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Radiohead's 9th album

Radiohead new album 2016.
Google 'dawn chorus'. Access the wikipedia page.

Get this :

Dawn chorus (birds)

The dawn chorus occurs when birds sing at the start of a new day.

"International Dawn Chorus Day
An annual International Dawn Chorus Day is held on the first Sunday in May where the public are encouraged to rise early to listen to bird song, at organised events"

My guess is Radiohead will release their 9th album on May the 1st 2016!

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August 20/2011

 

                               Flea’s interview in Rolling Stone

 

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Flea, however, took advantage of the Chili Peppers’ two-year break after Stadium Arcadium, working on other artists’ tours and records and cutting solo material at his own studio in the Silverlake area of L.A. In 2010, he played bass in Radiohead singer Thom Yorke’s offshoot band Atoms for Peace, doing shows and playing on a forthcoming studio album.

 

Metacritic is official !!????  Thanks a lot Supercollide !!

 

Look at the bottom category from this link : "Anticipated Future Releases for 2011". Atoms For Peace is listed 6th. I'M SO EXCITED

 

Anticipated Future Releases

These albums do not yet have a firm release date, but are in various stages of development. If an artist appears multiple times, that means multiple albums by that artist are forthcoming.

50 Cent Black Magic 2011
Adam Lambert [Title TBA] 2011
Aerosmith [Title TBA] 2011-12
Amy Winehouse [Title TBA] 2011
Andrew Dost Wasted Miracle 2011
Atoms of Peace [Title TBA] 2011
Austin Brown 85 2011

 


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11010894263?profile=originalED O' BRIEN SEXY, HANDSOME MAN guitarist RADIOHEAD WILL RELEASE SOLO ALBUM SOON!!!

 

     That's great!ED told that is working and writing some songs!

     It's a very nice surprise!

     I can't wait it!

     Here is the news

 

              In a recent interview with  Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien,

        he reveals that the band will tour next year and that he is working on solo material.

A small bit of very interesting information this morning sent directly by the talented (and very friendly) photographer Samuel Dietz,

longtime fan and always well informed, you can admire the work on the site lost-pixel:

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien announced a tour for 2012! “” We’ll play these songs on stage, we reserve the dates at this time “” he said in an exclusive interview to appear soon on Argentine Al Tun Tun: http://alltuntun.wordpress.com/ and in association with www.lost-pixel.net.

O’Brien also thinking of a solo album “I’m writing songs,” he added.

 


 

 

   This video is ED O' BRIEN  instrumental music for the serie Eureka!That's fantastic!

 


   Surely, Ed solo album will be fabulous  too.

   We  wait anxious to listen, to see Ed album and performer!


    WE HOPE THAT ED SOLO ALBUM IT COMES BE TRUE AND SOON!

 

    WISH TO ED GOOD WORK AND LUCKY!

 

   See you.

 

  natercia /Planet Ed O' Brien

 

 

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VISIT RADIOHEAD SITE TO SEE DETAILS OF RADIOHEAD NEW ALBUM!

Radiohead reveal their new album will be available on Saturday, 19 February.

  • 14/02/2011

Radiohead have revealed that their eighth studio album, The King Of Limbs, will be released on Saturday, 19 February.

A link on the band's official website, which simply reads "Thank You For Waiting", leads to a pre-order page.
 
Unlike the honesty box payment system the group pioneered with their last album, In Rainbows, the new record has been given a fixed price.

In the UK, it will cost £6.00 for an MP3 copy, compatible with most digital music players. A full, CD-quality download is also available for £9.00.

A special edition, described as a "Newspaper Album", comes with two clear 10" vinyl records, a CD copy of the album, and hundreds of pieces of artwork. Those won't be ready before May, but anyone who purchases the special edition can also download the digital tracks this weekend.
 
Speaking to 6 Music last year, guitarist Ed O'Brien said the band had adopted a new approach to recording, after an arduous three-year slog making In Rainbows.
 
"We decided at the end of the record never to do it like this again," he said. "That was kind of the end of Radiohead mark two."

"It's genuinely exciting. It's very different from what we did last time."

 

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 IT'S VERY COOL GUYS!

 

RADIOHEAD POSTED ON DAS GIVE  THANKS FOR  WAITING  US

 

Mon, 14 February

 

THANKS FOR WAITING
THANKS FOR WAITING
Us
IT'S A BIG, INCREDIBLE SURPRISE NEW ALBUM BEING RELEASING ON THE NEXT SATURDAY!
THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE BEST NEWS! IT'S ALWAYS BRIGHTEN MY DAYS, MY LIFE! 
I CAN'T WAIT LISTENING IT!
WISH YOU GOOD LUCK AND WORK!
WE ALL LOVE YOU!
LOVE ALWAYS,
natercia(PLANET ED O' BRIEN)
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HI EVERYONE!

