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The Downward Spiral, the Glossary

The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records in the United States and Island Records in Europe.^[1]

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AbsolutePunk

AbsolutePunk was a website, online community, and alternative music news source founded by Jason Tate (the most recent CEO).

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Adrian Belew

Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Akai S1000

The Akai S1000 is a 16-bit, 44.1 kHz professional stereo digital sampler, released by Akai in 1988.

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Alan Moulder

Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is an English record producer, mixing engineer, and audio engineer.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alternative Airplay

Alternative Airplay (formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks between 1988 and 2009, and Alternative Songs between 2009 and 2020) is a music chart published in the American magazine ''Billboard'' since September 10, 1988.

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Alternative Nation festival

Alternative Nation was a series of music festivals held in Australia in 1995.

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Alternative Press (magazine)

Alternative Press is an American entertainment magazine primarily focused on music and culture.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Andy Kubiszewski

Andrew "Andy" Kubiszewski (born September 30, 1961) is an American musician, songwriter, remixer and producer.

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Aphex Twin

Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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ARP 2600

The ARP 2600 is a subtractive synthesizer first produced by ARP Instruments, Inc in 1971.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Ascential

Ascential plc (formerly EMAP) is a British business-to-business media company specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services.

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Avid Audio

Avid Audio (formerly Digidesign) is an American digital audio technology company.

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Bar (music)

In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of music bounded by vertical lines, known as bar lines (or barlines), usually indicating one of more recurring beats. The length of the bar, measured by the number of note values it contains, is normally indicated by the time signature.

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Heinrich Bauer Publishing (Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG), trading as Bauer Media Group, is a German multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Hamburg.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles

Benedict Canyon is an area in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blabbermouth.net

Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews.

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Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine published from 1994 to 2009 that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more".

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Bob Dole

Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician and attorney from Kansas who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1960s and the United States Senate from 1969 to his resignation in 1996 to campaign for President of the United States.

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Bob Ludwig

Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer.

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British Phonographic Industry

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the British recorded music industry's Trade association.

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Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)

Broken is the first extended play (EP) and second major release by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The Downward Spiral and Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP) are albums produced by Flood (producer), albums produced by Trent Reznor and albums recorded in a home studio.

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Burn (Nine Inch Nails song)

"Burn" is a song recorded by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Natural Born Killers.

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C. Delores Tucker

Cynthia Delores Tucker (Nottage; October 4, 1927 – October 12, 2005) was an American politician and civil rights activist.

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Capsule review

A capsule review or mini review is a form of appraisal, usually associated with journalism, that offers a relatively short critique of a specified creative work (movie, music album, restaurant, painting, etc.). Capsule reviews generally appear in publications like newspapers and magazines and may be placed within the context of a cultural digest section of a publication.

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Charles J. Chaput

Charles Joseph Chaput OFMCap (born September 26, 1944) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Charles Manson

Charles Milles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s.

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Charlie Clouser

Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963) is an American keyboardist, composer, record producer, and remixer.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chris Vrenna

Chris Vrenna (born February 23, 1967) is an American musician, producer, engineer, remixer, programmer, and founder of the electronic band Tweaker.

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Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s

Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau.

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Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)

"Closer" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single on their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994).

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Coil (band)

Coil were an English experimental music group formed in 1982 in London and dissolved in 2005.

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Cold Spring (label)

Cold Spring is an independent record label based in Northamptonshire, England, specialising in "all forms of extreme media, but particularly: dark ambient, neo-classical/neo-folk, orchestral, power electronics/noise, Japanese noise, minimal, death industrial, dark soundtracks, experimental, obscure electronics from Russia, China, Japan, Poland and others.".

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Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre, often simply referred to as Columbine, was a school shooting and a failed bombing that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Conservatism in the United States

Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states.

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Cover art

Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper (tabloid), comic book, video game (box art), music album (album art), CD, videotape, DVD, or podcast.

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Danny Hyde

Danny Hyde is an experimental musician and remix artist.

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Danny Lohner

Daniel Patrick Lohner, frequently known as Renholdër, is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle.

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Dave Navarro

David Michael Navarro (born June 7, 1967) is an American guitarist.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Details (magazine)

Details (stylized in all caps) was an American monthly men's magazine that was published by Condé Nast, founded in 1982 by Annie Flanders.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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Digital Audio Tape

Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Down in It

"Down in It" is the debut single by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on September 15, 1989.

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Dr. Dre

Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr.

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Drop D tuning

Drop D tuning is an alternative form of guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step to D. So where standard tuning is E2A2D3G3B3E4 (EADGBe), drop D is D2A2D3G3B3E4 (DADGBe).

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.

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DVD-Audio

DVD-Audio (commonly abbreviated as DVD-A) is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD.

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Dyad (music)

In music, a dyad (less commonly, diad) is a set of two notes or pitches.

