It may have seemed like a fad at first, but the resurgence of vinyl is now turning into a nice niche business for the major labels. With EMI's announcement that it...
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Hail to the Thief suddenly has all kinds of new meaning. Radiohead has a burgeoning beef with Prince over the Purple One's refusal to allow fan video recordings of his...
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After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella, the tens of thousands who couldn't be there ran to YouTube for a peek. Everyone was quickly denied...
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It was a pivotal moment for the music industry which many thought sounded the death knell for recorded music sales, but Radiohead won't be repeating its initiative to...
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Radiohead is going to let good ol' capitalism figure it out next time. Frontman Thom Yorke tells the Hollywood Reporter that his band's decision to let fans decide...
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Radiohead fans will be going gaga over Lolla. Thom Yorke's crew is set to join Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine as the headliners for...
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Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, and Nine Inch Nails lead the lineup for the annual Lollapalooza festival at Chicago's Grant Park (August 1-3), organizers said...
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Radiohead, Kanye West and Wilco are among the 90 bands and artists who will perform at this summer's Lollapalooza music festival. The festival will open August 1st in...
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Radiohead allowed fans to choose a price for their latest tunes. Now, the best-selling band is hoping fans will make them a music video, too. TBD Records, Cartoon Network's...
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Radiohead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Jack Johnson will headline a music festival at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in August. The inaugural Outside Lands...
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San Francisco is the right place for Radiohead. The alterna-rockers will join Tom Petty and Jack Johnson in headlining the inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival set...
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British rock band Radiohead will
headline the first two nights of the inaugural All Points West
Music & Arts Festival, to be held August 8-10 near...
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Radiohead is chasing Rainbows with its first North American tour in two years.
The band announced Tuesday that it will kick off an eight-concert trek May 5 in West Palm...
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The Police threatened to close down Radiohead’s gig at the Rough Trade East shop in London tonight (January 16), forcing a last-minute venue change.
Radiohead will now play...
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Rock band Radiohead's decision to
release its new album "In Rainbows" by itself -- online,
without a record label's help and at any price the user chose
-- rocked...
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2007 was a year of duality for music. While the industry continued to tank, it was quietly a very good year for rock 'n' roll and indie music. The Boss returned with his old...
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Jonny Greenwood is being tipped to win an Oscar for his upcoming soundtrack to the new Paul Thomas Anderson film.
The Radiohead guitarist has put together the score for...
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Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he asked Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke to record a duet with him--but Yorke turned him down.
McCartney explained that Yorke, who...
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That pot of gold at the end of Radiohead's Rainbows may not be as full as thought.
The band's ballyhooed In Rainbows, available only online at a price set by...
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Radiohead's first six studio albums are set to be made available as a boxed set.
Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief, plus live...
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Radiohead is reportedly close to signing a deal to release their new album In Rainbows independently.
According to the New York Times, the band is on the verge of signing a...
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Radiohead will tour the world next summer, their management has announced.
The band, fresh from remapping the music industry by giving away new album In Rainbows for free,...
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Radiohead's OK Computer has inspired a new radio play, which is to be broadcast at 21:00 BST on Friday (October 19) on Britain's BBC Radio 4.
The play, given the same name...
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke has spoken out about the release of In Rainbows.
Yorke said that he was glad the album, which was available to download yesterday (October 10), had...
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Back in the day, fans would have congregated at midnight at their local music stores to get first crack at a new Radiohead album.
How old-fashioned.
Instead, the release...
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Radiohead have broken their silence today (June 13) in a internet posting to say their next album is nearly finished.
The band have been working on the follow-up to 2003's...
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A ballet inspired by Radiohead will air in Scotland this summer, it has been confirmed.
Stephen Petronio's Ride The Beast is scheduled for performance at the Edinburgh...
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Radiohead have given an update of their progress on their new album.
As previously reported, the band posted a sample of song "15 Step" on a section of their official site...
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Radiohead are set to reissue their rare EP Com Lag (2 2=5).
The EP was originally released in Japan and Australia in 2004. It will be reissued in the U.K. on April 16 and...
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Radiohead have posted a video online featuring new music from the band.
The short video film is made by the Vapour Brothers, the team behind the video for 2001's "I Might...
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Radiohead have denied claims they are about to sign a record deal with Starbucks.
Thom Yorke and company are midway through recording the follow-up to 2004's Hail To The...
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Radiohead's Kid A is to be played by an orchestra next weekend.