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I'D LIKE YOU CHECK DAS (RADIOHEAD OFFICIAL SITE) BECAUSE THERE ARE CHANGES AND NEWS!  



WWW.RADIOHEAD.COM

 

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TAKE ATTENTION FOR THE RADIOHEAD BEAR SYMBOL THAT LOOKS BE ALIVE AND WITH HIS EYES YELLOW AND RED BRIGHTING!!!

 

IT CAN BE MAYBE SIGN THAT THE NEW ALBUM IS REALLY FINISHED AND THE RELEASE IS NEXT UP!

 

I FEEL REALLY THAT IT CAN HAPPEN IN SOME NEXT MOMENT ON THIS MONTH YET!
I CAN'T WAIT IT!


ED POSTED A NICE, INTERESTING COMMENT ON THE LAST TUESDAY 8TH, ON DAS ABOUT FIGHTS IN EGYPT, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND WISHING WELL DONE FOR THESE PEOPLE!


IT WAS VERY KIND HIM!ED IS VERY AMAZING, COOL, A GENTLEMAN AS ALWAYS!

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THOUGTH THAT ED POSTING SOMETHING ON DAS IS SIGN IT'S ALL RIGHT!

HE IS VERY CHEERFUL, HAPPY TOO AND SO I THINKING RADIOHEAD ARE TOGETHER AT THIS MOMENT, AND THE NEW ALBUM IS FINISHED, FINALLY!

RADIOHEAD IS ALWAYS AN ENIGMA, SURPRISING SURPRISE AND MAKING BRIGHT OUR LIVES FOREVER!!!

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LOVE THESE GUYS!

 

THANKS FOR ALL!


GOOD LUCK, GOOD WORK!

 

WISHING MY BEST WISHES FOR THE GUYS AND ALL YOU!


HVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!


natercia(PLANET ED O' BRIEN) 



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WAITING FOR THE NEW ALBUM !

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English

There’s a new Radiohead album !!????????????????!!!


Gilles Peterson: ‘There’s A New Radiohead Album If You’re Wondering’

Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 1) says: “I think we’re just lucky that Radiohead are having some free time at the moment. And Thom was just hanging out. He enjoyed himself. And there’s a new Radiohead album if you’re wondering. Just done I believe,”DIY »

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/news/gilles-peterson-theres-a-new-radiohead-album-if-youre-wondering

News » Radiohead » Posted 27th January 2011, 5:57pm

Gilles Peterson: ‘There’s A New Radiohead Album If You’re Wondering’

Those are the words of Gilles Peterson, speaking during the highlights show for his Worldwide Awards on BBC Radio 1.

“I think we’re just lucky that Radiohead are having some free time at the moment. And Thom was just hanging out. He enjoyed himself. And there’s a new Radiohead album if you’re wondering. Just done I believe.”

Those are the words of Gilles Peterson, speaking during the highlights show for his Worldwide Awards on BBC Radio 1. The Radiohead frontman made an appearance to present the award for Album of the Year to Flying Lotus, and is suggested to have spilt the beans at some point
during the evening.

Of course, with Radiohead, you're never exactly sure if it's true. Expect a denial and claims they've scrapped the lot
within the week.

Español

http://www.crazyminds.es/?p=5919

Nos hacemos eco de una de las noticias que pueden dar que hablar en las próximas semanas. Hace unos días, durante la gala de entrega de los Worlwide Awards de la BBC Radio 1, el líder de Radiohead y Gilles
Peterson, locutor de la cadena, estuvieron hablando sobre el
nuevo disco de la banda británica.

Al menos eso es lo que se desprende de las palabras de Peterson en el resumen que hizo de la gala. El presentador afirma que Thom Yorke le dijo que la banda se estaba tomando un periodo de descanso en estos momentos. “Thom está un poco desconectado de
todo. Está disfrutando de sí mismo. Y si me preguntas, ya hay un nuevo disco de
Radiohead. Ya hecho, creo”, fueron las palabras de Peterson.

