Category: Music

Nine Inch Nails’ new album, "With Teeth," will be coming out in May (their first in 6 years), and on Thursday they posted a video for their first single, "The Hand That Feeds," on their website. Not sure if it’s headed for MTV–it’s really just Trent and the boys performing in a recording studio, apparently filmed in one take. The video kind of mimics the touching 1994 "March of the Pigs" spot, minus the fishnets and awkward moshing. The song isn’t breathtaking but it’s growing on me. Glen pointed out that they stole the guitar riff from the Kinks’ "You Really Got Me."

(If you’re into synth porn, go here.)

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The mastermind producer behind the Wu-Tang Clan, the RZA — AKA Robert Diggs, Bobby Digital, Prince Rakeem, The Abbot, and Rzarector — was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air this week. Most startling revelation: Bobby wrote for the high-school newspaper. Most awkward exchange:  RZA explains to Terry the flute melody he used in the Ghost Dog theme:

RZA: It was joy mixed with sorrow and morbid.

TG: Morbidity, did you say? Yeah. Well there’s something very eerie about the theme.

RZA: That’s what I mean. I think, I meant eerie then, if morbid and eerie don’t mean the same thing.

TG: [laughs] What…

RZA: Do they mean the same thing? Morbid and eerie?

TG: Well eerie is kind of mysterious and morbid has to do with death. But I think it’s both, because the movie has a lot to do with death.

RZA: Right. Well I’ll say eerie then. And morbid.

Free shout-out to the first person who can tell me which New Yorker writer has Kelis’s "Milkshake" as his ringtone.

British rapper Dizzee Rascal and a member of his posse were arrested  last week for possession of drugs and weapons. What drugs? A (presumably small) amount of weed carried on the person. What weapons? A baton and pepper spray. Hmmm. Is this an upgrade or a downgrade for this rapper’s rep?

If you are unfamiliar with Dizzee, you best fix up, look sharp. He’s the man my boy Glen remarked "speaks fluent rooster." Well, an undeniably British rooster, with lines like "trainers by the tonne" and "flushin’ MCs down the loo." Please, Diz, anything but the pepper spray.