The group's acclaimed fourth album will be reinterpreted by the Charity Symphony Orchestra in London on...
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A Radiohead crunk album has been recorded as the latest musical reinterpretation of the band's music.
An artist named DJ GYNGYVYTUS has reworked a number of the group's...
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A mysterious figure is traveling around London this week to promote the imminent release of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's debut solo album.
The male mannequin, which is...
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Thom Yorke has expressed his confusion at discovering that one of President Bush's daughters attended Radiohead's recent show in New York City.
Yorke has posted a message...
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Extracts from Thom Yorke's long-awaited solo album The Eraser can now be heard online. Snippets of a number of the songs from the Radiohead singer's debut LP, which is due...
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By KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press Writer
As fans head to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this weekend, the show is moving from hippie to hipper in its fifth...
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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's debut solo album The Eraser has been leaked online a month ahead of its release, according to reports.
The long-awaited LP, which has been...
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Everything's in its right place for Thom Yorke.
Radiohead's wiry frontman has announced that his first solo album,
The Eraser, is set to hit stores on July 11.
But...
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Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke will release his first solo album, "The Eraser," in July.
Yorke says he doesn't want to hear rumors of a rift with the band — or even...
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The glorious return of reunited alt-rock legends the Pixies, Thom Yorke's triumph over a severe throat infection (which had almost led to the cancellation of Radiohead's...
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Radiohead and Coldplay are among the artists who have contributed album tracks to Music For Human Rights, a CD compilation issued by human rights organization Amnesty...
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Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke is at the forefront of protests surrounding President George Bush's visit to London this week, with Yorke calling Bush and British Prime...
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Radiohead are more likely to release an EP, or even several EPs, before recording another full-length album. With the release of their sixth studio disc, Hail To The Thief,...
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Radiohead's Hail To The Thief and Coldplay's A Rush Of Blood To The Head, are just a few of the albums nominated for the Britain's prestigious Panasonic Mercury Music Prize....
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Sales of Radiohead's new effort Hail To The Thief, Number Three on the Billboard 200 album chart, have been spurred on by the release of the album's first single, "There...
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Radiohead will create the music for a new dance work by legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham that will debut at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in October. The work is...
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Radiohead has announced the dates of their eagerly anticipated North American tour in support of their latest album Hail To The Thief, released last Tuesday (June 10). The...
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Radiohead will release a new DVD titled 7 Television Commercials in Canada on August 5. The DVD is a compilation of videos filmed through 1997's OK Computer, said bassist...
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For many who attended last weekend's (June 7) Field Day Festival at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the saving grace of the event was the performance by...
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Radiohead's new album Hail To The Thief arrives in stores on Tuesday (June 10), and the new single "There There" is at Number 15 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. The...
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The troubled Field Day Festival took place outside New York City on Saturday (June 7) with a soggy and disappointing tone. In addition to a last-minute change from two days...
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The town of Riverhead, New York has denied a permit to the two-day Field Day festival concert, which was to take place this weekend (June 7 and 8) at a former aerospace lot...
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The New York City area Field Day festival, scheduled for June 7 and 8, hit a major snag on Tuesday (May 27). The festival, scheduled to be held in Calverton, New York with...
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Radiohead has placed several tracks from its new album Hail To The Thief up on their website, capitolrecords.com/radiohead. There are four songs in total which you can...
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Radiohead is scheduled to release its sixth album, titled Hail To The Thief, on June 10. Guitarist Ed O'Brien told rollingstone.com, "We wanted to relearn the art of putting...
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Beastie Boys, Beck, Blur, the Roots and N.E.R.D. are among the artists confirmed for the Field Day festival in Riverhead, New York, on June 7 and 8. Tickets for the two-day...
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Tracks from Radiohead's forthcoming album Hail To The Thief have ended up on the Internet, and the band is not pleased. At first when news of the leak surfaced, guitarist...
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Neil Young played host to Radiohead's Thom Yorke, James Taylor, the Foo Fighters, and others during the first night of the 16th annual Bridge School Benefit Concert at the...
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Radiohead previewed nine new songs Monday night (July 22) in Lisbon, Portugal. The concert was the opening date of the English band's European tour and it's first show in...
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Radiohead is one of the most critically acclaimed modern rock bands of the decade, but don't count rap-rocker Kid Rock as a fan. The "American Bad Ass" recently told LAUNCH...
