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10 Things We Learned from Trent Reznor’s How to Destroy Angels Reddit AMA

By Tom Hawking on

All four members of Trent Reznor’s How to Destroy Angels project took to Reddit yesterday for an hour-long Ask Me Anything session, and the result was a wide-ranging and occasionally testy discussion about the band’s music, upcoming live shows and long-term plans. We’ve read the whole damn thing and pulled out the band’s most interesting and revealing responses. If you’re interested in knowing what HTDA’s live show is going to look like, or why they put an underscore after their name — or just why Reznor saw fit to call one of his fans the C-word — click through and all will be revealed. … Read More

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The 10 Albums You Need to Hear in March

By Tom Hawking on

We’ve spent most of the week trawling the depths of our record collection, but now it’s time to direct our attention to the albums we might be adding to said collection in the next few weeks — March is looking pretty decent for new releases, and as ever, we’ve selected the ten albums we reckon will be most worth listening to over the course of the month (along with all the other notable albums scheduled for release, good and bad.) We’re always interested to know what our readers are going to be listening to, too, so do let us know in the comments section. … Read More

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How to Destroy Angels’ Debut Album Is Good — But Don’t Count on Trent Reznor Fans Admitting It

By Tom Hawking on

The debut album by Trent Reznor’s How to Destroy Angels, a band that also features his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and longtime collaborator Atticus Ross, has been streaming all week at the band’s website – and it’s really quite good. If we sound surprised, well, that’s because we are; the public response to How to Destroy Angels has been pretty negative since the beginning. But could it be that the hate directed at Reznor’s collaboration with his wife has always had more to do with the personnel involved than the music itself? … Read More

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Just About Every ’90s Alternative Side Project Album Is Streaming for Free This Week

By Tom Hawking on

This week, it seems, is the week that the grand overlords of ’90s indie return to the land. This morning saw a bunch of new records by the decade’s alt-rock luminaries appearing on the Internet for advance streaming purposes, so we thought we’d do the decent thing and round them up in one place for you. The most prominent, of course, is the debut album by Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace, which appeared online overnight, but there’s also new work from Trent Reznor’s How to Destroy Angels, Thurston Moore’s Chelsea Light Moving, and a (very) belated solo debut from ’90s godfather Johnny Marr. Click through to have a listen. … Read More

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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: School of Seven Bells, Charli XCX

By Tom Hawking on

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week’s MP3 landscape is a pretty barren one, to be honest, but never fear, we’ve still found a bunch of stuff that’s worth your time and bandwidth: the return of School of Seven Bells, new tunes from Jonti, Captain Murphy, and Steve Hauschildt of Emeralds, weird soundtrack-y goodness from Yves Malone, Factory Floor remixing How to Destroy Angels, and a couple of cracking mixtapes for good measure. Since all this action costs precisely nothing, what are you waiting for? All the download links await after the jump. … Read More

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The 5 Best Music Videos of The Week

By Laurie Kamens on

Life moves quickly for those of us who barely look up from our computers, BlackBerrys, and iPods. But at least we have an internet full of music videos to remind us what the real world is like. This week, our video roundup spans an entire lifetime, from childhood to death and everything in between. We experience the ups and downs of young love with the Black Keys, Free Energy remind us what it was like to be stuck in high school, and Drive-By Truckers weave a cautionary tale about life’s unexpected turns. Fast forwarding through time, CoCoRosie envision their future as old willowy women, and Trent Renzor and wife Mariqueen Maandig’s new band, How to Destroy Angels, serenade us from beyond the grave. … Read More

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