Bonnaroo 365

[Metro D Took Bad Photos @ Bonnaroo]

Missed Radiohead on tour? They webcast their last show in Santa Barbara. Missed Bonnaroo in '08? They're starting to stream it. Technology is here and we never have to leave our house ever again.

This should mean that Pearl Jam's performance will be streamed at some point. Hopefully they will back catalog 2006, so I can cry my eyes out for days as to why I wasn't in the post-apocalyptic Manchester dustbowl heat for Tom Petty, MMJ and Radiohead.

From Bonnaroo:

We are excited to introduce Bonnaroo 365, a program by which fans can relive the Bonnaroo experience year round! Select performances will be streamed periodically at no charge on bonnaroo.com. All performance footage will be taken directly from the festival’s exclusive master tapes while the audio will be remixed from Bonnaroo's pristine soundboard recordings.

The first installment of the program begins on January 11th, 2009 with The Raconteurs, whose Friday afternoon set was a highlight of the 2008 event. Hot on the heels of their grammy nominated album 'Consolers of the Lonely' (best rock album and best engineered) The Raconteurs delivered a classic Bonnaroo performance. Four of the songs from the set will be available for the first time as free audio downloads – one will be available to everyone, while the other three can be downloaded by Bonnaroo Community members only (membership sign-up is free!) The songs to be available for download are "Consoler of the Lonely," "Old Enough," "Blue Veins" and "Top Yourself." If that's not enough, the full set will be available in streaming video at Bonnaroo.com, and radio stations across the country will broadcast the entire set on Sunday, January 11th. Click here to see a full list of stations. The full setlist from the show is listed below.

Beginning on January 7th, we will stream one song from the performance until the 11th when the complete set will be available.

The Raconteurs
June 13th, 2008
Bonnaroo - Manchester, Tennessee

"Consoler of the Lonely"
"Hold Up"
"The Switch and the Spur"
"You Don't Understand Me"
"Top Yourself"
"Old Enough"
"Store Bought Bones"
"Steady, As She Goes"
"Rich Kid Blues"
"Blue Veins"
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"Many Shades of Black"
"Level"
"Salute Your Solution"
"Broken Boy Soldier"
"Carolina Drama"

Where Radiohead Ends and Jay-Z Begins

Minty fresh.

Johnny Greenwood sending an email to Colin O'Brien's iPhone

Say hi to Radiohead.

Radiohead Talk Mercury, Return to Studio

About 1 minute in to their Santa Barbara finale (webcast for all of the high-speed connected world to see), and thus, North America closer, Frat and I had no idea what they were playing...and where it was headed. And then "Idioteque" bounced and bubbled and ripped through us. The dawn of a new age: there we were in my living room, gathered with friends, having conversation, but more often then not riveted to the screen and immersed in a global show. Throw away your television.

It turns out these guys have more for us. They will return to the studio once their Japan leg wraps and somehow try to top a year of music I will not soon forget (an 18 track album of epic proportions, an ongoing series of webcast shows, a wholly original and breathtaking score to one of the greatest films in recent memory, and a tour that pulled out all of the stops). Or maybe, in perfect Radiohead fashion, they won't try to top anything, they'll just do something unique and different...and keep on keeping on.

From the BBC:

Radiohead have announced exclusively to 6 Music that they’re in the process of writing a new album.

After losing out to Elbow for the Mercury Music Prize on Tuesday night (9 September) they told us they’d taken time out of playing live to put new tracks down and would be heading to the studio in the near future.

Colin Greenwood said they'd be heading back into the studio when they'd completed their current world tour: “We’ve finished the main bulk of it and we’re off to Japan in a couple of weeks to finish it off.”

And fully enthused about writing new stuff, Ed O'Brien 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’ve finished the main bulk of it and we’re off to Japan in a couple of weeks to finish it off." Colin Greenwood

The band didn’t join the other acts in performing at the Mercury Music Awards ceremony earlier in the week

However, they agreed that the Mercury was one of the most important accolades in the music business: “We’ve been on tour in America so we’re culturally a bit out of it but you come here and you realise that actually it’s a bit deal. When you hear Guy Garvey go this means everything to us you go, er, yeah, you’re right. It beats the hell out of the Brits and the other ones.”