Esperemos que sea cierto lo que dice, aunque ya se sabe que con Radiohead nunca se puede estar del todo seguro. Algunos recordarán cómo con su último disco, In Rainbows, la banda decidió editarlo en formato digital al módico precio de la voluntad, después de que muchas de las canciones se filtraran. Con estos antecedentes, no sabemos qué nueva sorpresa nos podrá traer el grupo conla llegada del nuevo disco. Habrá que estar atentos a las noticias que salgan en las próximas semanas.


Frid, 12 November

Written translation

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/11/10/jonny-greenwood-radiohead-almost-finished-with-new-album/


English:


I think this italian writer (referred to here) has, either through over-enthusiasm, or frustration at all my non-committal answers, mistranslated me a little....in fact we haven't quite finished the album - in the studio at the moment - nor have we yet considered any touring. The plan is to have no plan until the record is finished....hope that's a little clearer!

Jonny Greenwood



Pienso que este periodista italiano, tal vez porque estaba demasiado entusiasmado o frustrado ante mis evasivas respuestas, cambió un poco mis palabras.

De hecho, realmente no hemos terminado el álbum – de momento estamos

en el estudio - ni hemos todavía pensado en ningún tour.

El plan es no hacer planes hasta que la grabación del nuevo álbum esté terminada….

Espero que esto aclare un poco las cosas!

Jonny Greenwood


Jonny Greenwood: Radiohead “almost finished” with new album


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The surprise redesign of Radiohead’s website gave us the first indication that a new album might be close, but now we have some actual words to back it up. Speaking recently with Rolling Stone Italia (via At Ease), Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood confirmed that the band is “almost finished” with the follow to 2007’s In Rainbows and plan to support the release with a “big tour.”


While Greenwood didn’t digress much on specific aspects of the album (he
even admitted he tends to remove himself from the decision making
process), the guitarist did say “10 pieces (tracks) maybe
some more” would be included. Greenwood also noted that the band has yet to
decided how to release the effort.
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El nuevo disco está casi terminado


Español. Gracias por la traducción Radiohead Mexico


La revista Rolling Stone Italia lo entrevistó:


¿Y qué hay del nuevo álbum?


Ya lo estamos terminando, para después irnos a un enorme tour.


¿Van a distribuirlo del modo tradicional o han inventado una nueva forma de venderlo?


Aún no lo sabemos. Para el tiempo en el que hicimos In Rainbows pareció bien haber experimentado con él vendiéndolo gratis.


¿Qué tipo de álbum será?


Tendrá 10 canciones; quizá más. No sé a ciencia cierta. Es que en la banda soy alguien que se desespera rápidamente y por eso no tomo partido en la parte seria de la
producción.




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KID A - "10"


