Radiohead Heads into the Studio

Radiohead is taking the summer off from touring to head back to the studio and start work on their eighth album.

Ideas are brewing and instruments are bubbling as the band decides what's to come next creatively and otherwise after their last pioneering efforts on In Rainbows. What will remain the same, however, is their choice to continuing working with producer Nigel Godrich, who's been with the band since 1997's OK Computer.

Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood told BBC News in a recent interview, "We're at the stage where we've got the big Lego box out and we've tipped it out on the floor and we're looking at all the bits and thinking, what next?"

Radiohead a Rolling Stone "Agent of Change"

Radiohead is one of several musical artists who made the "Top 100 Agents of Change" list that appears in the April 2nd issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Other music industry honorees include Bono, Neil Young, producer Danger Mouse, Lil Wayne, Arcade Fire and Jack White of the White Stripes.

The band is given props for bucking the music industry system by continuing to do their own thing and making their own rules as they go. Most notably and recently, they let fans name their own price for downloads of their 2007 release, In Rainbows.

Radiohead may not be the most profitable band around, but they are one of the most influential, known to every college kid coast-to-coast. Not many bands can say that.

Radiohead remix VHS auction

Radiohead will be auctioning off a four-hour remix video on ebay. All proceeds will be donated to the Missing People Charity. The VHS video remix, which is signed by all five Radiohead members, is the only copy in existence and was created by NME Future 50 star James Rutledge. Rutledge says that Radiohead has given him their full support in allowing it to be sold on ebay to profit the charity. Bidding is set to end at 10pm on Sunday, December 21.