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RADIOHEAD CONFIRMS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR MARKETS

With In Rainbows having debuted today at #1 on the U.S. charts, RADIOHEAD has confirmed the cities to be visited on the band’s upcoming North American tour.

The tour will take place in two segments, one prior to and one following the recently announced summer tour of the UK and Europe.The cities IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER are:

Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Seattle, St Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC

Exact dates and venues will be announced at a later date.

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Check out the below statement from Radioheads official site

F Y I_____ if you care

for your information>>>

we did not ask for a load of cash from our old record label EMI to re- sign.
that is a L I E.
The Times in the UK should check its facts before it prints such dirt.

whAT we WANTED WAS some control over OUR WOrK and how it was used in the future by them-
that seemed REASONAblE to us,
as we cared about it a great deal.

Mr Hands was not interested.
So neither were we.

We made the sign of the cross and walked away. Sadly.

We are extremely upset that this crap is being spread about.

To bedigging up such bullshit, or more politely airing yer dirty laundry in public,
seems a very strange way for the head of an international record label to be proceeding.

On a happier note we took no ‘BRead-HEAd’ advances at all from both independent labels XL and TBD for our new record.

So judge for yourself.

AND we are really excited to be working with them. SHock!

AT least they do not behave like confused bulls in a china shop.

much love

thom
x

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Radiohead will be doing a New Years’ webcast.

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and the winner is…….

ATO!

Following months of speculation and the signing of an overseas record deal, Radiohead announces that they have landed at ATO records for the physical release of “In Rainbows”. 

Details of the deal have not yet been released, other than it will hit stores on January 2nd, be released on Radiohead’s own imprint TBD Records, and XL will release the track in the U.K 2 days prior.

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All those who put their info in Radiohead’s now presumably massive database have received an email from the band pitching a box set containing the six studio albums plus 2001’s I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings. The collection, available Dec. 10, is being packaged three ways: a “limited edition” CD box set priced at £39.99; a digital download, DRM-free at a 320 kbps bit rate, for £34.99; and a 4 gb USB stick in the shape of the band’s bear-face icon containing WAV files and digital artwork for a hefty £79.99. The set is being sold at www.radioheadstore.com, with the full involvement of EMI, which owns the masters.

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Speculation has been swirling around Radiohead since their announcement that their new album will come digitally with a “pay what you want” price tag. 

 The question still remained of what they were going to do about physical product. 

The answer is they have signed with British indie label XL Recordings for physical distribution outside of North America…leaving questions still remaining of what’s going to happen on our side of the pond….Read More…

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Billboard.com is reporting that a 2008 international Radiohead tour is in the works. Don’t be fooled, though. Anyone who has seen Meeting People is Easy (which I highly recommend) can tell you that the members of Radiohead are far from enamoured with the concept of touring. Expect the tour to be scattered and stick to the big cities. The Billboard piece quotes Bryce Edge as saying “He (Thom) likes to do shows, but the whole business of schlepping around the world is not top of his list of favorite things to do. He really enjoys playing to the fans — it’s just the process of how to do that which is the pain in the neck (for Yorke). They’re not road dogs. They never have been.”

Radiohead is by and far the best live act these days. Their music and their ability to develop their songs in a live forum is unparalleled. Unfortunately, this is a common opinion. I fully expect the 2008 tour to be sold out far before the tickets go on sale to the public. Maybe this is part of what Yorke dislikes about touring. As a fan, I can only hope.

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It took me roughly 15 listens before I felt comfortable writing my review of Radiohead’s In Rainbows.  This was due to the fact that I didn’t want my first impression of the album to be the only impression that got heard.  My first reaction to In Rainbows wasn’t particularly a good one, but it wasn’t until recently that I figured out why. 

I have been obsessed with “15 Step” since I first heard it live at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music Festival.  I instantly fell in love with the syncopated claps and the oddly poppy melody.  Upon seeing the track list for In Rainbows I was excited to see the song had been placed as the introductory piece to the album, but when I finally heard the track on the album there was a bit of a letdown.  The song itself wasn’t the reason for my dismay; it’s a strong track with a good recording and good performances.  It was when I reached the second track, however, that I was a little taken aback.  The second track, “Bodysnatchers,” is a good song, but it felt so strikingly out of place.  In fact, the more I listened to the album, the more I felt all the songs were out of place.

On my most recent listen to the album, I accidentally left my music player on shuffle (and was just too plain lazy to get up and change it).  In doing this, though, I came to an awfully startling realization: the album had the same impact whether it was on shuffle or not.  So what’s the big deal, right?  We live in a singles driven market where the “art of the album” is all but dead both monetarily and artistically, so who cares, right?  Right???

For many (and maybe most) of you reading this post, this isn’t much of a concern.  But it must be understood that Radiohead is one of the few bands that makes great albums.  From Pablo Honey straight through to Hail to the Thief, each album read like a novel.  Skipping around Kid A would make about as much sense (to me) as skipping chapters in Orwell’s 1984; it just doesn’t work.

In Rainbows is an album that reads much more like a collection of short stories (like Shooting An Elephant, if you’re looking for another Orwell comparison).  And there are a couple of reasons for this.  One big reason is the lack album art.  The combination of Radiohead and Stanley Donwood has resulted in some of the most interesting album art and packaging over the last 30 years.  And according to GreenPlastic, the album artwork seen all over the net is most likely not the final version. 

The other big reason for In Rainbows’ more song-centered feel may be that I relate many of the songs to music of Radiohead’s past.  Maybe more than that, In Rainbows it the first album that is strikingly more pop than the last Radiohead album.  Granted, the album itself is not pop and neither are the songs, but many of the melodies (“15 Step”), guitar rifts (“Bodysnatchers”), drum tracks (“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi”) and lyrics (“All I Need”) are.

Who knows, maybe by listen 25, In Rainbows will make more sense to me.  But as of right now, I see this album as a collection of good-to-great songs and not as the typical Radiohead novel I’m used to hearing.  Its not a good or bad thing and I’m sure it wasn’t Radiohead’s intention to do this (in fact, I doubt they’d agree with me in saying that this is even the scenario).  In the end, though, it is a little disappointing to have another collection of stories and not an outright novel… no matter how good those short stories are.

-By Tarek

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Radiohead Download Update:

For those of you that opted to order the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, you should have received (be receiving) an email similar to the one above.  You’ll note the activation code will be sent out UK time.  So maybe us lucky Americans will get to own the new album before the start of our October 10^th!  London has a 5 hour time difference from New York, so you can bet I’ll be glued to my inbox from 7pm (EST) onward.

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