Radiohead played a brand new song called “Reckoner” to the Gorge audience last night. It may also be called “Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses”. Click here for the full setlist. {thanks to Eric}
You can download a mp3 of “Reckoner” at http://www.uselessadvert.com/radiohead_reckoner.mp3
There is an interview with Thom in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. {thanks to Joanne}
Radiohead will perform tonight at Red Rocks in Colorado.
Rolling Stone and The Houston Chronicle both have favorable reviews of the Houston show the other night. {thanks to Chris}
Thom is on the cover of Chart Magazine.
There is a very interesting Call for Papers for an academic essay collection on Radiohead. {thanks to Jody}
The Stranger, a local paper in Seattle, has a review of Amnesiac up. {thanks to Jody}
Radiohead will play tonight in Houston.
London radio station 104.9 XFM will be broadcasting the July 7 Radiohead Oxford show starting at 5pm. For those who can’t get the station you can listen to it on the Website. {thanks to Karin}
Thom is on the cover of the July issue of Rolling Stone in Australia. {thanks to Ivana}
You can hear a clip of the Luka Bloom cover of “No Surprises” here. Here are some comments made by Bloom:
“People ask me if I have heard their new CD. I heard a few pieces on the radio and I’m not really interested. I respect the decisions and choices made by every artist, and whether or not I like the result is irrelevant. I just like songs. I think Thom Yorke is a magnificent writer. He has written some brilliant songs and Radiohead is a great band. No Surprises is a very beautiful, very sad song. It was not easy to catch the power acoustically. Thom Yorke sings it in a very intense way and I felt it was a real challenge to achieve that same feeling using just the acoustic guitar. But I like such a challenge. Records these days are so full of production gadgets that you have to listen many times to hear the good songs. I wanted to see if I could turn a Radiohead song into a Luka Bloom song.”
{thanks to Gerry}
Tickets for the September 11 show in Berlin can be bought at http://www.getgo.de or http://www.shownet.de. {thanks to Bj?rn}
Here’s how Amnesiac has been doing in some of the charts across the globe:
#1 in the UK
#1 in Ireland
#1 in Finland
#2 in Australia
Thom is interviewed at CDNOW. {thanks to Juice and timbot}
The Washington Post has listed the Thievery Corporation as another opening act along-side the Beta Band for the two shows in Virginia on August 11 and 12. {thanks to Grace}
Somone has made an unofficial video for “Polyethylene (part 2)” at Newsgrounds.com. {thanks to timbot and kervin}
MTV USA (yes, USA!) will be showing the Canal+ concert Radiohead recorded last April on June 5 at 10:30pm EST/PST.
You can now read the review of yesterday’s show at the Rock am Ring Festival in Germany.
From Capitol Records:
June 5th marks the arrival of not only Radiohead’s 5th album, Amnesiac, but the launch of the “soon to be world famous” GooglyMinotaur. Befriend him by adding his name to your instant message buddy list. He’s got the 411 on Radiohead past, present and future. But, that’s not all… he’ll challenge you with Radiohead trivia, hangman and more. Remind friends of the minotaur’s quintessential Amnesiac existence by collecting all four of his buddy icons and swapping them.
Plus, Radiohead is being crowned “Yahoo! Band of the Month” for June. The inauguration begins with an auction for front row seats to see the band on the first leg of their tour. The bidding starts with Houston and Denver. We’ll keep you updated as Yahoo puts more hot tickets on the auction block. All proceeds from the auctions go to Amnesty International.
Stan “The Man” Donwood made a post on the now grey official message board that the “rebirth” of radiohead.com will happen on Monday. {thanks to electioneer}
There will be a pretty big interview with Thom Yorke in this Sunday’s LA Times. The story will appear in the Calendar section with Thom on the cover! You can read the interview now Online. Snippet:
“To me, electronic music is the new folk music ’cause it’s that easy to use and generate,” he explains. “I find the noises I can get out of my laptop and all the gear that we’ve got in the studio far more stimulating than [conventional] rock instrumentation.”
{thanks to Chris & Andy}
Ed was interviewed by Dave Fanning on 2FM ( www.2fm.ie) last Thursday night. The interview lasted about 45 minutes and was conducted over the phone. Ed made some very interesting comments.
Regarding Kid A :
* “We knew that Kid A was challanging but we wanted to try out different techniques. Musically, it was really the test of the band.”
Regarding Amnesiac :
* “I got frustrated with Knives Out, we had lost the disipline to do stuff that’s straight ahead.”
* “Kid A is cold and numbed, it’s linear, but Amnesiac engages you more, there’s more emotion to it.”
Regarding the new material they have written since Amnesiac :
* “We’ve all come back with a new vigour in the past 8 weeks. The guitars are out again. The new stuff has a Crazy Horse vibe to it, it’s amazing.”
* “It’s bad for your head to make an album over a year and a half, so what were going do next is 2 three week sessions, and then finish that stuff.”
{thanks to Gerry}
Here’s more press:
– Article at Ice Magazine. {thanks to Matt}
– Review of Amnesiac at Q Magazine. {thanks to Aaron}
– Review at Rolling Stone. {thanks to Chris}
Radiohead was featured on the American TV show “Jeopardy” last Friday (May 31st). In the category “Radio-logy” the question went *something* like this: “Kid A, an album from this British band fronted by singer Thom Yorke, was nominated at the 2001 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year.” {thanks to Steve}
Tickets for the August 5 Radiohead show in Montreal will go on sale June 11 at 10am EDT at www.admission.com. {thanks to beno?t & eddie}
Also, it appears that Radiohead have added a date to their East Coast tour in Atlanta, GA on July 30. The venue and ticket information remains unknown at this point.
“Pyramid Song” is number 3 in the Top 20 list in Norway. {thanks to Marius}
Last night Thom and Jonny appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, an arts program, initially talking about their Humphrey Lyttleton collaboration, but also about the new album. Exerts from Pyramid Song, Glass House and Crushd Tin Box were played. The presenter commented on Pyramid Song’s bizarre tempo, and Thom replied: “Yeah you should of seem them on Top Of The Pops! They were really raving. Not!” {thanks to Joe}