radiohead 'morning mr magpie' & 'bloom' rmxs

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The Radiohead summer remix series continues with reworks of The King Of Limbs tracks "Morning Mr Magpie" and "Bloom." This is the second release in an ongoing series — the first included mixes of "Little By Little" and "Lotus Flower."

Nathan Fake's remix of "Morning Mr Magpie" is really quite wonderful and gives the previously guitar driven track a whole new life:




The first of two "Bloom" remixes by Mark Pritchard is entitled the "Harmonic 313 RMX." It's got one of the coolest extended fades I've ever heard:




Finally, the "Bloom (Mark Pritchard RMX)" gives Thom some killer vocal effects:




This 12" will be available in the UK on Monday, but delays will keep it out of the hands of US and Canadian fans until August 2nd. And Radiohead confirms that once this series is done, there will be an aggregated CD release. Get details here.

watch radiohead tkol 'from the basement'

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Over the weekend, Radiohead's latest From The Basement performance for the BBC premiered. It will air in the US on the Palladia network July 23rd, but you can watch it here right now — at least until the BBC has it taken down.

The set includes the entire The King Of Limbs album, plus new tracks "Staircase" and "The Daily Mail," the latter of which you can download from the player below the track list:




From The Basement track list:

1. 0:58 Bloom
2. 07:27 Daily Mail
3. 11:38 Feral
4. 15:05 Little by Little
5. 20:17 Codex
6. 26:01 Separator
7. 32:13 Lotus Flower
8. 37:41 Staircase
9. 42:55 Morning, Mr. Magpie
10. 48:30 Give up the Ghost

"The Daily Mail" is a slow burner that starts off as a Thom piano ballad and turns into a horn accented stomp:




If you'll recall, Radiohead did the same bit for In Rainbows. Here's that broadcast in the event you have more time to kill:

radiohead 'little by little' and 'lotus flower' remixes

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While I was busy cracking brews to celebrate our independence, Radiohead released the first in a series of 12" remixes from The King Of Limbs.

The a-side is a Caribou rework of "Little By Little." It's barely recognizable, but it does have Dan Snaith's trademark low end sound:




The b-side is "Lotus Flower" as remixed by Jacques Greene. The keyboard sound is nice, but the chopped vocals are a bit much:




See, TKOL could have been weirder. If you dig these remixes, you can download them from the band for just $2.25 — or spring for the vinyl at $19.80.

As the band's blog says "more 12" remixes will be released every couple of weeks over the summer until we run out of remixes... or summer. On the next one we've got Nathan Fake (Morning Mr Magpie) and remixes of Bloom by Mark Pritchard."

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the new Radiohead tune "Staircase" that debuted on From The Basement — and click here to see "Bloom" from their secret set at Glastonbury.

glastonbury 2011 video highlights

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Of all the festivals in the world, Glastonbury has a certain cache that puts it above the rest. Maybe it's the mud, or the pyramid stage, or the massive lineups, but it's a music mecca I hope to pilgrimage to one day.

Plenty of attention will be paid to the sets of Coldplay and Beyonce today, but we'll leave that for others. Here, we'll start our video recap of the Glasto weekend with one of the all time greats.

Morrissey greeted the crowd with "funny seeing me here," but he seemed to relish the opportunity to perform before such an adoring crowd. In the first clip, check out "First Of The Gang To Die," and enjoy a doubleheader of greatness with "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" and "Alma Matters" in the second clip:






Radiohead played a surprise set Friday at the Park Stage, performing much of The King Of Limbs, plus new track "Staircase" and a handful of classics. Here's a great quality clip of "Bloom":




You can watch seven more of the 14-song set via CoS.

Another favorite, The Horrors, played the John Peel Tent on Saturday. Here's "Still Life" from the forthcoming Skying LP:




Primal Scream brought their Screamadelica Live show to Glasto... here's an epic rendition of "Come Together":




Perfect for a summer festival, Friendly Fires brought a tropical vibe with the Pala standout "Hawaiian Air":




I think you get a true sense of Glastonbury in this next clip, The Chemical Brothers "Don't Think." From the land that invented rave culture, this is as close as you can get in 2011:




And finally, U2 was the big headliner Friday night at the Pyramid Stage. Even though they for some reason did a cover of Coldplay's "Yellow," thankfully they rolled out classics like "I Will Follow":




If you like that live version, download it here:




Thanks to the BBC for most of the video — hopefully they don't yank it from the US region. Check out the BBC Glastonbury site for more live performances.

new radiohead song 'staircase' from the basement

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So what have Radiohead been up to since the release of The King Of Limbs? There was that record store day 12", but other than that they've been relatively quiet.

Today, we get a peek at a live performance from the band for an upcoming BBC broadcast. In the latest edition of producer Nigel Godrich's From The Basement series due to air July 1st, Radiohead will perform The King Of Limbs in its entirety — plus the following previously unreleased song.

