Green Plastic Radiohead

Seriously, what was life like before YouTube? I can’t even remember.
Pitchfork has a review of “Arpeggi” from as performed in Copenhagen which you should check out. Check out the video above too…
If you’re waiting for these guys to finally fuck-up something royal, keep waiting. They’re unbacklashable, especially when radiating loving nightmares like this for the salivating masses selling toes for tickets on eBay. Originally debuted last year by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and the Nazareth Orchestra (and ‘forked here), this new full-band version of what is sure to be a highlight from their upcoming seventh album demonstrates how these five fellows can completely recast a song while preserving its crucial core. With the orchestra, “Arpeggi” was a hushed, daedal ordeal; Greenwood plinking a cyclical electric keyboard line while the precise strings sifted through myriad peaks and plummets, never overtaking an astounding Yorke vocal. Now, things are less “Motion Picture Soundtrack” and more “There There”, with swift drums sweeping past Yorke’s willowing lead and Greenwood’s refrain, resurrected as a wet guitar fog.
The new version is pure Radiohead forward-jangle, from the dire, watery themes– which recall “Pyramid Song” and “In Limbo”, among others– to Ed O’Brien’s back-up vocals, which once again prove to be the band’s most consistent secret weapon. A far crackle from the electro-shock riffage of yore, “Arpeggi” relies on a rumbling subtlety to build. Just as the song seems to be heading full-tilt toward a triumphant skinny-spastic Greenwood solo, it disperses into an extended outro with Yorke longing for “escape.” Thankfully, there is none. [Ryan Dombal]
(thanks to Stephan)

Longtime reader Ari sends this clip from a Premiere Magazine interview with Richard Linklater, director of A Scanner Darkly:

Premiere: Did you get the Radiohead song you wanted for Scanner?
Richard: Thom Yorke is letting us use a great song of his new album for the closing credits, “Black Swan.” It has a chorus, “because it’s fucked up,” that will never get airplay.

This is unconfirmed until we can find a hard copy.
(Thanks to Ari.)

This just in from W.A.S.T.E.:
“Due to an unexpected & sudden family bereavement we are unable to do the show tonight in Amsterdam. We have rescheduled it for Monday August 28th. We are extremely sorry to cause such inconvenience & disappointment, & are especially sorry to those who travelled far.”
Tickets for tonight’s show are valid for the rescheduled show. Alternatively, fans can obtain a refund from their ticket retailer until 11th June.

Radiohead will be rolling in to the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam tonight for the first of two shows. If you plan on attending, please visit our gigography and give a review!

Radiohead just wrapped up two shows in Copenhagen this weekend where they gave fans a first taste of new material. We have setlists and reviews up for both the May 6th and May 7th shows. Check them out and leave your own reviews if you were in attendance.
Bootlegs of the concerts have made their way on to the internet as expected. Mortigi Tempo should be able to point you in the right direction.
Photo above is from http://rosenauer.dk.

NEW YORK (Billboard) – As the Black Keys ready their fourth album for a fall release, the Akron, Ohio-based rock duo will open six shows on Radiohead’s summer tour, beginning June 10 and 11 in Montreal.
Other dates include New York (June 13-14) and Chicago (June 19-20); Deerhoof will open the final six shows in California.
Radiohead’s members have been Black Keys fans for years; guitarist Jonny Greenwood was spotted side-stage during the group’s performance at the 2004 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. “Obviously, we’re blown away,” guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach told Billboard.com about the tour.
Aside from two U.K. dates later this month, the Black Keys’ lone other summer show is June 17 at the Taste of Chicago festival. “We’re going to take it easy this summer,” Auerbach said. “We’ll be back in the fall when the new album comes out.”
The as-yet-untitled 12-track set is due September 13 and will feature such songs as “Your Touch,” “The Flame” and “It’s Just Got To Be.” It will be the Keys’ first in a new label deal that will be announced in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, a new EP of Junior Kimbrough covers, “Chulahoma,” hit stores Tuesday via Mississippi-based blues label Fat Possum.
(Source: Reuters)