Colin and Ed were also really happy that Elbow had won it: “We've been on tour with Elbow we've played festivals with them and they're lovely people. They've made a brilliant record with The Seldom Seen Kid. It really couldn't have happened to more deserving people, but most of the shortlist was great this year.”

MP3: Thom Yorke - "After the Gold Rush" (Bridge School, 2002)

Radiohead Live Webcast Tonight

As of 6:45 PDT: nothing yet at Dead Air Space.

All Points Brutal

Another letter from the front, in our on-going concert series/war correspondence with Dr. Thomas Beckett, Esq. As usual, political correctness is checked at the door. Enjoy:

Dear Metro Distortion and Friends,

I need to vent about the brutality that occurred at the 1st Annual All Points West Festival this past weekend at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. From the constant stream of emails I received about the festival from the APW Crew, this was shaping up to be a promising event. Two nights of Radiohead back to back! That was enough for me to lay down 566 bones for two tickets to the festival. It started out swimmingly. A romantic $30 a ticket ferry ride with my girlfriend around Manhattan, through the new fugazi waterfalls on the East River (mechanical waterfalls? what the fuck is going on?), cruising by Lady Liberty and Ellis Island.

We enter the festival, present our tickets, they barely check us for any narcotics or foreign objects and we do what any good concert-goer does...we head for the alcohol retailer. There is a long line in order for them to SCAN your IDs...but I say to myself that this will be okay. As we get closer, I realize that this is a beer tent...I hate fuckin beer tents. But being a veteran of Coachella, I calm down and realize that any fairly resourceful individual can get through a festival with beer tents. We get to the front of the line and some fat bastard (who probably smashes 16 Mickeys in order to get a buzz slashes my entire hand with a dark purple sharpee. Then some dude scans my ID and states with a firm voice, "There is a five beer maximum, I say again, a five beer maximum and you can only drink in the 3 designated beer tents!" He then proceeds to snap a neon yellow wristband on my right wrist that has five tabs on it marked 1 through 5. I was stunned.

They shuffled us into the heavily guarded beer tent. I felt like they were Germans guiding me into the showers of....I digress. Not only were the beer tents fenced in, but they had a second fence with a green tarp around it so you could not see out into the festival and god forbid some poor innocent child should look in to see people drinking beer...at a festival! As one could imagine, the tents were packed with circular lines to receive your ration of alcohol. To top it all, they charge $9 a drink. They also positioned the 3 tents between the 3 stages, therefore we can all enjoy the entwined noise of CSS and Andrew Bird in the distant distance.

Gentlemen, what the fuck is going on here? What country did we come back to? What country are we living in? Now, do I need a good amount of alcohol to enjoy a show? Not necessarily. But does a baseball player need a glove to play the game? Does a business executive need a cup of coffee to get through his morning? Does a porn star need a fluffer to get through a scene? Not necessarily. BUT IT SURE AS SHIT HELPS!

Whatever happened to sex, drugs and rock 'n roll? At a minimum sex, drugs and rock 'n roll for the average Joe was missionary style with his wife, 10 beers, and Rod Stewart...at a minimum. You take beer away from us...then what's next? YOU ARE FORCING ME TO DO DRUGS!

The following day at the festival, I turned my girlfriend into a mule. Let's call her Nancy Botwin. Nancy went through security with tiny bottles of rum in every place non-abusive, but on this day they search everywhere and take 8 aeroplane style bottles of rum off her. We were forced to go back to the beer tent. I get my 5 tab wristband and head inside, but I am stopped by a security guard that tells me..."Sorry, the tent is full." Seriously! So with my neon-tabbed arm I give him the middle finger and tell him that this whole thing is fascist and left the line in protest.

So, there you have it. Two nights of Radiohead...dead sober. Radiohead was flawless though. The only band in the world that can play every song off their latest album, two nights in a row and people were still in a frenzy. They did a good job of mixing up the oldies on back to back nights. The second night they played "The Bends," which I thought was a treat for people who suffered through both nights of a brutal festival. "Jigsaw" and "Arpeggi" will be staples for years to come...great songs live. I cannot think of another headlining band that could possibly drag me back to this communist festival. Ben Harper played the following night. I didn't go. Honestly, what would have been the point.