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Radiohead's Phil Selway and guitarist Ed O'Brien, Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr are among the guests set for the Neil Finn tribute...
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Radiohead will issue an eight-song live album that captures the band on tour last summer. I Might Be Wrong--Live Recordings, due November 13 from Capitol Records, will...
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Thom Yorke, singer for Radiohead, will be the special guest on the Cartoon Network show Space Ghost Coast To Coast on September 2. It's set to air at 11:30 p.m. ET, and...
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Nineteen-year-old Jeffrey McGuire, who died at a Radiohead show in New Jersey's Liberty State Park on Thursday (August 16), was buried in his native Syracuse, New York...
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Radiohead's Amnesiac; PJ Harvey's Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea; and the self-titled debut from Gorillaz, featuring Blur frontman Damon Albarn, are among the...
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Radiohead's Amnesiac, the follow-up to Kid A, comes out today (June 5). Amnesiac is more accessible than the experimental Kid A, according to statements made by the band,...
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Radiohead is set to play the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on August 20. Tickets for the show will go on sale July 7.
Meanwhile, Radiohead kicked off its European tour on...
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Radiohead has announced more North American tour dates, with the band returning to the U.S. in August after a brief tour of Europe. The new dates begin on August 1 at...
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Radiohead has solidified the first batch of U.S tour dates in support of Amnesiac. The band will kick off the tour on June 18 in Spring, Texas at the C.W. Mitchell Pavilion....
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The first U.S. single from Radiohead's forthcoming June release, Amnesiac, will be "I Might Be Wrong," and it hits radio stations around the country April 23. In support of...
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Radiohead has chosen "I Might Be Wrong" as the first U.S. single from Amnesiac. The tune is slated to arrive at radio May 1, while the album is still slotted for a June 5...
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Radiohead has chosen "Pyramid Song" to be the first U.K. single off the forthcoming album Amnesiac. A spokesperson for the band said there's no word on what the U.S. single...
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A mix of music industry professionals turned out Thursday (March 15) for three preview listening sessions of Radiohead's next album, Amnesiac, during the first day of the...
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Academy Award producers have cut the length Bjork's performance of "I've Seen It All," from Selmasongs, the album of music from the movie Dancer In The Dark. The six-minute...
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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has revealed the names of the songs on the band's forthcoming album, Amnesiac, due out June 5. The album will feature "Packt Like Sardines In A...
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Radiohead's Kid A lost out to Steely Dan's Two Against Nature for album of the year at Wednesday night's (February 21) Grammy Awards, but the band may be back in the running...
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Radiohead beat out serious competition to capture the best alternative music album Grammy for Kid A tonight (February 21) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It's the...
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Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has agreed to duet with Bjork, backed by a 55- piece orchestra, at the Academy Awards on March 25 in Los Angeles. The duo will perform the song,...
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Two new Radiohead songs will be unveiled during a party at the Sundance Film Festival Wednesday (January 24). Names of the songs are not being revealed, however, until the...
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Radiohead's Kid A was nominated for Grammys for album of the year and best alternative music album yesterday (January 3). However, some of the band's members recently told...
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Radiohead has announced its fifth studio album will be titled Amnesiac. As previously reported by LAUNCH, the release is expected in March or April.
Amnesiac will feature...
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Radiohead's fifth album is now finished and it's slated for an April/May 2001 release, according to various sources. The set will feature some tracks left over from the Kid...
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Radiohead completed what was perhaps the shortest North American tour in the band's history on Friday night (October 20) with a sold-out performance at the Greek Theatre in...
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Radiohead just topped the U.S. charts with Kid A, but the band is already stoked for its next project, which may be released sooner than some might think. Reports are...
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Radiohead fans started lining up around the block midway through the day on Wednesday (October 11) at New York City's Roseland waiting to get in to see the band's only area...
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Radiohead's Kid A made its debut on the Billboard 200 album sales chart in dramatic fashion, besting all comers and claiming the top place on the list.
More than 200,000...
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Radiohead's Kid A will debut in the Number One spot on the Billboard 200 in the next issue of the magazine, despite the general consensus that the album is the group's most...
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Tickets for the Radiohead show Wednesday night (October 11) at New York's Roseland Ballroom sold out in less than 10 minutes today (October 10) via the theater's box...
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Radiohead is getting ready for a gig Tuesday night (October 10) at New York City's Roseland Ballroom. The band added the show to its trip to New York in support of Kid A,...
