Green Plastic Radiohead

Nominations for the 46th annual Grammy Awards came out today, and Radiohead snagged four of them. Here’s a list, along with the competition…
Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
-There There (Radiohead)
-Times Like These (Foo Fighters)
-Calling All Angels (Train)
-Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
-Disorder In the House (Warren Zevon & Bruce Springsteen)
Best Alternative Music Album
-Hail To The Thief (Radiohead)
-Fight Test (The Flaming Lips)
-Untitled (Sigur R?s)
-Elephant (The White Stripes)
-Fever To Tell (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
-Hail To The Thief (Nigel Godrich and Darrell Thorp, engineers)
-Elephunk (The Black-Eyed Peas)
-Natural Selection (Fuel)
-Nature Boy (Aaron Neville)
-North (Elvis Costello)
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
-Nigel Godrich (Hail To The Thief)
-Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis (A ton of R&B albums)
-The Matrix (A ton of terrible “alterna-rock” music)
-The Neptunes (Nearly every rap song)
-Outkast (Speakerboxx/The Love Below)
Awards will be given out Sunday, February 8, 2004, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
If you can stomach it, you can see the entire list of nominations here.

Congratulations are due to At Ease, who have won the 2003 Interactive Music Award for Best Fan Site.
Cheers, Ade, from your friends at Green Plastic.

This week’s print issue of NME features none other than Radiohead on the cover (along with the headline, and I swear I’m not kidding here, “Kid Wa-Hey!”). Inside you’ll find a rather colorful 8-page photo pullout, featuring information on some of NME’s favorite shows as well as a sort of “Radiohead Year in Review”.
Also included is the result of NME’s Best Radiohead Songs Ever poll, and Street Spirit tops the chart.
I sometimes wonder what the good people over at NME would do if Radiohead, The Darkness, and The Strokes suddenly dropped off the face of the planet. More space for the White Stripes, I suppose.

Just a friendly reminder, the last day to order from w.a.s.t.e. and have your goodies arrive before Christmas is…
December 18th if you’re in the UK.
December 12th if you’re elsewhere in Europe.
December 11th if you’re in Canada, Japan, or the States.
December 8th if you live anywhere else.
Happy Capitalism to you…

Ananova reports that Merce Cunningham’s Split Sides, for which Radiohead and Sigur Ros composed some live music for earlier this year, will be headed over to Europe next year. Ananova says the band will again play live when the tour hits London’s Barbican Centre in October 2004 but NME says that they will not, they’ll just use a remixed version of the current music.
Read the complete (and slightly contradictory) articles here and here.
Dylan

After debuting last week at #15 on the UK charts, 2+2=5 has dropped 29 places to #44.
See the chart here.