Month: April 2010

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Atoms for Peace Thom Yorke

Flying Lotus & Thom Yorke at Trader Joe’s

Well, not really. Flying Lotus, who has been getting a lot of press recently, told Rolling Stone that he had a dream about Thom Yorke right before he was asked to be the opening act for the Radiohead frontman on the Atoms for Peace US tour.

“It was weird,” Lotus tells RS as he does the dishes in his Los Angeles apartment, just back from the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, where he demolished a Wednesday 1 a.m. set to an adoring crowd of converts. “I had a dream I was an accomplice to some murder. I saw someone get killed and I didn’t say anything. I was walking the streets with it in the back of my mind and I wanted a beer so I go into Trader Joe’s and Thom Yorke’s in there, like, ‘Hey, let’s have a beer and a catch up.’

“I woke up from that to the e-mail saying he’d like me to join them on the tour,” Ellison says. “I wish I’d made it up,” he confesses. “I have weird stuff like that happen to me all the time.”

Thom and FlyLo also share the same birthday (October 7) and refers to Thom as his “astral” brother.

You can read the full article at RS.com. Atoms for Peace have their first show tonight in New York City.

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Atoms for Peace Tour Begins Tonight

Atoms for Peace

That’s right, Thom Yorke and Atoms for Peace will take the stage tonight at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. Are you going?

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Radiohead’s Phil Selway Debutes New Songs

For a band that hasn’t put out a record in three years, Radiohead has been in the news a lot lately: Thom Yorke has kept busy, rehearsing for shows planned later this month, collaborating with Flying Lotus, and remixing Liars and MF Doom; Jonny Greenwood is the BBC Composer-in Association, set to score the film adaptation of Norwegian Wood. And for the past week, Radiohead’s drummer Phil Selway has been quietly touring along the Mediterranean coast. Thanks to a few intrepid Italian fans, we now have some live recordings of Selway’s solo effort. Songs like “Running Blind,” “By Some Miracle,” “Broken Promises,” and “Patron Saint” (featured above) will likely appear on Selway’s solo record due out later this year. With only some spare accompaniment provided by Lisa Germano and Sebastian Steinberg (both of whom worked with Selway on last year’s Neil Finn-led supergroup 7 World Collide), the songs are stripped down, acoustic numbers that sound somewhere between John Martyn, Tim Buckley, and Neil Halstead. Selway explains in the clip above that Wilco multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone and drummer Glenn Kotche will also appear on the album. All this makes you wonder how much say Selway has had in songwriting for Radiohead, so far, or if he’ll come out from behind the drumkit for Radiohead’s eighth LP.

Watch the other videos below:

“By Some Miracle”

“Running Blind”

“Broken Promises”

(Reposted from Prefix Magazine. Thanks to Manan Desai)

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Radiohead to release new track offline

It has been announced that Radiohead will be releasing the old fan favorite “Big Boots” aka “Man-O-War” in April. The catch is that the track will only be available in record shops around the world, not digitally as we’ve all become use to. To make things even more interesting, the song will only be released on audio cassette, with a limited edition cover designed by Stanley Donwood. The band and their management have been quiet on the reasoning behind this, only to hint that this is in someway part of a bigger plan.

Nigel Godrich recently let it slip on Twitter that the song sounds “very different” from the live version, saying that only one word can describe Thom’s voice in it: “Buzzsaw”.

[UPDATE]: While we got the cassette part right, it has now been revealed that there’s actually a micro SD card inside. Fans will have to break open the cassette and access the micro SD card through their computer. From there, it will give them a code to download the track from the Radiohead website. They mystery deepens…

[UPDATE]: Here’s a photo of the cassette:

[UPDATE]: If you haven’t figured out by now, this is an April Fool’s joke.