Happy Birthday to one of my favorite Radiohead albums of all-time. It's' hard to believe the most anticipated album in Radiohead's career is officially ten-years old today. I still remember the day I listened to it for the first time. The opening piano-riff to Everything In It's Right Place, Thom's looped-voice exclaming "kid-a...kid-a.." followed by Thom's incredible vocals when singing "Everthing... Everything..." Yes, this could as well be the soundtrack to the 21st century. The new millennium. The age of the unknown. For all of us lucky enough to be alive during the turn of the millennium it really is something remarkable on it's own. Radiohead's opening track speaks volumes without saying much. Sometimes songs don't need to be understood in order to connect with you. Everything In It's Right Place connected with me because of it's full of raw-emotion. I could hear Thom's voice inside my head. We love to believe everything IS in it's right place, but this song is something of a reminder of that and not just a statement. The title track that follows Kid A opens with a what sounds like a music-box. Thom's voice is distorted and one can barely understand what he is saying. Again I find myself lost in this sea of the unknown. Where will you lead us? Are we there yet? Can we see the shore up ahead? One can lose themselves while listening to this song. I feel as if I am lifted from the ground and taken over a desolated land of nothingness. Perhaps the album cover congers up the imagery in my head. The cold, lonely place where intelligent life once roamed the earth. We might spot a polar bear on occasion but there really is nothing here to see anymore. The National Anthem is a call to arms. The song gives me a feeling of resistance. Resistance from the way things are. Not necessarily a resistance one thinks about but more of a collective resistance in regards to everything we as humans are currently doing. Perhaps a spiritual one. This coming long after we've almost given up hope. We will follow that distorted bass-riff wherever it leads us. "Everyone around here... is holding on". The horns emphasize the urgency in the song. The climax is where we need to be. Lost among the many sounds of horns coming from all directions. How To Dissappear Completely the fourth track on Kid A is one of the saddest songs in the album. It feels like someone standing in a crowd full of people but feeling completely alone. It feels like someone stuck in a cubicle for eight hours a day. If feels like someone standing on the edge of a bridge somewhere... Contemplating. "This isn't happening"... It feels like someone thinking of a loved one on a rainy day. The song connects with those of us who for some reason find ourselves in places we never imagined we would. Not feeling completely fulfilled with how things turned out in our lives. The following song is Treefingers. This is the bridge. The elevator. The spaceship. Treefingers will transport us all to where we need to go. During the trip we will slightly forget where we were but will accept where we will be. No questions asked. The ambient sounds coming into our ears will soothe and comfort us until we get there. And now: Optimistic. We have arrived. "If you try the best you can... the best you can is good enough" The song sees the world through a microscope. The big picture. Human kind. Evolution. What have we done to get here? Is this good enough? Has history shown us to be of good moral character? Are we monsters? Is Religion good? Are we in a prison? Have we made any progress? Will we end up the same as the dinosaurs? Is there anything we need to be doing in order to avoid human extinction? As long as we are optimistic, everything will be ok. In Limbo is the jungle. The jungle in our minds. We are "lost at sea, don't bother me" "We are living in a fantasy world" Unlike Optimistic, In Limbo leads us to believe we are ALREADY there. We made it. This is the point where we can't make a distinction between the genius and the insane. Perhaps they are one in the same. Next we have Idioteque. "Who's In bunker?" brings imagery of being in-hiding. In exile. Maybe from the rest of the world. From reality? From the scary things. "This is really happening" Yes, the nightmare we were afraid would one day come is actually here. "Take the money and run" the markets have collapsed. Capitalism went the way of the Roman empire. We made it this far, now we need to have "women and children first". The Titanic is going down. This world we find ourselves in has taken us to this point and now we must deal with the consequences. "Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time" Perhaps referring to the money being taken by those so-called "institutions" we all feel are overseeing it on a daily basis. Sadly, nobody is hitting the panic-button this time around. Morning Bell is the place we are trapped-in. The place in our minds we'd rather not be in. We should be happy, but we're not. We have it all. The house. The wife/husband. The white-picket fence. The kids. Or maybe we should "cut the kids in half", not literally but metaphorically by stating that maybe that will make us happier. "Light another candle". Many people light candles in remembrance of their lost loved ones. Others simply light candles when their power is out. We are in the dark. We can't see where we are going. The suburbs. The homeless shelter. The apartment complex. We can all relate being in a place and not being able to see where we will go from there. The Album ends with Motion Picture Soundtrack. The song itself is the perfect ending to such an amazing album. It brings up feelings of being lonely. Broken-hearted. "I think you're crazy.... maybe" The relationship between two lovers. The feeling gets old. We survived. Maybe not just the end of a relationship between two lovers but that between us all... The point where we all part ways. The end of human existence. Meeting people is easy. Saying goodbye on the other hand.... "I will see you in the next life".



Thanks for taking the time to read this. It reads like a random rant with lots of grammar errors because well, it probably is just that. But my honest opinion it is. Images, thoughts and feelings that flow through my head when I listen to this incredible album. I would like to know what Kid A means to you too.


I was listening to this album while I wrote this. You should listen to it today.




Saludos!

-SSA

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Our favorite bassist gives an update on the process that has taken place for the new Radiohead LP and how it might be released! On an essay written for index on censorship, Collin states: "the band have just finished another group of songs, and have begun to wonder about how to release them in a digital landscape that has changed again."

(Via: indexoncensorship.org)

The complete essay reads as follows:

Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood explains why the band released their last album direct to their fans

It’s been nearly three years since we announced our “pay what you think it’s worth” scheme for the launch of our last record In Rainbows. I remember the excitement of it all, not least because the release date was my wife’s birthday, 10 October. The idea came from a friend of our manager, who proposed an “honesty box”, placing the onus on people to ask themselves how much they valued our music. Last summer, as we finished some more recordings, we started to think and talk about how to release them. So it seemed a good moment to take stock of the technological and cultural changes that have happened in the meantime.

In August 2007, we had finished our first record after the end of our deal with EMI. Previously, we would have given it to our record company at least three months up front, and then gone through the protracted round of meetings to decide on videos and singles — experiences we’d had for the previous six records. This time there was no EMI, and no one to decide anything but ourselves. We owned it outright, and could do whatever we wanted with it. This coincided with the growth of the internet as a medium to discover and share music, something we had used to reach fans while we made In Rainbows. This desire to use the technology was driven by distrust and frustration with trying to broadcast our music via traditional media, such as radio and television. Music on television is scarce, and hard to do well. Radio has such regulated playlists that disc jockeys are lucky to have one free play per show. Why go exclusively through such straitened formats when you could broadcast directly to people who are interested in you, in that moment?

