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Insert Witty Headline Using the Phrases “Nine Inch Nails” and “The Slip” Here.

Go visit www.nin.com. Why? Because Trent Reznor and gang have already released their follow up to the well received “Ghosts” with “The Slip”. And it’s absolutely free.
(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years – this one’s on me) -nin.com
If you read my post about Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 fans appropriately titled 1,000 [...]

My Favorite Drummer: Jason Finn

For seventeen of the last twenty six years I’ve been trained as a drummer/percussionist. Despite telling people that I’m a bassist or guitarist first lately, I’m still a drummer at heart. Ask Amber, she’s always dealing with my tapping of rhythms.
The drummer in me has made a little breakthrough lately, My new favorite drummer of [...]

Bullshit: Universal Music Group

Alternatively, Augusto testified that “a common way to dispose of them” is to give unsold promotional CD away, or he may throw them away. Both are unauthorized distributions.
That’s a real quote from a federal court filing from the Universal Music Group. I’m sure that you’ve seen CDs before either in used CD stores or maybe [...]

The Proposed $5 Music Stealing Tax

Here’s a quote to start us off:
Griffin’s idea is to collect a fee from internet service providers — something like $5 per user per month — and put it into a pool that would be used to compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels. A collecting agency would divvy up the money according to artists’ [...]

1,000 fans

Kevin Kelly’s got a post up on his site called 1,000 True Fans. I found this to be especially true when it was posted the same week that Nine Inch Nails released their first album without a major label.
Ghosts was released on Monday morning with a few different options for purchase. Options include free, $5, [...]