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What Went Right With I Might Be Wrong?

The following article is from MTV.com:

What Went Right With I Might Be Wrong?
Before I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings slinks off the Billboard 200 charts entirely (it slides to #166 next week), we’d like to take a moment and ponder what could have been (and maybe should have been) for Radiohead’s much-ballyhooed concert record.

Coming on the heels of the band’s potent 1-2 combination punch of Kid A and Amnesiac, as well as Radiohead’s acclaimed tours of Europe, North America and Japan this summer, I Might Be Wrong was obviously meant as a way to tide fans over until Thom Yorke and company’s next proper release. Nothing new there, as Radiohead had previously done something similar by issuing its Airbag/How Am I Driving? EP in spring 1998, almost nine months after releasing OK Computer and featuring several B-sides and unreleased tracks from the OK sessions.

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Lali Puna on Radiohead

In a recent interview, Valerie Trebeljahr from Lali Puna brought up Radiohead:

Radiohead and Andrew Weatherall are two of your supporters… Do you like their music?
VT {Valerie Trebeljahr} : as radiohead have an indie-background too I know and like them for quite a while. and of course we admire kid a and amnesiac a lot! for me especially kid a is the perfect pop-definition: songs and melodies that go into your head, but are equally so complex that you can hear them a thousand times. yes and the most important: they strike emotionally. i know andrew weatherall just though the two lone swordsmen, i don’t know the earlier stuff i have to admit. but i like the swordsmen-music a lot and the sideproject radioactive man too.

Read the rest of the interview here.
{thanks to dmitri}

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Later with Jools Holland

From KCET Magazine:

Moody music, songs of despair and more await as Later…Presents Radiohead. Hailed by fans and critics alike as one of the best alternative rock acts, the Grammy-winning quintet from Oxford, England, will perform material from their latest album Amnesiac as well as songs from their other albums: Kid A, The Bends and OK Computer. Hosted by Jools Holland, this long-running music show is a BBC program that showcases top contemporary acts in music.

Later…Presents Radiohead
Premieres Saturday, December 8 at 11pm.

{thanks to Jennifer}

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Former NIN Drummer Mentions RH

In a recent interview with The NIN Hotline, former NIN drummer Chris Vrenna talks about his new project Tweaker and mentions Radiohead:

Leviathant: People have been comparing your record to Radiohead’s Kid A; the comparison makes sense after some thinking, but I think there are differences in the production that set the two apart, when I listen to them. As far as producing this album went – do you spend a lot of time, erm, tweaking the tracks in a production environment such as ProTools (or Soundforge, or etc. etc.), or do you like to do most of the programming and twiddling live while laying the tracks down?

Tweaker: Well, first off, THANKS for the wonderful compliment of comparing Tweaker to Kid A. I do a bit of both, actually…I run beats, loops, etc through things and tweak as I lay it through ProTools. But I also do a lot afterward as well. It all depends on the track. I just sort of experiment as I go, and try not to repeat myself too often. The beauty of ProTools is that I can always go back to tracks and rework them.

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{thanks to Leviathant}

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Courtney Pine

Jazz musician Courtney Pine recently brought up Radiohead a couple of times during an interview with the Guardian:

Radiohead is a name that Pine keeps coming back to. “The last two albums have been outstanding. I would call it jazz – jazz as a true reflection of social change and the climate at the time. I worked with Art Blakey, and he said that jazz travels from the creator to the artist to the audience, and that’s all you need to remember. We have this thing at the moment called smooth jazz, which is very successful, but to me it sounds like porn-film music. What Radiohead are doing is far more exciting.”

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{thanks to Kate}

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Radiohead included in Time list of top bands

In Time magazine’s special “Music Goes Global” issue, Radiohead was named as one of the “Ten Best Bands on the Planet Earth.” The list is described as “the top contemporary acts outside the U.S.” Other notables that made the list include U2, Sigur Ros, and Portishead.

The band was also mentioned in the main article (along with a picture of Thom):

“Thom Yorke of the British band Radiohead wrote some songs for his album Kid A by cutting up lyric sheets and pulling lines out of a top hat.”

{thanks to Paul & Seema}