When Trent Reznor waved good-bye to touring last year, he never said he was waving good-bye to Nine Inch Nails, too; he was basically just going the “studio only” route. So I’m not surprised that Reznor is working on a new Nine Inch Nails album for 2010.

The second part of this statement from the NIN website, in which he announces new music from NNIN (Not Nine Inch Nails), does kinda surprise me, though:

Sorry I haven’t been around much lately, I’ve been working on not working for a couple of months, which for me is hard work. 2010 has a number of things planned including new material from nine inch nails and something else that isn’t nine inch nails.

“Something else that isn’t Nine Inch Nails.” What could it be? I’d love for that Tapeworm album to finally see the light of day, but that can’t be it. And I imagine talk of that collaboration with Dr. Dre probably died right around the time Eminem got famous.

Wait, I know what it is, I KNOW WHAT IT IS!!! Trent Reznor is the new singer for Velvet Revolver!!!

No, wait, that can’t be right.

Hopefully we’ll get more details soon…

-AR

[via Metal Insider]

Yes. Yes, I do feel guilty for enjoying this.

But still.

Anyone remember when Trent Reznor and Dr. Dre were talking about doing an album together? Think that this is what it would have sounded like, or am I not giving Dre enough credit? This is how out of the loop I am on modern hip-hop. I haven’t bought a rap CD since Ice Cube’s The Predator. And I just wrote “rap CD.”

Who my caucasian?

-AR

Thanks to Voltron Futura for the tip.