October 9, 2009
Hot Double-Damn! New Radiohead Album Expected Next Year
IN THE NEWS
Hopefully there weren’t too many suicides when Thom Yorke told The Believer this August, “None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again, not straight off…” Radiohead diehards aren’t typically a gleeful bunch, and losing the promise of an LP on the horizon may have raised their already high post-modern dread to a breaking point. And it would have been all the more in vain, since according to Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, the whole story was a load of bull.
Radiohead definitely had us going though. Releasing two singles online – “Harry Patch (In Memory of)” and “These Are My Twisted Words” – and with Thom forming a band with Flea, it didn’t look like the Oxford lads had any sights on an In Rainbows follow-up, but as O’Brien forcefully told NME recently, ‘WE WILL BE MAKING AN ALBUM!” WELL, THAT’S SOME DAMN FINE NEWS! As for the Believer interview, O’Brien simply claims, “We were misquoted.” Which, if that’s truly the case, makes us wonder how big of dicks they have working at the Believer, and subsequently, how great their PR men are – bringing us to some breaking JezebelMusic.com news: Radiohead has died… from, er, bears.
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Keyboardist From the Now-Defunct Harlem Shakes (Two News Stories at Once!) Records Entirety of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Fever to Tell, Using Only a Beat-Up Piano, a Drum Machine, and a Case of Sparks; Dude From Harlem Shakes Is Unquestionably The Fucking Man (Download It Here) [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch New Flaming Lips Video For Embryonic Cut, “I Can Be a Frog” Featuring Karen O (It’s Pretty Standard Lips – Girl In Bikini, Girl Laughs, Girl Gets Animals Drawn Over Her With the John Madden Pen); Embryonic Released October 13 [Gorilla vs. Bear]
Watch Thom Yorke Perform In Rainbows Highlight “Reckoner” at The Age of Stupid Premiere; All Conclude Song Should Have Been Recorded Completely Acoustically – This Shit is Gorgeous [Stereogum]
Stream Of Montreal Covering Diana Ross’s “Love Hangover” Live in New York (This Is Pretty Sweet Even If You Actively Despise Of Montreal) [You Ain’t No Picasso]
Jay Z Says No One Is Afraid Of 50 Cent; Jay Doesn’t Speak For Me, Or My Gangly, Indie Rock Brethren, As Mr. Cent Is Significantly Bigger Than Us [Prefix]
Fucked Up Wins Polaris Music Prize For Chemistry of Common Life (You Made the Right Choice, Canada); Read Frontman Damian “Pink Eyes” Abraham’s Provactive and Heartfelt Response in the Torontoist [Brooklyn Vegan]
Grizzly Bear Multi-Instrumentalist Chris Taylor Launches Record Label, Terrible Records; Pitchfork Runs Headline: “Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor Launches Terrible Record Label (No, Really)” – I Steal Pitchfork’s Joke, As No Other Joke Immediately Available [Pitchfork]
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Judge Grants Juror Glastonbury Leave [NME]
Yeasayer to Tour North America, Hit New York on 8/13 [Prefix]
Timbaland to Score, Zac Efron to Star in Cowell’s Rendition of Saturday Night Fever [NME]
Bicycle Film Festival Kicks Off w/ FREE Show Featuring Jon Spencer Blues Explosion & The Teenagers [Brooklyn Vegan]
Hip-Hop Artists Sick of “Old Ass Jay-Z Hating” on Auto-Tune [Prefix]
Built to Spill to Release New LP in October [Pitchfork]
Paul McCartney Waiting for a Phone Call from MGMT [NME]
Radiohead Selling Second In Rainbows CD [Pitchfork]
“Zack Morris” Performs “Zack Attack” Backed by The Roots [Videogum]
More Big Acts Cutting Ticket Prices [NME]
Stop Laughing At, Start Feeling Bad About Michaels’s Faceplant [The Tripwire]
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Citysol 2009 @ Stuyvesant Cove Features Shilpa Ray, Love Like Deloreans, Shwervon!, and More [Brooklyn Vegan]
Stream Byrne’s Benefit EP and See Him at Bonnaroo [Stereogum]
The Antlers Sign to Frenchkiss [Pitchfork]
Radiohead Post-In Rainbows Recording Studio Rendezvous [Prefix]
Black Eyed Peas Buzz – “Imma Be” [Idolator]
Strokes Members Playing Tribute to Dylan at Mercury Lounge [The Tripwire]
Celebrate Brooklyn with Bikes! [Brooklyn Vegan]
Yoko Ono Will Judge Your Haiku [NME]
Thinkindie.com is Your Local Record Store, Online [Pitchfork]
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October 21, 2008
In Rainbows Sales Figures Released
The most anticipated sales figures in a decade just hit the presses, and damn are they good. A recent post on Wired’s music industry blog – Listening Post – put the sales of Radiohead’s In Rainbows at 1.75 million albums, over 80,000 more than either of their last offerings, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief. Even after the online, self-release was ended after 3 months, it topped the charts in both the U.S., U.K. and iTunes; and at $80, the band moved 100,000 of their deluxe box sets. It is true, though, that downloads from torrent sites likely outnumbered legal purchases, but even if it is a 60/40 split – illegal/legal – they are still earning a higher cut of profits since they get every dime after covering costs. If they’d continued their relationship with EMI, they would have seen maybe 20% of their record sales. Plus, the digital album still did the work of its plastic brother, driving 1.2 million fans to their recent tour.
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