The other attraction for us was the conjuring up of an event, a way of marking our releases and performances as special, unique times. The internet makes it easier for everything to be live, and that’s what we do. While we were in our studio, making the last few records, we would schedule last-minute “web casts”, and, at short notice, make small, spontaneous and impromptu programmes where we would play our favourite records, talk to fans, play new and old songs live, and even cover versions of songs from bands that had inspired us. It was stitched together on old Sony cams and video editors from eBay. It did feel like a Ruritanian broadcast, but it was thrilling to be sharing a live moment with our fans that wasn’t mediated by anyone except the internet service provider, and a live show that could be created ten minutes from home. I’d like to think the equivalent of this in broadcasting history would be the mom and pop radio stations that set up in America between the wars, when the excitement of a new medium was explored through the immediate community. In the same way, we saw the internet as a chance to treat the global constituency of Radiohead fans as our community. Also, it helped break up the studio tension, and made us feel less cloistered and isolated while we finished recording.

Against all this positive experience of using net technology, we’d had a bad experience on the previous record, when someone had taken some of the songs from a computer and put them online, well ahead of the official release. Everyone became very careful about carrying songs around, in the car, on CDs, music players and computers. It made you realise how easy it is to store and transmit music once it’s digitised, and that the fundamental thing about music is its destiny to be broadcast or shared. Part of the process of making a record involves listening to new songs or ideas in lots of different places: the car, the kitchen, with friends late at night. Having feelings of mild anxiety about music escaping onto the web wasn’t conducive to that, and there were a few panics. Fortunately, we managed to keep everything unreleased until the online download of In Rainbows.

The success of keeping the music off the net until release proved very powerful. A pre-digital album launch would involve some shows perhaps, record shop queues if you were lucky, and plans by the record company to mark the release as an event. In the digital world, with the ease of music escaping online, that sense of an event is diminished.

With In Rainbows, we were able to be the first people to digitally release our record, directly to people’s personal computers, at 7.30am GMT on 10 October 2007. I was having breakfast, and watched as the file appeared in my email, and the album streamed onto my desktop. I spent the next day and night monitoring people’s reactions online, both to the music and the means of delivery. Journalists in America had stayed up overnight to write the first review as they received the music – again, in the pre-digital age they would have had advance copies up to three weeks before. On the torrent site bulletin boards, people were arguing over whether they should be downloading and paying for the record from our site, rather than the free torrents. Various online pundits and pamphleteers were pronouncing the end of the record business, or of Radiohead, or of both.

For all the giddy prognostications, the most important reason for the success of In Rainbows was the quality of the music. I think this was overlooked, but without the great songs that we were proud of, the online release would have counted for nothing. I am optimistic that if you make good work you can secure the patronage of your fans.

Three years later, we have just finished another group of songs, and have begun to wonder about how to release them in a digital landscape that has changed again. It seems to have become harder to own music in the traditional way, on a physical object like a CD, and instead music appears the poor cousin of software, streamed or locked into a portable device like a phone or iPod. I buy hardly any CDs now and get my music from many different sources: Spotify, iTunes, blog playlists, podcasts, online streaming – reviewing this makes me realise that my appetite for music now is just as strong as when I was 13, and how dependent I am upon digital delivery. At the same time, I find a lot of the technology very frustrating and counter-intuitive. I spend a lot of time using music production software, but iTunes feels clunky. I wish it was as simple and elegant as Apple’s hardware. I understand that we have become our own broadcasters and distributors, but I miss the editorialisation of music, the curatorial influences of people like John Peel or a good record label. I liked being on a record label that had us on it, along with Blur, the Beastie Boys and the Beatles.

I’m unconvinced that the internet has replaced the club or the concert hall as a forum for people to share ideas and passions about music. Social networking models such as Twitter and foursquare are early efforts at this but have some way to go to emulate the ecosystem that labels such as Island drew upon, the interconnected club and studio worlds of managers, musicians, artists and record company mavericks, let alone pay for such a fertile environment. Shoreditch, in east London, has a vibrant scene right now, with independent labels such as Wichita, Bella Union and distribution companies like The Co-op, alongside the busy Strongroom studio. I spoke to a friend, Dan Grech-Marguerat, about the scene. He is a busy mixer and producer, and told me that he could just sit at home and work on the computer but would miss the social buzz and benefits of working at the Strongroom and other studios.

