Likely Looks: Radiohead - Lotus Flower

The 8th Radiohead album is HERE! Pushing the release up one day early, you can download The King Of Limbs now for your listening pleasure.

Most importantly, the brand new video for Lotus Flower has been released and features Thom Yorke alone in black and white showing off some fancy footwork. Absolutely gorgeous.

Radiohead Really Don't Like Miley Cyrus

I still find it hysterical that Miley Cyrus thinks she has the right to meet every band she likes and they have to be nice to her. Having a crap show on the Disney Channel and a father as a one hit wonder doesn't mean she can be a spoiled brat.

Radiohead of course felt compelled to respond to the shit talk that Miley Cyrus said about the band on the radio the other day along the lines of “Stinkin’ Radiohead!...“I’m gonna ruin them, I’m gonna tell everyone.”

A spokesperson for the band responded to the comment by saying “When Miley grows up, she’ll learn not to have a sense of entitlement.”

Absolutely genius. Its nice to know there is still a sense of cred in this thing we call the music industry...

Radiohead Sell Approximately 3 Million Copies Of In Rainbows

Talk about sales for a self released album! Radiohead have revealed that their grand total of albums so far sold for "In Rainbows" is a whopping 3 million copies!

The stats were revealed at the You Are In Control conference in Iceland this month and here are the stats:

* In Rainbows has sold three million copies thus far, a figure that includes downloads from Radiohead.com, physical CDs, a deluxe 2-CD/vinyl box set, as well as sales via iTunes and other digital retailers.

* The In Rainbows deluxe edition sold 100,000 copies via Radiohead fan service W.A.S.T.E.

* Radiohead made more money prior to In Rainbows' January 2008 physical release than its total take on 2003's Hail To the Thief.

* The physical release of In Rainbows entered both the US and UK charts at #1 in January, despite having been freely available since October 2007.

* In Rainbows was the first Radiohead album available on iTunes, where it went in at #1 in January, selling 30,000 in its first week.

Lesson of the day...self releasing your album is the way to go!

Radiohead Not Too Fond Of Their Greatest Hits

The world of major labels as well all know isn't so hot right now. New artists are really breaking in the money sense so the only thing they have to fall back on is greatest hits collections, the same live album done 7 times over or multiple re-releases with the only new thing on it being a shit remix.

EMI obviously falls into this category and their upcoming release of a Radiohead "Greatest Hits" record is the next step to making whatever extra they can on the legendary band's catalog. The good news is that Radiohead have stood their ground and voiced their unhappiness with the release.

Singer Thom Yorke told The World Magazine, "There's nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It's a wasted opportunity in that if we'd been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good."

There you have it folks...another label frustrating another band.

Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Gets Released A Bit Early

The 2008 Lollapalooza lineup was supposed to be announced on Monday but with most things in music these days, it got leaked.

Its absolutely brilliant and blows Coachella so far out of the water.

Here is the a portion of the projected lineup:

Radiohead
Bloc Party
Kayne West
The Raconteurs
Nine Inch Nails
Wilco
Battles
Stephen Malkmus
Girl Talk
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
Mates Of State

Chicago here I come...


Photo credit: mason.flickr

Likely Looks: Radiohead - Videotape

Don't adjust your computer screens!!!! Yes, the video is really supposed to look like that...

For Thom Yorke:

had a niggling feeling that this never really got seen much.
Its a kind of video thing to go with Videotape using lots of wierd techniques we were messing with.
Nigel and I really enjoyed making it at the end of last year.
It appeared at the end of a webcast which i think was lost due to transmission problems.
So here it is (roughly) for you to see again.
x

Thom

and just a little piece of information from my Radiohead source/best friend is that Videotape is Thom's favorite Radiohead song that they've ever done. Enjoy

Radiohead Announces First Batch of Live Dates

Finally...the venues for the tour and dates have been announced for certain cities. Here's what we got so far

May 5 - Cruzan Amphitheatre - West Palm Beach, Florida
May 6 - Ford Amphitheatre - Tampa, Florida
May 8 - Lakewood Amphitheatre - Atlanta, Georgia
May 9 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte, North Carolina
May 11 - Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge - Bristow, Virginia
May 14 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - St Louis, Missouri
May 17 - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - Houston, Texas
May 18 - Superpages.com Center - Dallas, Texas

Now let's see what comes next...and kudos to them for not playing massive arenas wooooooooo

Yorke Says You Need Physical Product

Even though Radiohead had the most talked about album of the year with "In Rainbows" with their pay-what-you-want philosophy, Thom Yorke still believes all bands should have a physical product to go along with your music.

