The Raconteurs and The Kooks rounded off the second and final day of Radio 1's Big Weekend tonight (May 11) with headline sets on the two main stages.
Radiohead are playing show number 5 in Bristow, VA tonight. Sounchecked so far is an ubdefined song that sounded like 15 Step, 2+2=5.
And some others here.
Jonny
While Radiohead were in Florida earlier this week for their shows in West Palm Beach and Tampa, the band have recorded a video for House of Cards.
House of Cards is the US (promo) single from In Rainbows. While the band were in West Palm Beach, they recorded the video for the song at the local [...]
UK music magazine The Word have a big interview published with Radiohead. Their June issue, with Thom Yorke on the cover, has 5 interviews with the band.
The series of interviews start when Radiohead play their ’secret’ gig at 93 Feet East in London last January to play ‘In Rainbows’ in full in a tiny London [...]
Vampire Weekend are set to DJ a club night in London tomorrow (May 10).
Radiohead are playing their forth show of the 2008 tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Charlotte, North Carolina tonight. The band have so far sound checked There There, The Gloaming, 15 Step, Punch Up At A Wedding, Planet Telex. Radiohead is due to take the stage around 8:45.

Have you seen this crazy "Pancake Mountain" show? It is way crazy, dude. A bunch of puppets, a bunch of indie rockers, and a whole mess of kids get together to say and do the darndest things, and even more wackiness ensues from the mixture that you can possibly imagine.
The fifth "Pancake Mountain" DVD-- collecting episodes nine and 10, plus a handful of bonus features-- is out now, and boy howdy, is the lineup of talent impressive.
The DVD features appearances from the likes of Wayne Coyne, M.I.A., Built to Spill, Iggy Pop, Meat Puppets, X, Nellie McKay, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, PSAPP, Scissor Sisters, Northern State and so on. Your next dance party/babysitting gig/drug binge so needs this.
As always, check your local listings to see if there's a "Pancake Mountain" anywhere near your airwaves.
Here's Nellie McKay with "Pancake Mountain"'s Rufus Leaking:
Video: Built to Spill, Jenny Lewis: Live on Pancake Mountain
Video: Wayne Coyne: Live on Pancake Mountain

Radiohead have told The Word magazine of their anger at EMI's decision to release a Greatest Hits album against their wishes
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Aaaand they're off!
Today at the Camber Sands Holiday Centre near Rye, England, the opening chords of the ATP vs. Pitchfork Festival will ring out over the English countryside, bringing bands and fans together for an unforgettable weekend of rocking the hell out.
Of course, the lineup should be well familiar to any and all attendees/envious homebodies. But here are the set times, for your scheduling pleasure:
Friday, May 9
Main Stage
4:30 PM The Clientele
6:00 PM Vampire Weekend
7:30 PM Sebadoh
9:00 PM Ween
Second Stage
4:15 PM Jay Reatard
5:30 PM Man Man
6:45 PM Car Sick Cars
8:00 PM Shit and Shine
9:15 PM Fuck Buttons
10:45 PM Redd Kross
12:30 AM Glass Candy + DJs
1:30 AM Hot Chip DJs
Saturday, May 10
Main Stage
3:45 PM Bon Iver
5:00 PM Yeasayer
6:30 PM Los Campesinos!
8:00 PM The Black Angels
9:30 PM Les Savy Fav
11:00 PM Hot Chip
Second Stage
2:00 PM Even
3:15 PM Times New Viking
4:30 PM Born Ruffians
6:00 PM Howlin Rain
7:30 PM Dirty Projectors
9:00 PM Deerhunter
10:30 PM Black Lips
12:30 AM Various Production DJs
2:00 AM DJs
Sunday, May 11
Main Stage
2:00 PM Jens Lekman
3:30 PM A Place to Bury Strangers
5:00 PM Black Mountain
6:30 PM Of Montreal
8:00 PM The Hold Steady
9:30 PM Girls Against Boys
11:00 PM Harmonia
Second...

