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In an interview last month, Los Angeles beat mangler Flying Lotus told us a little bit about Cosmogramma, his forthcoming album: "I'm finally getting to the point where I can make the kind of records that I want to make-- that I wanted to make when I was younger, things that I dreamed about making. It's this fusion-y kind of thing where all the elements of the music that I love are there."

Warp will release Cosmogramma in the U.S. on May 4 and a day earlier in the UK. And hey, look who's on there! Some guy named Thom Yorke.

Yorke sings on a song called "...And the World Laughs With You". Other guests include vocalist Laura Darlington, who sang on previous FlyLo album Los Angeles, and jazz sax great Ravi Coltrane (who is Flying Lotus's cousin).

That image above is the cover art, and we've got the tracklist below.

Cosmogramma:

01 Clock Catcher
02 Pickled!
03 Nose Art
04 Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05 Zodiac Shit
06 Computer Face//Pure Being
07 ...And the World Laughs With You [ft. Thom Yorke]
08 Arkestry
09 Mmmhmm [ft.Thundercat]
10 Do the Astral Plane
11 Satelllliiiiiteee
12 German Haircut
13 Recoiled
14 Dance Of the Pseudo Nymph
15 Drips//Auntie's Harp
16 Table Tennis [ft. Laura Darlington]
17 Galaxy in Janaki

The literary legend, who died this week, inspired the modern idea of the rock'n'roll rebel with his character Holden Caulfield, the outsider antihero from The Catcher in the Rye

The death of JD Salinger has naturally got everyone reminiscing about his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, one of those rare books that virtually everyone read when they were a teenager. Its distinctive mood â€' that mix of sarcasm, pathos and pained nostalgia for lost youth â€' never quite leaves you (it also has the dubious distinction of being the only book Ricky Gervais has ever read).

It's ironic that a book which pre-dated rock'n'roll has gone on to influence generations of rock lyricists, but then The Catcher in the Rye has an uncanny knack of staying forever young, speaking to successive waves of teenagers. In recent years, it's variously been a hipster bible and a sort of emo set text. To own a copy when you're young is to signal that you're something of an unquiet soul â€' an underachiever but brainy with it, a misfit but not a nerd.

It's often said that the character of Holden Caulfield invented the teenager. I'd argue that, in some sense, Caulfield also set the mould for our modern notion of the rock star â€' damaged, hyper-sensitive, infinitely cool, creative, hungry for sensation, an authentic voice in a world of phonies. Kurt Cobain, Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen, Richey Manic, Gerard Way are all Holden Caulfields in their...

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In director Marcus Soederlund's video for British group the xx's skeletal love jam "VCR", a pretty young couple tenderly and carefully break into a room, smash it all to pieces, and then light a fire. Then they kiss. Romantic! You can watch the clip below or at Pitchfork.tv.

"VCR" also has a new remix courtesy of shapeshifting producer Matthew Dear, which can be downloaded below. And speaking of the xx and remixes! During his radio show with Thom Yorke last night, DJ Gilles Peterson mentioned that the band will remix I'm New Here, the forthcoming album from the legendary soul singer and spoken word artist Gil Scott-Heron. The remix has been confirmed as being in the works. Interesting pairing!

MP3:> The xx: "VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)"

Flea, Nigel Godrich and co are rumoured to be playing with him this April

Tomorrow, January 20, at 2:00 London time, Thom Yorke will co-host Gilles Peterson's radio show on BBC Radio 1. (Via TwentyFourBit.) According to the show's website, Yorke and Peterson will "join the musical dots - soul, hip hop, house, Afro, Latin, dubstep, jazz and beyond." A preview video on shows Yorke goofing around and doing his trademark adorable/nerdy dance moves. Check out that video below.

In related news, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that the "Thom Yorke ????" billed as playing this year's Coachella is indeed the same band he debuted last fall: Yorke joined by Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco. The question marks are simply due to the fact that they never came up with a name for the band.

Thom Yorke, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures also on bill

So it begins. California's Coachella Festival, the first of the summer's massive multi-day American festivals, has now announced its lineup, and it's once again a doozy. Jay-Z! Pavement! Faith No More! Public Image Limited! Gorillaz! LCD Soundsystem! Vampire Weekend! MGMT! Phoenix! Sly and the Family Stone?!!!! And yes, that is how Thom Yorke is billing himself these days.

That poster above has everything we know so far. The festival will come to the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California this April 16-18. Start planning your trip now.

Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz will headline the 11th annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 16-18 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Also confirmed are LCD Soundsystem, Faith No More, Thom Yorke, Pavement and The Specials.

Photo by Jonny Greenwood

Right now, representatives from countries around the world are talking about how to delay earth's transition into an apocalyptic ball of hellfire at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Apparently, noted climate change advocate Thom Yorke wasn't happy with how the talks were going...so he decided to somehow get a press pass and check them out himself. (Via Consequence of Sound.)

"I'm here as a press person," he told a group of journalists with a smirk. "Do you imagine they'd let me in otherwise?" Bad ass.

Click on to watch a video of Yorke talking his shit at the conference:

Yorke also gave an interview to The Stupid Show, in which he talked about how the conference is a lot like a big music festival and how the global economy needs to work for change. Clips here: