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Following on from this news earlier this month, the latest on the NIN official website is Trent Reznor is doing a Radiohead and releasing the new album from Saul Williams, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! directly to us. We need to register our details and we will be able to download it on 1st November.

Go to www.niggytardust.com for all the details.

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Babs My Gang

as mentioned in NNME

Thanks to IanAR at StumbleUpon for the heads up.

In case you missed it, here's the link to the Nine Inch Nails Open Source Remixes - http://www.9inchnails.com/remixes/.

From the site: "After months of deliberation of nearly 200 fan submitted remixes, "The Limitless Potential" open source remix collection is finally available. This 21 track collection of the very best Nine Inch Nails remixes can be downloaded absolutely free from Painful Convictions. Thanks to Trent Reznor for providing the Multitrack files to the public to do with as they will, and the many talented artists who remixed the tracks.

Several judges took countless hours to review each of the 200…

A gorgeous mixture of alt-country, indie rock, folk, bordering on freak-folk and most definitely duyster is this track from Arbouretum - Mohammed's Hex and Bounty.

If you're familiar at all with any of Will Oldham's works, in any guise, you'll recognise similarities but distinct differences. Arbouretum is fronted by his brother, Ned Oldham. Dave Heumann, who was Will's backing guitarist, heads the project.

From their MySpace: Members of Arbouretum also play in Human Bell, Television Hill, the Anomoanon, and Frenemies. Previously, members of Arbouretum have played in the Bonnie…

Further to my journal, Radiohead - In Rainbows : What did you pay?, results of a similar poll conducted by Record of the Day were published today.

There were over 5,000 submissions and the average price paid was £3.88.

(Average price per download, excluding discbox buyers*: £3.55)

28.5% of respondents said that they had decided to pay £0.00-0.01
56% said that they had paid between £0.02 and £10.00 for the download.
2.5% paid between £10.00 and £39.00 for the download.
13% said they had paid £40.00 for the download (which came free with the discbox)

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Radiohead's new album In Rainbows, out today.

Approximately 8,000 listeners in Last.fm already.

So, gotta ask - what did you pay? Did anyone pay a penny? Were you surprised at the 45p credit card fee? Did it make any difference?

And just out of interest - what are your marks out of 10?

edit: if you didn't give very much, and you're not getting the £40 set, do you feel guilty now you've heard it? Do you think you'll go back and donate more?

Bx

Quite possibly the coolest video I've ever seen is the interactive one for Arcade Fire for Neon Bible.

Click on the screen and control what Win Butler does with his hands, or click on his face and watch it disappear in a puff of smoke. (!!)

Go play here.

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I've been meaning to write about The Arctic Circle for a while and introduce them to you.

I'll start at the beginning. You may have seen me listening to my Chiller Cabinet tag radio, which is as close as I can get to the real thing - a show that started out five years ago on Classic FM (now moved to Chill DAB).

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Earlier this year, the producer of the show, DJ Ben Eshmade, started up a new project - The Arctic Circle - http://www.jointhecircle.net - which is a music collective. In their newsletter, they…

I'm so lucky this week. I've been feeling just a tad under the weather and really needing softness around me - and that's exactly what I got. Neighbours have been quiet, weather has been dull and dozy, and the right music found me.

I'm so relaxed right now and my arms are so heavy, I'm struggling to write this. What I really want to do is lie down, close my eyes and just listen, drift away.

I've got the new Seabear album on. If you've heard it, you'll know exactly how I'm feeling. the ghost that carried us away (offical…

I've not had that great a day, today. For a start, it's Monday. The sun didn't come out and it's been dull and grey here in south London. More leaves are falling off trees and the wind's picked up.

The only thing that made me smile was the Leave Britney Alone video, which was an 'and finally' on the evening news.

I didn't even call Mum. I can't even manage to muster fake cheeriness.

*sigh*

What do you listen to on a day like this? I went straight for comfort and started with Radiohead. Can't go wrong with old…

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Article: Sunday Times 16 Sept 07 - star-studded pop video highlighting crisis in Darfur

News about the single on Globe For Darfur

If the idea of a pop video about mass genocide is horrific, that many people weren't even aware of the situation in Darfur till George Clooney took it on is even worse. The argument for celebrities taking on causes is right there. Forget global news and its 'news values': you'll learn more about the world following your favourite conscientious A-list celeb, particularly now it seems they've raised their game and…