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Radiohead played their second German Festival tonight: The Hurricane Festival in Scheessel. Just like the Southside Festival the band played a shorter set, with only one encore.
Setlist:
01 Planet Telex
02 There There
03 15 Step
04 Bodysnatchers
05 Lucky
06 Nude
07 Arpeggi
08 The Gloaming
09 The National Anthem
10 Faust Arp
11 Jigsaw Falling Into Place
12 My Iron Lung
13 All I Need
14 Everything [...]

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Colin

Is a new comedy show by Adam Buxton, who kindly helped us with our Web Casting. Jonny did the music for the show, and it's on BBC3, this Sunday 22nd June, at 11.45pm, and then again on Thursday 26th.
It's also on all next week on bbc's iplayer.

Here are some linky tasters


FUNKY SONGS OF PRAISE

SAUSAGES

TODAY ON XANTIAR



We will be dialling in after our German Festival tomorrow night.

Tchuss!





Colin

Aniboom’s animated music video contest for songs from Radiohead's "In Rainbows" has come to a close. Voting for the semifinalists has now opened.
You can vote for your favourite and determine which of the semifinalists will be presented to Radiohead themselves. From a field of more than 1000 entries, 13 semifinalists have been selected by users [...]

Tonight Radiohead play live at the Southside Festival. The appearance in Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany marks the second festival show of the tour.
Update: No idea what went wrong. All our reporters fell asleep apparently. Please e-mail for more info the setlist.

Radiohead will play Amsterdam at the Westerpark on July 1st this year. On the same day Stanley Donwood will start a new exhibition in Amsterdam: ‘Everybody’s Happy Nowadays’
Stanley Donwood previously had an exhibition in The Netherlands at V!P’s Gallery in Rotterdam: ‘Department of Reclusive Paranoia’ V!P’s have opened a new gallery at Spiegelgracht 8 in [...]

Scottish music magazine ‘The List‘ have a an interview with Phil Selway, which has also been published online. The Radiohead drummer talks about success, self-indulgence and their reputation as the most miserable men in rock.
Phil: 'There's a danger of trying to second guess where this concept of Radiohead should go, and not actually getting to [...]

Radiohead's invitation to have fans remix their latest single 'Nude' has resulted in a Glasgow School of Art student becoming something of a YouTube sensation

Thank you to everyone who entered their work into the In Rainbows /Aniboom video contest. Thanks also to those people who took the time to view and vote for their favourite animation.

From the 900 entries submitted, there is now a shortlist of 13.

The band will be picking the winner in the next couple of weeks; Aniboom will award the winner a $10,000 prize to produce a full-length music video.

You can view the shortlisted animations here between now and then - and give them your own rating if you wish.

Happy viewing

"Oddfellows" indeed

Having recently tackled some canon fodder from the likes of Talk Talk and the Band, the gents of Weezer will bring their signature sheen to a few more familiar favorites. On the UK singles for The Red Album's "Pork and Beans", arriving on CD and a pair of 7"s June 23 from Polydor, Weezer have matched the track with a trio of intriguing covers.

The CD finds the band power-chording their way through "Are 'Friends' Electric?", originally done by the Gary Numan-led Tubeway Army. One 7" finds it matched with the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way", and the other, R.E.M.'s "Oddfellows Local 151" [via NME.com, confirmed by a press release].

Weezer (and you, maybe) will geek up another favorite-- Radiohead's "Creep"-- on those "Hootenanny" shows they've got going on this week. [MORE...]

Radiohead play their second show at Civica Arena in Milan tonight. This is the seventh show of the European tour (number 15 of the World Tour). The band soundchecked only four songs including Bodysnatchers and Optimistic.
Setlist:
01 Reckoner
02 15 Step
03 The National Anthem
04 All I Need
05 Nude
06 Airbag
07 The Gloaming
08 Dollars And Cents
09 Arpeggi
10 Faust Arp
11 [...]

The set times for the seven stages that help make up this year's Lollapalooza have been announced, giving attendees a little over six weeks to figure out how best to bide their time betwixt the tunes and the line for the $12 nachos. Of course, Lolla makes it easy by bringing the heat in the lineup department, and offering plenty of sideshow diversions as well. But as is always the case with these overstuffed festivals, there's gonna be some tough decisions to make in Chicago's Grant Park over the long weekend of August 1-3.

Friday's a toughie, with the Go! Team, Yeasayer, and a very brief Jeff Tweedy set on the "Kidz" stage providing the first major conflict. As the day goes on, you've got plenty more head-scratchers. Will it be the Black Keys or Gogol Bordello? Cat Power, Mates of State, or the first bit of a Grizzly Bear set? The end of the Grizz, Cadence Weapon, the Raconteurs, or Bloc Party? The Cool Kids, CSS, or Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks? Ain't no right answer there. Thankfully, Radiohead take the stage at 8 p.m., sans any other musical distractions.

