TRENT REZNOR ON 'KID A'

[30-12-00] Trent Reznor of NIN had some nice things to say in the upcoming AP about Radiohead's Kid A: "It's a tough climate when you're on a major label trying to do anything that requires a little attention. Now, a good exception to that is-I think the new Radiohead record is really good. And I was never a Radiohead fan, because with "Creep" I lumped them into gimmicky, slacker crap rock. But I think [Kid A] is a daring record; it's interesting to me. " More quotes from this interview can be found here. [thanks radiohead83]

BBC RADIO 1 ANNOUNCE RELEASE DATE [?]

[30-12-00] BBC Radio 1 announced that Amnesiac will be released on 7th March. It seems like this is not going to happen, as a June release would be more likely. But just letting you know... [thanks Amy Ruffles]

In the meantime you can vote for 'Kid A' as best album of the year over at the BBC. Radiohead's Kid A is losing with only 5% in the BBC Radio 1 Best Album of 200 vote. Go here to influence the list. [thanks Cody]

MORE DETAILS ON 'AMNESIAC'

[27-12-00] Radiohead have confirmed a few more details about 'Amnesiac'. The opening track will be 'Po Pad' - according to Ed, it's a particularly upbeat and 'poppy' track for Radiohead. The final track will be an awesome version of 'Living in a Glass House', featuring a part performed by jazz trumpeter and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttleton and written by Jonny. Other tracks include 'Pyramid Song', 'Knives Out' and 'Dollars and Cents', 'I Might Be Wrong' and 'You and Whose Army?'. The album will be out in June with a single preceeding it.

VillageVoice.com features a review of Bjork & Thom Yorke's duet, "I've Seen It All" this week.

TREEFINGERS/IDIOTEQUE VIDEO

[27-12-00] Bryan Mendoza is a video artist based out of phoenix, az, and produced a video for treefingers/idioteque in response to the fact that Radiohead are not interested in "conventional" videos. You can download it here.

CAN OR CANNOT?

[27-12-00] Kidaweb's Richard recently managed to e-mail THE Damo Suzuki after searching around for his e-mail address. (Damo Suzuki was the lead singer of CAN at one time who have of course been a huge influence on Radiohead). He asked him if he had ever heard any of Radioheads material) and he said: "Hi Richard, I'm living in country and don't know anything about radiohead, etc... No, I'm living in Cologne/Germany. I'm not really interesting to hear any other music except mine But, I try to hear Radiohead when I get next possibilities".

ED O'BRIEN ON TRIPLE J...

[20-12-00] Radiohead's Ed O'Brien is in Australia at the moment, visiting his sister for Christmas, and just did an interview on Triple J, the country's national radio network. He was on air for almost an hour, talking about Radiohead's year, the recording and release of Kid A as well as the new album. He mentioned a couple of the songs that would be included, and said that the album was originally due for release in April, but they are now looking at a June release, as they plan to release singles off it and do some video clips as well. He mentioned that the band would also most likely be touring Australia this time next year. [thanks Stephen, mtaylor and dave]

More info shortly.

RADIOHEAD ON MTV:NEW

[18-12-00] Tomorrow, December 19, Radiohead will be featured on MTV Europe's "MTV:New" show. It's going to be aired at 18.00 pm (CET) [thanks Ozgur]

Check out new blips, watch video streams from Radiohead shows and download some live tracks at mtv.com They've got: Live performance video streams -- live from London: Idioteque Optimistic Everything In Its Right Place How To Disappear Completely The National Anthem Upcoming live audio downloads: The National Anthem Everything In Its Right Place Morning Bell Dollars And Cents. New downloads posted every two weeks.

There are also new streaming video blips and lots of other Interactive EyeCandy!. Click here

KID A LIMITED EDITION GIVEAWAY

[18-12-00] MusicMatch is giving away a limited edition copy of Radiohead's new CD, Kid A , every day until December 22. It's easy to win. Simply read the official rules and click "Accept" to enter the giveaway.