There are signs that the net is moving out of its adolescence, and preparing to leave its bedroom. I have noticed on the fan message sites that a lot of the content and conversations have grown up, moved away from staccato chat and trolling, to discussions about artists, taste and trends, closer to writing found in music magazines.

There is less interest in the technological side of the net, and more focus on what services the web can deliver, like any other media. People are using touch and gesture-controlled devices such as the iPad to see through those objects to get to the content they want. This transparency and immediacy is exciting for us as artists, because it brings us closer to our audience.

We have yet to decide how to release our next record, but I hope these partial impressions will help give some idea of the conversations we’ve been having. Traditional marketplaces and media are feeling stale – supermarkets account for around 70 per cent of CDs sold in the UK, the charts are dominated by TV talent-show acts – and we are trying to find ways to put out our music that feel as good as the music itself. The ability to have a say in its release, through the new technologies, is the most empowering thing of all.

Link: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/09/radiohead-copyright-freespeech-music/

I can already feel the new album getting closer and closer.

Saludos!

-SSA

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(Via -- Ateaseweb.com...)

Radiohead are making progress in the studio. The band started recording this past Winter and are currently in the studio working on the last bits. Ed O’Brien said it will be a matter of weeks till it’s finished and hopes to see the release before the end of this year. ‘It has got to. I hope so’

Guitarist Ed O’Brien was a guest on Adam Buxton’s show on BBC 6 Music today, saying he thinks the new Radiohead record ‘is the best record we’ve ever made’.

Ed: “We’re in the heart of the record. It’s genuinely exciting. It’s very different from what we did last time. It’s really nice to be doing this. It’s so good to be making music with the band that you feel is still as good as it’s ever been.”

When Adam Buxton asked if he had any idea when this record would see the light of day,

Ed answered: “No, Ideally it would be greatif it came out sometime this year. It has got to. I hope so. We’re at the finishing line. When you’re making a record, a film, write a book for ages and ages you think the finishing line is miles away. Now it feels it’s in touching distance. But of course, it being a creative process, at the last bit also, you have bursts of energy, you achieve a lot of things in a small period of time and then you’re nearly there…it might slow down. But yeah, hopefully it will be a matter of weeks.”

With ‘In Rainbows’ you seemed to have turned a corner and having a lot more fun. That’s what it looked like from the outside looking in. Is that fair?

Ed O’Brien: It wasn’t fun making the record. Making records has been hard. It’s always been a slog. Traditionally Radiohead in a studio has been: Don your tin helmet, just see it out, like a war of attrition. And basically at the end of In Rainbows it had taken three years to sort of come together. And we initially started off on our own, pulled in someone else and after a year we worked with Nigel [Godrich] again. It was such a slog. We knew we had these songs. We really believed in these songs. So, we had to do it right. It just took a long time. And we basically decided then and there at the end of that record: ‘We are never doing this again this way’. That was kind of like the end of Radiohead, mark 2. We decided, the only way that worked for us to carry on was to do it in a different spirit. Enjoy it.

On the recording process of ‘In Rainbows’ Ed continued explaining why it was much harder than everybody thought.

Ed: “We hear it all the time: ‘it sounds like you had a great time in the studio’. But, oh man… that [In Rainbows] was a slog. It was a really long process. At the end, for instance a song like ‘House Of Cards’ has been recorded six times. Plus the fact: we had this genius idea in 2006 to go on tour and do 50 odd shows, play all these songs, go back to studio and record them. And that’s when we went back in with Nigel. We went in and recorded them having played these songs 50 times. So we kind of got the arrangements sorted. We just wanted to get them down. We played these enough. And we got them down and most of them were rubbish. A lot of work in the creative process is rubbish.

However Ed praised producer Nigel Godrich for his influence on the band.

Ed:“The art is to not give in, to carry on, persevere. You just have to keep going. The great thing about Nigel is; he raises the bar. He drives you hard. You think you’ve done the take, you think you’ve done your overdub, you think it’s in there and then he says: ‘Maybe one more time’. He gets the best performances out of you. He’s amazing. Cause he also drives himself really hard as well. The quality of the stuff that he does is really high. So, it’s good to be driven hard.”


I'm excited!

-SSA

UPDATE: Listen to the interview here:

http://soundcloud.com/a952424/ed20-6-2010

Link:

http://www.ateaseweb.com/2010/06/20/new-radiohead-album-almost-finished-release-this-year/

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New Radiohead album completed? ? Believe it.

