Video Of The Day: New Radiohead "Super Collider"

Thanks to You Ain't No Picasso for being on top of this. They just dropped that new new last night at a concert in Ireland:

Live Review: Radiohead (5/8/2008 & 5/9/2008) Atlanta & Charlotte

Last week I was on Radiohead overload and I loved it. I think maybe every single person I know in this city was at the Atlanta show. They are so damn popular now. I mean no matter what sort of style or taste in music of people I know, they all at least can appreciate this band. One down side of this is that there is going to be a crowd with some douches in it, as I've heard many people complain. But I would challenge anyone to tell me about a sold out show at Lakewood that didn't have its share of annoying people attending.

That said, I was probably one of the more annoying people at the show. Since I had seen them 4 times before this and I was pretty much stone cold sober for all of those concerts, I decided to get blotto for this one. Since the night is pretty much a blur, and most people reading this blog were probably also there, I'm just gonna note a couple of things:

• I do not like overbearing cops and security at concerts, and there was way too much of that. People were getting arrested two cars down from where we were hanging out before the show. Why is it illegal to drink on private property at a concert but its ok to walk around with alcohol on Georgia Tech campus, which is lawfully not allowed anytime, during a football game? It is just such a stark contrast between the Phish shows I would go to back in 2000 at Lakewood and what that place has become now. I mean there really isn't much else worthwhile about seeing a show at that sized venue except the bigger-than-life party atmosphere.
  
• While I'm ranting about how much I don't like Lakewood, Liars just didn't sound good in that venue. It was really disappointing to be listening to songs you know and love but not really enjoy them because you are like 7 miles from the stage. It made me not feel so bad being unable to catch a Radiohead show with Grizzly Bear opening.
  

Anyways, since a torrent of the Atlanta show has yet to surface, here's some vids:

"Pyramind Song":



"Lucky":



"Talk Show Host":




To do the review of the Charlotte show the next night, I want to welcome Ohmpark's newest contributor, Josh West. I'm looking forward to many more great contributions to the site from him, and since he is a total Radiohead super-fan, this is a very appropriate debut:

@ around 1:39pm Friday 9 May 2008, I strolled through the door at Ohmpark to find comparable degrees of hungoverness to my own. We recounted the slides of our memory as an obligation – needing to put to rest the previous nights ecstasies in Atlanta in order to fully anticipate lightening striking us twice. With that, we were on the road to Charlotte where Radiohead was waiting once again.

Fast forward to the house lights falling. We found our way with beers in hand to the middle of the lawn as the cheers of the crowd gave way to the slow, soulful "All I Need." After a few songs to warm the crowd, as well as the band, and then…
all engineering efforts began to come alive. For starters, there are five cameras scattered about the stage positioned on a band member, instrument, or both and their feeds are displayed side by side in the widest of widescreens behind the band. So, if you're at the back of the lawn, you can still see Jonny go apeshit.

The fun (and electrical engineering) doesn't stop there. The band also decided to drape themselves in 50 or so waterfalls of light that vary between about 20 to 30 feet in length each. When they're in the middle of a jam, you can see this shit from space.
And for the rest of the evening, as they sprinkled a song or two from albums past amidst our new In Rainbows favorites, the five piece came off as very seasoned and highly coordinated professional showmen – because they are. At times I couldn't decide on the most interesting thing to watch – whether it be Thom's maniacal dancing or the other thing on the screen they happened to be making noise with at the time. Thankfully, there was only one thing to listen to.

Further, when you have accumulated the catalogue that Radiohead have over the past 15+ years, you can construct a setlist that has it all. They're like that campy-ass summer blockbuster movie that has something for everyone, except they're actually good. The opportunity to serenade his girlfriend during "Exit Music (For A Film)" proved to be too much for one young gentleman. Juxtapose that with this really long-haired girl completely wigging out and bumping into everything during "Idioteque" – but hey, don't we all? I smelled plenty of the sticky during "Sail to the Moon" and the pit went nuts for Thom on the kit throughout "Bangers & Mash."

…which lead promptly into the highlight of the evening as the main set closed with an absolutely explosive "Bodysnatchers." I've been challenged to find the words and the best I've got is this: never before has the onslaught of sight and sound translated into my body moving the way it did. I'm white, getting older, and I'll be very pressed to recreate such an outcome. Others around me, notably Biggie C, were also appropriately affected.

The band, as well as I, got a much-needed break after that. However, the treats continued as they returned to the stage to perform back-to-back numbers not appearing on major albums with "Go Slowly" followed by "Talk Show Host."
Most of the crowd proceeded to wet themselves after the first chords of "Planet Telex" and it was actually here that I felt the band silenced all doubters wherever they might be found – getting everyone going on an oldie. The lights were synced perfectly and undeniably pained over for this one. They held this ace for long enough and were really just showing off at this point.

The show closed with the perennial favorite, "Paranoid Android" introduced in one of Thom's few addresses to the audience as, "This one's a naaass-tee lit-tle bas-tard" followed promptly by "Reckoner."
In all, everyone had the opportunity to laugh, cry, clap, sing, dance, hug, fist-pound, high-five, bob their head, hold a lighter (if you're into that), burn one down (cause I'm into that) and look at the people around them periodically with that holy-shit look on their face.

