Covers! Covers! Seems like this is the Summer of Radiohead covers, no? Sheesh, they are everywhere. The latest is from the band Yellowcard, who chose to cover “High and Dry” as part of an acoustic session for AOL. Check the video.
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Random links for your Thursday
After last year’s ridiculous story about Ticketmaster selling tickets to a Radiohead show at Bally’s in Las Vegas, we get wind of news that ticketmaster.com saying that tickets for Radiohead will be going on sale tomorrow morning at 10 AM. We’re pretty sure this is a mistake folks.
If you want to see the goof, you have to select “Philadelphia” as your location and look to the bottom right of the page.
Move along, there’s nothing left to see…
(via Mortigi Tempo)
UPDATE Saturday 7:42 AM PT: Ticketmaster took down the mistake.
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OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer
Stereogum has put up a covers compilation album called OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer where they asked various artists to record a song from the legendary OK Computer album.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer we’ve asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song covers compilation. Indicative of the album’s continued importance, each invitee jumped at the chance; the results are personal, intense, tellingly various. Slow down, dig in, enjoy. But note: we did this all legal and everything, so we can’t keep these up forever…get ’em before someone else does. Ambition makes you look pretty.
Here’s the tracklist:
Doveman – “Airbag”
Slaraffenland – “Paranoid Android”
Mobius Band – “Subterranean Homesick Alien”
Vampire Weekend – “Exit Music (For a Film)”
David Bazan’s Black Cloud – “Let Down”
John Vanderslice – “Karma Police”
Samson Dalonoga feat. The Found Sound Orchestra – “Fitter Happier”
Cold War Kids – “Electioneering”
The Twilight Sad – “Climbing Up the Walls”
Marissa Nadler feat. Black Hole Infinity – “No Surprises”
My Brightest Diamond – “Lucky”
Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble – “The Tourist”
Go here to download the tracks: http://www.stereogum.com/okx/.
Here’s some good Monday reading for you…
Knittle is a singer for the Young@Heart Chorus, whose members range from 73 to 92 years old. Singing songs they shouldn’t even know, at an age when they’re expected to be sitting quietly somewhere, they subvert all accepted notions of old and young.
Songs by bands like the Radiohead, OutKast and Nirvana take on a new dimension when performed by these 23 foot-stomping senior citizens. Fix You or the Clash’s Should I Stay or Should I Go become about life and death.
Read more: Elderly Massachusetts chorus defies old age, sings Radiohead instead.
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A bit of tape from the studio
Nigel has posted a video at Dead Air Space with what he describes as “bits of tape which have been chopped out of the mixes when they were edited”.