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We’ve been talking about a complete redesign of this site for at least a couple of years now. I’m sure some of you doubted it would ever happen. I think I probably doubted it myself a few times too, but it’s finally here.
It’s still a work in progress, but we finally got it to a point where it was usable so we figured we might as well let everyone start using it. We have plans to add a lot more to the new site, including a lot of the content that (for the time being) is missing. Stuff like the FAQ, Inspiration pages, Lyrics and mp3 downloads haven’t all been moved over yet, but we’re working on it.
It’s been completely redesigned and is built on a new download service which should fix some of the problems we were having with the old one.
As always, the money from the stuff you buy here goes directly to the band. And we’ve also included links to other sites where you can buy the stuff that we can’t currently sell ourselves. Moving forward, everything that we release will be available in the new store, directly from us!
There’s some other new stuff floating around, but we’ll let you find it on your own. And if there’s anything in particular you really want to see on the new site, please let us know.
A few months ago I posted a video of a cryptic trailer that was playing in theaters before Transformers. It’s a new super-secret project by JJ Abrams, the guy who created LOST. It’s still hard to tell exactly what’s going on but this new trailer sheds a little more light on what you can expect when the movie hits theaters in January.
Yes, that title is a really lame Samhain reference. But, it is Halloween today, so I guess I can maybe sort of get away with it.
Anyway, I just wanted to officially mention our two upcoming shows here on the blog. I should have done this sooner, but I’ve been overwhelmed lately with the amount of places I end up posting our shows (our site, Myspace, Purevolume, Upcoming, etc.) so some of them slip through the cracks.
The first one is this Friday night (Nov 2) at the Moose lodge in Doylestown, PA.
And then after that we’ll be playing our first ALL AGES show in a really long time (Nov 24, to be exact) at Siren Records, also in Doylestown, PA.
As always, you can grab the code on our Myspace page it you want to repost these flyers or send them to your friends.
The internet tubes have been a-buzz for the past few days with the news that Radiohead’s forthcoming new album, In Rainbows, is available for pre-orderdirectly from the band. They are not currently under contract with any major label, so you’re actually buying this album from the artists themselves. What’s more, the digital download version is available for the fan-friendly price of “whatever you feel like paying,” although there seems to be an upper limit of around $200. Those of you feeling super generous will have to just send them a check for the difference.
A few other artists have experimented with this flexible pricing approach, but none as high-profile as Radiohead. And while they’re still likely to sign with a label at some point, this is definitely an interesting step towards shortening the gap between major artists and their fans.
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. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed.
Not much in the way of details, but I’m sure those announcements he mentioned will be very interesting. Can’t wait to see where this goes.
And on a more Sinch-related note, all of our future releases are likely to be available directly from us (in case you didn’t know that already). We’ve felt this is the way to go for a while now and it’s good to see some major artists going down a similar path.
Amazon just launched the “public beta” of their new “Amazon MP3” digital download store.
This is pretty big news. Besides EMusic, all of the other digital stores are using some form of DRM, effectively locking out users of certain hardware and/or operating systems. iTunes sells some stuff in unprotected AAC format but it costs more and from what I have seen the selection is somewhat limited.
“Amazon MP3 is an all-MP3, DRM-free catalog of a la carte music from major labels and independent labels, playable on any device, in high-quality audio, at low prices,” said Bill Carr, Amazon.com Vice President for Digital Music. “This new digital music service has already been through an extensive private beta, and today we’re excited to offer it to our customers as a fully functional public beta. We look forward to receiving feedback from our customers and using their input to refine the service.”
Amazon claims to have 2,000,000 songs available and with most songs priced at $0.89 (10 cents less than iTunes and most others), I’m sure I’ll be buying a few albums, if only to test out the service.
Whether or not they can compete with iTunes, I think this is important in that (if people use it) it will be a great example of how giving people what they want (in this case, unprotected music files) can actually be a more successful business model than trying to have control over the content after it’s purchased. EMusic has been doing this for a while, and been quite successful, but they don’t sell a lot of major label stuff. The fact that a lot of the major labels are on board with Amazon is what makes this interesting.
If you want to see more stores selling mp3s and other unprotected formats, I would recommend giving some serious thought to supporting this new venture. The rest of the industry is no doubt keeping their eye on how this all goes down. And you now have the power to send them a message by only spending your money with companies that respect their customers instead of treating them like potential criminals.
For the second week in a row Sinch destroys all enemies of time and space! And this time they bring it full force with the Ocular Noise Machine. FULL-ON MIND ASSAULT! Do not forget your Reality-preservation Goggles! Without them your consciousness will be obliterated! Enter at your own risk!
Saturday, September 22, 2007
9:00 PM
The Horse
1000 Old Bethlehem Pike
Sellersville, Pennsylvania 18960
Rumor has it that this show will feature a couple new songs that we’ve never played out before as well as the “FULL-ON” Ocular Noise Machine experience!! Your eyes and ears won’t know whether to stop, drop or roll. (Probably all three!)
Like the old saying goes, “I am a Sinch fan and I will come to this show or be cast into the eternal depths of Everywhere Else That’s Not Muggs.”
This volume contains the names of over fifty thousand metal bands. If one presumes that each of these bands had an average of four members, and multiplies that by the bands, one might figure that at least a quarter of a million humans have pledged allegiance to one of these groups of wandering beasts.
