Allowing your fans to download your music for free may not seem like one of the smartest ideas if you are a struggling artist; but its certainly one of the best ways to promote yourself, or your band. The idea of giving your music away for free is one that Trent Reznor has talked rather candidly about on his blog: Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of mouth ...

A Place To Bury Strangers Onwards To The Wall [EP] Dead Oceans [2012] Fire Note Says: Another stellar listen from Brooklyn's A Place To Bury Strangers! Album Review: Brooklyn's A Place To Bury Strangers roars back onto the music scene with their new EP, Onwards To The Wall . The 5 song set features the louder "industrial" backbone you have come to expect from the group but expands their sonic attack with stronger base lines, increased shoegaze fuzz and a duet with Moon's Alanna Nuala on the album's title track. The record's catchiest track, "So Far ...

Back in the summer of 2007 I ended up working in Toronto for four months. It was a fantastic experience and I've loads of great memories inclduding musical highlights thanks to great live gigs. I of course took the i-pod with me on the adventure but I also threw about 20 CDs into the suitcase to keep me going as well, including the debut from a littkle-known but critically acclaimed band from Scotland called The Twilight Sad . Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters will always be part of the soundtrack of my summer in Canada. Many was the late night ...

Former Luna Lounge co-owner, Rob Sacher, has a brand new book, Wake Me When It's Over , a story of his life as a New York club owner filled with stories about meeting, partying, or working with many iconic bands of the alternative and indie rock world. Rob's last club was Luna Lounge, which started out on the Lower East Side, and the bar featured the first shows from some awesome bands that have gone on to be some of the world's most important and successful music artists. Luna was the room were The Strokes first performed, where ...

The Skies Reveolt will be putting out a new release via Drexel University’s MAD Dragon Records and Motion City Soundtrack’s Boombox Generation label. Check out a blog from Motion City discussing the release below by clicking “Read More.” Please meet  The Skies Revolt , the 4th band in the  Making Moves  single series. Hailing from Grand Rapids, MI, we found these five lads via twitter.  Says Josh Cain:   I wanted to find a band that I had never heard before to work with for the Making Moves project. I tweeted that I was looking for suggestions of new, unsigned ...

Do you remember that debate over whether Leona Lewis should be allowed to cover Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt, despite 75% of the people complaining having only heard the Johnny Cash cover? Well, into the aftermath of this comes Moya, whose new release is an acoustic EP with two cover versions on it. The one we’ve heard, and have for you below, is a version of Primal Scream’s ‘I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have’. So what’s she done? The video is just her and someone playing piano, and she gives a creditable performance with a ...

Maynard James Keenan hat mit seinem Solo-Projekt Puscifer ein neues Musikvideo gedreht. Der verfilmte Song "Telling Ghosts" stammt aus dem im Oktober 2011 erschienenem Langspieler "Conditions Of My Parole", auf welchen kurz zuvor mit sonderbaren Werbe-Spots vorbereitet wurde ( motor.de berichtete ). Das neue Video zeigt Bilder seiner letzten Tour in Kombination mit seltsamen Schatten und turbulenten Nachtaufnahmen. Überzeugt euch selbst: Puscifer – "Telling Ghosts" Das Nebenprojekt des Tool -Frontmanns wurde 2007 mit dem Debüt "V Is For Vagina" ins Leben gerufen. Es folgten zwei Remix-Alben und 2009 eine Live-Show in Las Vegas. Für "Conditions Of My Parole" arbeitete Keenan unter anderem ...

Left SPine Down (LSD) est un groupe canadien cyberpunk alliant de l’électro, métal, punk et drum & bass. Le groupe revient avec leur 2nd long album : Caution produit par Dave ‘Rave’ Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson) Left Spine Down – Caution (Trailer) Les membres de Left Spine Down kAINE D3L4Y – [...]

Nine Inch Nails and How To Destroy Angels mastermind Trent Reznor has shared the stems of five different tracks from his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo score, which was not nominated for an Oscar like his score work The Social Network, which actually won the Academy's gold last year. Fans can access

Madonna is tying herself to what she thinks is cool again. But it's got to be better than the Who Remember when Justin Timberlake ripped the cloth from Janet Jackson's breast at the Super Bowl in 2004 to reveal an imposing industrial tit? (Insert your own Nine Inch Nails joke here.) Pre-boob, the supermassive pop stars of the day – Britney , Nelly, N*Sync and Christina Aguilera – got a chance to perform in front of 110 million viewers. After it, the list of special guests reads as if disco never happened: Paul McCartney , the Rolling Stones , the Who and ...

Alternative rock group Angels & Airwaves are currently on tour with their latest “LOVE, PART II” and had a recent stop at  the Avalon.  Vocalist/guitarist Tom DeLonge (Blink 182) with guitarist David Kennedy (Box Car Racer), bassist Matt Wachter (30 Seconds to Mars) and the recent addition of Ilan Rubin (Nine Inch Nails) on drums [...]

General Music News : Trent Reznor stopped touring with Nine Inch Nails because it became like performing "a poorly written play" every night.

No One Can Ever Know is, easily, the best thing The Twilight Sad have ever done. Just so that we all know where we stand. The Scots have made the best, most refined, most resonant, most immediate record of their not-unsubstantial career so far. It's also, easily, the most isolated, dark, and plain sad album they've made. And this is from a band oft-described as 'perennially unhappy'.  The band's previous two albums were fairly downcast, yes, but there was some sense of belonging amidst all the dark horrible shit going on in otherwise idyllic small towns ( Fourteen ...

On the band's volume, the new EP, and opening for NIN.

"Che angoscia questo Justin Bieber! Come fa Ford ad ascoltarlo sempre?" Le vite degli altri per parlare di me. Un gruppo di film biografici e di personaggi che uniti gli uni agli altri regalano una fotografia, anzi un video, piuttosto completo dei miei (non) valori e delle mie (non) convinzioni. Dalle lotte per la libertà di stampa, espressione e parola a quelle contro il razzismo, dalla genialità di creare qualcosa in grado di cambiare il mondo a qualcosa in grado di cambiare solo noi stessi, da uno sguardo oltre le apparenze fino alla volontà di lottare contro tutte le avversità ...