If they're coming to a city near you, bottom line: go to the show. If you have to, drop some bills on the dude about 1000 feet from the venue who looks like your dad. He'll be referring to the band as "Them Radioheads." You'll pay more than face value on the ticket, but this is pragmatically irrelevant. Get in.

You can download the Charlotte show here. Jonny took some pictures on the Radiohead blog, and here are a couple:

Videos Of the Day: Sad Kermit

I saw these on Stereogum and they were cracking me up, so I have to share them here. As sadkermit.com explains:

Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit spiraled downward into a life full of addiction, romance and pain. The songs and videos on this webpage shed light on Sad Kermit's descent into his dark, hurting world.

Sad Kermit doing Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt":



Elliot Smith's "Needle In The Hay":



And you can even download mp3s from the site of sad Kermit songs. Since it is Radiohead week in Atlanta, here's "Creep":

Sad Kermit : Creep (Radiohead)

What Up In The ATL?

Radiohead!!! I am all pumped up about catching them in Atlanta on Thursday and I even decided to ball out and catch them again in Charlotte Friday night. I've been wanting to see a Liars show for forever, so I'm excited about that too. Here is the entire Radiohead Glastonbury 2003 set to get you hyped up for this week's biggest event:



Before I get into the rest of what is going on this week, I'm gonna hit you with a bit of last week. Here is Genghis Tron from last Tuesday night:



Last Thursday our crew hit up the Fuck Yesss Le Castle Vania birthday bash at The Drunken Unicorn and had a blast:







Saturday night everyone in my neighborhood was partying with all the college kids graduating and getting ready for summer. I caught an impromptu, late night jam session between members of two of Atlanta's hottest metal bands, Daath and From Exile. Both are working on new albums currently that should be out this year. In this video, they start out on an FE lick, and end up in a total blues jam (The cops showed up shortly after this):



Eskimo Bliss got some photos of the Yeasayer show last Saturday night here.

Have You Heard did some recordings with Atlanta's Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun, and they sound really cool.

In this week's edition of our obligatory Bradford Cox update, he has dropped another great, thematic Atlas Sound EP on his blog. I'm jamming it now, and I love this song:

Atlas Sound : Things I Miss EP : Marietta



Tonight there is a big show at The Earl. Atlanta's Morning State is having their album release party for You Know People, I Know People. The album comes out tomorrow everywhere, and it is great. I'll have a full review later this week. Also joining them for this one is Brooklyn's The XYZ Affair and Washington, DC's Jukebox The Ghost.

Jukebox The Ghost:


Jukebox the Ghost - Good Day (Live at Pianos, Sept. 07) from Gus on Vimeo.


Other cool shows going on in the A this week I recommend:


Wednesday:

The Earl: Club Of Rome, Brass Castle, Pride Parade
Star Bar: Riddle Of Steel, Chopper, Royal Thunder

Thursday:

Lenny's: Sonen, Gravel Undertones, Tenth To The Moon, Night Moves, The Bright Lights

Friday:

The Earl: It's Elephant's, Mice In Cars, The Winter Sounds

Saturday:

I Can Fly House: The Felon Wind, Clan Of The Cave Bear, Blastoids!

Friday Free-Style

Let's get your weekend started with some local flavour. Atlas Sound will be remixing a Sian Alice Group song for a forthcoming EP. Here's a video for one of my favourite Atlas Sound songs, "Recent Bedroom":


Atlas Sound- Recent Bedroom from Michael E Palm on Vimeo

Atlas Sound : Virtual 7" No. 3 : No Longer


The Snowden tour is coming soon:



Check out how fun Snowden tours can be:



Mastodon and Neurosis are interviewed by Pitchfork.tv

Mastodon have a massive tour schedule between their Bonnaroo appearance and their Rockstar Mayhem Tour:

Jun 14 - Manchester, Tennessee @ Bonnaroo (2:00P)
Jul 9 - Seattle, Washington @ White River Amphitheatre
Jul 11 - Sacramento, California @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Jul 12 - San Francisco, California @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
Jul 13 - San Bernardino, California @ Glen Helen Pavilion
Jul 15 - Fresno, California @ Save Mart Center
Jul 16 - San Diego, California @ Coors Amphitheatre
Jul 18 - Phoenix, Arizona @ Cricket Pavilion
Jul 19 - Albuquerque, New Mexico @ Journal Pavilion
Jul 20 - Denver, Colorado @ Coors Amphitheatre
Jul 22 - Kansas City, Kansas @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jul 23 - St. Louis, Missouri @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jul 25 - Dallas, Texas @ Smirnoff Music Centre
Jul 26 - San Antonio, Texas @ Verizon Amphitheatre
Jul 27 - Houston, Texas @ Sam Houston Race Track
Jul 29 - Tampa, Florida @ Ford Amphitheatre
Jul 30 - Miami, Florida @ Sound Advice Amphitheatre
Aug 1 - Virginia Beach, Virginia @ Verizon Amphitheatre
Aug 2 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania @ Post Gazette Pavilion
Aug 3 - Scranton, Pennsylvania @ Toyota Pavilion
Aug 5 - Boston, Massachusetts @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
Aug 6 - Uniondale, New York @ Nassau Coliseum
Aug 8 - Toronto, Ontario @ Downsview Park
Aug 9 - Detroit, Michigan @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug 10 - Chicago, Illinois @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Aug 12 - Atlanta, Georgia @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
Aug 13 - Indianapolis, Indiana @ Verizon Wireless Music Center
Aug 15 - Camden, New Jersey @ Tweeter Center at The Waterfront
Aug 16 - Hartford, Connecticut @ New England Dodge Music Center
Aug 17 - Washington DC @ Nissan Pavilion
Aug 19 - Buffalo, New York @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

