U2 today informed fans that it has begun shipping copies of ‘Artificial Horizon,’ the free remix album being sent to paying members of the band’s website.

Today, Trent Reznor dug a few gems out of his archives, posting high-def videos of four June 23, 2006, radio performances he taped in Boston with Peter Murphy during Nine Inch Nails’ 2006 With Teeth tour.

[tweetmeme]Core Jane’s Addiction members Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins are writing new material for what would be the band’s first album since 2003 reunion disc Strays — but they’re doing so without bassist Eric Avery, who rejoined the band last year for the first time since 1991.
Farrell this week has mentioned the new [...]

[tweetmeme]Al Jourgensen may be hard at work on a purported synthpop album (and recording Christmas songs), but he’s not quite done with Ministry, the proto-industrial act he allegedly retired this year. Next summer will see the release of “Fix: The Ministry Movie,” a documentary about Uncle Al and Ministry featuring appearances by Nine Inch Nails’ [...]

U2 today announced that its upcoming fan club CD will be titled Artificial Horizon and will feature 13 remixes of the band’s latter-period work by the likes of Trent Rreznor and David Holmes — including some that haven’t been released previously.

[tweetmeme]Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry has completed work on Ark, his first solo album in a decade, and plans to support the record with a 100-date world tour early next year with co-headliner Peter Murphy.
According to a post on Perry’s website, the recording and mastering of Ark — the follow-up to 1999’s Eye of the [...]

Perhaps ramping up excitement for a possible Gary Numan collaboration, Trent Reznor this week posted a pair of high-quality HD videos on Nine Inch Nails’ site of NIN performing with the synth legend at a July concert in London. Numan, who also appeared at some of NIN’s final live appearances last month, is shown [...]

David Bowie’s 2004 concert DVD “A Reality Tour” will be released in remastered audio form on two CDs — with three bonus tracks — early next year by Columbia/Legacy.
The 33-track A Reality Tour is set for release Jan. 26, and will feature the entire DVD tracklist — recorded in November 2003 in Dublin — plus [...]

Gary Numan’s appearances at Nine Inch Nails’ final live gigs could lead to a studio collaboration with Trent Reznor, the synthpop pioneer told The Quietus: “I know he wants to carry on doing music things. We went out a few days after (the LA gigs) with a few other people and the way he puts [...]

Trent Reznor retired Nine Inch Nails from the concert stage last night in Los Angeles with an epic three-plus-hour, 37-song, guest-filled set at the Wiltern that ended with the frontman alone at his keyboard singing Year Zero’s “In This Twilight.”
Reznor assured fans, however, that he’s not done making music, even under the NIN banner. Early [...]