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Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails at 3Arena review: Peel It Back tour begins unshowily, then builds to a thrilling mid-set sequence
Nine Inch Nails 3Arena, Dublin ★★★★☆ It's 18 years since Trent Reznor last played Dublin, a period of time in which the Nine Inch Nails frontman has become almost as well known for his Oscar-winning soundtracks with Atticus Ross, on films such as The Social Network and Soul, as for his deeply influential early albums Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile. Still outside the mainstream, Reznor's reach may be specific, but it runs deep, as evidenced by the heady atmosphere among pilgrims filing into 3Arena in Dublin on Sunday evening dressed almost uniformly in reverential black. With expectations high for the opening night of the band's Peel It Back tour, the beginning proves determinedly unshowy. Reznor's sombre vocal opens in darkness, a square of sparse overhead lighting revealing him at the keyboards, taking the audience by surprise with the downbeat simplicity of Right Where It Belongs. It's a sign of what's to come: a set divided sharply into the sometimes dizzyingly discrete strands of the Nine Inch Nails sonic template: bare, plaintive piano; scything, hard-driving industrial rock; and Berlin-influenced techno synth. READ MORE It might seem odd to think of a clap-along at a Nine Inch Nails gig, but some of the songs are industrial-rock canon by this point. With 1990s cuts such as Head Like a Hole and Closer effectively ticking the greatest-hits boxes, Reznor also throws in The Hand That Feeds, from the 2005 album With Teeth, and Copy of A, from the 2013 release Hesitation Marks, against satisfyingly immense staging: visuals of driving rain, silhouetted moving figures and theatrical curtain drops to signify new movements within the 105-minute set. At 60, Reznor remains light on his feet: in a thrilling mid-set sequence alongside Ross and the German-Iraqi DJ and producer Boys Noize, who also serves as support, Reznor, ripped and angular in black, plays keyboards in the middle of the crowd as red plumes flame startlingly above his head. It's half-gig, half-scene from a dystopian movie. Following it up with I'm Afraid of Americans, the 1997 single Reznor produced for David Bowie , doesn't seem a coincidence. Reznor has played the song live before – it was a highlight in Berlin in 2018 – but, with its biting critique of the United States, the skeletal techno bop has only gained in resonance over the years, as political systems shake and unravel. Some of the most effective moments elsewhere are the simplest: the stark minimalist beauty of The Frail, with its bruised-peach sequence of piano, bleeding into the doomy grandeur of The Wretched. Then, to close, Reznor singing the majestic Hurt: 'And you could have it all/ My empire of dirt/ I will let you down/ I will make you hurt.' Johnny Cash might have made it famous, but tonight Reznor reminds everyone who brought the song into the world.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
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Atticus Ross, Kris Bowers & Diane Warren Win at 2025 SCL Awards: Full List
Atticus Ross took home two awards at the sixth annual SCL Awards, which were held on Wednesday (Feb. 12) at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The awards are voted on by members of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, an organization of professional film, television, video game, and musical theater composers and lyricists. The event was hosted by singer-songwriter Colin Hay, best known as leader of the 1980s pop group Men at Work. More from Billboard What to Know About 2025's Best Original Song & Score Oscar Noms Cynthia Erivo to Receive GLAAD Media Award for Promoting LGBTQ+ Visibility Tate McRae & Josh Ross Lead 2025 Juno Nominations: Full List Ross won outstanding original song for a comedy or musical visual media production for 'Compress/Repress,' which he co-wrote for Challengers with frequent collaborator Trent Reznor, along with the film's director, Luca Guadagnino. Ross and collaborators Leopold Ross (his younger brother) and Nick Chuba also won outstanding original score for a television production for Shōgun. The win for 'Compress/Repress' came after the song failed to land an Oscar nod for best original song. At the SCL Awards, 'Compress/Repress' beat two songs from Emilia Pérez that were Oscar-nominated – 'El Mal' and 'Mi Camino.' Top honors for film scoring went to Kris Bowers, who won original score for a studio film for The Wild Robot, and Daniel Blumberg, who won outstanding original score for an independent film for The Brutalist. Both composers are nominated for the Oscar for best original score, where they face Volker Bertelmann (Conclave), Clément Ducol and Camille (Emilia Pérez) and John Powell and Stephen Schwartz (Wicked). Diane Warren won outstanding original song for a dramatic or documentary visual media production for her song 'The Journey'from The Six Triple Eight. Warren won in this category two years ago for 'Applause' from Tell It Like a Woman. 