"Sleeping Giant":



Long time friends of Ohmpark, Parade, have announced their show tonight at Lenny's is going to be their last. They still have a new forthcoming album in June, but are not planning to do any shows in support of it apparently. This is very sad news for us, so here's some Parade tracks to jam and if you never caught them, go see them tonight while you still have a chance.

Parade : The P EP : Slow Tuesday


Parade : A Red Button : Penelope Shoes


Parade : Answer Me EP : That's Hott


You can stream the new Portishead album here.

Coachella will be webcasting performances this weekend here.

Download a new NIN song here.

Blood On The Wall will be at The Earl on May 13th.

Jambase has a really great piece on Akron/Family, who we love.

The AthFest line-up is out, and notables include Dark Meat, Cinemehanica, We Vs. The Shark, Elf Power, Twin Tigers, Venice Is Sinking, and Dubconscious. The fest is going down June 18-22 in Athens, Ga.

Rock The Bells tour is back and looking good, but the closest it is coming to us is Miami, FL:



Tegan And Sara are coming back to Atlanta for two dates at Chastain June 16 & 17.

Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst is doing a solo album.

Peter Bjorn And John's next album is going to be completely instrumental.

Southern Shelter has the Explosions in The Sky show in Atlanta a few weeks ago for you to download or listen to here.

Radiohead on Conan (The Atlanta show is getting so close!):



Portishead on Jools Holland:



Jane's Addiction's latest reunion show:



Tokyo Police Club on Letterman:

Radiohead Nude Remix

A few days ago Radiohead announced a contest to remix their song "Nude" off of In Rainbows. A local musician and occasional contributor here on Ohmpark, Eric Guenther (From Exile) has met the challenge and done his own remix. Give it a listen, and if you like it, vote for our boy:

Live Show: Radiohead (4/1/2008)

To make up for my April Fools Day Rickrolling post, here's a Radiohead concert they did on April Fools Day this year. Listening to this spectacular show just gets me so excited that I'm going to be seeing them soon:

Radiohead (Evening Concert)
1st April 2008
BBC Radio Theatre, London, UK

Broadcast by BBC Radio Two on 1st April 2008 for "Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie"

01 Intro
02 Bodysnatchers

03 All I Need

04 Nude

05 Airbag

06 Reckoner

07 The Tourist

08 House of Cards

09 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

10 Lucky

11 Everything In It's Right Place

12 Outro

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Jonny Greenwood Quits Radiohead, All North American Dates Cancelled!?! (Happy April Fools!)

This really sucks. The two biggest shows of the Spring in Atlanta, The Mars Volta and Radiohead, have now been cancelled. Jonny has decided he wants to do his own thing and that Radiohead has gotten too big. Read the latest here.

Friday Free-Style

Last weekend I caught Nomem Novum (newest project from Moorish Idols) at ParkGrounds and it was pretty cool. Here's a few pics and a vid:









Baroness will be at The Masquerade on March 20th. Even Pitchfork don't know that.

Stone Temple Pilots are playing Wisconsin's Rock Fest.

The new Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, comes out April 8th.

Chris Rock, one of my favourite comedians, has been added to the Bonnaroo line-up and will be performing on the main stage. Awesome. How about a music video:



Find out why My Bloody Valentine didn't do Coachella here, and "Don't worry--they'll come to America."

So all the wookies and hippies pissed off about Metallica at Bonnaroo are rallying around the newest festival to emerge in this golden ago of American festivals. Behold Rothbury Fest:

Dave Mathews, Band Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Phil Lesh And Friends, Primus, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Modest Mouse, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Gov't Mule, STS9, Colbie Caillat, Slightly Stoopid, The Black Keys, Keller Williams And the WMD's, Yonder Mountain String Band featuring John Fishman, Gogol Bordello, Citizen Cope, The Disco Biscuits, Medeski Martin And Wood, Ray Lamontagne, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival, Drive-By Truckers, Of Montreal, Etown Radio Show, The Dresden Dolls, Gomez ,Brett Dennen, Taj Mahal, Mike Gordon, Zappa Plays Zappa, Crystal Method DJ Set, JJ Grey And Mofro, The Greyboy All-Stars, The Secret Machines, Railroad Earth, Beth Orton ,Jakob Dylan and The Gold Mountain Rebels, A3, Bettye Lavette, Emmitt Nershi Band, Lotus, EOTO, Panjea with Michael Kang, Yard Dogs Road Show, State Radio, The Beautiful Girls, Sage Francis, Tea Leaf Green, Bassnectar, Pnuma Trio, Diplo, Flosstradamus, The Juan Maclean, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, DJ Rekha, Dead Confederate, Motion Potion, DJ Rootz, Sojorn Busdriver

