Nine Inch Nails at show #3 of Nine Inch Nails' farewell tour at Terminal 5 in New York City got an unexpected treat last night, when goth-rock legend Peter Murphy of Bauhaus joined the band for three songs.

After explaining to the crowd that NIN's first real break was when they were offered an opening slot on tour with Bauhaus, the band and the ageless Prince of Darkness tore through NIN's "Reptile", Bauhaus's "Kick in the Eye" and Joy Division's "Dead Souls", shown above.

Spin has more.

Nine Inch Nails' performance at Bonnaroo was supposed to be their last, but Trent Reznor ain't goin' out like that:

It turns out Nine Inch Nails’ Bonnaroo ‘09 set won’t be Trent Reznor’s final U.S. show ever — today the NIN leader announced on the band’s Website new plans to perform a handful of small venue shows in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Nine Inch Nails’ joint tour with Jane’s Addiction and their massive set at Bonnaroo were supposed to be the final curtain calls for Reznor and Co. in the States before the band would “disappear for a while,” but as Reznor writes, “Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight — it just didn’t feel right to end NIN that way.”

So far, Reznor said Nine Inch Nails will perform at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall and Terminal Five; Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom; and Los Angeles’ Wiltern, the Henry Fonda, Palladium and the Echoplex. “These should be cool, unusual and unique shows and I hope you come out — this is it,” Reznor writes of the final shows, strangely echoing Michael Jackson’s canceled “This Is It!” concerts in London, which were meant to be the King of Pop’s final performances in the U.K.

I'll be damned if I don't make it to one of those LA shows. I'll also be damned if these are the last every Nine Inch Nails shows. Does anyone even believe bands that Ian MacKaye isn't in when they announce their final show?

Perry Farrell won't be coming down any mountains any time soon.

The ageless singer (nee Peretz Bernstein -- we share a last name in real life) tore his calf last night in Atlanta while performing with the reunited Jane's Addiction, who are currently on tour with Nine Inch Nails. He was promptly rushed to the hospital after the show.

According to Spin, doctors have told Farrell to stay off the leg for a few days, but the band is planning on playing their show tonight in Austin anyway. Rock stars not taking doctor's orders? I've never...

I've actually seen some great performances by chairbound rockers before. In 2003, I saw fantastic sets by a pre-treadmill OkGo (opening for Fountains of Wayne) with singer-guitarist Damian Kulash sitting down with his leg in a full cast, and two back-to-back King's X shows with singer-guitarist Ty Tabor in a swivel chair and a neckbrace. Both of them brought the heat.

Even at 50, Farrell is known for being one of the most energetic, calorie burning frontmen around (which sometimes means a torn calf muscle.) Jane's fans might not feel like they'd be getting their money's worth from a sedentary Farrell -- we'll see if he ignores the doctors tonight.

Well, the pranks have begun. Continuing on his Twitter-originated diss on Chris Cornell's new Timbaland-produced album, Trent Reznor has a hilarious sendup at the Nine Inch Nails site about a strange new album with songs like "Everybody's Doing It" (featuring Chris Martin, Jay-Z AND Bono). We'll bring more rock star April Fools jokes as they develop.

Trent Reznor has 40,000 followers on Twitter, and the gumption to tell them all, "You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly YOU feel uncomfortable? Heard Chris Cornell’s record? Jesus."

I've felt that kind of sympathetic embarrassment both upon hearing Chris Cornell's first record, and upon hearing that a rock legend in his mid-forties is making fun of another one on Twitter. There's nothing uncommon about aging rockers piling on the youthiness, but this 20th century feud on 21st century technology subtracts a few years too many for my money, as does Cornell's lame attempt at the high road. Let the fun begin!

Though can't help but think that these are starting to look like nostalgia tours, this double-bill (which will showcase the original Jane's Addiction lineup and Nine Inch Nails, whose lineup as always is irrelevant) is about as good of a nineties time-travel trek as you can get short of a Cobain resurrection or a Soundgarden reunion. That last one's not that far-fetched, actually.

Trent Reznor is threatening to make this the last Nine Inch Nails tour, which like any hugely successful band promising its own death is to be taken with a big canister of Morton Salt. I believe Jane's Addiction once made a similar promise. This clip of Perry Farrell (who turns 50 this month!) and company going back on that promise for the hundredth time at The Echoplex in LA a couple weeks ago shows that it's probably a good thing that they do.

Dates:

5/8, West Palm Beach, FL (Cruzan Amphitheater)
5/9, Tampa, FL (Ford Amphitheatre)
5/10, Atlanta, GA (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
5/14, Albuquerque, NM (Journal Pavilion)
5/15, Phoenix, AZ (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater)
5/16, Chula Vista, CA (Cricket Wireless Amphitheater)
5/18, Las Vegas, NV (The Pearl)
5/20, Irvine, CA (Verizion Wireless Amphitheatre)
5/22, Mountain View, CA (Shoreline Amphitheatre)
5/26, Englewood, CO (Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre)
5/27, Kansas City, MO (Starlight Theatre)
5/30, Noblesville, IN (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
5/31, Clarkston, MI (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
6/2,Toronto, ON (Molson Amphitheatre)
6/3,Darien Lake, NY (Darien Lake Amphitheatre)
6/5,Camden, NJ (Tweeter Center At The Waterfront)
6/6, Holmdel, NJ (PNC Bank Arts Center)
6/7, Wantagh, NY (Nikon at Jones Beach Music Theater)
6/9, Columbia, MD (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
6/10, Burgettstown, PA (Post-Gazette Pavilion)
6/12, Charlotte, NC (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)