Think what you will about his music, but you can’t deny just how monumental Trent Reznor’s influence on the internet and music has been. Sure, Radiohead might have been the first major artist to give away their music, but Reznor isn’t interested in publicity campaigns. This is a man who is trying desperately to see the two worlds survive alongside eachother, as opposed to murdering eachother, and just recently he gave new bands some brilliant advice on how to get their music heard.

Posting on the Nine Inch Nails forum Reznor didn’t mince his words:

“The point is this: music IS free whether you want to believe that or not. Every piece of music you can think of is available free right now a click away. This is a fact – it sucks as the musician BUT THAT’S THE WAY IT IS.” - Trent Reznor

With that in mind, he set out some wise steps that a lot of inexperienced bands might be unsure of taking. I’m not going to repost them all here, but go visit the blog post to read what the man himself said. And if you are a young band, unsure of what to do next or how to get your music heard, then you can’t do much wrong by following one of the best role models of this generation.

Album Review: Sonic Youth
Album: The Eternal
Label: Matador Records

Much like the film A Clockwork Orange, the book Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and British televisions’ very own Jeremy Kyle, Sonic Youth constantly seem to be one of those bands who are only ever regarded as having a ‘cult following’. Not quite mainstream enough, despite their plethora of albums and much revered status in the alternative music world, they have always seemed to have a vague identity, never truly revealing who they are even to the fans that obsess over their extensive discography.

Clutch have made their new album Strange Cousins From the West available to stream for free. The effort is due out on the 13th July, and much respect for the band for working hard to put it out on their own label, Weathermaker Music.

Russian Circles are set to release their new album Geneva on October 20th. The album will come out through Suicide Squeeze, and that’s about all we know at the moment.

However, material has popped up on Youtube, with a video of the band playing the title track live. It’s sounding pretty bloody good.

Whilst you’re waiting for that, why not have a read of an interview the band did with us back in November?

Album Review: The Ghost of a Thousand
Album: New Hopes, New Demonstrations
Label: Epitath

As Manchester begat Oasis and Sheffield begat Arctic Monkeys it would seem that the coastal clime of Brighton is proving itself as the next burgeoning hotbed of great British talent, and may be the origins for the ‘next big thing’ that the likes of Radio 1 are always on the hunt for. Despite being renowned for its accommodating nature to the gay scene, there’s a remarkable amount of pissed off young men ready to shred guitars and vocal chords to say what they feel has to be said.

Yesterday we had news of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones forming a bit of a supergroup, and it seems like that theme is set to continue today. Greymachine is the cheery moniker for Justin Broaderick (Jesu, Godflesh) and Aaron Turner’s (Isis) collaboration, and also features Dave Cochrane (Head of David) and Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu, Godflesh). It’s hard to imagine this sounding anything other than world destroying, and ahead of the album’s release the band have made the track ‘Vultures Descend’ available to download for nothing.

The album Disconnected comes out 3rd August on Hydra Head. I wouldn’t be surprised if some continents experienced tremors.

It’s been rumoured for years, and has been buzzing around the internet all day today that Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) are banged up in a recording studio somewhere in LA, creating sweet, sweet music.

Antiquiet recently spoke to Homme’s wife Brody Dalle of Spinnerette, and tried to squeeze some juicy details out of her. Looks like they got just enough to confirm a rumour that germinated way back in 2005:

“I pressed for more information in an interview I did yesterday with Homme’s wife, Brody Dalle of Spinnerette. Who’s singing? Who’s behind the kit? When do we get to hear it? She was faithfully tight-lipped, unfortunately, but did offer the following tease:

‘I’m not at liberty to talk about it… but I think [the project] is pretty fucking amazing. Just beats and sounds like you’ve never heard before.’” – Johnny Firecloud, Antiquiet

With all three of them on breaks from their main projects it should be an interesting mash up of creativity, and let’s not mess about here – a brilliant combination of talent that has helped shaped the face of alternative rock for the past forty years.