Music :: Feature 08 Oct 2008
Dave Kerr: As well as procuring the usual track list for a desert island mix-tape, this month we asked former Icarus Line and Nine Inch Nails axe man Aaron North to envisage a post-apocalyptic future where he chooses the opponents and selects the conditions for c...
Music :: Feature 12 Sep 2008
Aaron North: Our early conversations about Jubilee went along the lines of: ‘What would happen if you took the most American Americana - bands like Creedence, Tom Petty, Dylan, maybe Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – yeah, Neil Young’s Canadian, wh...
Music :: Feature 29 Aug 2008
Aaron North: I’m in my studio right now, up in beautiful North Hollywood and it’s 4:45 in the morning. I’m putting the cherry on top of our album; little things here and there. At the end of our UK tour we fly to New York to mix the record and mas...
Records :: Single Review 27 Aug 2008
Chris Buckle: Considering Jubilee is fronted by Aaron North - formerly of LA noiseniks The Icarus Line and industrial digi-rockers Nine Inch Nails - and completed by members of Wires On Fire and Queens of the Stone Age, their second single is surprisingly sedate. Th...
Heads Up :: News 06 Jun 2008
Dave Kerr: Having only just done gone given away new album The Slip for gratis, Trent Reznor - he of Nine Inch Nails fame - has just released a digital only EP to support the band's forthcoming US tour, again, for absolutely sod all. As well as carrying a new tu...
Music :: Feature 08 Sep 2007
Tom Morello: "Hold on, my i-pod's not turning on. If I'd done this off the top of my head it'd have been easier, but now I've got my i-pod it's going to take a minute." So says Tom Morello (AKA The Nightwatchman), before he gives his machine a few good smacks and s...
Records :: Single Review 10 Jun 2007
Jamie Borthwick: Capital G comes wading through the marshes and away from the staggering back-story constructed for the album Year Zero. Dripping with electro-rock savvy and righteous political rhetoric, this second single plays up Reznor's strength as marketable to a ...
Music :: Live Review 11 Apr 2007
Charlotte Rodenstedt: The smoke machines have already overworked themselves for several minutes before Nine Inch Nails emerge on the stage as silhouettes, leaving anyone further than five metres from the stage guessing as to what exactly is going on. Opening with Mr Self De...
Records :: Single Review 11 Apr 2007
Jay Shukla: Ok, it sounds a lot like Wish, but as a radio-friendly appetiser for Reznor's forthcoming apocalyptic opus, Year Zero, Survivalism serves its purpose admirably. In line with NIN's new minimal aesthetic, the percussion sounds like it was lifted from a D...
