Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is going the route of Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and others and releasing his latest work, Slacker Uprising on the Internet as a free download. According to Moore, it’s the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the internet.
Slacker Uprising traces Michael Moore’s 62-city tour of the [...]

Synthopia has the first review we’ve seen of Nine Inch Nails‘ new free album, The Slip:
Overall, NIN’s new release The Slip is an excellent release. It delivers all the things you expect from NIN, it builds on their last release, Ghosts I-IV, and it even has some a couple of tracks that are likely to [...]

Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, [...]

Nine Inch Nails has released a new free mp3 single, Echoplex, via the music site iLike. You can check it out below.
NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music:

The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or use [...]

 

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When we were checking out Nine Inch Nails’ site for their new release, Ghosts I-IV, we noticed that they are doing some really interesting things with podcasting, remixing and Creative Commons.

Many of their tracks are available with Remix-ready Garageband files.
Ghosts I-IV is made available with a Creative Commons license and with multi-track stems for remixing.
They’ve [...]

Nine Inch Nails is offering its latest CD, Ghosts I, as a free download from its site. The collection is a teaser to promote their Ghosts I-IV, a new collection of instrumental tracks.
The official download requires email registration at the site to get a download link. You can also download the collection officially via BitTorrent.
The [...]

CNet has an interesting interview with Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor on his recent experiment with Saul Williams’ debut CD, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust.
Reznor and Williams made NiggyTardust available as a free download, but also let you purchase a higher-quality version for a nominal fee. In the interview, Reznor talks about his [...]

Nine Inch Nails has been planning for a long time to try an interesting experiment with their latest album, Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D.
The release features fourteen tracks from the group’s Year Zero album, remixed by a select group of Trent Reznor‚Äôs ‚Äúheroes, friends, and strangers.‚Äù Along with the release, NIN is including remixable Ableton Live files, separated [...]

Nine Inch Nails announced at its site that it is going forward without a major-label contract:
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 [...]