At this point these are just rumors but is it possible that Radiohead have already completed their new album in Los Angeles? ?According to the rumor-ville, Radiohead have been recording in Hollywood "to get away from the dismal English winter". The band, along with producer Nigel Godrich, set up studio in a house in the Hollywood Hills for a three-week session, and held a wrap party on January 30. A blog by LA Times writer Jia-Rui Cook, originally published at Postmark Here, described the party:“Dear ——–,Bryan helped transform a house in the Hollywood Hills into a recording studio and spent the last three weeks there recording Radiohead with Nigel Godrich. On Saturday, we waded through a driveway full of Priuses and Minis to get to the wrap party. I was giddy seeing Beck, Selma Hayek and Danger Mouse chatting around the same pool where Dean Martin and the Rat Pack used to hang out. I marveled at the hair on one rock star that resembled one of those fuzzy boom mic covers. How exactly did he describe what he wanted to his hairdresser? I guess it was just proof rock stars can get away with stuff regular folks can’t. Thom Yorke periodically toyed with the iPhone that controlled the speakers. Usually he skipped forward to a Rolling Stones song. The band wanted to record in L.A. to get away from the dismal English winter. Nigel said they were probably lolling about too much in the sunshine when they first arrived. When it started pouring down, they realized someone up there was telling them to get on with it. If their last album was “In Rainbows,” I guess they could call this one “In Rainstorms.”You can read the article here.If these rumors are true, we just might get a new Radiohead album sooner than expected. HOORAY!! !-SSA
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Yes folks, this is the news we all await for and it is now a reality. Be excited... Be very excited.

Best news ever!!... [Via--Ateaseweb.com]There’s been a lot of speculation on Radiohead’s next album. Would it ever be recorded? Or would be just get digital tracks, EP’s or whatever made the press. Ed O’Brien confirmed that a new Radiohead album (yes, album) is in the making.It was the interview in The Believer that kick-started a lot of rumours on Radiohead’s future. Thom Yorke told the magazine: “None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again.(…) But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill us.” The news hit the press worldwide.Radiohead have spent this Summer in the studio, releasing tracks online like ‘Harry Patch (In Memory Of)’ and ‘These Are My Twisted Words’. This sort of seemed like they were serious about not releasing albums in the future. But guitarist Ed O’Brien has confirmed that the band is in fact interested in recording more albums and the follow-up to ‘In Rainbows’ is actually in the making.Ed O’Brien told NME that with sessions planned this winter the band would “definitely” be releasing a full album physically next year. “We were misquoted,” claimed O’Brien of Yorke’s comments, loudly adding, “WE WILL BE MAKING AN ALBUM!” Although he said the band hadn’t decided how it would be released, he said the album would come out on vinyl and CD whether it first arrived as a download or not.“We love the artwork; that’s really important, the physicality,” he explanied. “And we all like vinyl. That’s not going to go away. I still like CDs as well. I got the Speech Debelle CD the other day – I nearly downloaded it from iTunes but I thought, ‘No. I want the physical thing.’”O’Brien wouldn’t be drawn on specific tracks, but suggested that recent free download ‘There Are My Twisted Words’ was not a marker for the album.On releasing ‘These Are My Twisted Words’ online he said: “It’s a kind of one-off. It could have been a darker side of ‘In Rainbows’ – it’s got that autumnal vibe, we’re leaving the summer and going into the darkness.”He added that with Radiohead set to reconvene in their Oxfordshire studio this winter, the season might similarly affect the new songs. “Typical Radiohead,” he laughed. “We’re going into the studio in winter. It’s always miserable! Are we at the whim of the seasons? We are! When you’re in a studio in the countryside, the music you make is definitely affected by what season it is.”
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"Sadness falls upon the land..."