'The Journey' is nominated for an Oscar for best original song, where it faces the two aforementioned songs from Emilia Pérez, plus 'Never Too Late' from Elton John: Never Too Late (also nominated here) and 'Like a Bird' from Sing Sing. Warren has been nominated for an SCL Award every year. In 2023, 'Applause' won in this same category, but went on to lose the Oscar to 'Naatu Naatu' from RRR. Emilia Pérez composers Clément Ducol and Camille, who tied with Atticus Ross for most SCL nominations this year (three), were shut out. Composer Andrea Datzman received the David Raksin award for emerging talent for her score for Inside Out 2. Datzman's mentor, Michael Giacchino, composed the score for the first Inside Out. Composer Jeff Beal, who has won five Primetime Emmys, received the SCL Jury Award for his new score for the 1920 Weimar Cinema silent film classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Composer Harry Gregson-Williams and director Ridley Scott received the Spirit of Collaboration Award, which recognizes a composer/director relationship that has created a prodigious body of work. This year's Gladiator II marks their seventh collaboration. In his previous collaborations with Scott, Gregson-Williams has written the original scores for The Martian, Kingdom of Heaven, The Last Duel, and House of Gucci, as well as themes for Prometheus and Exodus: Gods and Kings. Last year, Martin Scorsese received the Spirit of Collaboration Award for his work with the late composer Robbie Robertson. Other past award recipients of this award include Thomas Newman & Sam Mendes, Terence Blanchard & Spike Lee, Carter Burwell & the Coen Brothers, and Justin Hurwitz & Damien Chazelle. Here's the complete list of nominees for the 2025 SCL Awards, with winners marked. Clement Ducol, Camille – Emilia Perez (Netflix) Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures) Harry Gregson-Williams – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures) John Powell, Stephen Schwartz – Wicked: Part 1 (Universal Pictures) WINNER: Kris Bowers – (DreamWorks Animation) Volker Bertelmann – Conclave (Focus Features) Chris Bacon – Heretic (A24) WINNER: Daniel Blumberg – (A24) Dara Taylor – Meet Me Next Christmas (Roberts Media) Fabrizio Mancinelli – Here After (Artina Films, ClaRo Productions, Fenix Entertainment, Hopscotch Pictures) Heather McIntosh – Winner (Big Beach, One Community, Scythia Films, ShivHans Pictures) Stephanie Economou – The Book of Jobs (Bull's Eye Entertainment, Rebellium Films) Andrew Wyatt, Lykke Li, Miley Cyrus – 'Beautiful That Way' (from The Last Showgirl) (Utopia Media, High Frequency Entertainment, Pinky Promise, Detour, Digital Ignition Entertainment) Bear McCreary – 'Old Tom Bombadil' (from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) (Amazon MGM Studios in association with New Line Cinema / Prime Video) Christopher Lennertz – 'Let's Put the Christ Back in Christmas' (from The Boys) (Prime Video) WINNER: Diane Warren – 'The Journey' (from ) (Netflix) Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin, Andrew Watt – 'Never Too Late' (from Elton John: Never Too Late) (Disney Branded Television, This Machine Filmworks, Rocket Entertainment) Nicholas Britell, Steve McQueen, Taura Stinson – 'Winter Coat' (from Blitz) (Apple Original Films) Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear – 'Beyond' (from Moana 2) (Disney) Clement Ducol, Camille – 'Mi Camino' (from Emilia Perez) (Why Not Productions, Page 114, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Saint Laurent Productions) Clement Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard – 'El Mal' (from Emilia Perez) (Why Not Productions, Page 114, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Saint Laurent Productions) Lainey Wilson, Luke Dick, Shane McAnally – 'Out of Oklahoma' (from Twisters) (Universal Pictures) Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler, Sacha Skarbek – 'Forbidden Road' (from Better Man) (Paramount Pictures) WINNER: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Luca Guadagnino – 'Compress/Repress' (from ) (Amazon MGM Studios) Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Nick Chuba – Shōgun (FX Network) Blake Neely – Masters of the Air (Apple TV+) Carlos Rafael Rivera – Griselda (Netflix) Danielle Ponder – Manhunt (Apple TV+) WINNER: Jeff Toyne – (Apple TV+) Nami Melumad – Dream Productions (Pixar Animation Studios / Disney+) WINNER: Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Nick Chuba – (FX Network) Bear McCreary – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon MGM Studios in association with New Line Cinema / Prime Video) Blake Neely – Masters of the Air (Apple TV+) David Fleming – Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Amazon MGM Studios) Finneas O'Connell – Disclaimer (Apple TV+) Jeff Toyne – Palm Royale (Apple TV+) Gordy Haab – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Machine Games, Bethesda Studios, Lucasfilm Games) Nainita Desai – Tales of Kenzera: Zau (Surgent Studios, EA) Wilbert Roget, II – Star Wars: Outlaws (Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft) WINNER: Winifred Phillips – (Digital Eclipse) WINNER: Andrea Datzman – (Disney/Pixar Animation Studios) Emily Rice – Broken Bird (Catalyst Studios, Mitchell-Brunt Films) Katya Richardson – Motorcycle Mary (Breakwater Studios) Nikhil Koparkar – Dead Whisper (Howlin' Hounds Pictures, Brothers Gran Productions) Robin Carolan – Nosferatu (Focus Features) Wei-San Hsu – Invisible Nation (100 Chapters Productions, Double Hope Films, Seine Pictures) Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