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ECW Press

ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Effects unit

An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were two American high school seniors and mass murderers who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 in Columbine, Colorado.

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European Top 100 Albums

The European Top 100 Albums chart was the European adaptation of the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart.

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Eventide, Inc

Eventide Inc. (also known earlier as Eventide Clock Works Inc.) is an American pro audio, broadcast and communications company whose audio division manufactures digital effects processors, digital signal processor (DSP) software, and guitar effects pedals.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Filter (band)

Filter is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist and programmer Brian Liesegang.

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Fixed (EP)

Fixed is the second extended play (EP) by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The Downward Spiral and Fixed (EP) are albums produced by Trent Reznor.

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Flood (music producer)

Mark Ellis (born 16 August 1960), known by his professional pseudonym Flood, is a British rock and synthpop record producer and audio engineer.

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Fluoxetine

Fluoxetine, sold under the brand name Prozac, among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class.

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Further Down the Spiral

Further Down the Spiral is a remix album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The Downward Spiral and Further Down the Spiral are albums produced by Trent Reznor and albums with cover art by Russell Mills (artist).

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Fuse (TV channel)

Fuse is an American television channel owned by Fuse Media, LLC, that launched in 1994.

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality of the world and street hustlers. The Downward Spiral and gangsta rap are Obscenity controversies in music.

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Gary Talpas

Gary Talpas is an American art director and photographer.

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Gatorade

Gatorade is an American brand of sports-themed beverage and food products, built around its signature line of sports drinks.

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Gave Up

"Gave Up" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.

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Gibson Brands

Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Glasgow School of Art

The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and design.

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Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the alternative genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for works (songs or albums) containing quality performances in the heavy metal music genre.

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Grammy Award for Best Rock Song

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Song is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality songs in the rock music genre.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Gravity Kills

Gravity Kills is an American industrial rock band from St. Louis, Missouri.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Guitar amplifier

A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet.

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Guitar Player

Guitar Player is an American magazine for guitarists, founded in 1967 in San Jose, California.

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Guitar World

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine for guitarists – and fans of guitar-based music and trends – that has been published since July 1980.

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Hachette Filipacchi Médias

Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. (HFM) is a magazine publisher.

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Happiness in Slavery

"Happiness in Slavery" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their extended play, Broken (1992).

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Hard rock

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.

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Hardcore hip hop

Hardcore hip hop (also hardcore rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s.

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Head Like a Hole

"Head Like a Hole" is a song by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single from the group's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine.

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Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch (born Jheronimus van Aken; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch painter from Brabant.

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HMV

HMV is a music and entertainment retailer, founded in the United Kingdom in 1921.

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Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin was a daily newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song)

"Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from its second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994), written by Trent Reznor.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor and radio broadcaster.

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Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.

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Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a fusion genre that fuses industrial music and rock music.

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Instrument destruction

The destruction of musical instruments is an act performed by a few pop, rock and other musicians during live performances, particularly at the end of the gig.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Interscope Records

Interscope Records is an American record label based in Santa Monica, California, owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M imprint.

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IPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.

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Island Records

Island Records is a Jamaican multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Jackson Guitars

Jackson is a brand of guitars sold by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

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James Woolley

James Joseph Woolley (September 26, 1966 – August 14, 2016) was an American keyboard and synthesizer player, best known for performing with industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from 1991 to 1994, participating in the Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series and the Self Destruct Tour.

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Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985.

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Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991.

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JG Thirlwell

James George Thirlwell (born 29 January 1960), styled as JG Thirlwell and also known as Clint Ruin, Frank Want, and Foetus, among other pseudonyms, is an Australian musician, composer, and record producer known for his use of a variety of different musical styles.

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Jim Henson Company Lot

The Jim Henson Company Lot, formerly A&M Studios, is a studio property located just south of the southeast corner of North La Brea Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

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John Malm Jr.

John A. Malm Jr. is the former manager of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails.

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Jon Pareles

Jon Pareles (born October 25, 1953) is an American journalist who is the chief popular music critic in the arts section of The New York Times.

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Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold (July 28, 1960 – July 21, 2018) was an American food critic and music critic.

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Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976.

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Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a British music webzine and quarterly magazine that primarily covers rock, punk and heavy metal music.

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Keyboard (magazine)

Keyboard is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the keyboard-related instruments.

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Kurzweil K2000

The Kurzweil K2000 is a digital synthesizer and music workstation produced by Kurzweil Music Systems between 1991 and 2000 in a variety of standard configurations, including rack-mountable versions and models that came with 16-bit user sampling.

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Larry Flynt Publications

Larry Flynt Publications, or LFP, Inc. is an American independent business enterprise that owns, manages and operates the adult entertainment businesses founded by American entrepreneur Larry Flynt.

