Nine Inch Nails Cover Gang Of Four

with members of Janes Addiction, Health and Gary Numan.

Kick Out The Jams

Nine Inch Nails and Janes Addiction are on tour right now along with openers Street Sweepers Social Club which features the Bay Areas own Boots Riley. Last weekend Trent Reznor joined Riley for a cover of the MC5 classic.

Music To Torture By

Apparently music is being used as a form or torture (or enhanced interrogation if your Bush) at U.S. prisons in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The process involves subjecting a prisoner to extremely loud songs played over and over for hours, days, weeks and even months at a time. This tortures greatest hits consists of songs by Nine Inch Nails, Bruce Springsteen (Born In The USA, of course), Eminem, Dr. Dre and cartoon music such as Barney and Sesame Street. Trent Renzor for one is not happy about this. From his blog:

It's difficult for me to imagine anything more profoundly insulting, demeaning and enraging than discovering music you've put your heart and soul into creating has been used for purposes of torture. If there are any legal options that can be realistically taken they will be aggressively pursued, with any potential monetary gains donated to human rights charities. Thank God this country has appeared to side with reason and we can put the Bush administration's reign of power, greed, lawlessness and madness behind us.

Several artists including Massive Attack and Tom Morrello of Rage Against The Machine have banded together to form the organization Zero dB whose goal is to prevent the use of music as torture.