Rock Tacos, Trent Reznor's Twitter Days Are Done, and The 90's Live On.

Rock Tacos

As previously reported here, former Shins drummer Jesse Sandoval has indeed opened up Nuevo Mexico, his rumored taco cart, in downtown Portland, OR at SW 3rd and Stark. You can check out the full details here at the best website dedicated to the Portland food cart scene. I will be getting myself a sopapilla there soon. Lest you think this is some random career move, Sandoval grew up around food carts and worked with his mother and grandmother at theirs before being part of James Mercer's backing band.

Reznor Sets His Little Bird Free

Trent Reznor, famously the force behind Nine Inch Nails and a leading proponent of online interaction between artist and fan, is officially a Twitter Quitter. In a detailed post in the official NIN forum, Reznor explains his relationship with the internet and his desire to take a step back from it. He also attacks a sub-culture of overweight female stalkers, sarcastically instructs how to best cut one's self, and speaks briefly about being in love. It would appear that Reznor subscribes to the "less talk, more rock," which for NIN fans is very good news.

Still Going...

As was discussed in today's Mixtape, the nostalgia wave for the Nineties is in bloom (hence, the Nirvana reference). It looks like some bands of that era refuse to let anything - death, writer's block, sibling squabbles - get in the way of flying the freak flag for that decade.

The Black Crowes will be releasing two albums this fall. Fans who buy the all-new material album, Before The Frost... will get a download code for a free copy of mostly-new material album, ...Until the Freeze as a "thank you" for being a loyal Black Crowes fan according to the band.

Gwen Stefani says she's been dealing with writer's block in preparing a new No Doubt album in the latest Elle magazine, but the band marches, on playing shows across the US and Canada this summer.

In a final Nineties music-related story, the drug overdose death of lead singer Layne Staley in 2005 effectively shut down Alice In Chains' career. Until now. The band says they will release their first album of new material in over a decade on September 29. Black Gives Way To Blue, the first full-length studio release for AIC since the band's self-titled 1995 release, will feature new lead vocalist, William DuVall.