So if you're one of those folks that wish it were 2003 and every hippy festival had the exact same line-up every year, you'll be ecstatic about this one. It goes down July 3rd-6th in Rothbury, Michigan. Rothbury Fest website.

A festival that I'd probably be slightly more interested in checking out is the New England Metal Fest. They got a line-up too:

The fest will be merging with Gigantour for one-night, as the Friday night portion of the show will feature Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job For A Cowboy and High on Fire, so the first night is officially Gigantour night. Saturday’s lineup will be headlined by Dimmu Borgir, Shadows Fall and Behemoth. Sunday will feature Ministry, Meshuggah and Nevermore. And that’s just the friggen headliners. Take a look at the rest of the bands expected to play on the show:

The Dillinger Escape Plan, Overkill, A Life Once Lost, God Forbid, Disfear, Hate Eternal, Municipal Waste, Shai Halud, Soilent Green, Skeletonwitch, The Acacia Strain, Vital Remains, After the Burial, Animosity, As Blood Runs Black, Belay My Last, Born of Osiris, Briandrill, Classic Struggle, Cockpunch!, Cold World, Dead to Fall, Demiricous, Eluveitie, Elysia, Embrace the End, Emmure, The End, Ensiferum, First Blood, From a Second Story Window, Full Blown Chaos, The Ghost Inside, Hemlock, Impending Doom, Keep Of Kalessin, Kid Deposit Triumph, Ligeia, Mensrea, Monstrosity, On Broken Wings, Recon, Red I Flight, Rhinoceros, Shipwreck a.d., Since the Blood, Sleeping Giant, Sons of Azrael, Stick to Your Guns, Stray from the Path, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganze, Trap Them, Turisas, Tyr, Unexpect, Unholy, Vanna, Veil of Maya, Waking the Cadaver, Winds of Plague, Withered, and Xtyrantx.

Pretty exciting! The event will take place from April 25 to 27 at the Palladium in Worcester, MA.

Stereogum posted some funny Valentines cards, so even though I'm a day late, here's a few:











You can go get Amplive's Radiohead In Rainbow remixes here while you ge ready to snag tickets tomorrow or are stoked about the tickets you got yesterday.

Yeasayer is coming back to Atlanta with Man Man on May 3rd at Lenny's. I'll be there. Some jams:

Man Man : Top Drawer


Yeasayer : 2080 (Brenmar remix)


Yeasayer : Sunrise (Hey Champ remix)


New Death Cab album tracklist here.

British Sea Power will be at The Earl on April 21st.

Sonic Youth are about to start working on a new album due out next year. YESSSSS!

Pelican will be at The Masquerade on April 26th.

Handsome Furs are doing 5 Florida dates and nothing in Georgia.

Opeth's new album, Watershed, comes out June 3rd.

Get the Ratatat Remixes Volume 2 here.

Pine interviews Atlanta's Cassavetes.

Ghengis Tron is streaming their new album on their myspace.

Listen to Thom Yorke's NPR Valentine's Day DJ set here.

Boris has a new album out on April 29th called Smile.

Passion of Weiss has some new stuff from Atlanta's Jamie Radford.

The Subliminator has a new album due out next month.

New Beach House:



British Sea Power:



Radiohead:



Justice:



The New Pornographers:

Radiohead in Atlanta May 8th!!!

US tour dates have appeared on their website. They will be at Lakewood Amphitheater on Thursday May 8th. Tickets go on sale at W.A.S.T.E. this Thursday February 14th and I'm guessing at Ticketmaster on Saturday, February 16th. Thanks to Cable And Tweed for being on top of this. I will be spending a ridiculous amount of money this week on concert tickets.

Video of the Day: Radiohead Live Acoustic, 2003

Radiohead live at ARTE 2003 in Paris on a nice intimate stage. A wonderful acoustic set by Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood + interviews. Need I say more?

**Note** There's a couple annoying French commercials at the start, but its smooth sailing once it gets going.

Enjoy!

Friday Free-Style

Radiohead did a DJ set on BBC 1 and you can listen to it here. It's pretty rad, you should really jam that today.

Black Lips are doing a bunch of record store shows while they are on tour:

2/5 - Portland, Oregon: Jackpot Records, 6:30 pm
2/8 - San Francisco, CA: Amoeba Records, Berkeley, 6:30 pm
2/17 - Denver, CO: Twist & Shout Records, 2:00 pm
2/24 - Dallas, TX: Good Records, 4:00 pm
2/26 - Lawrence, KS: Love Garden Records, 1:00 pm
2/29 - Madison, WI: Mad City Music, 6:30pm
3/10 - New York, NY: Other Music, 6:00pm
3/21 - Memphis, TN: Shangri-la Records, 6:00 pm

Full Black Lips tour schedule here. Also there's this out:



You can get it here.

