Thom Yorke: "Stuck Together":

Thom Yorke: "Twist":

Back in September, models for the clothing line Rag & Bone found themselves walking down the runway to the tune of new Thom Yorke material. Today, Disco Naivete points out that music from the show has surfaced, on YouTube: two pieces called "Stuck Together" and Twist". It has been confirmed that this is music Yorke made for the Rag & Bone show, but it may only be an excerpt.

The Occupy London website has posted a new video interview with Thom Yorke and Massive Attack's Robert '3D' Del Naja, in which both artists voice support for the Occupy movement. The interview was filmed at a holiday party for Occupy London where, as previously reported, both artists performed DJ sets.

According to the Occupy London site, "The performances have been recorded for an album and HD video, to be made available to help raise money for Occupy London and the wider Occupy movement. Both will soon be available on a 'pay what you want' basis from the Occupation Records label."

Photo via the Massive Attack Facebook

Tonight, Thom Yorke, Massive Attack, and ex-DFA member Tim Goldsworthy performed at a party for Occupy London at Bank of Ideas in Hackney. The party was webcast live on the Occupy London Livestream, as The King of Limbs Part 2 pointed out.

Continuing our new series looking at pop charts across the globe, Andrew Khan listens to the Polish Lady Gaga

Poland's classical music and jazz scenes may be enormously influential, but the country's pop acts have traditionally made little impression internationally. With isolated exceptions such as Blog 27 â€' a pair of 13-year-old rappers whose 2005 album LOL is fondly remembered in Japan to this day â€' few Polish stars have significantly troubled the foreign charts.

The lack of overseas success shouldn't be mistaken for a sign of limited horizons or shortage of quality. Poland's domestic pop scene spans everything from dancehall to slick retro soul and can boast a handful of the most engaging artists the region has to offer.

With English lyrics and expensive videos, the performer most likely to find an audience outside Poland may be Dorota "Doda" Rabczewska. Famous since 16 as singer with metal act Virgin, her recent solo work has seen her repositioned as a central European answer to Lady Gaga. Although the peroxide hair, challenging fashion sense and ongoing fight against criminal charges of blasphemy suggest she has the fundamentals ticked off, the music still needs work.

At home, her popularity has been eclipsed by Czech Republic-born Ewa Farna whose Ewakuacja (see clip above) has a claim to being the biggest single of 2011. Her muscular power ballads share more than a trace of DNA with Evanescence but they're belted out with...

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The video for Thom Yorke and Modeselektor's collaborative track "Shipwreck", directed by Tony T. Datis, features a little boy with blue eyes, blonde hair, and a visibly disturbed nature. He encounters zombies and a vicious dog while curiously collecting batteries. Watch it below (via NPR) for the kicker.

-- On October 31, Matador will release the debut 7" from Philadelphia punk group TV Casualty, featuring members of Franklin, Lifetime, Paint It Black, Ceremony, and Atom and His Package. Ted Leo plays Glen Danzig on this collection of Misfits covers, with proceeds benefiting the Philadelphia LGBTQ Youth Center the Attic Youth Center.

-- Light in the Attic will reissue two albums from dark country duo the Louvin Brothers on November 7: 1956's Tragic Songs of Life and 1959's Satan is Real. The label will also release Handpicked Songs, 1955-1962, which features Louvin Brothers tracks picked by Dolly Parton, Mark Lanegan, Beck, Jim James, Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward, and more.

-- Trentemoller will release Reworked / Remixed on November 8, via his own label, In My Room. It includes his remixes of tracks by Modeselektor with Thom Yorke, Depeche Mode, Mew, Franz Ferdinand, UNKLE, and more, as well as remixes of Trentemoller's tracks by Efterklang, Andrew Weatherall, Modeselektor, and more.

--The new album from Lateef the Truthspeaker, FireWire, is out November 8 on Quannum Projects. It features production by DJ Shadow, Chief Xcel, Dan the Automator, and more.

This weekend, the annual Bridge School Benefit Concert took place in Mountain View, California. The concert series has been organized by Neil Young and his wife Pegi Young for the past 25 years, to raise money for the Bridge School, a school in California co-founded by Pegi to benefit individuals with severe speech and physical impairments.

This year's benefit concerts featured Arcade Fire, Beck, Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters, Devendra Banhart, and, of course, Young himself. (A benefit CD/DVD compilation collecting performances from throughout the years from Young, Thom Yorke, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth, Fleet Foxes, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Metallica, and more is out today.)

The latest expo at The Old Vic Tunnels feature a sonic installation by Thom Yorke and two sculptures made from what appear to be dead rats

Having taken over The Old Vic Tunnels for the second year in a row, the subterranean space connected to the famous South London theatre, street art gallerist Steve Lazarides has seriously upped the ante for his latest exhibition, 'Minotaur'. Incorporating a deeply disconcerting maze featuring a sonic installation by Thom Yorke, a large-scale mesmerizing abstract film projection reflected in an ominous and regal pool of water, two sculptures made from what appear to be dead rats, graphic footage of bullfighting shown on loop in a cinema and a lavish secret pop-up restaurant by German restaurateurs Pret A Diner, amongst other ... article continues »
       
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Monkeytown is the third and most recent album brought to you by Berlin-based electronic move-makers, Modeselektor. The record, which was made under huge time constraints, has a list of collaborators that reads like a musical who’s who – from Thom Yorke, to Siriusmo and Sascha Ring (Apparat) – it’s more than enough to get us excited. And while the record is the third in a long history – the pair formed a good while earlier – it’s the first where they’ve collaborated 100% throughout. We spoke to one half of the duo Gernot Bronsert to discuss the new album, the record label and why the ... article continues »
       
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The inimitable German duo chat about album number three, changes in their sound and repping Berlin

Monkeytown is the third and most recent album brought to you by Berlin-based electronic move-makers, Modeselektor. The record, which was made under huge time constraints, has a list of collaborators that reads like a musical who’s who – from Thom Yorke, to Siriusmo and Sascha Ring (Apparat) – it’s more than enough to get us excited. And while the record is the third in a long history – the pair formed a good while earlier – it’s the first where they’ve collaborated 100% throughout. We spoke to one half of the duo Gernot Bronsert to discuss the new album, the record label and why the ... article continues »
       
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