Then it's on to Saturday, not that that makes things any easier. The day's biggest conflicts come near the end, as Wilco and Rage Against the Machine battle it out for the night's 8:30 headline spots. But you'll have to flip that particular coin after a few real doozies right before it....

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Kiss lynchpin Gene Simmons reckons Radiohead are killing the music business and their live show is boring

Back in 2002, Samuel Dietz and Nazaré Costa made a documentary about the Radiohead tour through Portugal and Spain. The film is now available online.
The band played new material, which would later end up on their 2003 album ‘Hail To The Thief’. The fan made film was approved by Radiohead and is now out on [...]

Photo by Shannon McClean

Plucked from the ample selection of note-perfect brood pieces from their long-delayed, Best New Music'd Third LP, Portishead jam-- and recent Radiohead cover fodder-- "The Rip" will be treated to its very own single June 23 in the UK from Island.

The single arrives as an etched 12" with the album track on its groovier side and as a digital bundle featuring the tune, Nick Uff's animated film "The Rip", and a take on Third opener "Silence" from their recent "Portishead in Portishead" session. Oh, and a really boss cover. Lookee:

Portishead recently wrapped a spring tour-- their first in god knows how long-- and a recent blog post from Geoff Barrow suggests "that is it for now live wize." The same post suggests Barrow's impatience in wanting to "write some new tunes." Catch ya'll in 2020?

Weezer are making plans for their “Hootenanny Tour”, in which fans of the band, instruments in hand, will join their heroes in performing Weezer favorites.
Pitchfork reports that Weezer have posted a video on their website which includes instructions on how to play some Weezer classics and Radiohead’s ‘Creep’. If you want to jam with Weezer, [...]

As we mentioned late last week, beloved geek rock troupe Weezer are busy making plans for their "Hootenanny Tour", in which fans of the band, instruments in hand, will join their heroes in performing Weezer favorites.

Now, via a post on their website and the handy video you'll see below, Rivers and co. have laid out a few more details of the "Hootenanny" on us, and even offered up a little guitar lesson. Take a gander:

So you see, the whole thing is a contest. The first date is today in Phoenix, with the city's own The Edge 103.9 ("Adam All Morning, Alternative Rock All Day") handling the contest. Winners are implored to "bring an instrument (or at least your voice and hands)"-- and any instrument will do, it seems-- to the private locale and prepare those power chords. The performance will be recorded for future airing on the radio station.

The song selection for each gig will more than likely change with every new date, but here's Phoenix's spate: "Pork and Beans", "Island in the Sun", a cover of Radiohead's "Creep", "Say It Ain't So", "El Scorcho", and, of course, "Beverly Hills".

If the prospect of all these limited-capacity Hootenannies has you blue, don't fret: "another, probably bigger Los Angeles 'Hootenanny' is now in the planning stages but wont be happening for a little while," the...

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Radiohead have moved their tour to Italy. The band will play the first of their two shows at Civica Arena in Milan.

For the seventh show of the tour, Radiohead have started the soundcheck at Civica Arena, which includes ‘Go Slowly’.
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In the latest issue of The Word, you’ll find a nice article on recording Radiohead’s ‘Nude’. As well all know, ‘Nude’ was already out there for over 10 years once it finally was released on ‘In Rainbows’ last year.
Nigel Godrich tells all about the several stages of recording the track in The Word’s ‘Music Producers [...]

"I got an email from Sophie B. Hawkins' manager. She wanted to maybe collaborate on something, which is very cool."

Photo by Joseph Mohan

If you'd been putting together an iTunes playlist for a big party this weekend, be sure to leave a good bit of space on it. After a few final listens just to make sure everything's as it should be, Gregg Gillis-- aka mainstream-mining maximalist mashupper Girl Talk-- will release his fourth LP, Feed the Animals, via the Illegal Art label site. Gillis expects the album to hit the web "Wednesday or Thursday" of this week, with a physical release to follow. (The CD is due on Illegal Art, while the vinyl will be handled by Wham City.)

We spoke with Gillis late last week, two days after he finished work on the album's tracks. Mastering work on the LP had just begun. We talked about the how much things have changed for him in the two years since his breakthrough, Night Ripper, the relationship between his ever-evolving live show and his albums, and the proper way to turn "Hollaback Girl" into an enduring classic. [But it already IS an enduring classic! -- Ed.]

Pitchfork: Why did you opt to release the album this way, with a rushed "Radiohead-style" digital release, followed by the physical product at a later date?

Gregg Gilllis: First of all, there's a lot of current pop and hip-hop sampled...

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