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Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza (Lolla) is an annual American four-day music festival held in Grant Park in Chicago.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Loudwire

Loudwire is an American online media magazine that covers news of hard rock and heavy metal artists.

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Low (David Bowie album)

Low is the eleventh studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 January 1977 through RCA Records.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Manson Family

The Manson Family (known among its members as the Family) was a commune, gang, and cult led by criminal Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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March of the Pigs

"March of the Pigs" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994).

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Marilyn Manson

Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American rock musician.

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Mark Romanek

Mark Lee Romanek (born September 18, 1959) is an American filmmaker and photographer.

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Marshall Amplification

Marshall Amplification is a British company that designs and manufactures music amplifiers and speaker cabinets.

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Martin Popoff

Martin Popoff (born April 28, 1963) is a Canadian music journalist, critic and author.

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Mötley Crüe

Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Hollywood, California, in 1981 by bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, with guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil joining right after.

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Meat Beat Manifesto

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as Meat Beat, Manifesto or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens that was formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom.

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Metal Hammer is a heavy metal music magazine and website founded in 1983, published in the United Kingdom by Future, with other language editions published by different companies available in numerous other countries.

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Metre (music)

In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.

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Michael J. Fuchs

Michael J. Fuchs (pronounced "Fewks") (born New York City, U.S., 9 March 1946) is an American executive producer for premium cable television network HBO.

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Minimoog

The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981.

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Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1981 by producer, singer, and instrumentalist Al Jourgensen.

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Misanthropy

Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, or distrust of the human species, human behavior, or human nature.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo (stylised in all caps) is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer.

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Motif (music)

In music, a motif IPA: (/moʊˈtiːf/) or motive is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition.

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Mr. Self Destruct

"Mr.

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MTV News

MTV News was the news production division of MTV.

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Multichannel News

Multichannel News is a magazine and website published by Future US that covers multichannel television and communications providers, such as cable operators, satellite television firms and telephone companies, as well as emerging Internet video and communication services.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.

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Music Canada

Music Canada is a non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 in Toronto to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, and distribute music in Canada.

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Narcotic

The term narcotic (from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "I make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties.

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Natural Born Killers (soundtrack)

Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film is the soundtrack to the film Natural Born Killers, produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The Downward Spiral and Natural Born Killers (soundtrack) are albums produced by Trent Reznor.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Newser

Newser is an American news aggregation website.

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Nightclubbing (song)

"Nightclubbing" is a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop,Easby and Oliver (2007) first released by Iggy Pop on his debut solo studio album, The Idiot in 1977.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

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Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN, stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. The Downward Spiral and Nine Inch Nails are Obscenity controversies in music.

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Nine Inch Nails live performances

Nine Inch Nails, an American industrial rock band fronted by Trent Reznor, has toured all over the world since its creation in 1988.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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Nitzer Ebb

Nitzer Ebb are a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums).

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Nothing Records

Nothing Records was an American record label specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by John Malm Jr. and Trent Reznor in 1992.

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Oberheim Electronics

Oberheim is an American synthesizer manufacturer founded in 1969 by Tom Oberheim.

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Official Finnish Charts

The Official Finnish Charts (Suomen virallinen lista; Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland compiled and published by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.

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Otava (publisher)

Otava Publishing Company Ltd (Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, Förlagsaktiebolaget Otava) is a major Finnish publisher of books.

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Outside Tour

The Outside Tour was a tour by the English rock musician David Bowie, opening in September 1995 and lasting over a year.

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Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast.

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Peter Christopherson

Peter Martin Christopherson (also known as Sleazy, 27 February 1955 – 25 November 2010) was an English musician, video director, commercial artist, designer and photographer, and former member of British design agency Hipgnosis.

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Piggy (song)

"Piggy" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994).

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Pop Will Eat Itself

Pop Will Eat Itself are an English alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Porno for Pyros

Porno for Pyros is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992, following the first break-up of Jane's Addiction.

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Pretty Hate Machine

Pretty Hate Machine is the debut studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by TVT Records on October 20, 1989. The Downward Spiral and Pretty Hate Machine are albums produced by Flood (producer), albums produced by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails albums.

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Prick (band)

Prick was an American industrial rock band, founded in 1992 in Los Angeles by guitarist and songwriter Kevin McMahon, after his first project Lucky Pierre disbanded.

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Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS.

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Q (magazine)

Q was a popular music magazine.

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Recoiled

Recoiled is an EP by Coil and Nine Inch Nails described as "a compilation of Coil's unreleased work for Nine Inch Nails" and "outtakes from the remix sessions from Fixed, Closer to God and Further Down the Spiral".

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Record Plant

The Record Plant is a recording studio established in New York City in 1968 and last operating in Los Angeles, California.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Remix album

A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Richard Patrick

Richard Michael Patrick (born May 10, 1968) is an American singer, musician and songwriter.

