The name of the just-concluded Nine Inch Nails tour is apt given recent statements from singer/founder Trent Reznor. Because after suggesting at a show in Tulsa last month that the legendary industrial rock band’s touring days may be coming to an end, Reznor peeled those comments back at the final Peel it Back tour stop in Sacramento on Monday night (March 16).

In a fan YouTube video from the show, Reznor acknowledged that it was the last show on this particular tour and added, “and to be clear. I think I said something the other day that then got misconstrued into something that is not intentionally, necessarily true. What I said was, ‘this is the last show of this tour and we don’t have any shows booked and we don’t have any plans to book any shows anytime in the future, so far.’”

From the sound of it, Reznor, 60, was leaving the door open just a crack for future road trips with that phrase “so far” doing a lot of the heavy lifting. “That doesn’t mean we may not tour again. We may tour again. It won’t be next month, it won’t be this year. I never said we were intentionally stopping, and I never meant that,” he added to wild cheers from the crowd at the conclusion of the 63-date tour that kicked off in Sept. 2025.

He reminded the crowd that NIN hadn’t toured since 2022 because he wasn’t sure they could “do it well” or if them playing live “still mattered” or if they had something to say. But, with the combination of the current lineup of the band, their crew and a lot of hard work made for a show that he said he was “really f–king proud of.”

Then came the best news of all: Reznor said NIN is “preparing to work on some new music going to “work on some new music and make some new s–t. And if we feel inspired, and if we feel we can beat this [tour] we’ll see you again. And I hope to see you again.”

The original comments that got NIN fans worried that this might be the beginning of the end of their touring days came on Feb. 17 at the BOK Center in Tulsa, when Reznor said, “I don’t know if we’re going to be touring anymore after this, but I’m proud of the show that we’re doing right now. And I’m f—ing grateful that you’ve chosen to spend your evening with us tonight. Thank you very much.”

And while this tour is over, NIN will appear at both weekends of the Coachella Festival on April 10 and 17 with Germany’s Boys Noize as Nine Inch Noize.

Reznor and longtime NIN collaborator Atticus Ross have not dropped a new album of NIN originals since the Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts in 2022, which they followed up in 2025 with the throbbing soundtrack to Tron:Ares.

Teenage Cancer Trust is bringing the spirit of the moshpit to the Royal Albert Hall with Good Energy, a new music photography exhibition set to highlight the shared community between artists and fans.

Running from March 18 through April 9 alongside the charity’s annual run of live shows at the iconic London venue, the collection will feature 21 limited-edition silk screen prints. Proceeds from both the exhibition and the concert series will go toward funding Teenage Cancer Trust’s ongoing work supporting young people living with cancer.

Among the musicians included are The Cure, Fontaines D.C., The 1975, Yungblud, Wolf Alice, Bring Me The Horizon, Geese, Wunderhorse, Nia Archives, Loyle Carner, and Sex Pistols and Frank Carter. The full list of acts can be found at the official Teenage Cancer Trust website.

Photographers featured in the series include Andy Ford, Charlie Barclay Harris, Yungblud collaborator Tom Pallant, Jordan Curtis Hughes, Tanya Hanley and Andrew Whitton. Each image is produced using a silk screen process developed by White Duck Editions, designed to separate tones within black-and-white photography and create added depth and texture.

Selected works include images of Frank Carter crowd-surfing during a performance with Sex Pistols, an intimate show from The 1975 and Fontaines D.C. performing their biggest headline slot to date at Finsbury Park, London, last summer. On display will also be a candid photograph of Teenage Cancer Trust founders Adrian Whiteson OBE and wife Myrna Whiteson MBE.

“The picture was taken in the legendary Royal Albert Hall,” Carter said of his featured image. “I honestly never thought I would have a chance to play such an iconic venue and to play there with the Sex Pistols was a dream come true. Seeing a mosh pit inside such a prestigious venue felt like the definition of Good Punk Energy.”

He continued: “There is so much misery and suffering in the modern world, people want a chance to escape. When the crowd comes with the same energy as the band on stage and everyone moves as one … that’s where the best energy is born and it moves everyone present. It’s a gift to be part of that and is the reason why we do what we do.” 

Micky England, Teenage Cancer Trust’s head of music merchandise and e-commerce, said the project aims to preserve the emotional experience of live shows. “Good energy is that feeling when a gig locks in and the crowd becomes part of the show … Each image has been captured by incredible photographers who really get live music and reinterpreted by experts White Duck Editions into beautiful silk screen prints.

“These are shots you want on your wall to remember how it felt to be right there in it and they are hand signed by your favourite artists. Every sale helps fund vital support for young people with cancer across the U.K.’’ 

