Just as quickly as we learn that any new Radiohead tracks will soon require your wallet, Nine Inch Nails opens up with two free singles and then a complete album, all for free. Following up on the success of Ghosts, Trent Reznor and his crew offered up both Discipline and Echoplex as singles, both of more »

For the majority of you who paid nothing for Radiohead’s most recent album, In Rainbows, you may be sad to learn that the UK based band has no future plans to offer any similar promotion in the future. Lead singer, Thom Yorke, called the revolutionary experiment a “one-off” thing. “It was one of those things more »

Radiohead has come up with yet another great gimmick for promoting their latest single, Nude. Nude is currently available on iTunes in bits and pieces called stems, which can then be used to create a remix of the song. The remixed tracks should be uploaded to Radiohead’s web site for the music-loving public to vote more »

Music bands are definitely recognizing the power of the Internet and other web hangouts as a promotional tool for their music. Nine Inch Nails, who were over whelmed by the success of the launch of their web friendly album Ghosts is conducting a film festival using YouTube with the hopes of strengthening its fan base on the web.

Similarly, another band Radiohead, fresh from the success of the release of their album In Rainbows, who used a pay-what-you-like-download is undertaking another step towards unfamiliar routes for radio-friendly bands. This time, Radiohead wants to mobilize its fan base for the production of their next music video. Radiohead in cooperation with Aniboom is sponsoring a contest in search of the best storyboard to use for their next music video. Winner takes home $10,000 plus the opportunity to work with Radiohead in producing the music video.

With a very web friendly release for their latest album, which in turn saw a great amount of success, Nine Inch Nails has taken the Ghosts ‘project’ one step further. In a recent post on the official NIN website, Trent Reznor first begins by thanking everyone for the albums success and then quickly goes on to announce that they are taking another step forward in creating a community around this album.

Today we announce the expansion of the Ghosts project into the visual world. This record began as an experiment with us using sound as a means to describe visuals. Early in the project we thought it would be interesting to see what the community could create / collaborate on as a reaction to the music we were making. We wanted to keep the canvas as blank as possible for you, hence the lack of descriptive song titles and the primarily textural artwork and packaging.

It seems Trent Reznor was right on with his latest album release for Ghosts I-IV. Based on “confirmed” reports the album has seen sales totaling 800,000 during the first week of its release, which in turn brought in $1.6 million. The 800,000 total included all forms of the album, including the free version which was Ghosts I, along with a combination of the other four available paid options. The paid options ranged in price from $5 for 36 DRM-free downloadable tracks to a $300 limited edition box set.

The Charlatans (here in the U.S. they would be called The Charlatans UK) have pulled a Radiohead and are initially making their latest album available to download for free! But unlike Radiohead, where fans had to decide how much they were willing to pay, the Charlatans’ offer comes with no such strings attached. There’s no more »

In a move that is not all that surprising, especially after Trent Reznor had confirmed being an OiNK user himself, Nine Inch Nails (NIN) have confirmed the legality of uploading and are actually encouraging the sharing Ghosts I. They have in fact not only made Ghosts I available for free directly from their own website, but also uploaded the 9 tracks (or torrents) to other places to include The Pirate Bay, What.cd and Waffles.fm. Not only was Ghosts I uploaded, the tracks were also uploaded as a nice high quality 320kpbs LAME encoded album. Of course I am fairly certain that any NIN fan will quickly shell out the $5 to purchase the complete collection, which also is available in a variety of formats.

Nine Inch Nails has released their latest collection of music in a very web friendly format. Giving current fans and potential new fans a wide variety of choices to purchase the music in just about any way that you would like to get it. The new music is a 5 set collection that includes 36 tracks in total, and Trent Reznor is giving you options ranging from purchasing the whole collection as a fancy box set down to getting the first nine-tracks as DRM-free MP3′s for free.