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Radiohead: 01 and 10 | Puddlegum
Posted by Flick in Opinions on | View Comments Ten years after OK Computer shocked the world, Radiohead released In Rainbows on October 10 (10/10). Though no one was expecting the album to be released until 2008, Radiohead announced In Rainbows just ten days in advance.
How do you capture the energy — both positive and negative — of the past 50 years by using instruments perfected in the 18th century and made of wood, glue and horsehair? That challenge lies at the very heart of this album, which brings together one of rock and electronic music's superheroes, Radiohead 's Jonny Greenwood , with one of his own idols: the septuagenarian Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki . The collection features two string pieces written by the elder composer, 1960's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and 1961's Polymorphia for 48 strings, juxtaposed with two of Greenwood's similarly set answers to Penderecki's work: Popcorn Superhet Receiver (inspired by Threnody ) and 48 Responses to Polymorphia . Here, they both choose to use a seemingly antiquated vehicle — orchestral strings — to convey the noise, chaos and energy of our time.
First Listen: Krzysztof Penderecki And Jonny Greenwood : NPR
DALLAS — Radiohead has confirmed the first 10 dates of its forthcoming 2012 U.S. tour and one of them is Dallas, where the band will perform at American Airlines Center on March 5. This is the band's first extensive Stateside trek since 2008, and it begins February 27 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, with dates currently slated through March 15 at the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Ariz. Other Lives, a band from Oklahoma, will open.
Radiohead stops in Dallas March 5 at American Airlines Center | www.pegasusnews.com | Dallas/Fort Worth
Thom Yorke Lists His Favourite New Sounds | Gigwise
Thom Yorke has unveiled his favourite contemporary songs through iTunes, perhaps giving us an insight into what the next Radiohead album will sound like. The singer hand-picked his choice ten tracks to appear on his ‘Celebrity Playlist’ – joining the likes of Brian Wilson and Samuel L Jackson who have submitted theirs in recent months. After immersing himself in Warp records in the late Nineties then, churning out the baffling electronic masterpiece that is ‘Kid A’, the question is whether his eclectic choices will be sculpting his band’s ever-evolving sound. Amongst those included on the list are Gigwise cover star Bat for Lashes, New York experimentalists Liars, the criminally under-rated Dears and former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus. However, his favourite record of last year was Spank Rock’s ‘What It Look Like.’
Radiohead at the Oxford Playhouse in 2007. Photograph: Insight-Visual UK / Rex Features If it had been released in the ordinary way of things, as Radiohead 's seventh album on Parlophone, In Rainbows would still be a much admired record. It's tender, adventurous, well-crafted and brimful of that fuzzy, unplaceable anxiety the band have made their stock in trade.
Radiohead confirm the death of the music business | Music | The Observer
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Penderecki is coming to London this week, with the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra . They're going to play the music on the recording we've just released together. To hear him conduct Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia with this wonderful Polish orchestra is a really magical experience, so if you're in London on Thursday, perhaps you'd like to come along..... Jonny Mixed bag of stuff for yer ears - some sufi qawwals, some 50's chopin jazz covers, some californian 60's rock.
I’ve made no secret in the past how huge a fan I am of Radiohead . I’ve said it before, and I will now say it again, there was NO better album in the 90′s than OK Computer. Indeed, has there been a better album since? I would say no… Anyway, my attention was therefore piqued when I came across the following headline on NME: “Thom Yorke’s Favourite Radiohead Tune Revealed” According to the NME, Thom’s favourite Radiohead song is “How To Disappear Completely” from the album Kid A, in 2000.