Thurston Moore did a soundtrack for a forthcoming porno.

Colin Meloy's (The Decemberists) solo acoustic live album is coming out soon.

The Fiery Furnaces are getting election crazy and holding a caucus to determine what theme they will choose for their next record.

Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs worked on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie Where The Wild Things Are. The rumor going around when Deerhunter cancelled those shows opening for Grizzly Bear and Sparklehorse back in early 2007 was that Bradford Cox went to work on that with Karen O. That would be cool if that is true.

A six-year-old girl lied about her dad dying in Iraq to win Hannah Montana tickets.

Austinist reports on more bands added to the SXSW line-up, including British Sea Power, Dizzee Rascal, Q Tip, N.E.R.D, David Banner, and Dolly Parton. Here is the full list right now.

Dinosaur Jr are kicking off the Winter X-Games.

Vampire Weekend "A-Punk":



Clinic have a new album coming out and will be at The Earl on May 25th.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin have a new album out in April.

Eels have some new releases.

The Attractive Eighties Women CD release party show got cut short when some chick threw a glass at the lead singer when they played this song. They have made an EP out of the performance available for free here:



99X is about to be gone.

If you want a good resource to find handbills to shows, go here.

My Morning Jacket have a new album due out in June.

The complete broadcast (An hour and a half) of the Radiohead 93 Feet East webcast from two days ago:

Video of the Day: RADIOHEAD

So if you didn't get a chance to check out Radiohead's rather kickass special on CurrentTV last night at the stroke of midnight it is available online already:



Oh Yeah....

And HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Ohmpark Crew!!

Radiohead + Current TV + New Years Eve = Hells Yeah!!!

So, Radiohead are doing an exclusive concert for Current TV, a TV channel that is primarily viewer created content and sort of like MTV meets Web 2.0. It's a a pretty cool channel that now just got even cooler because they will be airing this concert New Years Eve. Supposedly they will be doing every song off of In Rainbows plus more. Set your Tivos:

The Eternal Hottness: Radiohead

As I eagerly await my In Rainbows discbox, I want to talk about the way it was released. If you are slacking and haven't got a copy of it, go get it now because the free download site closes tomorrow. Radiohead has yet to release any real numbers on how this album release experiment has gone, but all indications from the band members themselves point to it being successful on their terms. The debate that has raged since this all began is what kind of impact will this have on the music industry? There are a few dimensions to this that I want to break down. The first question to be asked is: Can this exact model work for anybody else but Radiohead?

A counter argument that Lily Allen made about this model is that what Radiohead are doing will hurt smaller artists: “They’ve got millions of pounds. It sends a weird message to younger bands who haven’t done as well...” I'm not sure Lily, who got big in the music industry because of her famous parents, can really relate to struggling bands, but let us take her point seriously. So far only Trent Reznor, who has been hating on the record industry for a while and currently not on a label, has tried this experiment with the new Saul Williams album he produced. The model is slightly different (you can choose between getting it free at 192 Kbps or pay $5 to get a higher quality format), but basically it is the same idea. Numbers have not been disclosed from that either, but even when they do, it's unclear how much of the big picture is going to be revealed. An artist like Saul Williams, relatively obscure compared to Radiohead, may reach a larger audience through this distribution model and the publicity surrounding it and this may increase sales of his music, tickets to shows, and merchandise down the road. But even Saul Williams is backed by Trent Reznor, who is pretty famous and rich himself. Radiohead's response to this argument, in this great interview you should read, is:

Ed: 'But the thing is, so much good music is now free anyway.'

Jonny: 'Yeah, the download culture is there anyway. It's King Canute - you can't pretend the flood isn't happening. This friend of mine bought the Muse album. And his 12-year-old son was just looking at it - "Wow, the real thing!" His son had the album already, he knew the songs, but he'd never held a CD. He just found it a curious object. That's kind of how it is now.'

This is the reality of the situation, and barring an invasion of Sweden, there really isn't much anyone can do to stop piracy altogether. It would be fairly difficult, in my opinion, to find a single album that came out this year that wasn't available somewhere on the internet. The next question, then, is: Does this exact model even have to work for anyone else to be successful?

Another naysayer of the Radiohead model has been Gene Simmons: “That’s not a business model that works. I open a store and say ‘Come on in and pay whatever you want.’ Are you on fucking crack? Do you really believe that’s a business model that works?” Well, maybe this model can't work for everybody, but it could change the game enough to find a better model than exists now. Two smaller bands that no one had heard of a few years ago but now have the potential to emerge as two of the greatest bands to come out of this decade, Deerhunter and Grizzly Bear, each have a blog where they release mp3s of their material for free. They've certainly had a ton of help from Pitchfork and the blogosphere in blowing up, but the reason they have received such a big buzz is completely about the music and performances they do, not because a record label is pushing them to play on the radio. In the current climate of the music world, anybody who makes amazing music can get that music out to the masses, and once they achieve a large fanbase, they can cash in on that success with tours, merch, and the people who still want a physical copy of the album.

