Nine Inch Nails' "Tension 2013" North American Arena Tour Launches Tomorrow, September 28, At Xcel Energy Center In St. Paul, MN

Upcoming Shows Include Barclays Center In Brooklyn On October 14, Newark's Prudential Center On October 15 And Staples Center In Los Angeles On November 8

Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails' First Album In Five Years, Is Out Now

09/27/2013

NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow night, Nine Inch Nails will kick off "Tension 2013," an extensive North American arena tour, at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN. The band – which recently released Hesitation Marks, its first album in five years – will play Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY on October 14 and Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on October 15. West Coast dates include a show at Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA on November 8. For more information on the tour, visit http://nin.com.

Nine Inch Nails' lineup for the fall tour includes Alessandro Cortini, Josh Eustis, Robin Finck, Lisa Fischer, Sharlotte Gibson, Pino Palladino, Trent Reznor and Ilan Rubin.

The New York Times' Jon Pareles said, "[Nine Inch Nails'] arena tour promises the kind of sensory onslaught — musical, visual, emotional — that fans have missed." The band, which recently completed a series of summer festival performances, topped SPIN's list of "The 50 Best Things We Saw at Lollapalooza 2013." Rolling Stone praised Nine Inch Nails' Outside Lands Festival set as "one of the most memorable…in the festival's six-year history."

Reviewing Nine Inch Nails' intimate record release show at the Troubadour, the Los Angeles Times observed, "no band can call up a wraithful wail of noise like NIN." "The band plays perfectly, and their leader's delivery is flawless from whisper to scream," said SPIN. "NIN have a reputation as one of rock's greatest live bands, but this show found the group attaining new heights," noted Billboard. "This might be the most exciting incarnation of NIN yet..."

Nine Inch Nails' Hesitation Marks (Columbia Records) debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums chart and was awarded four stars by Rolling Stone, People, USA Today and Alternative Press.

"There is blood here: Hesitation Marks refers to the preliminary wounds made during a suicide attempt," said Rolling Stone. "There is deliverance, too. You can dance to much of this terror, all the way to the brink and back." SPIN observed, "Icon Reznor is once again one of the most vital artists working today" while The Washington Post said, "It's one of the best albums of the year and NIN's finest work since at least 1999's 'The Fragile.'" "At once sophisticated and feral, [Hesitation] Marks gets high marks for taking a dark, majestic leap from trends and nostalgia into uncharted vistas…Peak Trent Reznor," noted USA Today. Entertainment Weekly named it as one of the fall's "must-hear" albums and called the singles "Came Back Haunted" and "Everything" "among Reznor's finest."

NINE INCH NAILS: TENSION 2013 NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR

Date	City/State/Province	Venue
9/28*	St. Paul, MN	Xcel Energy Center
9/30*	Kansas City, MO	Sprint Center
10/1*	St. Louis, MO	Chaifetz Arena
10/3*	Montreal, QC	Centre Bell
10/4*	Toronto, ON	Air Canada Centre
10/5*	Cleveland, OH	Wolstein Center
10/7*	Auburn Hills, MI	The Palace of Auburn Hills
10/8*	Pittsburgh, PA	Petersen Events Center
10/11**	Boston, MA	TD Garden
10/12**	Uncasville, CT	Mohegan Sun Arena
10/14**	Brooklyn, NY	Barclays Center
10/15**	Newark, NJ	Prudential Center
10/18**	Washington, DC	Verizon Center
10/19**	University Park, PA	Bryce Jordan Center
10/21**	Raleigh, NC	PNC Arena
10/22**	Nashville, TN	Bridgestone Arena
10/24**	Atlanta, GA	Philips Arena
10/30+	Sunrise, FL	BB&T Center
10/31+	Orlando, FL	Amway Center
11/5*	San Antonio, TX	AT&T Center
11/8*	Los Angeles, CA	Staples Center
11/9*	Phoenix, AZ	US Airways Center
11/11*	El Paso, TX	Don Haskins Center
11/13*	Broomfield, CO	1stBANK Center
11/15*	Las Vegas, NV	The Joint
11/16*	Las Vegas, NV	The Joint
11/18*	Portland, OR	Moda Center
11/19*	Spokane, WA	Spokane Arena
11/21*	Vancouver, BC	Rogers Arena
11/22*	Seattle, WA	KeyArena
11/24++	Edmonton, AB	Rexall Place
11/25++	Calgary, AB	Scotiabank Saddledome

* Explosions in the Sky supporting
** Godspeed You! Black Emperor supporting
+ Gary Numan supporting
++ Autolux supporting

SOURCE Columbia Records

For further information: For Columbia Records, Kelly McWilliam, Columbia Records, (310)272-2168, kelly.mcwilliam@sonymusic.com, or For Nine Inch Nails, Ambrosia Healy, The Fun Star, ambrosia@thefunstar.com