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Radiohead will be featured in a new film called Coachella which is set to hit select theaters on January 24, 2006 in the US. The film is a documentary of the history of the festival and will also feature interviews and performances by The Arcade Fire, Bjork, Oasis, Pixies, and many more. Check here for more details.
The annual festival is set to take place on April 29 and 30 in Indio, California.
(thanks to Jeremy)
Some new merchandise is available through w.a.s.t.e. just in time for the holidays! New products include two shirts designed by Stanley in the band’s haunted studio. The band also has “Unsuitable Greeting Cards”, which are offered for sale as a set, and are intended to be sent at “Unsuitable times.”
In addition, a coffee mug described as a “Drinking Vessel” has been designed. It is suitable for “all liquids and which may also be used to house pencils, diamonds, marbles, or, indeed, anything you wish.”
If you’re not in to greeting cards or coffee mugs, then perhaps you would like a 2006 Radiohead calendar which contains 12 new pictures by Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock.
Speaking of Mr Donwood, he has a new screenprint entitled “Pacific Coast” which is hand-printed in several colors and ideal for “houses without pictures. Or houses with pictures.”
To guarantee arrival of goods before the festive period, last dates for ordering are:
December 8 – Australia, New Zealand
December 11 – USA, Canada, Japan, Eastern Europe
December 13 – Western Europe
December 19 – United Kingdom
Go forth and shop at www.waste.uk.com and www.slowlydownward.com.
Thom has updated the band’s blog (Dead Air Space) about the UN meeting in Montreal regarding what to do after the Kyoto protocol. Click here to read…
DJ Panzah Zandahz has gone and taken his favorite Radiohead tracks and remixed them with snippets of artists such as MF Doom, Jurrasic 5, De La Soul, and more.
MP3Nova.org has this write up:
The album starts off with the scorpio-fused breakbeat work-out “Everything in Its Wrong Place” & progresses in to a warped version of Cut Chemist’s Litmus Test remix of Gab’s “Chemical alisthenics.” A remix of a remix I guess. Continuing on the Chemist theme MF Doom’s “Change the Beat” gets thrown in to a blender & comes out as a Jurassic 5 tinged re-working of Radiohead’s semi-obscure “Wicked Child.” The real heat is the “My Iron Lung” remix of Daytona 500. HEAT! PZ’s favorite emcee of all time, Edan, finds himself sharing the same meter as Radiohead in a noisy & lo-fi “Rapperfection” mash up of the “National Anthem” off of Kid A. The CD gets down-right weird when PZ covers “Creep” (the most covered RH song, PERIOD) featuring a robotic like-ness of Fred (its kind of a stretch) from “Fitter Happier.” Chord Organs, theremins, they are all there. A 45 minute sunday morning session in the studio led to a goofy & fun exclusive from Sev Statik (of PCM, Tunnel Rats, & Deep Space 5) going off over a re-working of his favorite RH break from Kid A. Sev even manages to share the same track with Kool Keith as “Optimistic” dissolves in to “Paperbag” & Keith lets loose with his usual banter about pecunious bugs & thugs that perpetrate. Two “Hail to Thief” Native Tongue remixes are next on the list & De La’s “Itsoweezee” becomes a completely different animal. An instrumental of PZ’s re-worked “No Suprises” ends off the originals set & the album finishes with three instrumentals that are best utilized by rhyming over in the shower.
PZ describes the album as “nothing to be taken too seriously, it was just a lot of fun to make & I hope that you have fun listening to it.” CD length is 42 minutes and there’s also a 7″ vinyl available with remixes of My Iron Lung and Wicked Child. Order the discs (and listen to some previews of the album on tokenrecluse.com.
Torrent and tracklist info can be found here.
The classic video of Radiohead’s performance at London’s Astoria is being re-released on DVD and for the first time will be commercially available in the United States. The concert, which happened on May 27, 1994, showcased many songs that would later appear on the Bends, including “Bones”, “Fake Plastic Trees”, and “My Iron Lung”.
This DVD is available on November 22, 2005 and can be pre-ordered at Amazon.
The tracklist includes: ‘You’, ‘Bones’, ‘Ripcord’, ‘Black Star’, ‘Creep’, ‘The Bends’, ‘My Iron Lung’, ‘Prove Yourself’, ‘Maquiladora’, ‘Vegetable ‘, Fake Platsic Trees’, ‘Just’, ‘Stop Whispering’, Anyone Can Play Guitar’, ‘Pop Is Dead’ and ‘Blow Out’.
Green Plastic would like to wish Jonny Greenwood a Happy Birthday today!!!