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In Rainbows released January 1 in the US

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It was officially announced today that TBD Records (Radiohead’s own imprint)/ATO Records Group will be releasing the physical version of In Rainbows in the United States on January 1, 2008.

Released in download format earlier last month, In Rainbows has already received tremendous acclaim in the press. British music magazine Q wrote “In Rainbows is a brilliant work” while Rolling Stone said the album “delivers an emotional punch that proves all other rock stars owe us an apology.” New York magazine raved, “Radiohead has made their best music in years, maybe ever.”

The first two singles will be “Bodysnatchers” and “Jigsaw Falling in to Place”.

More information about the release as well as touring plans are to follow.

PS. Above is the official cover sent to us by TBD Records. Click on it for hi-res.

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Webcast over

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What an evening (or afternoon if you’re like me still at work)! Radiohead just finished up their webcast, entitled “Thumbs Down”, just a while ago. Everything went pretty smooth until the very end when the sound went out right before the band went on to perform their final song. Mel over at w.a.s.t.e. says that they are hopefully going to put it up so we can view again and this time hear it.

In case you missed it, the evening featured each one of the band members spinning their favorite tracks, mixed in with some funny little videos and live performances. Here’s the list of all the songs spun:

Burial – Near Dark
MIA – Pull Up the People
Tomas Anderson – Happy Happy
!!! – Heart of Hearts
Kings of Leon – My Party
AFD- Model Apprentice
Jorge Ben – Take It Easy My Brother Charlie
Les Baxter – The Ancient Galleon
Kenny Rogers – Just Dropped In
Iggy Pop – Nightclubbin’
Squarepusher – My Red Hot Car
Bauhaus – Bella Lugosi’s Dead
Iron and Wine – Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
Bonnie Prince Billy – Lessons from What’s Poor
Asian Dub Foundation – Naxalite
Ray Charles – It should’ve Been Me
Juana Molina – Micael
Fela Kuti & the Africa 70 – Alu Jon Jonki Jon
And here’s a list of the songs the band performed:
Bodysnatchers
Faust Arp (Thom and Jonny on a hill in the countryside)
The Headmaster Ritual (Smith’s cover)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place (Recorded in the studio with the band all wearing helmets with cameras attached to them)
Reckoner
Ceremony (Joy Division / New Order cover)
Unravel (Bjork cover, recorded earlier)

The band went to play a final song but the sound cut out. Unfortunately, we do not know what song it was.

Other highlights of the evening include a clip of the movie Se7en where Thom’s head is in the box (replacing Gwenyth Paltrow’s) singing “15 Step”, Ed reciting “The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna” by Charles Wolfe, Adam informing us that Thom is “rebranding” his image so that people don’t think he’s so “miserable”, and Stanley drawing on the chalkboard.

We hope to have video up to show you soon. It sounds as if the band will be posting it up on their site as well so those of you that missed it can see.

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Webcast happening NOW!

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Head over to www.radiohead.tv and enjoy.

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Webcast tonight!

That’s right folks, the real deal should be happening tonight around 9 pm GMT (that’s 4 pm ET and 1 pm PT). As you know, they have been testing things the last few days and hopefully things will go without a problem. Stanley updated DAS with the following:

www.radiohead.tv
mac os users; download flip4mac
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
pc users; windows media
Stanley

It’s hard to believe that it was 8 years ago when Radiohead did their first webcast, named “Amateur Night”. Ahhh, the memories.

UPDATE: Okay, apparently 9 pm is not the correct time. Either that or there are technical difficulties. Stay tuned and hopefully this party will start up soon cause why else would you be staying in front of your computer on a Friday night?

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“My Iron Lung” included as part of Rock Band download

It was announced today that Radiohead’s “My Iron Lung” will be included as a downloadable additional track for the upcoming video game, Rock Band. In case you don’t know, Rock Band is a game very similar to Guitar Hero, but with more instruments. The game will be released on November 20th in North America on both Playstation 3 and XBox 360 and early 2008 in Europe.
From Joystiq.

(thanks to Tim)

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In Rainbows Radiohead

“Jigsaw Falling Into Place” first single to be released

From the NME:

Radiohead’s album ‘In Rainbows’ is set to be released this year on CD and vinyl.

‘In Rainbows’ was available to download on October 10 via their official website – however, following this, the band recently signed a ‘conventional’ record deal with XL Recordings.

The album will now be released physically on December 31, with single ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’ following on January 14.

Meanwhile, the band have distanced themselves from reports that most people who downloaded the record did so for free and took advantage of Radiohead’s offer to let fans name their own price.

“In response to purely speculative figures announced in the press regarding the number of downloads and the price paid for the album, the group’s representatives would like to remind people that, as the album could only be downloaded from the band’s website, it is impossible for outside organisations to have accurate figures on sales,” they explained.

The statement added: “However, they can confirm that the figures quoted by the company comScore Inc are wholly inaccurate and in no way reflect definitive market intelligence or, indeed, the true success of the project.”

Since XL is not handling the distribution of In Rainbows in North America, we can assume (and hope) that a similar release will be announced with ATO/Side One around the same date.