In a lengthy interview in the latest issue of The Believer magazine, Thom Yorke has revealed that we'll probably be waiting quite a long time for the next proper Radiohead album. We're more likely to get some EPs or singles or one-off musical releases (perhaps like "Harry Patch [In Memory Of]"?) in the near future."None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again. Not straight off," Yorke said. "I mean, it's just become a real drag. It worked with In Rainbows because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we've all said that we can't possibly dive into that again. It'll kill us."He clarified that Radiohead doesn't inherently hate the concept of the full-length. He said, "I mean, obviously, there's still something great about the album. It's just, for us, right now, we need to get away from it a bit." Later, he added, "In Rainbows was a particular aesthetic and I can't bear the idea of doing that again. Not that it's not good, I just can't... bear... that."One kind of Radiohead-related music that might materialize? Orchestral works. As Yorke told The Believer, "Jonny [Greenwood] and I have talked about sitting down and writing songs for orchestra and orchestrating it fully and just doing it like that and then doing a live take of it and that's it - finished. We've always wanted to do it, but we've never done it because, I think the reason is, we're always taking songs that haven't been written for that, and then trying to adapt them. That's one possible EP because, with things like that, you think, Do you want to do a whole record like that? Or do you just want to get stuck into it for a bit and see how it feels?"The entire interview is well worth reading, with Yorke celebrating the death of the CD and the downfall of the music industry as we know it, reflecting on the difficulty of environmentally-friendly touring and music releasing, and musing on the state of Radiohead in general. There's also this wonderful exchange:The Believer: Do you feel like there's any definitive sound that you've been solidifying over your career?Thom Yorke: I fucking hope not.Here is part of the interview:THE BELIEVER: In some ways, the way Internet singles work is close to the way things used to be with the music industry in the ’50s, before full-lengths were the thing, and radio singles were what defined artists.THOM YORKE: Right, and if you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it’s possible to do that—because these are people’s livelihoods we’re talking about—and you look at it in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it’s completely different. In some ways, that’s the best way of looking at it. I mean, I don’t spend my fucking life downloading free MP3s, because I hate the websites. No one seems to know what they’re talking about. I’d much rather go to sites like Boomkat, where people know what they’re talking about.BLVR: Boomkat is great.TY: It’s brilliant. To me, that’s a business model. It’s like when I used to go to music shops in Oxford. You’re looking at this and you’re looking at that and there’s a whole line of other things going down the side saying, “You’ll probably like this,” and “You might like this.”BLVR: I love those stores where everything’s hand-selected and the clerks write little descriptions about the music.TY: Yeah, and you can listen to it all. I mean, Boomkat is very specific with the type of stuff they flog there, but I can’t see why that wouldn’t work for all music.Source: The Believer MagazineHere's a bit more of that same interview:[Believer]: Do you think [the In Rainbows pay-as-you-will method] worked?[Yorke]: Oh, yeah. It worked on two or three different levels. The first level is just sort of getting a point across that we wanted to get across about music being valuable. It also worked as a way of using the Internet to promote your record, without having to use iTunes or Google or whatever. You rely on the fact that you know a lot of people want to hear it. You don’t want to have to go to the radio first and go through all that bullshit about what’s the first single. You don’t want to have to go to the press. That was my thing, like, I am NOT giving it to the press two months early so they can tear it to shreds and destroy it for people before they’ve even heard it. And it worked on that level. And it also worked financially.[Believer]: Do you think this method would work for other bands who aren’t as known as Radiohead?[Yorke]: With the press, we’re in a lucky position where we don’t really have to rely on a reviewer’s opinion, so why would we let that get in the way? If people want to play it for themselves, why don’t we just give it to them to listen to? I just don’t want to have to read about it first.[Believer]: And that style of release definitely promotes the album as a work of art, rather than a bunch of singles floating around the Internet.[Yorke]: Oh, that’s interesting. I appreciate that. Unfortunately, a lot of people got the album in the wrong order.[Believer]: What about the idea of an album as a musical form? You think that the format is still worthwhile amid iPod shuffling?[Yorke]: I’m not very interested in the album at the moment.[Believer]: I’ve heard you talk a lot about singles and EPs. Is that what you’ve been moving toward?[Yorke]: I’ve got this running joke: Mr. Tanaka runs this magazine in Japan. He always says to me, “EPs next time?” And I say yes and go off on one, and he says, “Bullshit.” [Laughs] But I think really, this time, it could work. It’s part of the physical-release plan I was talking about earlier. None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again. Not straight off. I mean, it’s just become a real drag. It worked with In Rainbows because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill us.
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Yes!


2009 will see the release of Pet Shop Boys' new studio album, "Yes".We can now confirm the complete track-listing:

01. Love etc.02. All over the world03. Beautiful people04. Did you see me coming?05. Vulnerable06. More than a dream07. Building a wall08. King of Rome09. Pandemonium10. The way it used to be11. Legacy
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La noticia me puso muy expectante, ya que me parece que es un tipo que tiene mucho talento y es alguien muy interesante de escuchar, tanto musicalmente como al dar entrevistas.Phil, espero tu disco pronto!!!
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I'm very excited about this news, for I consider Phil to be a very talented musician, and also a very interesting person, both in regard with his musical work and his opinions and points of view in interviews.Phil, I'm looking forward to hear your album very soon!
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