Green Plastic Radiohead

The Beta Band (whom you really ought to be listening to) will release their third proper album, Heroes to Zeroes, on May 4th. The self-produced LP was mixed by long-time Radiohead producer/mixer Nigel Godrich.

After years of waiting, something came. The final (not counting the bands that will be added) line-up is as follows-
SATURDAY, MAY 1
RADIOHEAD
The Pixies
Kraftwerk
Wilco
(International) Noise Conspiracy, The Rapture, Desert Sessions (possibly featuring PJ Harvey, possibly not…we’ll let you know), Heiroglyphics, Kinky, Stereolab, Future Sound of London, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Peretz, Death Cab for Cutie, Laurent Garnier, LCD Soundsystem, Living Legends, Sander Kleinenberg, The Black Keys, The Sounds, Howie Day, Junior Senior, Mark Farina, Moving Units, Sahara Hotnights, Electric Six, The Stills, Seb Fontaine, 22-20’s, Juana Molina, Phantom Planet, Dios, Jem, Q and Not U, Erase Errata, The Section Quartet, DJ Icon
SUNDAY, MAY 2
The Cure
The Flaming Lips
Air
Belle & Sebastian
Basement Jaxx, Mogwai, Prefuse 73, !!!, Le Tigre, Broken Social Scene, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Paul Van Dyk, Dizzee Rascal, Bright Eyes, Atmosphere, Thursday, Cursive, The Crystal Method, Adam Freeland, Ash, 2many Dj’s, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Muse, Sidestepper, The Thrills, The Sleepy Jackson, Ferry Corsten, The Cooper Temple Clause, Sage Francis, T. Raumschmiere, Stellastarr*, The Killers, Home Town Hero, The Section Quartet
Wowzaz! That’s quite the lineup, and if past precedence means anything, more will be added by the time May rolls around.

The Coachella 2004 presale begINs on Saturday, February 7th at 10 AM and ends on Sunday, February 8th at 10 PM. You Can purchase a 2-day pass for $140.00 plus $2 fOr charity and plenty more for the various ridiculous service charges. In addition, you can snag a camping ticket for just $25.00 per person for 3 nights, plus more TicketMaster fees of large sizes. You cannot, however, get single-day tickets during the presale.
Alas, to get in on the pre-sale action, one will need a five (that’s CINCO in Spanish)-letter password. I wonder where you’ll get it from?
Go over to TicketMaster to get tickets and pay absolutely silly charges.
(Many thanks to At Ease, whose post was so clever that we couldn’t think of anything better and therefore ripped it off. Sorry Ade!)

Hipster central and purveyors of good music information Pitchfork Media have posted details on Radiohead’s new Japanese-only EP release, Com Lag.
The tracklist is-
1. 2+2=5
2. Myxomatosis [Christian Vogel mix]
3. Paperbag Writer
4. Scatterbrain [Four Tet remix]
5. I Will [L.A. version]
6. I Am Citizen Insane
7. Fog (Again)
8. Where Bluebirds Fly
9. I Am A Wicked Child
10. Gagging Order
While all these songs are available on the various singles for Go To Sleep, There There, and 2+2=5, you’ll also receive a live version of 2+2=5, the video for Sit Down Stand Up, and some clips from The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time. This will be a very limited release, so those who track it down have something quite valuable on their hands indeed.

Although Radiohead has made it quite clear they won’t be releasing the music they composed for Merce Cunningham’s Split Sides, Sigur R?s has released the three pieces of music they composed as Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do, a three-song EP exclusively available from Apple’s iTunes store. Although a CD will be released in mid-March, iTunes is the only place you can (legitimately) get these tracks until then.
You can preview the songs here (you must have iTunes installed)-
1. Ba Ba
2. Ti Ki
3. Di Do
Here’s some more information from the Sigur R?s website-
These three pieces of music comprising BA BA TI KI DI DO were originally written for the Split Sides performance of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the most recent dance by Merce Cunningham. The members of Sigur R?s performed them live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2003 Next Wave Festival, New York on October 14, 2003 and again in Paris at The Theatre de la Ville between Dec 2-7, 2003.
On these occasions the band improvised a 20-minute section of music over a previously recorded backing track using two sheet-fed music boxes, a glockenspiel and a specially homemade percussive instrument (“bummsett” in Icelandic) comprising eight ballet shoes on a rack. The backing tracks incorporated recordings of Merce Cunningham’s voice and the sound of his tap-dancing feet recorded at the Merce Cunningham Studio in Manhattan.
The results of the live improvisation (which came to mirror some elements of the choreography) were recorded at the band’s studio outside Reykjavik, Iceland in late Nov. 2003. The three sections-“Ba Ba,” “Ti Ki” and “Di Do”–are designed to be played in any order.
(Thanks to Sean.)

The good folks over at Climbing Up the Walls are having a contest to celebrate the release of Bodysong, and there are some pretty cool prizes.
To enter, pop on over to the contest page, where you’ll be asked to answer the following questions-
1. What song was reversed to form the basis of Like Spinning Plates?
2. Which track on Bodysong features Jonny’s brother Colin Greenwood on bass?
3. What pseudonym does Thom Yorke use for Radiohead’s artwork?
4. Which Radiohead video features Thom Yorke as a mouse?
5. What scene in Meeting People is Easy begins at 0:49:23?
The prizes are quite cool indeed-
GRAND PRIZE (1) – Bodysong vinyl signed by Jonny Greenwood
2nd PRIZE (5) – 7″ including two Bodysong B-Sides
3rd PRIZE (7) – Limited lithographs from Hail To The Thief
4th PRIZE (10) – Go To Sleep 7″‘s
Good luck!
(Thanks to Termy from CUTW, who we don’t hear from enough.)