Author: Dylan

A happy birthday wish from us to Jonny, who turns 33 today. Cheers, sir.

Solesides.com, the source for all things Quannum (including DJ Shadow) is reporting that Radiohead’s label rejected Shadow’s remix of ‘The Gloaming’ due to “sample clearance issues”. The samples in question seem to be of George W. Bush saying words like “terrorists”, “terrible weapons”, “saddam hussein”, “nuclear holy warriors”, etc. (i.e. his usual speech) over and over again.
Plans were set to press 500 copies on vinyl just a week or so ago, but those have been cancelled as well. You can find a pre-release version that Shadow played on the radio over at your favorite file-sharing program- unfortunately, that version may have just turned into the final one.
I’ll leave it to you to decide whether “sample clearance issues” (their quote) or “political pressure from record label executives who refuse to issue anything bashing Bush” (my quote) was the real cause of this one. Keep in mind that this is currently unconfirmed, but we’ll keep you posted.

Bluegrass heroine Gillian Welch covered ‘Black Star’ in a California concert. I can’t seem to find a crowd recording online yet, but one review says “Welch whispered the words to the song, which sounded like it could have been written for [Welch’s album] Time (The Revelator).”

Should be good…

Eil currently has a 4 track CD-R Acetate for a B-Sides and Remix album listed for sale. According to At Ease, the album was pulled after the wide range of tracks was considered to be too disjointed and lacking in cohesion for an official release.
Tracks include:
Scatterbrain – Fourtet Remix
Mixamatosis – Christian Vogel Remix
We Suck Young Blood – Unreleased Thom Yorke Remix
and
33.33333.
The disc is housed in Abbey Road Studio Mastering Sleeve with tracklisting, and it’s yours for the remarkably ridiculous price of £245.00.
(Thanks to At Ease.)

The front page over at Radiohead.tv has changed yet again…

Last seen presenting ‘The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of all Time’ on Radiohead.tv, Chieftan Mews is known to be seeking ‘other avenues’ for his considerable talents. Known to be in discussion with W.A.S.T.E., Mews was last heard muttering something about ‘a DVD’, ‘more respect’, and ‘my large fee’.
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS ‘MAN’?

Ah, but the mystery deepens if you head over to the Vapour Brothers website, where you’ll find a fake Google page whose results all lead to the homepage of…
Chieftan Mews, which is filled with links that lead back to…
Radiohead.tv.
Hmmm….
(Thanks to Carolina and Mallorn.)

But their advertising company seems to think that there are some people who will believe anyway- look in the bottom part of the “user testimonials” on the right.