Even if giving your music away doesn't end up being a viable economical model, just showing the current model doesn't work may be enough to get a better model together. When the music pirating site OiNK got shutdown recently, Trent Reznor had this to say about it:

"I'll admit I had an account there and frequented it quite often. At the end of the day, what made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store. Pretty much anything you could ever imagine, it was there, and it was there in the format you wanted. If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but there isn't the equivalent of that in the retail space right now. iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc. Amazon has potential, but none of them get around the issue of pre-release leaks. And that's what's such a difficult puzzle at the moment. If your favorite band in the world has a leaked record out, do you listen to it or do you not listen to it? People on those boards, they're grateful for the person that uploaded it -- they're the hero. They're not stealing it because they're going to make money off of it; they're stealing it because they love the band. I'm not saying that I think OiNK is morally correct, but I do know that it existed because it filled a void of what people want."

The music industry doesn't know what the consumer wants. They have not adapted the way they should have to changes in the market. One music company that does get it is Emusic. I've recently become a subscriber to their service and I have to say I've been enjoying it. I pay $25 a month, and I can download 100 songs in high bitrate MP3s that are DRM free. Now the downside of Emusic is that the selection consists primarily of non-major label artists and it can be difficult to find things that aren't obscure, but just think if someone with the money and power in the industry could create a site that combined the Emusic model with the vast selection of OiNK. It would be a great start.

The final question to ask is: What if there is no model that works? The worst case scenario is pirating cannot be stopped and everyone stops paying for albums. In terms of the quality of music, would this necessarily be a bad thing? I mean, I doubt if you read this blog regularly you would think that those that have spoken against this model like Lily Allen, Gene Simmons, and Oasis have made better music than Radiohead and Trent Reznor, right? Viewing music completely as a commodity is not having a full understanding of what music is. I think free-market capitalism is some great stuff in most arenas, but with art, it doesn't seem to do anything but dilute the quality. If people can't make tons of money making music, that doesn't mean music is just going to stop getting made, it means that the people making music will do it for the love of music, not for the money. Now, I want to see the bands I love make money for their work, and I believe they can even in this worst case scenario, but at the end of the day, what matters most to me is hearing great music, and as the industry has been in a tailspin, I feel like I've been hearing more and more great music than ever in my life, so I'm pretty optimistic.

To sum it all up, Radiohead rules.

Here is the first test webcast, Entanglement:

Part 1:



Part 2:



Here is the complete 2 and half hour webcast of Thumbs Down in all its glory:



Now that i've become so familiar with the new stuff, it is cool to go back and listen to the live versions of the songs from last year. Here's a torrent of a show you can download losslessly here, but I've got all the new songs for you to listen to here:

Radiohead
6/14/2006
The Theater at Madison Square Garden
New York, NY

Taper: scb
Source: DPA (B&K) 4022s > Sound Devices 722 @ 24/96
722 > Apple MacBook Pro > Spark XL 2.8.2 (normalize, resample to 44.1khz, dither to 16 bit) > xACT 1.58 > shn
Location: Dead Center, about 20 feet from the stage

Disc 1

01 Intro 02:04.14
02 The Gloaming 03:49.38
03 The National Anthem 05:07.31
04 15 Step 04:31.24
05 Arpeggi 04:33.13
06 Kid A 03:56.39
07 Dollars And Cents 05:22.70
08 Videotape 05:09.07
09 Nude 04:38.49
10 I Might Be Wrong 04:39.20
11 Paranoid Android 07:11.60
12 Bangers 'n Mash 03:46.45
13 Pyramid Song 04:50.39

Disc 1 Total: 59:40.74


Disc 2

01 My Iron Lung 05:31.26
02 Bodysnatchers 04:40.09
03 Myxomatosis 04:24.19
04 No Surprises 04:19.28
05 Everything In Its Right Place 08:36.23
Encore 1:
06 A Wolf At The Door 03:50.30
07 Down Is The New Up 05:28.06
08 Like Spinning Plates 03:10.41
09 Spooks 01:31.27
10 Idioteque 06:41.04
Encore 2:
11 Just 04:28.12
12 The Tourist 06:01.32

Humpday Randomnimity

MF Doom will be at MJQ December 13th. Check it out:

This will be an event to remember; including video filming for upcoming release. FIRE eaters in the parking lot. A large ICE sculpture of the MF DOOM mask for fan photo ops. The upgraded sound system for this event is going to ensure the maximum METAL FACE EXPERIENCE! It is also rumored that there will be models painted to resemble METAL to facilitate fan appreciation giveaways.

Also performing will be MOBONIX and MR. K members of MF DOOM s METAL FACE AKADEMY crew. MOBONIX is gearing up for the release of his long -awaited full length record, THIRD WORLD AMERICA featuring production by Bean One, Danspeak, and MF DOOM.

