran, Classic Rock, July 2005
After finally admitting to himself that he was in the merciless grip of alcohol and drug addiction, Trent Reznor (aka Nine Inch Nails) got himself ...
Nine Inch Nails: Scala, London — Still Dirty On The Inside
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 August 2013
On the evidence of last night's Scala show, Nine Inch Nails have recharged their batteries in spectacular style, writes Luke Turner, highlighting the subtle undercurrents ...
Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks
Review by Ned Raggett, The Quietus, 29 August 2013
"I've beat myself up over the years and I need to try new things, I need to push myself, I need to break the machine, ...
Nine Inch Nails: Reading Festival / Leonard Cohen: The Brighton Centre
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 31 August 2013
The Nine Inch Nails frontman is still furious after all these years. But, at 78, Leonard Cohen knows it's better to be a lover than ...
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 5 March 2014
"I feel some responsibility to the audience, I want them to leave feeling that they've had some kind of experience that was satisfying. But at ...
see also Trent Reznor
see also How To Destroy Angels
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