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Tonight

Tonight the band will be playing the Gorge in George, WA.

A concert set for Aug. 1 in Grant Park by the white-hot rock group Radiohead will mark an unprecedented experiment in outdoor admission-only concerts on Chicago’s “front lawn.” Producers will construct a temporary fenced venue for the show, which could attract fans who were unable to get a ticket.

The concert by the British quintet sold 16,000 tickets in four minutes last Saturday (as fast as the system can sell tickets), evidence of a great demand among fans to see the group, whose computer-heavy art rock sound is credited with transforming contemporary music. Whether the show will mark a successful new way of producing such events?raditionally held in amphitheaters or sports stadiums?s open to question, depending on how traffic, security and crowd control outside the concert is handled. Read more… {thanks to Emil}

MTV 2 (USA) will be airing a Radiohead special on July 4. During this special will be an “amazing” interview that all five members of the band did with Gideon Yago while at the Red Rocks concert. There will also be some live footage as well. {thanks to Ultragrrrl, Diskeater, & Torie}

VH1 has a new Radiohead Player for you to download.

The 1998 Amnesty International Concert that Radiohead took part in will air on TNT Latin America on Thursday, June 28th at 17:45 (GMT -5), 19:45 (in Argentina). Make sure to check your local listings. {thanks to italo rossi}

According to Radio 1’s Mark and Lard, the “Knives Out” single will be released in the UK on August 6. {thanks to Joe}

Check out this Amnesiac review.

A DJ called Dave Clarke has released an album caled “World Service”. It’s a double CD with an Electro and Techno mix. Featured on the Electro set is Radiohead’s “Idioteque” in full as appeared on Kid A without any re-mixing. Apparently Dave said the track was perfect as it was and required no-remixing to suit the electro genre. {thanks to Duncan}

Check out this page! It has got some really interesting stuff about Amnesiac and “Pyramid Song”.

www.meetingpeopleiseasy.de has gotten hold of some new promo pics. Yay!

Q Magazine has got a 20-page feature on Radiohead, their history, and what it was like to record OKC, Kid A, and Amnesiac. {thanks to Dave}

Radiohead: Meeting People Finally Is Easy

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Check out reviews

Check out reviews of last night’s show in Colorado at MTV and The Rocky Mountain News. {thanks to Justin, Cope, and Ryan}

There more fan reviews of the show here.

The issue of Rolling Stone with Radiohead on the cover has apparently been pushed back to July 13.

There is an interview with Eugenia Debayle, label manager for EMI Mexico, about the possibility of Radiohead playing in Mexico. Read it here. {thanks to Jaime}

There is a review of the Houston show from a local paper in Monterrey, Mexico here. {thanks to Jaime}

This weeks ‘Ticket magazine’ with the Irish Times, features an interview with founder of the Velvet Undergrond, John Cale. When asked about experimentation in music today he spoke of Radiohead’s new work saying:

“I had a good laugh when I heard Kid A & Amnesiac – for the right reasons. It’s great what they’ve done, I just wish I could have seen a response from the record company. But that’s what rock ‘n roll is all about. I laud their sense of willfulness. It’s better than going out & burning cars isn’t it? I think what Radiohead is doing will work for them. Why wouldn’t it. People love heroisim.”

{thanks to Damien}

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Red Rocks Setlist

You can check out the setlist and review of last night’s show at Red Rocks here.

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Amnesiac drops to #8

Amnesiac drops to #8 in the US Billboard Album Chart. {thanks to Zak}

Here’s the reason, according to the band’s management, why the Beta Band didn’t perform at the Houston show the other night:

“the band were scheduled to perform in Houston however due to immigration problems they missed the show. They are currently on their way to Denver for tomorrow’s show and will be on all other shows”

The Beta Band’s Official Website has been updated too. {thanks to Jim}

Amnesiac packaging was chosen as a “Pick of the Month” by Creative Review. Subscribers to the site are allowed to read this text:

“We’ve been a bit “Radiohead heavy” of late, but we promise to stop just as soon as we’ve mentioned the packaging for a special issue of their new album, Amnesiac. A cloth-bound hardback book, hailing from “Nosuch Library” features paintings by long-time Radiohead collaborator, Stanley Donwood [CR passim]. The CD is stowed inside the front cover complete with library style lending card and due date stamps (actually the birthdays of everyone involved with the album). It comes as a “limited edition” of 250,000 (not that limited then) and costs 15.99. Says Donwood, who also designed the piece with Tchocky: “The book is a relic from the past. You should scuff it and mistreat it until it looks like the one on the front of the CD packaging. Then you need to separate the pages and let them moulder in a drawer in the haunted attic of an abandoned house”. Hmmm, maybe we won’t go that far but in a time of tightening record marketing budgets and increasingly homogenised sleeve design, it’s worth celebrating such an original piece of work.”

{thanks to Jody}

Would you like to buy Ed O’Brien’s Soul? Creepy…

HOB will be Webcasting the Radiohead show at the Gorge this Saturday starting at 8:30pm. You can also win tickets to see RH in concert. More details are here. {thanks to Cristen}
Here is some more info about the Boston RH show from Suffolk Downs:

All concert events that are staged in the infield, Blink 182 on July 28th, Vans Warped
Tour on August 9th, Radiohead on August 14th, and The MixFest on September 22nd, are general admission shows. The area where our concerts are held is located within our racetrack. It is a big, grassy field, and shows are set up “festival style”. There are no reserved seats or tent set-up for any of these shows. Suffolk Downs recommends taking the Blue Line for a safer, hassle-free concert experience!

{thanks to Chad}

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Red Rocks

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}

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Thom: “Do you guys have traffic problems here?”

Radiohead rocked Houston last night with a 22 song, 2 1/2 hour set that left fans aching for more. The Beta Band, who’s van broke down on the way there, did not perform and was replaced by a local DJ. For the setlist and some great reviews, click here.

Amnesiac is #2 in Italy. {thanks to Marco}

Radiohead is mentioned again in the latest installment of Rollingstone.com’s Well Hung at Dawn. Argh. {thanks to Chris}