Last night I was relaying this story to a friend of mine, Tennessee Dust, over a couple of late night cocktails. When I cracked open a new freshie, I spilled some beer on my left hand that still had remnants of the purple sharpee marks. I went to the sink to wash my hand off and after five nights, the purple mark finely came completely off. It wasn't the soap and water. It was the alcohol.

Yours,

Thomas Beckett

"GHT...There's no T without the GH"

Yorke + O'Brien = Yes, Please (The Interview)

Is there a better entertainment website out there?

AVC: Hail To The Thief was piled up with sound, but it felt like that was where the album was coming from. The music, the artwork, even the title "In Rainbows" suggests this album is coming from somewhere else.

TY: The title Hail To The Thief was pretty much stamped on the top of what was going on, just an anger thing. There was a lot of anger in that record—a lot. There's very little anger in In Rainbows. It's in no way political, or, at least, doesn't feel that way to me. It very much explores the ideas of transience. It starts in one place and ends somewhere completely different. That was the only way we could fit it together, but it turned out to be a real upside in the end. The first half of it is pretty raw, pretty hectic. Even though you have "Nude," what the lyrics are actually saying is pretty messed-up, nasty. After a while, everything calms down and you get it out of your system. You feel better; there's this feeling of elation. As far as the artwork goes, that was heavily influenced by the pictures NASA puts on their website. They have this great library of stuff online that we were looking at, and it coincided with [Radiohead album-cover artist] Stanley Donwood's experiments, throwing wax around. It was just experimentation, but it gave a sense of release, letting go. [Dig]

Is there a better band in the world right now?

I Don't Miss Nissan Pavillion

What a mess. I think fans are right to question Radiohead management's selection to play at Nissan - a venue that really is in the middle of nowhere (no offense to the good folks of Gainesville, VA). That makes zero sense from a transportation standpoint. Man, I really hated going to Nissan for shows. Sorry but I think both NF and I can be thankful that we've since moved away from this mess.

The setlist, however, looks pretty amazing.

1.All I Need
2.Jigsaw
3.Lucky
4.15 Step
5.Nude
6.Pyramid Song
7.Arpeggi
8.Myxomatosis
9.Idioteque
10.Faust Arp
11.Videotape
12.Paranoid Android
13. Just
14.Reckoner
15.Everything in it's Right Place
16.Bangers n' Mash
17.Bodysnatchers

----Encore 1----
18.Like Spinning Plates
19.Optimistic
20.Karma Police
21.Go Slowly
22.Planet Telex

---Encore 2---
23.Fake Plastic Trees
24. The National Anthem
25. House of Cards

Radiohead Summer Tour Dates

When they get back from Europe, it will go something like this. (I still haven't stopped listening to In Rainbows...)

8-01 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
8-03 Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center #
8-04 Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center #
8-06 Montreal, Quebec - Parc Jean-Drapeau #
8-08 Jersey City, NJ - Liberty State Park (All Points West)
8-09 Jersey City, NJ - Liberty State Park (All Points West)
8-12 Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center #
8-13 Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center #
8-15 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre #
8-19 Vancouver, British Columbia - Thunderbird Stadium *
8-20 Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre *
8-22 San Francisco, CA - Golden Gate Park (Outside Lands)
8-24 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl *
8-25 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl *
8-27 Chula Vista, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre *
8-28 Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl *

* with Liars
# with Grizzly Bear

Lollapalooza Headliners Announced

Courtesy of Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun Times:

Lollapalooza’s Austin, Texas-based promoters C3 Presents are not scheduled to make their official announcement of the acts performing at this year’s weekend-long music festival in Grant Park until Monday, but the Sun-Times has confirmed through industry sources all of the major artists.

Art-rock giants Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, the reunited Rage Against the Machine, Jack White’s side project the Raconteurs and hometown heroes Wilco and Kanye West will headline the main stages on Aug. 1-3.

The Raconteurs, Wilco and West will each be making their second appearance at the reinvented destination festival. Other repeaters among the more than 100 acts on this year’s bill are Gnarls Barkley, the Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, G. Love & Special Sauce, Blues Traveler and Mates of State.

