Flying Lotus

The Flying Lotus/Thom Yorke collaboration will be played exclusively on BBC Radio1 Wednesday at 2 am GMT, according to Maryanne Hobbs. She posted this on twitter:

word exclusive first play of the brand new @FLYINGLOTUS & THOM YORKE collaboration on the BBC Radio1 show Wednesday 2am GMT.. spread it

The track is called “…And the World Laughs With You” and is part of  the upcoming album Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus, who is also supporting Thom and Atoms for Peace on their US tour next month. Warp will release Cosmogramma in the U.S. on May 4 and a day earlier in the UK.

(thanks to Jon)

Radiohead have confirmed that information in an email circulated by fans supposedly containing details about their next album is “made up”.

Yesterday (March 7) music website Tinymixtapes.com reported on an email, which seemed to originate from the band’s W.A.S.T.E. website, that when decoded revealed that the band’s next album would be named ‘Tehrangeles’.

It was acknowledged on the website that the information had not been confirmed by the band, and that it should be treated with suspicion. The email also revealed a supposed 11-song tracklisting. However, a spokesperson for the band has now confirmed that the information is false.

“Most of it is made up and there is no album or album title,” Radiohead’s spokesperson told NME.COM.

The false tracklisting contained some genuine Radiohead songs including ‘The Daily Mail’, ‘Give Up The Ghost’ and ‘Supercollider’.

Frontman Thom Yorke played ‘The Daily Mail’, ‘Give Up The Ghost and another new song, ‘Lotus Flower’, at a solo gig in Cambridge recently.

Radiohead picked up work on their new album in January, with guitarist Ed O’Brien telling fans, “I am so genuinely excited about what we’re doing, but for obvious reasons I can’t divulge anything more. Anyway, we all love surprises don’t we?”

(from the NME)

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Greenwood’s last foray into feature films was his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Just as that score was derived from an earlier work, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, Greenwood’s composition expands upon an orchestral piece called Dogwood, which debuted last month.

The maverick musician announced the project at BBC’s Maida Vale studios, following Dogwood’s premiere. “I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead,” he told TwentyFourBit. “This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I [don't] think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written.” Greenwood is also listed on the film’s Imdb page.

Murakami’s 1987 novel, translated into English in 2000, follows Toru Watanabe’s nostalgic recollections of the late 60s. These memories are spurred by the sitar-strung sound of the Beatles’ Norwegian Wood. The film version is directed by Anh Hung Tran, and will be released in Japan in December.

In the meantime, the Maida Vale performance of Dogwood will be re-broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on 19 March. Greenwood’s first movie score, for the 2003 documentary Bodysong, will also soon see an encore: it will be released on DVD on 22 March.

(from guardian.co.uk)

In March 2010 BBC Oxford’s local music show “Introducing…” celebrates its fifth birthday.

To mark the occasion the team have also decided to recreate Radiohead’s seminal album The Bends.

Their version, dubbed ‘Round The Bends’, is a loving reinterpretation of the classic record which is 15 years old in March.

The team have brought together their favourite acts to work their magic on these amazing Radiohead songs.

Each of the album tracks have been completely reinterpreted and as a whole stand together as a phenomenal homage to the original.

Local band Stornoway kick off proceedings with their version of Planet Telex. Stornoway are arguably the most successful local group of late having played at Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Glastonbury and on Jools Holland. They started the new year in The BBC’s Sound Of 2010 list.

Richard Walters and Little Fish have also given up time from their hectic international schedules to play tracks on the album.

‘Round The Bends’ also features various new exciting discoveries from the last 12 months, such as The Scholars, Spring Offensive and Ute.

The album was released on 4 March 2010 on iTunes. A total of 49p from every individual track downloaded and £4.90 from every album downloaded will benefit the BBC Children In Need Appeal, a company limited by guarantee. BBC Children in Need Appeal is a charity registered in England and Wales (802052) and Scotland (SC039557)’

The album launch gig took place on 6 March at the 02 Academy. More details can be found here.

‘Round the Bends’ tracklisting:

Stornoway ‘Planet Telex’, Ute ‘The Bends’, Jessie Grace ‘High and Dry’, We Aeronauts ‘Fake Plastic Trees’, Spring Offensive ‘Bones’, The Winchell Riots ‘Nice Dream’, Little Fish ‘Just’, The Scholars ‘My Iron Lung’, Richard Walters ‘Bulletproof… I Wish I Was’, The Family Machine ‘Black Star’, Alphabet Backwards ‘Sulk’, The Evenings ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’, BONUS TRACK Lee Christian ‘Talk Show Host’.

(via BBC Oxford)

From Colin at Dead Air Space:

I was very sad to hear the news that Mark Linkous has died. He and his band toured with us in Europe, at the start of OK Computer, and they were great every night. His first two records were very important to me, and I carried his music from the tour into my life, and my friends’ lives too. He was softly spoken, with an Old South courtesy I hadn’t heard before: he introduced me to Daniel Johnston’s music, and the West Virginian writing of Pinckney Benedict. Mark wrote and played some beautiful music, and we’re lucky to have it. Rest in Peace.

As you know, Thom played a solo show at the Cambridge Corn Exchange last week. At Ease posted up the three new songs to YouTube, which you can enjoy below.

“Give up the Ghost”

“The Daily Mail”

“Mouse Dog Bird”

Natasha Khan, better known as Bat for Lashes, recently covered Radiohead’s “All I Need” live. Take a listen…

(via ohnotheydidnt)

Thom Yorke announced on Dead Air Space today that his band (?????? aka Eraser Band aka Atoms for Peace) will be performing some dates in the United States in April.

hey everyone

ok so in April the other band.. that i got together to do the eraser and other stuff u know .. Mauro, Flea, Me, Joey and Nigel is going back out to do some shows in the US.. ending with playing with Coachella. we had too much fun to just leave it there…

it has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms For Peace. hope you like the name.. it seemed bleedin’ obvious.

these are the shows & Flying Lotus is opening for us -
New York Roseland Ballroom 5th & 6th
Boston Citi Wang Theatre 8th
Chicago Aragon Ballroom 10th & 11th
Oakland Fox Theatre 14th & 15th
Santa Barbara Bowl 17th

for further details follow this link

all warmth

thom

Ticket information can be found here.

Pic by Kevin Westenberg via Pitchfork

Here’s some recent Radiohead headlines gathered for you to enjoy:

• Radiohead’s Thom Yorke “disses” Peter Gabriel, preps “something” in April (Consequence of Sound)
• Beatles, Oasis, Radiohead Studio Abbey Road ‘Put Up For Sale’ (Gigwise)
• There is some horse named Radiohead (Thoroughbredtimes.com)
• Thom Yorke Assembles Exclusive Playlist for New York Fashion Week (Exclaim.ca)
• Thom & The Machine (Yahoo! Music News)

Major Lazer

Thom Yorke will contribute a remix to Major Lazer’s upcoming Lazers Never Die EP coming our way in April. Thom will wave his magic remix stick over the song “Jump Up”, which was included on last year’s “Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do”.

The new Major Lazer EP was just officially announced yesterday when a track featuring M.I.A. & Busy Signal called “Sound Of Siren” leaked to the internet. Here’s the tracklist to the EP, courtesy of Pitchfork.

Lazers Never Die:

01 Sound of Siren [ft. M.I.A. and Busy Signal]
02 Good Enough [ft. Collie Buddz and Lindi Ortega]
03 Can’t Stop Now (Kicks Like a Mule Remix) [ft. Ms. Banks]
04 Bruk Out (Buraka Som Sistema Mix)
05 Jump Up (Thom Yorke Remix)

via Mog