This clip of "Staircase" shows the band has been busy growing their hair out, with the exception of drummer Phil Selway who is joined by Portishead drummer Clive Deamer. The keyboard laced track is a little one-note, but it does have a nice groove that's accentuated by the dual percussion:




Will the blogosphere be satisfied by this offering?

radiohead record store day release leaked

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So this is as close as we're going to get to The King Of Limbs 2. A couple of leftovers — "The Butcher" and "Supercollider" — are being released as a 12" single in the UK, Europe and Japan for Record Store Day tomorrow.

Earlier in the week, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien told the BBC:

"'The Butcher' is from the King Of Limbs sessions. 'Supercollider' was recorded during that period and finished off after the album came out. There are songs that we have started, that we never finished, but there's not like seven or eight finished songs waiting in the wings to be released now, or in the autumn, or something."

The good news is, we've got updated high quality rips, thanks to ianbhoy. "Supercollider" is the brighter of the two and has been known to make its way into setlists on occasion:




"The Butcher" is more percussive and sounds like a late edit from TKOL:



Truth be told, only a Radiohead completist will be hell bent on finding this. It's probably for the best that this is all that's left from those sessions. As O'Brien said, "When we start a new record, we tend to start afresh. It's kind of an evolutionary thing - only the fittest survive."


UPDATE:

Thanks to SKoA for the heads up...  the "Supercollider"/"The Butcher" 12" will get a US release June 14. As for the Record Store Day version, it's got the labels on backward due to "unforeseen circumstances that we didn't foresee."

Uh oh...  collector's item alert.

radiohead: the king of limbs comes early

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That Radiohead, always keeping us guessing. If you haven't already listened to the 8-song album The King Of Limbs about 5 times through, you should know it was digitally released this morning — a day ahead of the date announced earlier this week.

On the Radiohead continuum, album number eight seems to slide in somewhere between Kid A and Amnesiac. Those of us hoping for a companion piece to In Rainbows will be downloading disappointment.

The experimental vibe, brief run time and relative haste in which it was released suggest it's a stopgap — perhaps a glorified EP. But then Radiohead are no longer bound by record company convention, evidenced by the elaborate "Newspaper Album" package to come May 19th.

So what of The King Of Limbs? A video for the song "Lotus Flower" was also released today, featuring Thom alone in an industrial basement pantomiming and pop-n-locking his little heart out:



That tune kicks off the B-side of the album, as you can see below:

1. Bloom
2. Morning Mr. Magpie
3. Little By Little
4. Feral
5. Lotus Flower
6. Codex
7. Give Up The Ghost
8. Separator

"Bloom" is a train wreck of an opener, with chopped drum samples and incessant loops. The rest of side A is quite satisfying, however, beginning the with the herky jerky "Morning Mr. Magpie":




"Little By Little" is a classic Radiohead acoustic jam:




And "Feral" is an appropriately named return to weirdness:




The other track worth noting is the album closer, "Separator." Probably the closest Thom has ever come to writing a ballad:




So what do you think? Probably worth the 9 bucks for an MP3 download. It is Radiohead after all.

UPDATE — Stream the entire album here to fully try before you buy:

radiohead returns with the king of limbs

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So this is what I miss while I'm in status meetings. This morning, the interweb is abuzz — not only with Arcade Fire's improbable Grammy victory — but also with the sudden announcement of Radiohead's 8th studio album.

The King Of Limbs will get a digital release this Saturday, with an elaborate physical package to follow May 9th. No tracklist yet, but The Amplifier blog takes a crack at some unreleased Radiohead tunes that could make the cut.

The album's title evidently comes from a 3,000 year old oak tree in Savernake Forest — the largest privately owned forest in Britain. Have a look at the craggy old man below:

You can preorder the digital album now for Saturday delivery. No name your own price this time..  it's 9 bucks for MP3 files and 14 for WAV.

The physical release will cost you $48 or $53, depending on your digital file preference. You'll also get what Radiohead are calling a "Newspaper Album" featuring two clear 10" vinyl records in a custom sleeve, a CD and many exclusive pieces of artwork.

Here's hoping they pick up where the outstanding In Rainbows left off. Doesn't get much better than "Reckoner":

flippin radiohead!

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The Flip is a wonderful piece of technology — an HD video recorder that can fit in your pocket and upload videos to the web in seconds. An industrious group of Radiohead fans in Prague have created a DIY concert film with these little gadgets that turned out so kickass it now has the band's seal of approval.



As reported by Guardian UK, more than 50 fans shot an August 23, 2009 show from various vantage points and cut it together using as many angles as possible. When Radiohead saw the finished product they liked it so much, they gave the fans the official soundboard recordings of the show.

The result is a free, downloadable concert film that is a wonderful gift to hardcore Radiohead fans. You can also check out individual songs or stream the whole show on the project's YouTube channel.

Preview a couple of ace tracks below: