Posts Tagged ‘trent reznor’
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
A dead dream is a tragic sight, and in the often-frivolous world of entertainment, a dead dream is best embodied by those unfortunate project that never see the light of day. And there are a lot of dead dreams out there, moldering in warehouses, vaults, and half-corrupted hard drives.
Thats where the Broken movie comes in. It collects four music videos based on album tracks and bookends them with spliced-up scenes of torture and murder. Adding to the snuff-film notoriety of it all, the movies only available in…
Tags: album, bounty, broken, game, larry norman, lupin, movie, music, neil young, pixies, rei misazaki, trent reznor, unreleased, version
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon has launched a new musical experiment to help artists discover the value of open content distribution. His upcoming solo album will be distributed under a Creative Commons license.
Open source software—which grants users the ability to freely study, adapt, repurpose, and redistribute source code—has disrupted traditional software industry business models, brought unprecedented empowerment to end users,…
Tags: , bacon, business, commons, community, content, creative, distribution, entertainment, industry, music, project, ryan paul, trent reznor
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Will new marketing techniques, a la Radiohead’s In Rainbows, be able to fix the music industry? Trent Reznor is the latest example that they certainly have a chance.
Although the NIN website only made the first 9 tracks of the album free to download, all 36 songs are licensed under a Creative Commons License which means that Reznor has made the entire album free to copy, download, distribute and modify. If you…
Tags: , dan strobel, download, edition, entertainment, ghosts, inch, industry, mr. reznor, music, radiohead, record, trent reznor, way, year
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album Ghosts? on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
“Ghosts I is the first part of the 36 track collection Ghosts I-IV. Undoubtedly you’ll be able to find the complete collection on the same torrent network you found this file”. They further write in the release…
Tags: , album, bittorrent, ghosts, inch, mar, mark band, mr roboto, music, nails, quote, site, torrent, trent, trent reznor
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Bands, Comedians, even record labels go to Pay-What-You-Want
Logan Comby of Dark Sundays from Austin, Texas opens the show. The band may someday have music available through the growing pay-what-you-want phenomenon through Meridian’s S2S Records, a small new label headed up by local musician…
Tags: , adam wade, group, idea, industry, label, magnatune, music, record, revolution, saul williams, trend, trent reznor, wade, www
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