Radiohead’s music publisher, Warner Chappell Music, has launched a website where you can purchase and download sheet music and tabs for songs from all of Radiohead’s albums. Check it out here.
Category: Hail to the Thief
Jamie Gurnell wrote in to tell us that he created an info-graphic about Radiohead’s music. On his site, he says:
Radiohead is a band that is the very definition of “unclassifiable” I developed this idea of bleeding genres into each other and plotting the corresponding songs on a graph. It was by no means a mathematical undertaking and took several hours of quite enjoyable listening and debate to achieve. What you come away with is the basic idea that Radiohead in itself is its own genre, refusing to fit anywhere but inside itself.
I am aware that this graph will come under scrutiny and be the brunt of harsh remarks, but in a way, that is what it is meant to do. It is meant to be discussed. It is an ongoing work in progress and until Radiohead stops making music it will never be finished.
If you have any suggestions, remarks or thoughts on improving or altering this design I am completely open to them.
After a few more revisions I plan on trying to get some of these made.
They will be approximately 30X30 Inch silk screens.Many thanks to my friend Art Commisso for the help.
You can view a larger version here.
You can download an even larger version here.
You can view the info-graphic up close by checking out Jamie’s site or clicking the two links above.
Rollingstone.com has a slideshow gallery of photos spanning 15 years of Radiohead. Check them out!
The legendary performance that Radiohead gave at 2006’s Bonnaroo Music Festival has since been regarded as one of the best shows the band has ever done. Even the band will agree that the 28 song set was epic. We’ve been hearing rumors ever since that a DVD of the performance would be released, and while that hasn’t happened yet, fans will be able to get a taste of that evening thanks to Fuse TV.
As a precursor to Fuse?’s live coverage of Bonnaroo ?2008, the channel will be airing footage from Radiohead?’s 2006 performance as part of it?s “Best of Bonnaroo: Volume I” special starting the weekend of Friday, June 13th.
Specific airtimes have yet to be announced, but more information will be posted soon at Fuse’s Bonnaroo page:
http://www.fuse.tv/tours/bonnaroo/index.html.
Get those DVRs ready!
By now you have probably heard that starting on December 10th, you will be able to purchase all of Radiohead’s previously released albums from www.radioheadstore.com. All 6 studio albums plus 2001’s I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings will be available 3 different ways:
– Limited Edition CD box set repackaged in digipack sleeves featuring the original artwork.
– DRM-free, high quality 320 kbps MP3s
– Strictly limited edition 4gb USB stick, shaped in Radiohead’s iconic “bear” image and housed in a bespoke deluxe box.
For more information, head on over to www.radioheadstore.com.
It should be noted that Radiohead themselves don’t have anything to do with this release.
EMI/Parlophone are releasing this without the band’s blessing and participation. EMI and Radiohead parted ways after 2003’s Hail to the Thief and there are rumors around that EMI is not too pleased that In Rainbows is being distributed by another label. Pitchfork has more:
The announcement earlier this week that Parlophone/EMI would be issuing a box set of Radiohead’s previously released albums took many fans by surprise. Sure, the set looks purdy, but it doesn’t come with any bonus tracks or new artwork or liner notes. And that USB stick sure is clunky. Plus, why would Radiohead want to release this thing on December 10, right when everybody will be getting their pre-ordered discboxes of In Rainbows? Seems a little fishy.
On Monday, Boing Boing posted an item about the box set. Yesterday, it was updated with the following:
“A publicity-shy reader writes, ‘I think people need to know that the band isn’t some greed machine. I can tell you with 100% certainty that EMI is putting out all those reissues without the band’s participation, blessing, permission or involvement at all. They are doing it as retribution for the band’s decision not to go with them in releasing the new album. Despite their contract being expired, EMI had been counting on the revenue from the forthcoming album. When the band put out the digital version of the album themselves, EMI threatened them with re-releasing their entire catalog on the same day the discbox of IN RAINBOWS was being sent out, Dec 10, unless the band gave EMI the standard physical release of the album. Of course the band/managers told EMI to piss off and were appalled that at such an important point in the band’s career that their former partners would do this to them.'”
We checked in with representatives from both the band and the label. According to the Radiohead camp, the box set was indeed not the band’s idea. They did not confirm any in-fighting, though. EMI agreed that the box was a label initiative, and said that the band’s management was offered the opportunity to participate in the project, but declined. As for the release date, EMI maintained that no maliciousness was intended. Rather, it’s simply box set season–who doesn’t want to find a nicely packaged multi-CD bundle under the tree on Christmas morning?
As for that other Radiohead release we’re all looking forward to, it’s maybe possibly coming out January 1, maybe possibly on ATO/Side One in the U.S., the band is maybe possibly doing a webcast about it on Friday and maybe possibly touring behind it next year.
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Hint of HTTT artwork?
The Capitol Records Radiohead site has been updated with a new look. Is this a hint to what the album artwork will look like?
(thanks to Ben)