Also performing will be Budah Tye ( Universal Vibe Squad) Local support acts to be announced. Deejays will be Atlanta's own Apple Jac and underground-wizard Steve Deniro. This event will be hosted by Dres the Beatnik.

Advance tickets are $25. Tickets will be $30.00 day of show.
The price of tickets at the door will be discounted by $5 with the donation of a canned good.

A bit pricey, but when I caught him a few years back at Coachella, he was really great live. Here's a vid:



The new Wu-Tang Clan album comes out December 11th and they are touring. They aren't coming to Atlanta so far, but they are playing 3 dates in Florida that I hope to catch at least one of:

01-24 Orlando, FL - Club Firestone
01-25 Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
01-26 St. Petersburg, FL - Jannus Landing

Wu-Tang Clan : 8 Diagrams : As My Heart Gently Weeps (featuring Erykah Badu, Dhani Harrison, John Frusciante)


Bat For Lashes has an itunes Ep available.

Check out some Mastodon tour video diary:



Creative Loafing did a look back piece on the old Echo Lounge that used to have shows in East Atlanta. I got to catch a handful there and it was a really cool venue.

This looks interesting:



My favourite radio station, Album 88, is doing WRASfest on December 14th at Eyedrum. Here is the initial "teaser" line-up:

Cadillac Jones
Chopper
Clandestined
kids with codenames

And Finally, I saw over at It Covers The Hillsides these sweet fan-made music videos for an Arcade Fire song and a new Radiohead song using footage from some old films and I had to post them here because they are super sweet. Watch them:

Humpnight Randomnimity

Three interesting shows this week i didn't mention earlier are:







I can't decide which Saturday night show to hit up after Joanna Newsom, so I'll probably coin flip or something. With the Thursday night show, I guess I'm going to offer the dissenting opinion relative to all the other blogs in town that I would recommend going to Smashing Pumpkins and Explosions in The Sky over the free Star Bar thing. I know Black Kids are somewhat local and blowing up thanks to the 'fork, but I've listened to that EP a few times and it just doesn't stand out to me that much. It's not bad or anything, but it sounds like a dancier ripoff of the whole Swan Lake spectrum of indie-rock and its just not exciting me that much relative to all the other stuff I've been listening to lately. Also, I caught Judi Chicago last month, and as much as I hate ripping on locals, I have to call it like it is, and I think they just pretty much suck. Just because you perform crappy music in your underwear doesn't make up for the crappy music you are performing. I mean, the show is free so it's probably worth going if you don't have the cash for the other show, but I just wanted to get my opinion out there.

Now I'll cool off the haterade and give you a nice PJ Harvey vid:



Back to the haterade, Band of Horses are doing 3 New Years shows at the Earl and tickets go on sale Friday. BOH, or "Fisher Price, My First My Morning Jacket" as I like to call them, are another band that I think receive a little too much praise relative to what every other band on Earth is doing right now. Cease To Begin isn't a bad album or anything, but it's not a great one either.

Someone who is worthy of the hype is coming to Eyedrum in January:



The onslaught of My Bloody Valentine reunion rumors continue.

Want to see what Dethklok look and sound like live? Here you go:



Here's a The Octopus Project vid:



In case you had forgotten how awesome Marnie Stern is or you are a new ohmpark reader, here's a vid:



Between The Buried And Me are an awesome metal band that i've recently been jamming alot:



In case you don't know, Radiohead did some crazy webcast stuff last week. I've got a huge-ass article planned as i haven't really talked about the new album much and i'm still listening to it like crazy. Until i get a chance to go on an In Rainbows lovefest, here's my favourite song from it done live on the webcast:

Humpday Randomnimity

Tonight:



This new Radiohead album is awesome. Go get that right now if you don't have it. Here's a fun little track of Radiohead and Sparklehorse covering Pink Floyd:

Wish You Were Here


If you're smart you'll pre-order the new Grizzly Bear EP Friend and get a free lithograph:



A track from Friend:

Alligator (Choir Version) [Featuring Beirut and Dirty Projectors]


The new Beach House album, Devotion, comes out in February.

Listen to the new Bloc Party single:



Watch Joanna Newsom perform a new, untitled song from last weekend:



Animal Collective on Conan:



RZA talking about The Beatles:

New Radiohead Album Out In 10 Days!

Radiohead suddenly has a new album called In Rainbows finished. You can purchase a digital download now that you will receive in 10 Days. You can pre-order the "discbox" which includes the CD, a bonus CD, the vinyl, bonus tracks, and the digital download and receive it in December. The "discbox" costs 40 Euros which is very pricey in terms of the US Dollar, but you can choose whatever you want to pay for the digital download. They currently don't have a record label so I'm guessing that is why they can do something like this. Radiohead have always been pioneers in just about everything including marketing (like not releasing singles of Kid A/Amnesiac), so it is really cool to see a band try to completely cut out the need for a record label in times like these. I can't wait to hear this thing.

