NIN Frontman Trent Reznor Is Helping Shape Apple's Coming Music Service

Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe-winning musician Trent Reznor is helping Apple with the launch of their streaming music service.

The new music app, which is a collaborative effort between Mr. Reznor and other Apple and Beats employees, including Jimmy Iovine — who founded Beats with the hip-hop star Dr. Dre — will feature the streaming music service with many of the same characteristics as the Beats Music streaming service, one Apple employee said. Those may include curated playlists and a more vivid visual appeal, while conforming to Apple’s sleek and minimal design aesthetic, one person said. The name Beats Music will most likely be shed. According to an Apple employee, the service is being tested as part of a new version of the company’s mobile software system, iOS, which has been given the code name “Copper” and is expected for public release this year.

The service is expected to launch at $10/month and will not include an ad-supported free option like Spotify.

Freddy Scott: This Is A Trent Reznor Song

I've been a huge NIN fan since 1989's Pretty Hate Machine, which is my second-favorite album of all time, but this parody of Copy Of A is spot-on

Trent Reznor: Fuck You, Grammys

Spin has the story in case you didn't see it happen live.

Last night, Nine Inch Nails set the 55th annual Grammy Awards aflame with a show-closing performance joined by Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl, and Lindsey Buckingham. And, in the midst of QOTSA's "My God Is the Sun," the telecast cut to sponsor name-checks and the end credits. Not long afterward, NIN maestro (and recent SPIN cover star) Trent Reznor wrote on Twitter: "Music's biggest night... to be disrespected. A heartfelt FUCK YOU guys." The show had gone more than its allotted three-and-a-half hours (!), and in recent years the same fate has befallen Arcade Fire, a supergroup of LL Cool J, Chuck D, Tom Morello, Z-Trip, and Travis Barker, and even Stevie Wonder. (Then again, a couple of years ago nobody pulled out the hook for Grammy closer Paul McCartney.)

NIN - Tension 2013 Concert

Stereogum raves:

The Nine Inch Nails live show in 2013 has garnered perhaps even more acclaim than the masterful comeback album Hesitation Marks, a record we ranked among the year’s absolute best. But whereas anybody can stream the album on Spotify or whatever, fans who are broke, geographically isolated, or otherwise indisposed haven’t gotten to witness this Talking Heads-inspired production. Well, today is NIN superfans’ lucky day: The band posted Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013, a full-length concert movie filmed 11/8 at the Staples Center in L.A., online today.

Trent Reznor: Just Because

From a Buzzfeed photo compilation titled 31 Hunks From 90s Bands: Then And Now. Most of them, of course, look better today. RELATED: I think the only reason I lived through a riotous 1990 Nine Inch Nails concert in Miami Beach is because booze was only served in the balcony, where it turned out we were safe from all the violent moshing. Beer saves the day, again.