"We didn't want it to be a big announcement about 'everything's over except the internet, the internet's the future', 'cause that's utter rubbish...and it's really important to have an artifact as well, as they call it, an object," Yorke said when talking to BBC Radio 4.

In Rainbows looks like it will take the top spot on the UK album charts just edging Take That.

Not bad for a record that came out in October...

Radiohead's Scotch Mist

is brilliant...all 49 minutes and 52 seconds of it are a must watch

In Rainbows (the physical copy) is out now.



Happy New Year!

Radiohead Brighten Up New Years

Radiohead have decided to make New Years Eve a little more exciting (as opposed to watching Tila Tequila's MTV special or the same New Years Rockin Eve that you watch every year out of habit) by broadcasting a performance of "In Rainbows" in its entirety starting at radiohead.tv

The performance can also be seen on the Current TV channel as well as places Thom's "not sure about" including Youtube, AOL, Yahoo!, Facebook, iLike and the TBD site for Radiohead, radiohead.tbdrecords.com...

According to Thom, "this is a wee celebration of the release of the physical manifestation of 'in rainbows'."

Here is a little teaser clip for the event:

Likely Looks: Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling In To Place

What more can you say about Radiohead then the fact that they are absolutely brilliant...

Radiohead's "In Rainbows" Makes a Small Fortune

Let's just say that first off it deserves to because its an absolutely brilliant album. Secondly, Radiohead are absolute geniuses for challenging this crumbling music industry the way that they did.

Now for the stats. Radiohead's "In Rainbows" recieves approximately 1.2 millon downloads which fans paid an average of 4 pounds ($8) for even though they had the option of paying only 49p for it. Therfore Radiohead made a grand total of approximately 4.8 million pounds ($9.6 million) an barely any overhead cost. Plus, this doesn't even count the 40 pounds box set option that they offered fans.

Good for Radiohead...they are one of the few that make such an impact and have such a successful release like this BUT it does show that the middle man isn't as necessary as we thought.

Radiohead's New Record For 45p?!

Radiohead never cease to amaze me with their "fuck the system" attitude. This time around they've revolutionized the art of cutting out the middle man and are releasing their album "In Rainbows" on October 10th. No promotion, no record label...all they have is a URL to purchase and the viral spread of the link.

So far, just about everyone knows about the release...I think they did pretty good on this one.

You can pay whatever you want for the record (they is just a 45p charge for processing) and there is also a gorgeous physical package with the CD, 2 pieces of vinyl, etc.

It looks a little something like this:


9 days and counting...

And The Surprise Glastonbury Headliner Is...

...Hard Fi! Wow I bet all of England is jumping up and down for joy. Then again, maybe they are? I think I would have been a bit more thrilled if they said someone a bit more exciting but I'm not going to Glastonbury so oh well...

To all those that are going, enjoy Hard Fi.

Please note that I do like Hard Fi but its not as exciting as if someone said the word RADIOHEAD.

NY Broad x

Radiohead Post New Song Online

Radiohead of course always find new ways to secretly get their music out to fans.

This time around is a clip of their new track "15 Step" on the official website. To get there you need to click ‘HODIAU DIREKTION’ link at the top of the page on the Dead Airspace section.


NY Broad x

Radiohead Deny The Starbucks Rumours

After Starbucks confirmed they had signed Beatles legend Paul McCartney the next up was...Radiohead? After one of the band's representatives was caught meeting with someone from the coffee chain the rumours started flying.

Management has flat out denied it and issued the following statement:
"Radiohead are currently in the studio working on their next record. They are not negotiating a new record deal with anyone, and will not even consider how to release their new music until the album is finished.

"The rumour that they are about to sign with Starbucks is totally untrue."

There you have it folks...its a LIE!

NY Broad x