Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood teamed up with DOOM to record a song, and it sounds exactly like you’d expect: strange but somehow compelling. DOOM, Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood – “Retarded Fren” by Treetop Props: Pitchfork
The Piracy Debate in England
There’s been a lot of talk over the UK government response to illegal file sharing. The basic premise is that the UK government supports a plan to disconnect users who have been found to be illegally sharing copyrighted files. First they get a warning, then the eventual step is the ISP stepping it to cut […]
Cadence Weapon vs. Radiohead and Britney Spears gets indie-fied
As part of their ongoing experimentation with Web 2.0, Radiohead is once again hosting a remix competition for a track from In Rainbows. This time, it’s for the song “Reckoner.” The band has made each of the song’s component parts, or stems, available for purchase on iTunes. This allows budding (and established) producers free […]
Radiohead’s much cooler than Prince
The Coachella festival, which happened ages ago, was a huge hit. Many big stars played there, including the one and only Prince. Now everyone seems to love Prince, and I sure am not going to hate on the guy. What shocked everyone was that Prince came out and paid some tribute to Radiohead by covering […]
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival looks awesome
The lineup for this festival looks unreal. It goes on August 22nd – August 24th. If you’re ANYWHERE near the area, you better be going. The Outside Lands Festival is like Rock the Bells for alternative music. They’ve got some huge names playing, from Radiohead and Beck, to Tom Petty. For the hip hoppers, they’ve […]
Radiohead says “No more free music”
We’ve made a pretty big deal about Radiohead’s “pay what you want” scheme when they released In Rainbows. It was revolutionary, we declared. We were so proud of having a band show that maybe the major labels were inadequate, and that embracing digital distribution didn’t have to be hard. It could change the music industry! […]
4080Records Presents: Radiohead remix!
Okay okay, I take it back. As every day goes by I think I get more and more attracted to mashups. This is the latest in our growing series of random internet compilations. Radioheads latest album, In Rainbows, made music history when the the band decided to cut out the middleman and release the album […]