I still need to give the new record more listens to form a full opinion, but I think it and BGWTB are much more comparable to Boggy Depot and Degradation Trip than they are to AIC, both in terms of sound and quality.

I heard a bit of this record and really liked it (not talking about the single which has been out a while). I gotta get my hands on a copy. QOTSA always feels like summer music to me.

My brother went to the show and texted me a photo of him just 6 or 7 rows back from the stage. He said he had an amazing time but I didn't get many details. He saw them in Cleveland with me in 06 as well. Wish I could've been there this time!

The quick news keeps on coming: NIN will release their new single 'Came Back Haunted' to radio tomorrow morning at 11:30 AM. You can read a KROQ rep describe it a little bit here, but 1) you only have to wait a day to judge for yourself, and 2) I'm always skeptical of claims that a band has gone back to their roots of their first few albums because obviously there's always a lot of fans that want to hear that.

http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2013/06/04/nin … -thursday/

I really don't know what direction to expect this album to moving in, but I think I do buy what she's saying about it likely being less-experimental than his off-label projects of recent years.

For the tour, I would be totally shocked if Robin isn't on lead guitar for most of the show. I think Trent has long felt that Robin 'gets it' with NIN music live more than any other guitarist who's had the position. Really, at this point, I think Robin kind of *is* the guitarist for NIN. Sure, he was a freelancer and played in GnR for years, but he's been on practically all of NIN's major tours: Downward Spiral, both Fragility tours, and the post-label years when Trent was putting out Ghosts and The Slip. I think most NIN fans have pretty much written off the With Teeth and Year Zero touring groups as second-rate, outside of a couple guys like Alesandro Cortini. Long story short, if you made a definitive NIN touring band of all-time, Robin would be on lead guitar and Trent knows that. So I'm sure that's where he'll be most of the time.