Quite a few of the other acts — including many of the most promising — have earlier performed at Chicago’s two independently produced music festivals, Pitchfork and Intonation. These include Bloc Party, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Girl Talk, Kid Sister, Office, the Cool Kids, Battles, the Go! Team, Jamie Lidell and Grizzly Bear.

Advance three-day passes are now on sale for a limited time for $190 (after which the price increases to $205) at www.lollapalooza.com.

For the full list of Lollapalooza acts, stay tuned to this blog!

I don't know what it is about Lollapalooza, but they have some fucking clout in pulling in the big names. Radiohead and Rage? Fuck. This puts Coachella to shame.

Nude Remix

This should be fun for you creative types out there (unfortunately, I am not one of them); assuming you are also a Radiohead fan. "To make remixing easy, the separate 'stems' from the song are available to purchase from iTunes. The 'stems' available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. You can mix them in any way you like, either by adding your own beats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts." So maybe it's easy, I don't know.

$5.94 at iTunes.
www.radioheadremix.com

Outside Lands 2008

Big time. Tickets on sale this Sunday. [SFOutsideLands.com]

All Points West Poster

Well it may be Jersey but it's also Radiohead. And while the rest of the line-up leaves quite a bit to be desired, I'll still be there. I'll give them points for a nice poster design too.

Tickets for ALL POINTS WEST go on sale Friday, February 29 at 12 Noon (ET) via www.ticketmaster.com only. Single day passes are $89 and three-day passes are $258.

radiohead.tv

They just eased through "All I Need". They've taken In Rainbows from the top. It is beautiful in every sense of the word. A great band, endless technology, broadband for days and they continue to reach out to us and share this experience and their music. Can't wait for "Reckoner" and "Videotape" and everything else that we know is coming. If they tap into Disc II and deliver some "Go Slowly" and "Bangers and Mash" I think my head will explode.

UPDATE: They're still going after In Rainbows wrapped up. "Up on the Ladder" (Thom acoustic) > "You and Whose Army?" > "The National Anthem" > "My Iron Lung" > "The Bends"

Radiohead Webcast/In-store Tonight

Since I can't get here in time:I'll tune into Radiohead.tv around 8 [UK time]. Thanks, Jonny:

"So, we've got a small gig tonight.

"It's in London at the Rough Trade East shop on Brick Lane, and we're planning to play a short set of in rainbows material. It's very limited free entry, first come first served. Also, as it might be a little uncomfortable for anyone queuing early, they're planning a numbering system so people at the front of any queue can get snacks and toilet breaks in the store. Good bagels round there. But dress warm...doors won't open until 7, and we'll play at about 8.

"For those who can't get in - and it's pretty small in there - we'll have some screens and speakers outside, if we're allowed. I think we are. And we'll also webcast it. I'll put the link up here, as well as any other info, later today.

"Hope you can make it - should be....interesting. Us being us, we're taking far too many instruments....."

Convert your timezone here.

Coachella East. What Exit?

Via Brooklyn Vegan:

All points lead to Radiohead for this event and the Coachella out here until the actual info drops. The fake lineup over at Los Anjealous looks almost too good...

Radiohead - "All I Need"

Created by the same person that merged Arcade Fire's "My Body Is A Cage" with Once Upon A Time In The West. Sick.

Radiohead No. 1; U.S. Tour Stops

Radiohead sold 122,000 units to take the number 1 spot on the Billboard album chart. I was one of them; I paid $7.99 at the Best Buy in my neighborhood. That's one way to encourage people to pay for an album that was previously available for free. The band have also announced their U.S. tour stops:

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

via Billboard

Rebroadcast of Scotch Mist on Current TV

For those of you who did not catch Radiohead's NYE broadcast (or subsequent rebroadcasts, for that matter) on Current TV, now you can:

Wednesday 01/09/08
4A – 5A EST / 1A-2A PST

Friday 01/11/08
tune in for show times

Saturday 01/12/08
tune in for show times

It's far more enjoyable than watching it on YouTube.

via Filter Mag.

01.01.08

Yeah, I'm buying this thing twice...