It’s been less than a week since Trent Reznor won an Academy Award alongside Atticus Ross for their score to The Social Network, but a handful of new projects are already in the works, being negotiated, or slated for release from the NIN mastermind.

First up, we held off on picking up a story about Reznor scoring music and starring as “the vampire who kills Lincoln’s mom” for director Timur Bekmambetov’s adaption of Seth Grahame-Smith’s book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter posted by Badass Digest earlier today (as I’m not familiar with the site or their source), but Entertainment Weekly has since confirmed their report… sort of. According to a spokesperson for 20th Century Fox, Reznor hasn’t sign on for the gig just yet, but he is in talks with the studio for the aforementioned score contribution and role as Jack Barts in the film.

As fun as this project sounds, we won’t hold our breath just yet (I mean, he’s also still in talks over a Fight Club musical), but there are plenty of releases on the way in the meantime: a debut How to Destroy Angels LP set for later this year, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo score, and a mystery project involving former NIN keyboardist Alessandro Cortini.

Not a bad start to the year, right?

More posts are on the way, but here are a few links to start the day…

• Wanda Jackson is streaming her entire Jack White-produced LP, The Party Ain’t Over. Check back tomorrow to watch the official video for her take on Bob Dylan’s “Thunder on the Mountain.” If this teaser clip is any indication, it will be fabulous.
• Jeff Tweedy has shared soundboard recordings from his solo set in Washington, D.C. last December over at Wilco’s Roadcase (via Crumbler).
• Trent Reznor and I agree that his winning a Golden Globe for Best Original Score last night was surreal. That said, perhaps he and Atticus Ross will be back next year.
• Cee-Lo (and Pee Wee Herman) stopped by Saturday Night Live.
• New tunes arrived over the weekend from Panda Bear, Wavves, Adele, and PJ Harvey.

Had a feeling this news was on the way after Trent Reznor offered a cryptic response to EW’s Music Mix earlier this week on the question of whether he was teaming up with director David Fincher again for a follow-up to his Golden Globe-nominated The Social Network score. Now confirmation has arrived: Reznor and Atticus Ross are writing, performing, and recording the score to Fincher’s film adaptation to the late Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

With his first solo album since 1998’s modern rock homage to Native American music, Contact from the Underworld of Redboy, former the Band guitarist Robbie Robertson will add a few more famous names to the collaboration section of his 5-decade-long rock resume. In addition to longtime friend Eric Clapton (who co-wrote 3 songs), Robertson has recruited post-’70s stars such as Trent Reznor, Robert Randolph, Tom Morello, and Taylor Goldsmith (whose band Dawes released an excellent debut last year) for How to Become Clairvoyant, a 12-track solo LP due out in April.

According to a press release, Robertson notably addresses his departure from the Band with the song “This Is Where I Get Off.” Preview a different cut, “When The Night Was Young”, here and check out the tracklist — alongside my personal favorite clip of the Band performing back in the day — below.

Former PiL, Ministry, Pigface, and NIN drummer Martin Atkins currently owns possibly the rarest item in Nine Inch Nails history, but that won’t be for long: According to an eBay listing (currently fetching around $1k with 4 days left), Atkins is selling his cassette copy of Trent Reznor’s demos for what would become his debut Pretty Hate Machine LP, and giving part of the profits to charity. Perfect timing, no?

Atkins says he first met the future Golden Globe nominee around 1983, when Reznor was recruited to play trumpet (!) with his then band. Atkins writes:

It was at a barbeque… where I spent a little time with Trent and remember him telling me about some music he was working on. John Malm, who was to become Trents manager was also there. I’m not sure exactly when I received this cassette, it must have been before 1988 when I left New Jersey to move to Chicago.

And now for the best part: The NIN Hotline, who first uncovered the listing, have posted streams of two 52-second snippets of “Terrible Lie” and “Sin” from the cassette, which were originally uploaded by Atkins himself to his Facebook page. They sound pretty great — even for demos — so hear a taste of both samples over at NIN Hotline.

*Update: He won!

While Trent Reznor is certainly no fan of award shows — describing the Grammy Awards earlier this year as “the old guard/old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant” — the Nine Inch Nails/How To Destroy Angels rocker better dust off the tux come January: Reznor and Atticus Ross were nominated for a Golden Globe this morning for their original score to The Social Network.

The newly remastered, repackaged, and reissued version of Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, hits shelves this week, but Trent Reznor and Co. are giving us a free preview of the LP’s “greatly improved sonic experience,” before making the purchase, as well as our first listen to their cover of Queen’s “Get Down, Make Love,” since its 1990 release as the B-side to “Sin.” Streaming over at NME or below, is the full album and Queen cut, remastered and modernized from the original mixes by the T-Rez himself and engineer Tom Baker:

After years of record label limbo, a few publishing firm acquisitions, going out of print, and general music industry WTFery, Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut will be reissued on November 22, complete with remastering from the original mixes by Trent Reznor and engineer Tom Baker for “a greatly improved sonic experience.” Reznor himself announced the Pretty Hate Machine reissue on NIN.com yesterday:

It’s been an interesting trip watching the fate of this record float from one set of hands to another (a long and depressing story) but it’s finally wound up in friendly territory, allowing us to polish it up a bit and present it to you now. We had fun revisiting this old friend, hope you enjoy.

In addition to updated mastering, longtime NIN collaborator/artist Rob Sheridan has reinterpreted Gary Talpas’ original album art (shown above).

*Update* Stream the reissue here.