Even after Trent Reznor repeatedly stated that the Nine Inch Nails’ tour this year would be their final some people didn’t believe him, but now there is conclusive proof that Nine Inch Nails as we know them are no more.

All of NIN’s touring equipment will be put up for auction on eBay through the seller ningear over the coming weeks. The first twenty guitars of various makes and models are already online. Click here to check them out.

So if you were wondering what to get that special person in your life for Christmas (or, more likely, yourself), I think the ideal present just fell into your lap. If you can afford it.

During Nine Inch Nails “Wave Goodbye” tour, the band set out to play The Downward Spiral live for the first time front to back at Webster Hally NY. Unfortunately, Live Nation would not let them professionally record the show. Reznor however encouraged fans to bring their own cameras/recording devices – with an “open camera policy”. The fans over at The NIN Hotline & This Is On Us put together various fan recordings of the show. The result is an incredible HD video of the whole show, with many raw angles and great sound.

The links to the torrents are below:

Standard Definition DVD torrent file (3.48gb)

Download Peer to Peer using BIttorrent

Download it Direct from Rapidshare

720p HD Video File (2.4gb M4V format)

Download Peer to Peer using Bittorrent

640 x 360 iPod video (736mb MP4 format)

Download from Megaupload

Download from Sendspace

Via NIN.com

During the 2008 Lights In The Sky tour we began an open camera policy for stills and video during all NIN shows, inviting fans to capture the events with anything from a cell phone to a hi-def video camera. The results have been overwhelming, filling our own galleries with thousands of images and videos from every show, and inspiring a number of ambitious fansourced video projects within the NIN community. Some of those projects are starting to surface now, and we couldn’t be happier with the way the fans have organized themselves and created some truly impressive work.

On the recent Wave Goodbye tour, we were unable to professionally film the band’s performance of The Downward Spiral at Webster Hall, due to exorbitant fees requested by the LiveNation venue. Our open camera policy, however, remained in tact, and as soon as the show ended fans took matters into their own hands, organizing online to track down everyone who had filmed HD footage of the show. Now, only two months later, the group has released a polished, edited, downloadable DVD of the full Downward Spiral performance from Webster Hall. The entire thing has been recorded, edited, and distributed entirely by fans, and it’s the latest example of the amazing things fans will do when their creativity isn’t limited by outdated, misguided restrictions.

You can watch “The Downward Spiral: Live” in HD on this YouTube playlist. You can download it via torrent as a burnable DVD or an iPod/iPhone-friendly video from this page (click the question mark link on that page if you’re new to downloading with torrents).

We filmed all of the other final Wave Goodbye shows professionally, and you can expect to see that footage surface in some form or another in the future. In the meantime, we appreciate the efforts of The NIN Hotline, This One Is On Us, and everyone else who helped to immortalize the Webster Hall performance.

Photos and Videos by Brent Koepp

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Trent Reznor recently posted on NIN.com that they will be playing a group of small shows in August to end out NIN. Originally, it was believed that Bonnaroo would be the bands last US performance, but it Reznor explained they wanted to end it with a set of intimate shows.

Getting right to the point, we’re going to play a handful of shows in NYC, Chicago and LA starting August 22nd. They will be informal affairs in medium to small venues with longer set-lists, possible special guests, cool openers and other surprises. Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight – it just didn’t feel right to end NIN that way. An offer to headline V-Fest in Toronto (being announced soon) set the idea in motion to play some FUN shows to end this up with. If we can get it together we’ll film these shows, too.In NYC we’ll be playing Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall and Terminal 5. In Chicago, the Aragon Ballroom. In LA we’ll be at The Wiltern, The Henry Fonda, The Palladium and The Echoplex. These should be cool, unusual and unique shows and I hope you come out – this is it.So far, The Horrors will be joining us for some shows in NYC, Mew will be with us at other shows in NYC, Chicago and LA, and perhaps more.Details and ticket info will be announced shortly, so check back.Thanks,Trent

We posted this over at my blog, onethirtybpm, when the episode was originally released, but I’ve recently viewed it again. It’s really sparked some new ideas I have for Amazing Wow.

Anyway, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor took a series of questions voted on by readers in a 40-minute video interview by the popular news site Digg. Reznor addressed many topics, including his innovative approach to releasing music, the state of his long-shelved Tapeworm project with Tool singer Maynard James Keenan (don’t get your hopes up), and the prospects for a visual adaptation of his 2007 concept album Year Zero. You can view the whole interview after the jump.

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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor took a series of questions voted on by readers in a 40-minute video interview by the popular news site Digg. Reznor addressed many topics, including his innovative approach to releasing music, the state of his long-shelved Tapeworm project with Tool singer Maynard James Keenan (don’t get your hopes up), and the prospects for a visual adaptation of his 2007 concept album Year Zero. You can view the whole interview after the jump.

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Nine Inch Nails

Strobe Light
[Self-released; 2009]

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Links: Nine Inch Nails | Download Album

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Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction have launched the official website for their upcoming co-headlining summer tour. The site features an embedded playlist featuring tracks from both headlining bands plus opening act Street Sweeper, which features Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. The site also offers up, in typical Trent Reznor fashion, a free EP featuring unreleased tracks by all three bands, available in high-quality MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and higher-than-CD-quality WAV files. Full tour dates after the jump.
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Trent Reznor revealed on his Twitter page that the opening act for this summer’s recently announced Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction tour will be Street Sweeper, a side project of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Coup MC Boots Riley. The tour dates that have been announced thus far can be viewed after the jump.
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Nine Inch Nails’ official website has revealed some of the schedule for the industrial titans’ summer tour with Jane’s Addiction. Onethirtybpm reported a couple weeks ago about a supposed set of dates, but those now look to be inaccurate. The tour is now set to kick off on May 8th at West Palm Beach, Fla.’s Cruzan Amphitheater and wrap up June 12th in Charlotte. The schedule is not complete, and by Trent Reznor’s own admission the posted dates are only “what we can tell you so far.” The gaps in the schedule are expected to be filled in the coming days. You can view the current tour schedule after the jump.
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