News Archive

This is for all community current events. By community, we mean anything that's in the Nine Inch Nails online community (including ETS, TNH, Nin.com/current, etc.)

What's Happenin'?

December 2011

12.10.11
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack Out Now. [1]

12.2.11
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack Pre-Orders and Free Sampler. [2], [3]

October 2011

10.25.11
Listen to NIN's new cover of U2's "Zoo Station". [4]

10.10.11
Nine Inch Nails cover U2 announced. [5], [6]

May 2011

5.28.11
Via a leaked red band trailer which showed up on Youtube, but was subsequently deleted, for the movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - which Trent reznor scored at this time - information was acquired that Trent is doing a Led Zeppelin cover (Immigrant Song) with singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's called Karen O. A snippet of the cover is played during the trailer.

March 2011

3.12.11
Trent states that mixing the still long awaited The Fragile reissue with Alan Moulder is still in progress via Twitter. [7]

January 2011

1.7.11
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to Score David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. [8], [9]

November 2010

11.22.10
Pretty Hate Machine Remastered Edition Out Now. [10]

October 2010

10.22.10
Pretty Hate Machine Remastered Edition announced. [11]

September 2010

9.29.10
The Social Network Soundtrack available now worldwide. [12]

9.17.10
The Social Network Soundtrack: Free sampler EP + album preorders. [13]

July 2010

7.1.10
The Social Network Soundtrack announced. [14]

June 2010

6.1.10
Download Trent Reznor's How to Destroy Angels EP For Free Right Now. [15]

May 2010

5.26.10
NIN track Theme For Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is released on the soundtrack for the film Tetsuo The Bullet Man. This marks the first new NIN material since The Slip which was released in May 2008.

5.14.10
Trent Reznor Unleashes How to Destroy Angels' Bloody, Fiery Video. [16]

5.4.10
First new musical output of Trent after the release of NINJA 2009 Summer Tour EP in March 2009 can be heard via Pitchfork. The Song is called A Drowning by How To Destroy Angels. [17]

April 2010

4.28.10
How To Destroy Angels get announced via Pitchfork.

February 2010

2.1.10
Trent announces that he is back in the studio working on new music. Most likely for the then still unknown How To Destroy Angels project. [18]

September 2009

9.22.09
Trent announces that work on the long awaited The Fragile reissue has begun via Twitter. [19]

August 2009

8.4.09
Trent Reznor announces Queen Kong and io echo as additional supports for some of the last shows.[20]

July 2009

7.18.09
Trent Reznor announces that HEALTH will be joining them for the final 2 shows. [21]

7.10.09
Trent Reznor released the dates for North American club performances which will be the final NIN tour. Four nights in NYC, two nights in Chicago, and four nights in LA.[22]

7.7.09
Trent Reznor tweeted about that last set of NIN tour dates at small venues.

June 2009

6.22.09
Trent Reznor received government recognition for helping Eric de la Cruz in the form of proclamations from the US House of Representatives (three Congressman in total), the US Senate, the NYS Governor, the NYS Senate, the NYS Comptroller and the Suffolk County Legislature.

6.9.09
Trent Reznor was presented with a Special Achievement Webby for Artist of the Year at the annual Webby awards.

May 2009

5.20.09
Reznor offers three different donation packages on nin.com in order to raise money to help Eric De La Cruz pay for a heart transplant. The different priced donation packages range from attending soundchecks to spending time with the band before a show and watching the performance from the side of the stage. A regular donation option is also set up on the nin.com store.

5.5.09
Trent has won the Webby Award for Artist of the Year. The award recognizes the free release of The Slip and NIN's increasing level of online connectedness with fans.[23]

April 2009

4.15.09
The NIN:Access app for the iPhone became available for free from iTunes.

March 2009

3.20.09
NIN/JA 2009 (ninja2009.com) went live at approximately 9:15 AM PST. From the new site you can download the new NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler including new music from Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, and Street Sweeper (Now called Street Sweeper Social Club). The new NIN songs included are the long awaited studio recordings of "Not So Pretty Now" and "Non-Entity."

3.5.09
Trent Reznor announced via nin.com that Street Sweeper (a new project featuring Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and The Nightwatchman and Boots Riley of The Coup) would be the opening act for the NIN/JA tour.

3.3.09
Trent Reznor posts the first tour dates of the previously announced NIN/JA tour.[24]

February 2009

2.16.09
Trent Reznor posted on nin.com that NIN were planning a double headliner tour with Jane's Addiction, and reaffirming that after the remaining tour dates, Nine Inch Nails would be on a hiatus.

January 2009

1.7.09
Trent posted the long-awaited "gift," 405 gigabytes of HD tour footage filmed at several venues on the current tour. Fans are able to edit and distribute this in any way and some groups (This One Is On Us) have already begun putting it together. 1.5.09
Reznor posted a message on nin.com stating "Remember that gift I mentioned? It's almost here."

December 2008

12.17.08
Trent Reznor thanked fans for the completion of 2008 as well as Alessandro Cortini and Josh Freese for their contributions. Reznor also stated rehearsals of the new lineup will take place next year. He also hinted at a possible holiday gift on the website.

