Nine Inch Nails Bring Smoke, Refigured Classics to Vegas Residency

"We're gonna do a mood shift," Trent Reznor told the audience at Nine Inch Nails' gig Friday night in Las Vegas. "Instead of some happy, upbeat songs," he said, pausing dramatically for laughter, "we're gonna switch it up and do something melancholy." His band then cued up the cascading synths it used on a remix of David Bowie's "I Can't Give Everything Away," eerily replicating Bowie's Berlin-era keyboard sound perfectly while Reznor coolly crooned the song's lyrics as his "hero and friend," as