Jonthan Rach’s exhibition of photographs presents Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails at the turning point of fame and notoriety as they toured the world after the release of 1994’s The Downward Spiral.
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INTERVIEW — CARLOS ALOMAR On Bowie, Songwriting, Buddhism and Fighting Back The Fear.
Ahead of his appearance at the 2024 David Bowie Convention in Liverpool, I talk to legendary guitarist Carlos Alomar. AS: What was the major creative shift when you were working with Bowie? CA: When I look back on our albums with Bowie, particularly the run of Station To Station, Low, ‘’Heroes’’, and Scary MonstersContinueContinue reading “INTERVIEW — CARLOS ALOMAR On Bowie, Songwriting, Buddhism and Fighting Back The Fear.”
BIG MAN WITH A GUN– How Nine Inch Nails Took On Censorship and US Gun Culture – And Lost – Pt I
On Big Man With A Gun Nine Inch Nails presented the negative side of guns in America — gross and grotesque, violent and vulgar — another painful reality which some of its citizens prefer not to see. As the narrative voice behind The Downward Spiral album Trent Reznor is forever torn between running away and confronting the issue head-on.
[ MR SELF DESTRUCT ] – NIN – The Downward Spiral
The Downward Spiral album is Nine Inch Nails’ most consistent, unified piece of music and remains one of the most artistically and culturally significant albums of the 1990s, with an influence that reaches well into the present day.
Kingdom Come – David Bowie does Television
If heaven was ever a place on earth by 1980 David Bowie had yet to find it. Adopting “Kingdom Come” a song written by Tom Verlaine, as his chosen cover for Scary Monsters, Bowie elevates the lyrical struggle with God and the search for an afterlife into a new realm of spiritual angst.
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