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The eagerly anticipated new album by Radiohead, Kid A, arrives in stores today (October 3). The album shows the band's more experimental side and may challenge fans of the...
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The new album by Radiohead has hit a snag overseas. Due to a mastering error, their label is recalling approximately 150,000 copies of Kid A that were shipped to Belgium,...
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Radiohead has announced its first American date in support of its new album, Kid A, which is due in stores on Tuesday (October 3). The group will play at the Greek Theatre...
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Under strict orders from Capitol's radio department, programmers had to sit on the first single from Radiohead's much anticipated new album, Kid A, until 4 p.m. ET or 1...
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A listening party for Radiohead's upcoming album, Kid A, was held for industry insiders yesterday in a beachfront room at the Casa Del Mar hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. The...
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With an official announcement of the title, track list, and release date of its fourth album, Radiohead has ended nearly two years of rampant fan speculation, but a few...
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Radiohead's much anticipated fourth album, Kid A, will arrive in stores on October 3, the band has announced on its official website (radiohead.com). The album was produced...
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LAUNCH has announced the integration of music videos to its popular streaming music service LAUNCHcast, available only on LAUNCH.com (www.launch.com). The new service...
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Radiohead is currently hard at work on its fourth album, the follow-up to its acclaimed 1997 album,
OK Computer. A spokesperson for their record company, Capitol...
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Canadian choreographer Denise Clarke has used one of her favorite albums, Radiohead's OK Computer, as the soundtrack to a new show, a "physical lecture" piece titled...
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Following the success of Radiohead's recent radio-style webcast (LAUNCH, 12/13), the band has asked its fans to submit their own demos for possible inclusion during a...
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With little hint that the band was planning anything, Radiohead staged a three-and-a-half hour cybercast on Thursday (Dec. 9) night on piratetv.net, during which the band...
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Radiohead is busy readying their fourth album, which will feature an orchestra and a jazz ensemble. However, their work didn't stop the members of the British band from...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Saturday Night Live - Eagle-Eye Cherry is the musical guest. (Both an Eagle-Eye Cherry feature and chat transcript are...
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The newest album by postmodern pop confectionists Pavement will be released on June 8 by Matador Records. As yet untitled, the album was recorded with Nigel Godrich, who,...
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The 90-minute Radiohead documentary, Meeting People Is Easy, is finally headed to the U.S. on the big screen, video, and DVD (LAUNCH, 2/9).
The film, directed by Grant...
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The recording sessions for Radiohead's fourth album are officially underway. On Wednesday (Feb. 3), the Oxford, England quintet entered a Paris recording studio to begin...
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Acclaimed British rock act Radiohead is upset at the producers of The Untitled Radiohead Project, a play based entirely on the band's lyrics (myLAUNCH, 11/17), but has no...
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They've already sold millions of records, garnered various music industry awards, and inspired plenty of raves from critics and the public. So what's left for Radiohead to...
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Radiohead and Alanis Morissette have signed on to perform at a concert that will mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The concert, which...
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After many delays and much tinkering, Miramax is ready to unleash Velvet Goldmine--Todd Haynes's wild ride through the glam rock and gender-bending of '70s Britain--Nov. 20...
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The Chinese government has condemned the acts slated to appear at June's Tibet Freedom Concert.
In a statement issued by the Chinese Embassy in London, the government...
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Wednesday morning's live interview with Radiohead's Thom Yorke on the huge Los Angeles radio station KROQ came to blows, after KROQ DJ Bean, of the morning-show team Kevin...
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The results of the myLAUNCH Guess The Grammys contest are in! The envelope, please....
And the lucky winner of $2000 worth of free CDs from myLAUNCH is the member known as...
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Radiohead's management company refuted claims that the band boycotted last night's Grammy Awards, as reported on the New Musical Express web site this week.
"It is...
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The 24th Or 25th Annual Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll (a title as quirky as the publication) has named Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind and Hanson's "MMMBop" as the top album...
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The alternative music haven offered by MTV's 120 Minutes program comes to digital discs on February 3rd. That's the day Atlantic Records will issue a 14-track collection of...
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Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds was the leading nominee for the 40th annual Grammy Awards, garnering eight bids, including Album Of The Year.
The nominations, announced...
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James Lavelle, DJ Shadow and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke are currently working together on a track for an upcoming U.N.K.L.E. album, to be released this Fall on Lavelle's...
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At least eight music fans have been put into hospital isolation after catching the E coli bug at the recent Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England. Attendees as young as...
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