November 2008

11.25.08
New nin.com features are revealed (video/photo galleries, social media features, ...)[25].

11.15.08
Trent Reznor revealed that Josh Freese's replacement for the 2009 leg of the Lights In The Sky Tour will be Lost Prophet's Ilan Rubin.

October 2008

10.30.08
Tapulous released the NIN edition of their popular iPhone/iPod Touch rhythm game, TapTap Revenge. The game includes 13 NIN tracks from The Slip and Ghosts I-IV, multi-player mode, and NIN-themed graphics.

10.29.08
"Thrilling new features are about to be added to nin.com in the very near future! Be sure to keep an eye on it.Meanwhile, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!"

10.17.08
A collection of photographs by Rob Sheridan taken from the Lights In The Sky: Over North America 2008 summer tour have been made available for purchase exclusively at frcphotos. Photos are available in two sizes: 11” X 14” and 8” X 10”.

September 2008

09.27.08
Moment Factory, the company who provided the unique interactive systems used on the current tour, have made a short video detailing some of the video effects and how they work. The video can be viewed here. A teaser can be viewed here.

09.12.08
Wired is running a feature about the Lights In The Sky tour that focuses on the technological aspects of the show. It’s a good read for those of you interested in some of the behind-the-scenes details, and includes some photos and video footage of the stage production. The article can be viewed here.

July 2008

7.25.08
The first leg of the Lights In The Sky Tour kicks off in Pemberton.

7.21.08
The Slip is released in physical format into shops.

7.19.08
NIN play a private dress rehearsal in LA. Tickets for the show were hidden in various places with clues provided through GoogleEarth.

June 2008

6.28.08
Lights In The Sky Over South America tour dates announced.

6.26.08
A download map for The Slip is made available through Google Earth, representing downloads according to geographic region. [26]

6.25.08
Rehearsal footage of "Echoplex" is posted on nin.com.

6.24.08
Rehearsal footage of "Letting You" is posted on nin.com.

6.23.08
Rehearsal footage of "1,000,000" is posted on nin.com.

6.14.08
Retail information for The Slip is posted on nin.com with information on its CD, DVD and vinyl release.

6.05.08
Lights In The Sky (also known as Seed 5) was released via nin.com for free download. The EP is a promotional release containing songs from bands that will support NIN on their upcoming tour, Lights In The Sky Over North America. Additional material, including wallpapers and web graphics, is included in the download. [27]

It is revealed that Rich Fownes has left the band and has been replaced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.

May 2008

5.05.08
The Slip (also known as Halo 27), the eighth and latest studio album from Nine Inch Nails, was released today as a free download, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "Discipline" and "Echoplex."

The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files.

5.02.08
Two new NIN songs have been released with artwork and lyrics. Discipline and Echoplex. They're pointing to the nin.com website on May 5th.

April 2008

4.22.08
Discipline is released as a new single. The release of the song later will lead to the release of The Slip [28]

4.8.08
Ghosts I-IV is released. [29]

4.04.08
Robin Finck is announced to again be a member of Nine Inch Nails (original post). There is a calmly overall lineup refreshment as well, which is evident at NINs Youtube profile, with Josh Freese, and Alessandro Cortini returning to the live performance incarnation of NIN, as well as a new member, Rich Fownes.

March 2008

3.26.08
A new Nine Inch Nails Performance (2008) schedule was announced after much speculation. List here

3.24.08
Unexpectedly, a new Nine Inch Nails performance has been announced to take place on July 25th 2008, at 6/25/08 Pemberton Festival in British Columbia. Tour announced here

3.02.08
Release of Ghosts I-IV. [30]

February 2008

2.18.08
Trent makes another mysterious comment on nin.com. [31]

2.16.08
Trent makes a mysterious announcement on nin.com which just says "2 weeks". Speculation begins. The hint points to the then unknown Ghosts I-IV release 2 weeks later. [web.archive.org/web/20080217221344/http://www.nin.com/]

December 2007

12.18.07
Still album available for download from iTunes.

12.16.07
The Downward Spiral instrumental posted on remix.nin.com.

12.2.07
Trent starts posting mysterious pictures on nin.com which turn out to be pointing at the release of Ghosts I-IV. [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42]

November 2007

11.26.07
Wallpapers for Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D made available from yearzero.nin.com.

Remix.nin.com opened and available to create, share, download, and listen to thousands of NIN remixes in this new community of user-generated creativity. [43]

October 2007

10.25.07
The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust!, the new album from Saul Williams, produced by Trent Reznor, announced and available for free or $5 download.

September 2007

9.15.07
New videos added to the official NIN YouTube channel.

9.02.07
New videos added to the official NIN YouTube channel.

August 2007

8.19.07
Live video of "The Great Destroyer" added to the official NIN YouTube channel.

8.15.07
Live video of "Me, I'm Not" added to the official NIN YouTube channel.

July 2007

7.16.07
Desktop and iphone wallpapers added to yearzero.nin.com.

May 2007

5.17.07
A new remix of Even Deeper on the Remixes Compiled album by Telefon Tel Aviv has been released. It is available via iTunes digitally or on CD via Hefty Records' website.

