How’s Radiohead doing in the HITS Top 50 album chart? Here’s the latest:
Monster mega-action rocking the HITS Top 50 this week with Elektra’s superpowerhouse Staind looking to retain its album chart throne in the face of heavy breathing from killer first-week performances by Universal’s St. Lunatics and Capitol’s Radiohead. This could go any way, folks, exciting, ain’t it? more…
Here’s how Amnesiac has been doing in some of the charts across the globe:
#1 in the UK
#1 in Ireland
#1 in Finland
#2 in Australia
Thom is interviewed at CDNOW. {thanks to Juice and timbot}
The Washington Post has listed the Thievery Corporation as another opening act along-side the Beta Band for the two shows in Virginia on August 11 and 12. {thanks to Grace}
Somone has made an unofficial video for “Polyethylene (part 2)” at Newsgrounds.com. {thanks to timbot and kervin}
Next week’s (US album) chart promises to be a lot more competitive than the NBA finals.
In a race that’s still too early to call, Staind’s two-week “Cycle” at the top of the charts could well be broken by either Radiohead, which right now holds a slight edge, or Nelly’s St. Lunatics, based on first-day sales from retailers around the country. All are on target to end up in the low 200k range for their first-week totals. Columbia ingenue Jessica Simpson proved “Irresistible” to record buyers and could do in the 125-130k, which will place her just below the leaders. Cash Money/Universal rapper Turk is on track for 100k in sales, which would land him in the Top 10. More…
Amnesiac will be released today in the United States and Canada. Go forth and buy!
Radioheadpreorder.com has some pictures up from the three recent Amnesiac listening parties in Chicago.
You can listen to an interview with Colin from yesterday’s Pinkpop Festival. The interview runs for about 7:46 minutes in RealAudio. {thanks to Rik}
You can see the setlist for last night’s show here.
From Launch: U2’s “Bad,” Radiohead’s “No Surprises,” and the Cure’s “In Between Days” are among the tracks featured on Keeper Of The Flame, a new album of covers by Irish contemporary folk veteran Luka Bloom, due June 26 from Bar None Records.
Win Radiohead ‘…Later’ tickets and loads of goodies at NME.com! {thanks to Steve and Aurora}
There is an effort forming to get Radiohead to play “Nude” (aka “Big Ideas”) at the June 30th Santa Barbara show in California. Spread the word!
MTV.co.uk is currently running a contest in which a selected winner will win an all expenses paid trip to Seattle to see Radiohead! For more details, click here.
PRESS:
– Article about Radiohead in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. {thanks to Dave}
– W Magazine has a small article about Radiohead in their current issue. It can be found on page 92. {thanks to Carol}
Radiohead’s fifth album, Amnesiac, will be released today in pretty much all of the world. The United States and Canada will get it tomorrow, while New Zealand will have to wait until June 11. Enjoy!!
In video news…
In the latest newsletter from shots.net (the UK promo/ad industry mag), they indicated that Michel Gondry is set to direct a promo for Radiohead in June. Gondry has done videos for Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Rolling Stones, and Cibo Matto. For more info about him, check out this site and this site. {thanks to Kevin}
Radiohead has been nominated for the Band of the Year award at this year’s GQ Awards. You can vote for them at www.gq.com. {thanks to Christina}
You can now view scans of the Q & A special Thom did with Blender Magazine. {thanks to Sid}
Amnesiac is being featured as Record of the Month at the Portuguese site www.alternativeyouth.com/. Coincidentally, Green Plastic is featured as the Site of the Month! 🙂 {thanks to JM}
w.a.s.t.e. is now selling tickets to the shows in Japan.
Air-Radiohead.com has some photos of the Rock am Ring show and some mp3s of the Rock im Park show.
Speaking of the Rock im Park concert, you can see the setlist here.
There is a midnight showing of “Meeting People is Easy” at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL on June 8 & 9, 15 & 16 (Friday and Saturday nights). Here is the web site for more information. {thanks to Julia}
Here’s the latest press roundup:
– The Dallas Morning News gave Amnesiac a C+. {thanks to Jerry}
– Review of Amnesiac by Chicago Tribune. {thanks to Jason}
– People Magazine’s review of the new album. {thanks to Aurora}
– Nightshift’s review. Amnesiac is also mentioned on this page. {thanks to Karine}
MTV USA (yes, USA!) will be showing the Canal+ concert Radiohead recorded last April on June 5 at 10:30pm EST/PST.
You can now read the review of yesterday’s show at the Rock am Ring Festival in Germany.
From Capitol Records:
June 5th marks the arrival of not only Radiohead’s 5th album, Amnesiac, but the launch of the “soon to be world famous” GooglyMinotaur. Befriend him by adding his name to your instant message buddy list. He’s got the 411 on Radiohead past, present and future. But, that’s not all… he’ll challenge you with Radiohead trivia, hangman and more. Remind friends of the minotaur’s quintessential Amnesiac existence by collecting all four of his buddy icons and swapping them.
Plus, Radiohead is being crowned “Yahoo! Band of the Month” for June. The inauguration begins with an auction for front row seats to see the band on the first leg of their tour. The bidding starts with Houston and Denver. We’ll keep you updated as Yahoo puts more hot tickets on the auction block. All proceeds from the auctions go to Amnesty International.
Stan “The Man” Donwood made a post on the now grey official message board that the “rebirth” of radiohead.com will happen on Monday. {thanks to electioneer}
There will be a pretty big interview with Thom Yorke in this Sunday’s LA Times. The story will appear in the Calendar section with Thom on the cover! You can read the interview now Online. Snippet:
“To me, electronic music is the new folk music ’cause it’s that easy to use and generate,” he explains. “I find the noises I can get out of my laptop and all the gear that we’ve got in the studio far more stimulating than [conventional] rock instrumentation.”
{thanks to Chris & Andy}
Ed was interviewed by Dave Fanning on 2FM ( www.2fm.ie) last Thursday night. The interview lasted about 45 minutes and was conducted over the phone. Ed made some very interesting comments.
Regarding Kid A :
* “We knew that Kid A was challanging but we wanted to try out different techniques. Musically, it was really the test of the band.”
Regarding Amnesiac :
* “I got frustrated with Knives Out, we had lost the disipline to do stuff that’s straight ahead.”
* “Kid A is cold and numbed, it’s linear, but Amnesiac engages you more, there’s more emotion to it.”
Regarding the new material they have written since Amnesiac :
* “We’ve all come back with a new vigour in the past 8 weeks. The guitars are out again. The new stuff has a Crazy Horse vibe to it, it’s amazing.”
* “It’s bad for your head to make an album over a year and a half, so what were going do next is 2 three week sessions, and then finish that stuff.”
{thanks to Gerry}
Here’s more press:
– Article at Ice Magazine. {thanks to Matt}
– Review of Amnesiac at Q Magazine. {thanks to Aaron}
– Review at Rolling Stone. {thanks to Chris}
Radiohead was featured on the American TV show “Jeopardy” last Friday (May 31st). In the category “Radio-logy” the question went *something* like this: “Kid A, an album from this British band fronted by singer Thom Yorke, was nominated at the 2001 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year.” {thanks to Steve}