According to LA Weekly, “most” of the members of Radiohead, as well as producer Nigel Godrich, were spotted at the Hot Rats show at Spaceland on Tuesday night.
This helps validate the rumor that they are in LA recording.
If you’ve spotted the band recently, sound off in our comments section!
Phil is joining other drummers from around the world to support Sudan 365. In 2011, a referendum will determine whether or not the Southern region of Sudan becomes independent from the North. Experts fear that instability in the run-up to the referendum or its aftermath could reignite a civil war and cause massive human rights abuses unless international efforts are intensified to find a peaceful path through the next 12 months.
Here’s the call-to-action video, which also features Richard Jupp of Elbow, Caroline Corr of the Corrs, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Jonny Quinn of Snow Patrol, Stewart Copeland of the Police, and many more.
How to get involved:
Take part in a world-wide drumming video and help us pressure world leaders to push for peace in Sudan. Simply post a video reply on YouTube – in your video description add a line about who’s doing the drumming and where it’s happening, then tag it with ‘Sudan365’ and ‘beat for peace’. We’ll take the best responses we receive and mix them into a final video – containing clips of drummers from across the globe – to demonstrate the support for international action to prevent further conflict.
Ed O’Brien will be speaking at the MIDEM 2010 Music Conference this week and has given an interview which you can watch. Here is part of the interview:
“I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy analbum, but they’re spending their money buying concert tickets, a t-shirt, whatever.
“It’s an analogue business model in a digital era. The business model has to change. You’ve got to license out more music – have more Spotifys, more websites selling more music. You’ve got to make it slightly cheaper to get music in order to compete with the peer-to-peers.
“BitTorrent is very utilitarian, it’s deeply unsexy. The Richard Branson of nowadays would be able to set up a really amazing website for 14- to 24-year-olds that deals with their music … and do something really innovative and make it really easy for people to buy music, and cheap.
“A lot of 14-to 17-year-olds don’t have credit cards, so how are they going to get music digitally? These are very, very, very basic issues – I find it staggering that the industry seems to be really dragging its heels on this –this is stuff that you could do in one week. Move quicker!
“That’s been the whole problem in the last 10 years. Why are we here now? Because the recording industry dragged its feet over digital.”
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If you view greenplastic.com on your mobile device, you’ll hopefully be happy to know that it’s a lot easier now. Users of the iPhone/iPod touch, Android, and various other mobile platforms should now see a mobile-formatted version of this site when they arrive. If for some reason you don’t like it, no worries! There’s a option at the bottom which will allow you to switch back to the normal site.
During Thom’s co-host stint earlier this morning on Gilles Peterson’s show, he dropped the following news:
“The Eraser Band that I got together, we’re going to do something, hopefully in April. Just small gigs, and then maybe that’s going to lead somewhere as well – there’s lots of stuff going on.”
While pursuing his solo project, Yorke assured Radiohead fans that the band are still keeping busy in the studio: “There’s a lot that’s underway at the moment. My trouble is trying to keep up, but I prefer it that way.”
It was announced yesterday that Thom’s “Eraser Band” will be performing at Coachella April 16-18.
Earlier today, Thom Yorke was the co-host on Gille Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 show. If you missed it, fortunately they are broadcasting it again on their website.
Here’s a sneak preview: