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Monday, March 17th, 2008

From Trent Reznor:
Nine Inch Nails is pleased to announce the expansion of the Ghosts project into the visual world. The band has teamed up with YouTube to host a “film festival” around Ghosts. The concept is for you to take whatever tracks you feel inspired by and create what you feel should accompany them visually. […]

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Reznor Speaks Out

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

In an article on ARS Technica, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor called Radiohead’s well-publicized internet album-release “insincere.” While he admitted the idea was “shrewd,” he said it amounted to nothing more than tricking fans into paying for low-quality MP3s, while promoting just another traditional record release.
For more details, read the full story on […]

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Jonathan Coulton

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Jonathan Coulton roxxors my soxxors. All of his songs are under Creative Commons, which means that people can use them for their own nefarious purposes. Often, this comes in the form of bad music videos on YouTube.
Among the early favorites:

Code Monkey
Re: Your Brains
Still Alive
W’s Duty

He has a MySpace profile as well.

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IndabaMusic

Friday, October 26th, 2007

“IndabaMusic.com is an online collaboration and networking platform for musicians and music professionals. Members can connect with our international community to create online recording sessions - mixing tracks recorded all over the world using our online mixing software.”
Could be interesting. I just signed up for an account and will review it after I get […]

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NiN

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Trent Reznor made this announcement on the Nine Inch Nails website yesterday. Could be interesting. Frankly, I still don’t see it helping the small, independent musician to get noticed.

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Featured “Artist”

Monday, September 17th, 2007

So, I was the featured artist today on TalentDatabase.com. Cool, eh? I guess I need to get some new material done…

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Retune Phoenix

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I’ve started a new group in the Phoenix Metro area to help Retune, Refresh, and Revitalize the local music scene. Check it out if you’re interested.
Retune Phoenix

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A Man I’ll Never Be

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

A guy named Mike Masse performed and recorded his own version of Boston’s “A Man I’ll Never Be” as a tribute to the late, great Brad Delp. Those who are fans of Project Studio Network have likely already heard it, but in case it slipped past you, here’s a link to the song as […]

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