The 2026 Teenage Cancer Trust concert series at Royal Albert Hall is scheduled for March 23 – 29. This year’s lineup includes Elbow, Mogwai, Manic Street Preachers, My Bloody Valentine, Garbage and Wolf Alice. 

The shows have been brought together by Robert Smith of The Cure, who is serving as this year’s guest curator. Further ticketing information can be found here.

Bleeding Fingers Music, the collective co-founded by legendary composer Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Interstellar), his business manager Steven Kofsky and entrepreneur Russell Emanuel, is expanding its global footprint with the launch of a new London office.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Bleeding Fingers Music has built a reputation as one of the most prolific scoring collectives working across contemporary film and TV, including the BBC’s prestigious Planet Earth franchise.

The London expansion comes as the team prepares for a string of new projects that will be produced in the U.K., including the forthcoming Harry Potter HBO Series, The Dutchess and I, Blue Planet III and more.

The company’s planned move into Maida Vale Studios — a recording complex that’s currently home to the BBC Symphony Orchestra and has previously hosted thousands of performances for the BBC’s radio network — will include expanded production infrastructure designed to scale its composer output. 

The BBC sold the space to Zimmer and Kofsky, as well as Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Pictures, in 2023, with the buying parties agreeing to retain the building’s original stucco facade. Upon news of the purchase, Zimmer said that the goal was to “make Maida Vale Studios a place that inspires, teaches, technologically serves the arts and humanity, and gives the next generation the same opportunities I was given: to create and to never give up.” 

Also announced on Wednesday (Mar. 18), Bleeding Fingers has welcomed Jesse McNamara as managing director of the London office, while Dario Burns has joined as creative director.

In his new role, McNamara will lead U.K.-based creative development and spearhead the growth of the company’s composer roster while deepening professional relationships throughout the region. Bleeding Fingers will position the London office as a central pillar in its wider international strategy. 

In a new statement, Zimmer said: “From the very beginning, Bleeding Fingers has been about creating a collective; a place where composers are mentored, challenged and inspired to push the craft forward. The U.K. has an incredible musical heritage… being closer to that energy allows us to keep reimagining what screen music can be.”

Bleeding Fingers’ growing U.K. slate also includes the recent documentaries Beckham, Molly-Mae: Behind it All, and Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs, in addition to global franchises such as The Simpsons and Chief of War.

Bernie Lynch, frontman and co-founder of Eurogliders, the Australian pop group that enjoyed several hits in the mid-1980s, none bigger than “Heaven (Must Be There),” has died Thursday, March 12 following a battle with throat cancer. He was 72.

“I don’t know how many shows Eurogliders have done over the years, it must be thousands, and for every single one of them, I’ve had Bernie there, standing beside me,” writes vocalist Grace Knight, who was married to Lynch in the ‘80s.  “It’s been such a wonderful, wonderful journey and I’m so very proud and honored to have shared it with him.”

Lynch formed Eurogliders in Perth, Western Australia back in 1980, a hotbed for alternative rock and post-punk.

Eurogliders had an enduring hit with 1984’s “Heaven,” housed on the album This Island. The song reached No. 2 on the the ARIA Chart and continues to reverberate more than 40 years after release. Currently, it soundtracks a major real estate TV campaign in Australia, and the song was identified by music historian The Professor of Rock as one of the most underrated, overlooked songs of its era. The band enjoyed a slew of domestic hits, including 1985’s “We Will Together,” sung by Lynch, and 1986’s “Can’t Wait to See You,” before disbanding at the end of the decade.

Eurogliders reunited several times, both in the mid-2000s for an album release and to perform on the Countdown Spectacular nostalgia tour, and again in 2023 for the Sunset Sounds beachside festival. 

Lynch was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2024, and underwent successful treatment. The illness, however, was later found to have spread into his bones and organs, and he started to deteriorate rapidly, Knight explains.

“Bernie was an incredibly kind and caring person and generous to a fault. He’d fuss about making sure the band were happy and had after show cheese and biscuits and a refreshing beverage. He’d come to stay at my house and turn up with bags of food and take over the kitchen. He was funny and intelligent and engaging. If you weren’t well, or life had thrown you a curve ball, he’d be the first one on the phone to see how you were going,” she continues.

And, of course, there’s the songs. “Without Bernie’s songs, there would be no Eurogliders,” Knight explains. “Songs he wrote as a young man that are still being listened to, songs that 40 years later still get played on the radio, songs that people still sing along to at our shows, songs that have brought so much joy to so many people. What a great legacy and such a fantastic contribution to the cultural landscape of this country.”