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Rick Rubin

Frederick Jay Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record executive and record producer.

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Rizzoli Libri

Rizzoli Libri, formerly Rizzoli Libri S.p.A. and RCS Libri S.p.A. is an Italian book publisher and a division of Mondadori Libri, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.

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Rob Sheridan

Robert Sheridan (born October 11, 1979) is an American graphic designer, art director, stage visual designer, photographer, and comic book author best known for his extensive work with the band Nine Inch Nails.

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Robert Bork

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Robin Finck

Robert John "Robin" Finck (born November 7, 1971) is an American guitarist.

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Robot Jox

Robot Jox is a 1990 American post-apocalyptic Mecha science-fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson and Paul Koslo.

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Roland Corporation

is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.

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Roland TR-808

The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a recurring opinion survey and music ranking of the finest albums in history, compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Russell Mills (artist)

Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England, in 1952.

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Sean Beavan

Sean Beavan is a musician, record producer, and audio engineer best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Guns N' Roses, God Lives Underwater, and Slayer.

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Self-control

Self-control is an aspect of inhibitory control, one of the core executive functions.

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Self-destructive behavior

Self-destructive behavior is any behavior that is harmful or potentially harmful towards the person who engages in the behavior.

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Self-harm

Self-harm is intentional conduct that is considered harmful to oneself.

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Sharon Tate

Sharon Marie Tate Polanski (Tate; January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress and model.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Slouching Towards Gomorrah

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline is a 1996 non-fiction book by Robert H. Bork, a former United States Court of Appeals judge.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.

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Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life.

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Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism.

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Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s.

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Solipsism

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist.

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Sound design

Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.

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Spin Alternative Record Guide

The Spin Alternative Record Guide is a music reference book compiled by the American music magazine Spin and published in 1995 by Vintage Books.

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St. Martin's Press

St.

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Stabbing Westward

Stabbing Westward is an American industrial rock/alternative rock band.

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Stephen Perkins

Stephen Andrew Perkins (born September 13, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Substance abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to the individual or others.

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Super Audio CD

Super Audio CD (SACD) is an optical disc format for audio storage introduced in 1999.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Tate–LaBianca murders

The TateLaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 910, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson.

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Techno

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).

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The Crow (1994 film)

The Crow is a 1994 American gothic superhero film directed by Alex Proyas and written by David J. Schow and John Shirley, based on the 1989 comic book series by James O'Barr.

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The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the superhero film The Crow was released in 1994.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Fragile

The Fragile is the third studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as a double album by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on September 21, 1999. The Downward Spiral and the Fragile are albums produced by Trent Reznor, Interscope Records albums, Nine Inch Nails albums and Nothing Records albums.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Idiot (album)

The Idiot is the debut studio album by the American musician Iggy Pop, released on March 18, 1977, through RCA Records.

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The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Wall

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records.

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THX 1138

THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut.

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Tommy Lee

Thomas "Tommy" Lee (born Thomas Lee Bass; October 3, 1962) is an American musician who co-founded and plays drums for the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.

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Transformers

Transformers is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy.

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Trent Reznor

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer.

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Tritone

In music theory, the tritone is defined as a musical interval spanning three adjacent whole tones (six semitones).

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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper, actor, activist, poet, and songwriter.

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TVT Records

TVT Records, originally Tee-Vee Toons, was an American record label founded by Steve Gottlieb in 1984.

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Tweaker (band)

Tweaker is an American alternative rock collaboration project band founded by Chris Vrenna in the late 1990s.

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Twiggy Ramirez

Jeordie Osbourne White (born June 20, 1971), better known Twiggy Ramirez or simply Twiggy, is an American musician, mostly known as the former bassist and guitarist of the rock band Marilyn Manson.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is a standing committee of the United States Senate.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Verse–chorus form

Verse–chorus form is a musical form going back to the 1840s, in such songs as "Oh! Susanna", "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", and many others.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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Webster Hall

Webster Hall is a nightclub and concert venue located at 125 East 11th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, near Astor Place, in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City.

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William Bennett

William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan.

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Woodstock '94

Woodstock '94 was an American music festival held in 1994 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival of 1969.

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Writer's block

Writer's block is a non-medical condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown.

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Zoom Corporation

Zoom Corporation is a Japan-based audio company whose main business is the design and development of electronic devices for music.

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book first published in 2005 by Universe Publishing.

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10050 Cielo Drive

10050 Cielo Drive was the street address of a former luxury home in Benedict Canyon, in the west-central part of the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills, where three members of the Manson Family committed the Tate murders in 1969.

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1990s in music

Popular music in the 1990s saw the continuation of teen pop and dance-pop trends which had emerged in the 1970s and 1980s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Downward_Spiral

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