Video of the Day: Early-’80s Trent Reznor Covers Billy Idol
We’re not prepared to say that this video is either “good” or “bad” — what’s important is that it actually exists. What you see below is pop-industrial god Trent Reznor singing Billy Idol’s “Eyes...
View ArticleWhat’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds In Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we found out that watching sad movies can actually make you feel better. We loved this short video about a real-life toy maker with a raunchy sense of humor. We thought this...
View Article10 of the Grossest Music Videos Ever Made [NSFW]
It’s been quite a year for the Flaming Lips — they’ve released something pretty much every month, including a 24-hour song and an EP in a gummy bear skull. And, of course, they’ve managed to thoroughly...
View Article10 Albums Recorded in Fascinatingly Exotic Locations
Piramida, the new album by Danish five-piece Efterklang, is out this week. The album continues Efterklang’s march away from the experimental weirdness of their early recordings toward a more...
View ArticleThe Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Forget being re-elected; we imagine Joe Biden’s even more excited to have landed a cameo on Parks and Recreation. The episode in which he appears will air next Thursday, November 15th. We hope...
View ArticleThe Most Controversial Music Videos of All Time
A new exhibition opening April 3 at the Museum of the Moving Image will celebrate music videos as an art form at the “forefront of creative technology, its role in pushing the boundaries of innovative...
View ArticlePaul McCartney, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nine Inch Nails Headline Outside...
Paul McCartney, Phoenix, and Nine Inch Nails are among the headliners at this August’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yeah Yeah...
View ArticleA Selection of the Flat-Out Dirtiest Songs in the History of Music
The good folk at Dangerous Minds are great at unearthing amazing YouTube rarities, and they outdid themselves last week with a 1971 performance by Ike and Tina Turner, which goes down in history as one...
View ArticleWhen Viral Music Ad Campaigns Go Wrong
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, goes the old Madison Ave truism. But is it actually true? Boards of Canada’s epic album-announcement promotion stunt got them a whole lot of coverage in various...
View ArticleThe Internet’s Funniest Band T-Shirt Parodies
A hilarious T-shirt design has been making the rounds on the Internet over the last couple of days — it’s the iconic radio wave landscape from the cover of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, emblazoned...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Songs We Heard This Week: The xx, Wu-Tang Clan
It’s Friday, a fact that would be more exciting if the weather in NYC were less like a particularly unpleasant monsoon day in Bangkok. Anyway, as ever, it’s time for Flavorwire to round up the best...
View ArticleNine Inch Nails Track List and Collaborators Revealed
Following a major announcement about their worldwide tour to support their upcoming album Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails revealed the titles of their 14 new tracks and the names of their...
View ArticleWatch David Lynch’s New Video for Nine Inch Nails’“Came Back Haunted”
David Lynch may not be interested in making a new movie, but he made a new music video for Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. The short for the band’s new single “Came Back Haunted,” off their upcoming...
View ArticleFamous Directors and Their Famous Music Video Muses
As we reported yesterday, Paul Thomas Anderson has reunited with Fiona Apple for the video for “Hot Knife,” the second single from last year’s The Idler Wheel…. It’s the latest episode in a long...
View ArticleA Thinking Person’s Guide to Industrial Music
Like any musical genre or subgenre, trying to fit an artist into a specific sound is a difficult task, and one that’s often fraught with debate. For the sake of argument and against our better...
View ArticleDirector’s Cuts of Famous Music Videos
Director’s cuts: sometimes they’re the definitive version that the auteur wanted to make all along, and sometimes they’re a demonstration of why letting the director have the final cut isn’t always...
View ArticleThe 10 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Le1f, Nine Inch Nails
It’s Friday, which means that it’s time to look back at the best new music we’ve heard over the last few days. This week, there’s an awesome new track from Le1f, along with more heartening proof that...
View ArticleStream the New Nine Inch Nails Album
Several years after their heyday, the presence of Nine Inch Nails is still strong in pop culture, which you can definitely see if you’ve listened to Yeezus. It seems like the perfect time for them to...
View ArticleThe 10 Albums You Need to Hear in September
The summer’s over, and so, thankfully, is the annual drought of decent album releases that comes with the summer heat. There’s a heap of good stuff out over the coming month, so as ever, here’s our...
View ArticleWhat Does Trent Reznor Have to Be So Upset About in 2013?
There has to be some term for the Generation X alt-rock dude who has a huge bank account, big-time awards, what appears to be a happy and creatively fulfilling marriage, and has managed to stay...
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