Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction and Street Sweeper Release Free EP of Unreleased Tracks

Legal, free downloads are always a good thing...

In support of the upcoming NIN|JA 2009 Tour, Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction and Street Sweeper have released a 6-song EP of previously unreleased material as a free download. You have the option of downloading the files as MP3s, Apple Lossless/MP4s, FLAC or WAV files.

I've read that the NIN tracks are from 2005's With Teeth sessions and the Jane's Addiction tracks are new recordings that were done with Trent Reznor. If anyone is as unfamiliar with Street Sweeper as I was, this is the new project by Tom Morello and Boots Riley.

Here are the current tour dates for NIN|JA 2009:
5.08.09 - w. palm beach, fl [cruzan amphitheatre]
5.09.09 - tampa, fl [ford amphitheatre]
5.10.09 - atlanta, ga [lakewood amphitheatre]
5.12.09 - austin, tx [frank erwin center]
5.14.09 - albuquerque, nm [journal pavilion]
5.15.09 - phoenix, az [cricket wireless pavilion]
5.16.09 - chula vista, ca [cricket wireless amphitheater]
5.18.09 - las vegas, nv [the pearl]
5.20.09 - irvine, ca [verizon wireless amphitheater]
5.22.09 - mountain view, ca [shoreline amphitheatre]
5.24.09 - george, wa [the gorge amphitheater] - sasquatch festival, nin and ja only
5.26.09 - englewood, co [fiddler’s green amphitheatre]
5.27.09 - kansas city, mo [starlight theatre]
5.29.09 - chicago, il [charter one pavilion] - nin only
5.30.09 - noblesville, in [verizon wireless music center]
5.31.09 - clarkston, mi [dte energy music theatre]
6.02.09 - toronto, on [molson amphitheatre]
6.03.09 - mansfield, ma [comcast center]
6.05.09 - camden, nj [susquehanna bank center]
6.06.09 - holmdel, nj [pnc bank arts center]
6.07.09 - wantagh, ny [nikon at jones beach music theater]
6.09.09 - columbia, md [merriweather post pavilion ]
6.10.09 - burgettstown, pa [post-gazette pavilion]
6.12.09 - charlotte, nc [verizon wireless amphitheatre]

Links:
Nine Inch Nail's Website
Jane's Addiction's Website
Street Sweeper's Website

The Yelling - Debut EP Review (Los Angeles/Hollywood Punk)

A friend recently sent me the five track debut EP from the N. Hollywood blues/punk rockers The Yelling. When I first heard this disc, I was reminded how early Jane's Addiction was compared to Led Zeppelin and The Doors. These comparisons are defiantly appropriate for The Yelling's debut CD as well.

The Yelling's debut EP is intense take-no-prisoners blues-based garage rock. The disc starts with the hard driving "Fire and a Microphone" and goes from there into the Zeppelin-ish "Long Time My Love". There are all sorts of classic rock sounds on this disc and the band is able to expand on the psychedelic sounds of the 60's and 70's and combine them with a sort of Wolfmother vibe. All five tracks from the EP are streaming on the band's MySpace page (link below).

The Yelling's EP is an impressive debut and it is available as a download on the band's MySpace page for $5.00.

The band is currently touring around Los Angeles and hopefully they will make it over to the East Coast in the near future. Here are their upcoming shows:

Nov 5 2008 9:00PM, Club Moscow @ Boardner’s, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 6 2008 8:00PM, Future Sounds presents THE RUMBLE @ 3 of Clubs, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 12 2008 9:00PM, Club Moscow @ Boardner’s, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 19 2008 8:00PM, The Echo w/ Night Horse, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 25 2008 8:00PM, Wildcat Lounge, Santa Barbara, CA