Radiohead's In Rainbows has been nominated for "Album of the Year" in the year's Grammy Awards.
Here's who they are up against:
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Radiohead - In Rainbows
In addition to "Album of the Year", they were also nominated in the following categories:
Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (House of Cards)
Best Rock Song (House of Cards)
Best Alternative Music Album (In Rainbows)
Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package (In Rainbows)
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (Nigel Godrich)
Best Short Form Music Video (House of Cards)
We encourage you to check out Six Inch Records, a new music label started by Radiohead artist, Stanley Donwood. Yes, that's right, Stanley is a CEO of his own record label.
What is this all about, you ask? We let Stanley fill you in:
Forgive me, for I knew not what I had done. The three musicians replied to my email with alacrity and enthusiasm, promising to send me music, and, perhaps surprisingly, not telling me that setting up a record label at the precise historical point that record labels large and small were going to the wall was probably a really stupid idea.
Never mind, never mind. I started to work out how my 'hobby' was going to work. It was true that the musicians I had contacted made music I liked, and I was fairly sure that other people would like it too. I liked music, but during the period that I had been designing record covers I had come to detest the compact disc. The CD, I had decided, was simply too small.
I began to muse on numbers, thinking about the twelve inch record, the speed of thirty-three and a third revolutions, and so on. Eventually I realised that releasing three six-inch records in editions of three hundred and thirty-three and charging six pounds sixty-six pence for each one was the only was to do this.
There would be nine hundred and ninety-nine records in total. Half the profits would go to the musicians and half would go to me. I was going to do this properly. I drew up a contract, which I mailed out to 'my' musicians and got them to sign it. SIX INCH RECORDS was born.
It's official! Radiohead.com has tour dates listed for Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile for March 2009. Right now the dates for Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico are not listed, but tickets for the Santiago, Chile show are now available for purchase here.
Radiohead have confirmed their long-awaited first appearance in Santiago, Chile. The concert will take place on March 27th, 2009 at the San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium during the Cristal En Vivo Festival.
Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
Over the almost 12 year history of this site, we have received more emails asking when Radiohead would be touring Mexico again after their 1994 tour than anything else.
GP friend Cesar Moreno, the guy that created the illustration on our site's main page of the Radiohead heads, has a new print up for sale at his site. He writes, "Once again I did a new piece of our favorite band, and this time it's a printed piece, and it's totally available at my site."
Can you find all the song references in the print? Discuss them here.
Click here to order.
w.a.s.t.e. sent out an email last week about a new remix contest that is going on:
To coincide with asking radio stations to think about playing Reckoner we are breaking up the tune into pieces for you to remix. After the insane response we got from the Nude remix stems and the site that was dedicated to your remixes...
Unique visitors: 6,193,776, Page Views: 29,090,134, Hits: 58,340,512, Bandwidth: 10.666 Terabytes, Number of mixes: 2,252, Number of votes: 461,090, Number of track listens: 1,745,304
...we thought it only fair to do the same with a tune that at least is in 4/4. You can get the stems (the different instruments/elements) from here
Sample, cut, take the sounds, whatever. Play it in a club. Or your room. Then if you want you can upload your finished mixes to http://www.radioheadremix.com and be judged by everyone else. You can create a widget allowing votes from your own site, Facebook or MySpace to be sent through too. To start things off we asked James Holden and Diplo to do their versions.
Oh, and by the way, if you weren't lucky enough to get your hands on one of our recycled plastic bottle shirts at a show this summer, you'll be glad to hear we've made some more and they are available at the w.a.s.t.e. shop here
In case you didn't know, Radiohead is in Japan at the moment playing some shows. The band wrapped up the second night in Osaka and will be taking tomorrow off before playing four shows in Tokyo.
For the setlists, as well as to leave your own review, head on over to our gigography.
Thom announced on Dead Air Space today that they've done a video for "Reckoner", which you can view below.
hello
my mind is not functioning at the correct speed at the moment thanks to being in Tokyo
but however and here
is one of my favourite video things that has ever happened
for Reckoner it is, the result of somebody entering a competition to make an animation to one of the tunes on IN RAINbows.
on aniboom. you can scroll down dead air space and find all about it.. but anyway
so we asked them whether it was ok to make it the official one we use as it goes with the song so well. they said yes.
and if you're like me and find it hard to find videos on televsion any more, or even turn on the television you can watch right here.
BBC 6 Music has news of Radiohead's next album. The article states that the band are in the process of writing a new album, with Colin saying that they would be heading back in to the studio after they have completed their current world tour.
Ed chimed in: "We're still talking about doing some stuff and we're really excited about it. First we came off tour to do some writing and we wanted to just carry on doing it because it was so brilliant."
We completely agree with Stereogum in that this article was written pretty poorly and has since sparked other sites to misinterpert the news. Case in the point: Variety is reporting that the band have already finished most of the album and will finish it off in Japan. This is from a quote that Colin said in the 6 Music article: "We've finished the main bulk of it and we're off to Japan in a couple of weeks to finish it off."
Colin is talking about the tour, not the album. We all know that the band have been on tour for a good chunk of 2008 and while it's possible that they could be sneaking off to studios here and there, it's very unlikely.
Anyway, it's exciting to know that another album will happen and that the band are excited about it. It's just not going to happen as quickly as 6 Music misinterpreted it to be.
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