5.12.07

The remix namespace is taken offline due to ninremixes.com having a new wiki setup.

April 2007

4.21.07
New Wiki users must be registered for one day and have a valid, confirmed email address to edit.

4.18.07
At 06:14:23 GMT, yearzero.nin.com updated the page to include a link to "resources" [44] This "year zero resources" page included links to ninwiki.com, ETS, and opensourceresistance.net.

4.16.07
The websites presumably inaccessible until the release of Year Zero are now up and running. On Free Rebel Art, a phone call received by submitting information quotes Federal Statute 24.2.1 which corresponds to Free Rebel Art, this is probably the reason for the numbers on all the World of Year Zero pages.

4.13.07
At a meeting in the streets of LA on April 13th, men in a strategically placed van gave everyone ammunition boxes filled with Resistance propaganda (fliers, stencils, buttons, stickers) and some people received boxes with cell phones. The phones had a note: "If you are 18 or over, and will be in the Los Angeles area Wednesday, April 18th we need you. If not, give this hardware to someone else. This phone is your membership card to the resistance. Within the next few days, we will use it to contact you with details of this first resistance meeting. It will get you and one friend through the door. Keep it charged, and keep it with you at all times. Most importantly, there are only 100 minutes on these phones, so use them up and you'll be SOL. We'll be in touch."

Year Zero gets released.

4.12.07
Open Source Resistance is updated.

4.12.07
New page found, One Country At A Time.

4.4.07
Two events happened on this day:

1. Year Zero was leaked today, and is available on various torrent sites, as well as being available for listening in its entirety on the Year Zero website.
2. A new phone number was discovered today on the back cover of the Year Zero album, below a logo and piracy warning of the United States Bureau of Morality. The number is: 1-866-445-6580, and upon calling you hear a pre-recorded message about your eminent re-education for the possession of illegal materials.

March 2007

3.14.07
Using names and codes found on buttons at the Year Zero listening parties, new 'shards' have been found for The Mailstrom. They're currently being used and tested and a new site has been discovered: here

3.13.07
The lithograph given to those who fore-order Year Zero at the listening parties have a link on them to a website here. On that page a link to here. Using information on the page, another site has been found here. New wiki pages are Mailstrom

3.12.07
An Art Is Resistance flier handed out at the 3/11/07 London show lead to a location underneath a bridge, revealing a large billboard that had operation swamp 0000 written on it. This led to the discovery of a new site here. Clues on the website revealed a new website here. New wiki pages for these sites are: Operation Swamp 0000, and Operation Chip Sweep

3.07.07
Several USB drives given out before the Nine Inch Nails concert in London were revealed to contain both the high-resolution and low-resolution versions of the "Survivalism" video. The video had led to the discovery of three more sites.

3.06.07
Trent Reznor has told Kerrang! magazine he is making the concept of Year Zero into a Movie [45]

3.03.07
A radio leak of "The Beginning of the End" was recorded and put into MP3 format.

February 2007

2.28.07
In the Beside You In Time Blue-Ray booklet, the phrase 'securebroadcastinformatics' appears. Lo and behold, the latest Year Zero Web site: Secure Broadcast Informatics ([46]) which was already discovered and sends you to [47]

I read recently that a radio DJ/program director Alan Cross from 102.1 CFNYFM The Edge in Toronto found a copy of the track "The Good Soldier" on his desk. I wrote him begging to share it if it's true.

update: I got an email back from Alan Cross; he said that he has no idea where that rumor came from. Although even the official website for the radio station he works for mentions his personal review of "The Good Soldier" as being a "Moody, slower. Great grind-y bass synth groove. A natural pick for a single!" which can be found here.

2.25.07
An image found on the USB drive containing "In This Twilight" shows the famous Hollywood sign broken down and the words "In Memoriam" underneath. This led to Hollywood in Memoriam[48].

2.24.07
A hidden link in the lower center part of the Symphony of Noise website revealed and confirmed the album art for Year Zero. It is essentially the same image that was previously released, however it contains "Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero" in the top left hand corner. NOTE: Symphony of Noise is a fan site, so the different cover version is most likely fan art.

2.22.07
New leads are coming in fast and heavy now.

1. First, after the show in Paris, France, a new site was discovered thanks to a "red flier" that was distributed. The site is Art Is Resistance or http://artisresistance.com.
2. Then, on the AIR site, there are many links, pages and even some downloads like avatars. All incorporate the "Resistance Logo", which can also be seen on Reznor's latest concert jacket.
3. A video is posted on [49], showing among other little hidden bits, a video of The Presence.
4. Finally, the newest news: http://yearzero.nin.com/0024 reveals the album cover for Year Zero.

Currently, there are a few new leads and songs!

1. U.S. Wiretap, a brand new website that was found as a result of typing in the government agency referred to on:
2. 12163331810, a new phone number that was found through a spectrograph of file:
3. 2432.mp3, a file that was included in an USB flash drive that also contained:
4. Me, I'm Not, the latest leaked song by Trent and co.
5. In This Twilight, hot off the USB from the Manchester show.

2.12.07
The ARG for Year Zero starts. See also: Year Zero Research