Author: Jonathan

New York, NY

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Radiohead Stanley Donwood

Parrot’s Nest?

Last week we received an email from someone who works at a Californian CG design firm called CoCoa Creative who said that they were working on a video for a new song called either “Parrot” or “Parrot’s Nest” with Stanley Donwood.

As of now, there has been no confirmation by Radiohead or their management that they are working with CoCoa Creative or of the existence of “Parrot’s Nest.”

If you would like to see some of the correspondence that myself and some of the other people at MT have had with CoCoa Creative, go here or here.

Is this real? At this moment we don’t know but we do know that Radiohead just returned to the studio last month and talk about a video or single would seem really premature. Who knows?

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Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke #56

Thom Yorke was voted the 56th Greatest Man in music on VH1’s 100 Greatest Men show.

(thanks to Keith & Dave)

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Radiohead

Radiohead on TV

For those living in Italy, the Radiohead in Paris concert will air on June 2, 2002 at 21:00 on Italian TV Tele+ Nero.
(thanks to Marco)

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Radiohead Thom Yorke

Mogwai on RH

Careless Talk Costs Lives Magazine did an interview with Mogwai for their January 2002 issue and Radiohead were brought up, Oasis-style. Here’s what was said:

” ‘We’re not particularly angst-y. What have they got to moan about? It’s the Thom Yorke syndrome: being a complainer and a hypocrite.
Well-channelled brilliant angst like The God Machine is amazing, but pointless angst is not good.’
I’ve never liked Radiohead. Right from the start I thought they sounded like Kingmaker…
(Laughter) ‘That’s a slag, isn’t it?’
…but what does Thom Yorke do — keep his mouth shut and stop whining?
‘It would be a start,’ replies Stuart. ‘A facelift would be a second, and going to the dentist would be a third. Radiohead’s stance against corporations and globalisation is ridiculous when their t-shirts cost more to buy than our records. I’m anti-globalisation on a local scale with the appearance in almost every town of Spars, Woolworths and Griegs destroying small businesses. I’m OK with McDonalds and Starbucks, but not Spar.'”
another bit, later on….
“Is there a line you won’t cross that stops you from turning into Radiohead?
‘In what way?’
Like if you sold millions of records.
‘That would be all right. There’s nothing wrong with selling plenty of records. The line is just hypocrisy.’
‘You get married to supermodels and take cocaine and drive about in limousines if that happens. You don’t dress like a fucking student and complain about fucking corporations. You kill people off, you don’t complain about it.'”

(thanks to Aurora)

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Radiohead

Performance Today

Did you miss Christopher O’Riley’s beautiful renditions of Radiohead songs on the NPR show “Performance Today”? If so, please head on over to the Performance Today site and you can listen to the full show!

(thanks to Mark)

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Radiohead The Bends

Bends 2 (again)

As we reported earlier, CDNow and Barnes & Noble both have an item called “Bends 2” that is going to be released on June 11. We have now been told that this is just a repressing of the Japanese version of The Bends and it will not have any new songs on it.

(thanks to Paul)