tunequest

Follow close on the heels of the topic of the week, Trent Reznor announced today that after 18 years, nine inch nails is no longer beholden to any record label. hello everyone. i've waited a long time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now nine inch nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. He goes on ...

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It's been nearly forty-eight hours have passed since Radiohead's surprise announcement set off an explosion of fandom around the web. Indeed, Blogpulse shows a more than 1300% increase in the number of posts mentioning the band from September 29 to October 1. Of course, a new Radiohead album is big news, especially after a four year wait, but the real source of conversation is the band's ...

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A very brief post at dead air space, the official Radiohead blog, informs the world that the band's first album in four years will be available for mass experiencing in ten days: Hello everyone. Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days; We've called it In Rainbows. Love from us all. In Rainbows Discbox The post links to the In Rainbows store site, which features a ...

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The Pretender: I think I'm in love with Foo Fighters again. I've watched as the band kinda coasted down hill, or at least plateauing after achieving breakout success and emerging from the long shadow of Nirvana after There's Nothing Left to Lose. After that the band just seemed to be going through motions. I still liked Foo Fighters during that time and some of their songs from ...

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From the soundtrack Singles (1992) This song is among the earliest in The Smashing Pumpkins catalog, recorded in 1992 for the motion picture soundtrack Singles. The film takes place in Seattle and heralds the coming of that city's grunge music, using the local scene as a persistent backdrop the personal and professional turmoil of a bunch of twenty-somethings. Allusions and references to the burgeoning scene abound within ...

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A number of people pointed out to me recently that Radiohead's seminal masterpiece, OK Computer, turned ten years old a couple weeks ago. That's right, it's been a full decade since the band began to cement its reputation as "world's greatest rock band." Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday, my friend Dan was imploring me to give Radiohead a shot. At this ...

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http://www.youtube.com/v/bM7tdWRkBp0 I was tempted to let this pass without comment, but it's just so intriguing. It's a mash up of the Beatles Come Together and Nine Inch Nails' Closer by DJ Zebra. The ending is a bit flubbed, but overall this is a very good combination. It's particularly noteworthy since both sources are rock songs and it's rare to see good rock mash ups. Because of the ...

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From the album Superunknown (1994) One of the best songs from one of the 90s best albums (a 4.51/5 on my scale). The Day I Tried to Live is Chris Cornell and company at the tip-top of their game on an album that delivers smash after smash. It's not as frantic as Spoonman or as sour as Fell on Black Days, but more steadfast and determined in its ...

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From the album Songs in the Key of X (1996) Recorded during the tumultuous sessions of the band's second album, Irresistible Bliss, Unmarked Helicopters is prototypical Soul Coughing and an achievement in "slacker jazz." That intra-band strife of the time seems to help this song, better than any other, capture the zeitgeist of The X-Files, the feeling of alienation and suspicion that the show projected. The intro borrows ...

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