The Oedipus Project
The end of the year is always a slow time for new music releases. This year is no exception save a new Nine Inch Nails EP.
Trent Reznor delivers music on his own unusual timetable.
Not the Actual Events is a 5-song extended play with the heavy “Burning Bright (Field on Fire)”.
Nine Inch Nails has been on hiatus for the past 5 years while Trent Reznor performed with How to Destroy Angels and created notable film soundtracks for The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Now NIN returns with a new label and a new album.
With Hesitation Marks due in September, “Came Back Haunted” is the first single that will haunt us all summer.
Queens of the Stones Age, led by the multi-talented Josh Homme, release their 6th album in June.
We’ve waited 6 years for …Like Clockwork and guest appearances will range from Trent Reznor to Elton John.
“My God is the Sun” is the first single.
We Stieg Larsson fans anxiously await the new The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movie. The Swedish film trilogy was stellar so we’re most curious to experience the American version.
The soundtrack certainly bolds well for our cinematic expectations as The Social Network collaborators, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, are once again the musical maestros.
A 6-song instrumental sampler of their 3 hour opus is available as a free download.
Another song on the soundtrack is this searing version of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” sung by Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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The film The Social Network opens tomorrow to general release. It’s the dramatic story of the early years in the development of Facebook that has forever changed the way that we interact.
I had the opportunity to explore Facebook in its nascent incarnation. In 2004 a neighbor who was attending Harvard University asked if he could produce a short documentary about me for his film class. During the course of the filming, he and his partner told me about this new website that had become overwhelming popular at their school and that was spreading to other college campuses. Membership was restricted to students but they gave me their login information and password. The website revealed many risqué and revealing photographs and much of the content was of a student body unleashed. Facebook then was the wild west that has since been settled and has conquered the world.
The movie has received rave advance reviews. The soundtrack was scored by Trent Reznor and his frequent collaborator, the English composer, Atticus Ross. The soundtrack will be available in later October. Here is a free download of a five song sampler from the album.
“Pieces Form the Whole”
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