Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke recently helped compose songs for a documentary film about Tibet called “When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun.” The film follows the Free Tibet movements over a period of seven years in Tibet, China and India.
Yorke also contributed to a new album called “Sisterworld” by Liars.
Radiohead fans rejoice! There is serious speculation that Radiohead will issue a new digital EP as early as Monday, August 20th, as a track was leaked online over the weekend.
“These Are My Twisted Words” was posted on the message board of At Ease, a fan site. The source file includes “Wall of Ice,” which is assumed to be the name of the new EP.
The band has said in the past that they traditionally like to put 10 or 11 songs together, but it doesn’t feel as natural as it used to, so they might do smaller EPs with four or five songs.
They are no strangers to innovative music release methods – in 2007, they released “In Rainbows” digitally on a pay-what-you-want basis.
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 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 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.
Radiohead is officially finished with their tour in support of their 2007 release of “In Rainbows,” their seventh studio album.
“In Rainbows” received some of the best reviews of their illustrious career. Thom Yorke, the bands lead singer, described “In Rainbows” as their attempt to “describe…as coherently and conclusively as possible, what moves us.”
Since the conclusion of their latest tour, Radiohead has plans to record new songs.
After spending all of June and July in Europe, Radiohead will return to the states August 1st to headline an all-star list of performers at Chicago’s Lollapalooza.
Considered by many to be the most influential band in the world, Radiohead, along with front man Thom Yorke, will continue to wow audiences across North America throughout August before embarking on a trip to Japan in October to close out the tour.
The guys in Radiohead are not too happy with their (once) longtime record label EMI, and here’s why: EMI is releasing an album titled Radiohead: The Best of. It will feature album tracks, singles, and one b-side that were recorded while the band was with EMI (1992—2005). Not a big deal, right?
Wrong. The collection has not been sanctioned by the guys from Radiohead. They did not even take part in selecting what music would go on the album, and protested its release. However, since EMI owns the publishing rights to the music on the album, it seems there is nothing the guys from Radiohead can do.
Radiohead: The Best of features two discs: the first consists of the majority of chart-topping hits, and the second has singles and less popular tracks. A DVD collection of 21 music videos—nine of which will be released on DVD for the first time—is also on its way.
Recently, Radiohead loaned their song “All I Need” from their latest album “In Rainbows” to an MTV campaign, which will be raising awareness about sweatshop labor and human trafficking, according to an article from Reuters.
The MTV End Exploitation and Trafficking (EXIT) Campaign made a split-screen video which portrays the life’s of two children, one whose family is well-to-do and one that is forced to work in a sweatshop.
“I think it’s really cool that it comes full circle and that they wake up one morning and go ‘Well, hang on a minute, we want to do something about this’,” Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke told Reuters in an interview.
Check out this link to watch the controversial video.
Good news! Radiohead has added dates to their North American tour. Very cool! More chances to see one of the best bands in the world. The new dates are mostly on the coasts after they play two festivals: All Points West in Jersey City, NJ, on August 8th and 9th, and the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Fran, CA, on August 22nd.
For all the fans in the middle of the country… ROAD TRIP!!