At whatever point in the summer that 30 minute, 10 track, Danger Mouse-produced, Cat Power-boosted Beck LP we've been talking about a lot this week happens to arrive, it'll do so in the UK thanks to the folks at his new overseas imprint, XL Recordings. The disc, about which we know literally nothing not contained within these two sentences, will hit the U.S. from Interscope sometime relatively soon.
Says XL founder Richard Russell in a press release: "We can't wait for everyone to hear the extraordinary music that he and Danger Mouse have made together." Says us: As representives of "everyone," we concur. We can't wait.
Beck's summer tour is currently scheduled to kick off June 25 at the Hove Festival in Arendal, Norway. [MORE...]
we have added more “heima” screenings to the long list. screenings in australia, england and the netherlands over the next few months have been added and you can get more information here.
Radiohead have attacked the release of their own 'Greatest Hits' album, which is being put out against their wishes by former label EMI.
We’ve reported on Moby’s cover versions of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ in the past: On Conan, Festivals and other live shows. But he did it once again, but now with a different take.
Moby played a secret gig for Belgian radio station Studio Brussel and played two covers Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring Of Fire’ and Radiohead’s ‘Creep’. His version [...]
Radiohead are playing their 3rd show of the 2008 tour at the Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta, GA. The band have soundchecked There There, All I Need and Talk Show Host (twice).
"what's a vingle?", you ask. that's what we said. apparently, it's a high quality mp3 single and a high-res video bundled up into one sweet smelling package. so now that we've got that sorted out...we've got a vingle for "hang them all". if you head on over to the beggars group website. CLICK HERE, for a mere 97 cents (US), you can own the video for "hang them all" and the song. it's quite the bargain.
we also are super excited to announce that we will be playing with the one and only, black keys, on august 7th at mccarren pool, in brooklyn, ny. did we say that we are super excited? oh yeah, we are. it's gonna rule!
right now, we're still on tour. we've got 8 more north american shows before we head on over to europe. thanks to everyone who's come out to the shows so far. all of our remaining tour dates are on the shows page .
that's all for now.
Metallica, The Offspring, The Raconteurs and Rise Against are set to play KROQ's annual Weenie Roast y Fiesta on May 17 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California.

They may call it the "No Chiefs Allowed Tour", but El-P and Dizzee Rascal's North American jaunt is packed to the gills with towering talent. Aside from their own formidable presences, the tour includes appearances by Def Jux artists and associates Aesop Rock, Kidz in the Hall, Busdriver, Mr. Dibbs, and Mighty Quin. And Aaron LaCrate is serving as Dizzee's DJ. Not bad, gentlemen.
"No Chiefs Allowed" kicks off tonight (May 8) in Washington, D.C.
In other news, Dizzee has a smattering of European dates this spring and summer, and El-P has a new blog. His first post is a pretty funny Kanye send-up. [MORE...]
Video: Dizzee Rascal: Flex [from the Maths + English LP]
Video: El-P: Smithereens (Stop Crying) [from the I'll Sleep When You're Dead LP]


Asses will be kicked. Names will be taken. Youths will be corrupted. Fingers will be separated from hands.
Sounds brutal, huh? Well, duh. It's all part and parcel of the Be Your Own Pet live experience. Jemina, Jonas, Nathan, and John will do their very impressive thing all over North America for the next six weeks or so as they head out tour starting tonight in Anaheim, California.
Note again that this NYLON-sponsored jaunt finds BYOP joined at the hip with the well-coiffed likes of She Wants Revenge, the Virgins, and Switches. Those dudes are gonna get blown off the stage by a bunch of damn kids. Every night. [MORE...]
Radiohead's Nude remix project is yet another reminder that the age of passive reception of art is on the decline, that eventually we'll all be participating in some way. In this instance, our managing editor Mark Richardson dove into the project, listening to hundreds of tracks to discover common threads and new favorites-- and to try not to lose his mind.
for a little sneak peak into the bands recording process then go here and view a short movie as the band begin to wrap up the mastering of their forthcoming album.
the band are to play two concerts in australia before their festival appearance at “splendour in the grass” on august the 3rd. they play in melbourne on the 1st of august and in sydney on the 2nd. as usual more information here.
Dizzee Rascal is gearing up to kick off his first US tour in four years tomorrow (May 8), and NME.COM caught up with the Arctic Monkeys-collaborating rapper.
Vampire Weekend, Mates Of State, Crystal Castles and Gogol Bordello are among the acts scheduled to play this year's Popped! Festival in Philadelphia.
Fans who attended the first night (May 5) of the Radiohead world tour at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida have emailed NME.COM with their verdicts of the show.
Aniboom has announced the top ten semifinalists for the Radiohead In Rainbows Animated Music Video Competition.
More than 900 entries from 47 countries have been submitted and posted to the site since the first stage of the competition launched five weeks ago inviting all artists, animators, writers, character designers and more to submit storyboards using the [...]
another american show has been announced. sigur rós will play the grand ballroom (in the manhattan centre) in new york city on june the 16th. tickets go on sale tomorrow (thursday may the 8th) at 12 noon edt on ticketmaster.com.
Radiohead are playing their second show of the 2008 tour at the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida tonight. The band have soundchecked Lucky, Pyramid Song, You And Whose Army (twice), All I Need (just the beginning) and The Gloaming.
Radiohead are set to take the stage at 8:45.
(Thx Maria for the soundcheck set.)

