Before PlayStation became a household name, before Neo learned kung fu, before the internet ruined our lives and ChatGPT put the AI in “paranoia,” there was Tron, the 1982 Disney movie that answered the burning question: What if Jeff Bridges was trapped inside a first-generation video game? The crude CGI-animated …
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The inaugural Future Ruins Festival — run by Oscar-winning duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross— has been cancelled a month before it was set to take place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Nov. 8. “Unfortunately Future Ruins will not move forward this year,” the festival announced on Friday. …
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Trent Reznor usually keeps his highbrow Oscar-winning soundtrack composer side relatively separate from his main gig running Nine Inch Nails. But the soundtrack he and longtime collaborator Atticus Ross have cooked up for TRON: Ares is the first time he’s ever slapped the NIN brand on his film work. The …
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The reveal of the 2026 Coachella poster prompted lots of questions, just like every year. “Why is this artist’s font so much bigger than that artist’s?” “Can I see that DJ’s set without missing any of this band’s?” “Am I still cool enough to go to Coachella?” But two lineup …
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Nine Inch Nails try to grasp something real in a chaotic, pixelated world in the new music video for their recent single, “As Alive As You Need Me to Be.” The video was directed by Maxime Quoilin, who centers the clip around a close-up performance from Trent Reznor, while using …
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Welcome to Drummergeddon 2025, when the entire music world wants to know: What the hell is going on with the drummers? There’s an epidemic of high-profile bands dumping their drummers, or getting dumped by them, and nobody has any clue why. It’s not just the Who or the Foo Fighters. …
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Josh Freese stopped performing with Nine Inch Nails in 2008, marking the end of a three-year stint in the touring band for the group led by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. He spent the next few years touring with Weezer, Paramore, Sublime with Rome, and more. Earlier this year, he …
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Who needs A.I. when you have Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross constantly picking up film composition jobs? Nine Inch Nails are feeling cinematic on “As Alive as You Need Me to Be,” their first release under the band name in five years. The song appears on the 24-track soundtrack they …
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Nine Inch Nails kicked off their Peel It Back Tour in Dublin with a selection of tracks the band haven’t played live in a decade or more. The trek this summer is their first in three years. During their Sunday evening show, Nine Inch Nails kicked off their concert with …
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Fifteen years after the last Tron film, it’s time to take the light cycles for a spin again as Disney has shared the new trailer for Tron: Ares, the third installment in the sci-fi series. The preview doesn’t offer up much in terms of storyline — has the digital world …
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