Pre-Order In Rainbows here

Live Show: Radiohead (6-6-1995)

Word on the street is the new Radiohead album won't be coming out until 2008 now. So here's some old-school 'head for you:

Radiohead
RPM Club
Toronto, ON
June 06, 1995

Soundboard recording

Source: CD-R(1) -> EAC -> CD WAV Editor* -> SHN

Setlist: (click to listen)

01. The Bends
02. Just
03. Bones
04. High & Dry
05. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
06. Black Star
07. Prove Yourself
08. Vegetable
09. Fake Plastic Trees
10. Planet Telex
11. Creep
12. My Iron Lung
13. Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
14. Stop Whispering

OK X: Stereogum presents a 10th Anniversary Tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer

OK Computer is by far one of the greatest albums to come out of the 90's and the folks at Stereogum are paying it tribute with an exclusive download of OK Computer covers from indie favorites such as My Brightest Diamond, David Bazan, and The Twilight Sad.

Stereogum Presents... OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer

Friday Free-Style

I've been listening to the new Klaxons album a lot lately, so here's their new video:



The Black Lips and The Selmanaires are going on tour together.

Animal Collective will be at the Variety Playhouse on September 26th. Watch Panda Bear live:



Flight Of The Conchords just signed to Subpop and will be releasing an EP soon.

Andrew Bird will be at the Variety Playhouse September 13th.

Super Furry Animals have a new album coming out August 27th.

St. Vincent will be at The Earl July 11th.

Rilo Kiley have a new album coming out August 21st.

Here's a new Arctic Monkeys video:



You can stream the new Queens Of The Stone Age's new album here.

The Bonnaroo superjam will feature Ben Harper, ?uestlove, and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. Interesting combination.

Iggy Pop, Jeff Tweedy, Dave Grohl, Frank Black, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be lending their voices to the new comedy central show Lil' Bush.

You can listen to the Deerhunter show at the Whirlyball last week here.

Rage Against The Machine have mysterious countdown clocks on their website.

The new Chemical Brothers album release date is getting pushed back to June 18th.

If you want to hear more Smashing Pumpkins new material, go here.

Patrick Wolf is working on a new album.

Andre 3000 will be playing Sammy Davis Jr in an upcoming movie.

There is a webcast of ISIS's show on june 11th.

Here is some software to use the Guitar Hero guitars to make your own music.

Silverchair will be at The Roxy on July 23rd.

Here's some interviews:

• Feist
• Hold Steady
• Voxtrot
• Beach House
• Sea And Cake
• Tom Morello
• Son Volt
• Grizzly Bear

Here's some vids from Bonnaroo for you:

Andrew Bird:



The Mars Volta:



Radiohead:



Les Claypool:



Ben Harper:

Videos of the Day: Radiohead

The perpetual music debate between Ichuda and I rolled on last night in drunken fashion, and here's some vids of our respective favourite Radiohead songs:

Torrent Of The Day: Radiohead (Bonnaroo)

This is an essential show to have, so in case you don't, here:

radiohead bonnaroo 6/17/2006 - 16-bit version

Radiohead
2006-06-17
What Stage - Bonnaroo
Manchester, TN

16-bit version
Taper: SpeshulEd

Set List
------------------------------------

--Disc One--
01 Intro
02 There, There
03 2+2=5
04 15 Step
05 Arpeggi
06 Exit Music
07 Kid A
08 Dollars & Cents
09 Videotape
10 No Surprises
11 Paranoid Android
12 The Gloaming
13 National Anthem
14 Climbing Up The Walls
15 Nude
16 Street Spirit (Fade Out)

--Disc Two--
01 The Bends
02 Myxomatosis
03 How To Disappear Completely
04 You And Whose Army?
05 Pyramid Song
06 Like Spinning Plates
07 Fake Plastic Trees
08 Bodysnatchers
09 Lucky
10 Idioteque
11 Karma Police
12 House Of Cards
13 Everything In Its Right Place

Radiohead For The Weekend

You can never get enough Radiohead:

Torrent of the Day

Radiohead 2003-06-05 Radiohead $2 bill MTV concert in NY (DVD)

Radiohead
Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
June 5th, 2003
(MTV pro shot)

Audio Source: DVD AC-3 Audio > DVD2AVI > TMPGEnc > MP2

File Format: 256kbps/48KHz MPEG-1, Layer II


Setlist:

01 Where Bluebirds Fly
02 There There
03 2+2=5
04 The National Anthem
05 Morning Bell
06 Scatterbrain
07 Kid a
08 Go to Sleep
09 Climbing Up the Walls
10 Backdrifts
11 Sail to the Moon
12 Sit Down. Stand Up
13 No Surprises
14 Talk Show Host
15 Where I End and You Begin
16 Paranoid Android
17 Idioteque
18 After The Gold Rush
19 Everything in it's Right Place
20 Encore #1
21 I Might Be Wrong
22 The Gloaming
23 Punch-Up at a Wedding
24 Fake Plastic Trees
25 Encore #2
26 Karma Police
27 Lucky
28 Encore #3
29 True Love Waits (Thom Solo)
30 Outro