The second installment of POPPED!, Philadelphia's multi-venue, indie-centric music festival, will take place June 20-22...without the Roots. Yes, as previously reported, ?uestlove and co. were supposed to curate POPPED! as well as perform their album Things Fall Apart in its entirety at the festival. But something happened (organizers wouldn't comment on exactly what), and now the Roots are busy with their own jam, the Roots Picnic.
However, POPPED! is still on and poppin'. On Friday Jun 20, Slick Rick joins a full band for a little storytellin' session at the Trocadero. Saturday on the Drexel University campus, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Crystal Castles, Mates of State, Gogol Bordello, Mr. Lif, the Ting Tings, and Hoots & Hellmouth will keep POPPED! fizzin'. And Sunday finds Popped! at World Café Live, hosting performances from Daniel Johnston (backed by Philly locals the Capitol Years), O'Death, Takka Takka, Sam Champion, Tickley Feather, and more.
the band will play two concerts in switzerland in july. one on the 9th in lausanne and one on the 14th in zürich. more information on our tour dates page.

Following in the footsteps of Radiohead, Trent Reznor (twice!), the Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, and himself, Beck plans to release his new Danger Mouse-produced LP quite quickly-- in the next four to six weeks, to be exact, according to MTV.com
Universal Music Group wouldn't confirm anything, but we discovered that one of MTV's claims is very much true: the new Beck album will indeed feature contributions from Chan "Cat Power" Marshall. Hopefully in a more notable capacity than Beth Orton on Midnite Vultures, eh?
In other Beck news, he's added a few dates to that summer tour of his since our last report. Oh, and did you hear about his new album? It's got Cat Power on it! [MORE...]
Jack White saved a fainting fan at at The Raconteurs gig last Tuesday (April 29).
Beck is rumoured to be rush-releasing his new album in a similar style to The Raconteurs who brought out their last album just weeks after recording it.
MIA is set to launch her own clothing line.

Radiohead are playing their first show of the 2008 tour at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach tonight.
The band have soundchecked Optimistic, Everything in its right place, All I Need, Bodysnatchers, How to disappear comletely and Exit Music. Radiohead are set to take the stage at 2045 hrs.

