Nine Inch Nails has done it again, releasing their new album The Slip for free in a bunch of high quality formats including better than CD quality wave format. And CD and Vinyl versions will be made available in July.

Nine Inch Nails: The Slip

Continuing his innovative approach to releasing music, Trent Reznor has made his newest single Discipline available to download for free in 320 kbps Mp3. And something is happening over there on May 5th, could it be another new album. It is great to see one artist that really understands music in the digital age, hopefully others will follow his lead...

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Tori Amos is teaming up with Image comics to create a 480 page comic adapting her themes of her music into the visual art form. Tori is working with editor Rantz Hoseley and a vast talent of comic talent to create this truly unique book, which will include an introduction by Neil Gaiman.

Head on over to Comic News International for more info and a glimpse at the art, which looks pretty awesome.

Look for this 12" x 12" 480 page anthology in store July 23.

While not quite as groundbreaking as the releases of Radiohead's Rainbow or NIN's of Ghosts I-IV, R.E.M. is releasing a streaming version of their new album Accelerate through iLike a week before their new album hits stores. While Radiohead and NIN were free of their record labels at the time, R.E.M. is still with EMI, so they are starting to move in the right direction. This is still a promotion for a more traditional release, but maybe someday soon we will see major labels start experimenting like Radiohead and NIN have.

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The two weeks are up and the big announcement from Nine Inch Nails is Gosts I-IV, a 36 track instrumental release. The first release since his record deal has expired and Trent is exploring releasing music and he seems to be right on track. You can get the first 9 track for free, just enter your email address and you'll be sent a download link. For $5 you can download all 36 tracks, bring that up to $10 and you get a CD sent to you.