What's that strange sound, echoing from over yonder? Why, it's the call of the wild Radiohead, who begin their global migration this very day, Monday, the fifth of May, 2008.
Scientists and so-called music journalists have been tracking the movements of the wild Radiohead for some time now, and they've determined this year's migration will commence in the West Palm Beach area of Florida. The wild Radiohead will spend a couple weeks wandering these lands until they've exhausted the region's supply of their primary source of sustenance, Radiohead fan dollars. Then it's off to Europe in search of the far more nourishing Radiohead fan euro, then North America again for the hell of it, and finally Japan, where the Radiohead fan yen is hard to beat. After that, in all likelihood, comes a period of hibernation.
Herds of wild Radiohead are known to travel in tandem with Grizzly Bears, Bats, and wild Angus.
And researchers have long gained insight into the ways of the wild Radiohead by analyzing residual matter left by the wild Radiohead's only known parasite: the Radiohead fan. These researchers will find their work more difficult, however, given the wild Radiohead's long-brewing vendetta against the scourge known as the "carbon footprint." We're not quite sure how the wild Radiohead managed to harness human technologies, but they've now...
Radiohead are set to record new material when the tour ends in October. Ed O’Brien told the BBC: “It’s the life blood of what we do, it’s the thing that keeps you going”
The band ends their tour in Tokyo, Japan in October and will head back to the studio shortly after. Ed: “Because by the [...]
Radiohead are listed in the 2008 edition of TIME 100. The list of the World’s Most Influential People: leaders, thinkers, heroes, artists, scientists and more.
Edgar Bronfman Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group wrote the article, saying that after the groundbreaking release of Radiohead’s latest album, “the traditional record-label business modelâ€"the one based on controlling access [...]
our new single "shiller" is out this tuesday 5/6/08ORDER IT HERE
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A month ago (April 1st), Radiohead launched their remix contest for latest single ‘Nude’. Uploading has now closed at radioheadremix.com.
Fans were able to download the ‘5 stems’ of the songs through iTunes, remix the track, upload it to radioheadremix.com and allowing the public to vote for the remixes. The downloads of the stems resulted in [...]
Beck will perform at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA on September 20th with special guests Spoon and MGMT. Exclusive presale starts this Sunday, May 4th at Noon PST here Password: BOWL Tickets ...
Radiohead new video 'All I Need' which shows the realities of human trafficking has premiered.

Add, oh, a billion or so more names to the list of those slogging through the (inevitable) rain for this year's Glastonbury Festival when it rumbles through the hills around the English town for which it's named June 27-29. The nice folks at Glastonbury recently announced their lineup, and everybody and their mom is playing it. Yes, even your mom is playing it.
Joining this year's big to-do are the likes of Spiritualized, Massive Attack, the Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket, CSS, Black Lips, the National, Caribou, Battles, Annie, Vampire Weekend, Stars, Goldfrapp, Band of Horses, Neon Neon, Dizzee Rascal, John Cale, Black Mountain, Yeasayer, Hercules and Love Affair, Kid Sister, a Simian Mobile Disco DJ set, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Booka Shade, Los Campesinos!, the Futureheads, Billy Bragg, Pete Doherty, Manu Chao, Holy Fuck, the Gossip, Vetiver, Kool Keith & Kutmaster Kurt, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Roisin Murphy, Santogold, the Cave Singers, a DJ set from A-Trak, Jimmy Cliff, the Black Kids, Mystery Jets, Cadence Weapon, Lightspeed Champion, Tunng, Solomon Burke, Edwyn Collins, the Teenagers, Elbow, Mark Ronson, the Handsome Family, Sons & Daughters, Robyn Hitchcock, Dengue Fever, Foals, Editors, We Are Scientists, Estelle, the Cribs, UNKLE, the Wombats, the Kills, the Duke Spirit, Martina Topley-Bird, Sinead O'Connor, Appleblim, Glasvegas, the Swell Season, Candi Staton, Ethiopiques, the Zutons, Squarepusher, Jason Forrest (as DJ Donna Summer), the...
At Radiohead’s Dead Air Space a new message was posted, regarding the upcoming tour launching a new part of Radiohead.com all about the fans and the band’s carbon footprint.
“Radiohead take to the road on Monday (via a plane, unfortunately) to start in Florida with the first show of their 2008 tour. Following on from their posting [...]

Radiohead are appealing to fans to think about how they travel to and from shows.
Radiohead take to the road on Monday (via a plane, unfortunately) to start in Florida with the first show of their 2008 tour.
Following on from their posting on the 19th December and the commissioned report on touring and CO2 generation, weve developed a new section of the site that gig goers can visit: the most gigantic flying mouth for some time.
Here you can try out our carbon calculator and compare different transport methods for getting to and from the venue. The list of tour dates will give you public transport information where available, and where not, there may be venue incentives for car sharing. There will also be weekly postings from Radioheads production team on how the band has addressed their own touring carbon footprint and made it easier for fans to reduce theirs. You can discuss our successes and more importantly, our failings at waste-central, post up more local travel information where we havent and make friends with other people going to your show.
Hopefully see you on the tour!
We’ve just been added to the line-up for the Reading Festival and the Leeds Festival!
August 23, 2008
6:00 pm
Tickets On Sale Now!
NME / Radio 1 Stage - Show time TBA
August 22, 2008
6:00 pm
Tickets On Sale Now!
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Stream: The Cure: The Only One (snippet)
Video: The Cure: Never Enough (Live) [from the Cure Festival 2005 DVD]
four more german concerts have been announced. the band will play in köln, wiesbaden, berlin and dresden in august. information and links can be found on our tour pages.
Vampire Weekend, Justice, TV On The Radio and Band Of Horses are among the bands set to perform at this year's Monolith Festival.
yo for those in da USA u can now buy the US edition of Maths + English in all good stores and online feat 2 exclusive tracks for the States - 'G.H.E.T.T.O and 'Driving with No Where to Go' enjoy let m...

Because, after all, the U.S. is truly wanting for a good-sized outdoor music festival this summer, here comes the 2008 Monolith Festival, invading Morrison, Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater September 13-14.
And, as befits a fest named after a really big thing that rocks, well, check out this bill:
Justice, TV on the Radio, Neko Case, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, CSS, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Cut Copy, Blitzen Trapper, Holy Fuck, A Place to Bury Strangers, Tokyo Police Club, Akron/Family, John Vanderslice, Colorodo local favorites DeVotchKa, Del the Funky Homosapien, Tilly and the Wall, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, the Kills, Superdrag, the Presets, Silversun Pickups, White Denim, the Cribs, the Ting Tings, the Night Marchers, those Hood Internet jokers, and others form the building blocks of this monolith.

Dizzee Rascal and British Sea Power are set to play the Kendall Calling festival.

French folks need their festivals too, and one event satisfying that need is Villette Sonique. This year's edition of the festival will invade Paris' Parc de la Villette from June 3-8.
True to its host city's nature, Villette Sonique's 2008 lineup is an eclectic one. How eclectic? Have a look:
Mission of Burma, Clipse, Dizzee Rascal, Deerhunter, Sunset Rubdown, Shellac, Devo, the Go! Team, Throbbing Gristle, HEALTH, Sage Francis, Six Organs of Admittance, Chromatics, Melt-Banana, El Guincho, Dan Deacon, Bottomless Pit, Pilooski, Martin Rev of Suicide, Pan Sonic, Chromatics, Joakim, and Colleen, among others.
There's also a record fair, which is an excellent thing to have at a music festival, if we can say so ourselves.
Radiohead have been nominated for Best Album at the MOJO Awards for their latest album ‘In Rainbows’.
The monthly UK Magazine nominated ‘In Rainbows’ for MOJO Honours List 2008 â€' the UK's annual awards ceremony for best album together with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!), Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare), Duffy [...]
sigur rós will play the uptown theatre in kansas city on june 12th and presale tickets for the concert have gone on sale on ticketmaster.com. if you know the presale password then you can get your tickets a bit early, if not then general sale starts this saturday morning at 10am cdt.
also, the band will play in the orpheum theatre on june 11th in omaha city. we will let you know about ticket information for this concert as soon as we hear.

They turned the music sales model on its head, but Radiohead won’t be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their downloads, Thom Yorke told The Hollywood Reporter.
“I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” Yorke said of the band’s downloading policy for the album “In Rainbows.”
“It was [...]
Radiohead have donated a song to MTV to use in a human rights media campaign ‘EXIT’ (end exploitation and trafficking)
The video, which will premiere on MTV channels globally from May 1, features a split screen showing the day in the life of a well-off child from a western country and a poor child who is [...]
Beck will perform at this year's Super Bock Super Rock Festival in Lisbon, Portugal on July 10th. Visit the festival website for details including the full lineup and ticketing information: www.superb...
In Rainbows deal a 'one-off' says Thom Yorke, as the band donate track to MTV's anti-trafficking campaign
Radiohead have said that they won't let fans can choose how much to pay to download their new album, like they did with their most recent record 'In Rainbows'.
Radiohead say they will not repeat the pay-what-you-want offer used to launch current album In Rainbows.

"All I Need", quite possibly the sexiest song Radiohead has ever written, just became a hell of a lot less sexy...and a lot more important. For the video for the In Rainbows standout, Radiohead has partnered with MTV's EXIT (end exploitation and trafficking) campaign to create a clip that raises awareness of issues of forced labor and abuse around the world.