Australian national radio station, Triple J listeners have voted 'Kid A' as Album of the Year. Richard Kingsmill, the show's presenter, rated it at #2 right behind The Delgados' 'The Great Eastern'. Other high rollers include Coldplay, Muse, Powderfinger, Badly Drawn Boy and At the Drive In. A complete listing is available here [thanks Das Monkey]

RADIOHEAD INTERVIEWED

[18-12-00] Thom Yorke has revealed that when the band confounded critics and went to Number One in the US and around the world with 'KID A' they felt they had turned into The Beatles. After reeling off each of the countries in which the album took the top spot on its week of release - in so doing putting pay to the belief that they were not interested in any form of commercial success - Yorke described the buzz he got from what they achieved saying "We were the Beatles - for a week." Speaking exclusively to Steve Lamacq for broadcast next Wednesday (December 20, 8pm GMT) on his BBC Radio 1 Evening Session the Radiohead frontman also described the feeling behind 'Kid A' as "the idea that we're giving birth to the lifeform that will inherit the earth after we destroy it in about 50 years". The idea is also related, he said, to his feelings about the new millennium, working through "apocalyptic thoughts" he couldn't get out of his head. Joining Yorke were bassist Colin Greenwood and guitarists Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien.Drummer Phil Selway was at the birth of his second child.

The band also expressed frustration at suggestions that they were trying to be difficult with 'Kid A'. "When people said we were being difficult - that freaked me out actually," admitted Thom. "We just moved on - I mean, is writing and being creative and being in a band just supply and demand? It was only people in the press who said we were trying to piss people off. " Ed added that they were haunted by the phrase "wilfully perverse". You can hear the rest of the interview, which finds the band relaxed and self-deprecating discussing why Ed thinks Asian Dub Foundation are the "best live band in the world", about Thom's inspiration for songwriting and on solo albums in the future next week, December 20, 8pm BBC Radio 1.

The NME has an interview with Colin and Ed in the Christmas issue this week

THE STORY BEHIND THE IDIOTEQUE SAMPLE

[15-12-00] Radiohead have used a sample from Paul Lansky's 'mild und liese' released on 'first recordings-electronic music winners' (1976) on Kid A track 'Idioteque'. Well, that's what everyone can read in the 'Kid A' booklet. But here's the story behind it all. Read Paul Lansky's version here. There's also an mp3 file available of the original 'mild und liese'. [thanks Bryan]

LONDON FOOTAGE

[13-12-00] There is some exclusive footage available of Radiohead's London gig. Go here to check out "Idioteque", 'Everything in it's right place", "How to disappear", "Morning bell", "In limbo", "Optimistic" and the National Anthem. There's also a great competition there + a nice flash animation. For another Kid A review, check troublebound.

And if you still haven't seen the 'idioteque' video... click here.

THE 5th ALBUM: "AMNESIAC"

[12-12-00] Radiohead revealed the title of their new album, set for release next April: 'Amnesiac'. The band were guests on BBC Radio 1 last night with a DJ set by Colin, Jonny and Thom. Have a look at the tracklist. Here's an MP3 file of last night's version of 'the national anthem". More on the upcoming release 'Amnesiac' can be found here.

 

MORE PRESS

[11-12-00] "Kid A" has been chosen once again as the best record of 2000, this time by online indie rock crit-mag Pitchfork. to the view the entire list go here. [thanks Kevin].

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THE THOM FOR ACTION!

[11-12-00] Thom Yorke has slammed the "grey haired buffoons" of the world bank and IMF - claiming that although the UK Government has cancelled debt repayments from many of the world's poorest nations, "some countries will end up paying more". UK Chancellor Gordon Brown told a Jubilee 2000 rally in London (December 2) that debt repayments to the UK from approximately 40 poor nations, including Cameroon, Tanzania and Mozambique would be wiped clean - or retained in trust funds where they would be returned once those countries reached certain conditions. [read the full story here]

PRESS, PRESS, PRESS

[07-12-00] Dutch music magazine 'OOR' has a 5 page article on Radiohead. Most of it is collection of articles from Select, NME, Q Magazine and VPRO's Interview with Thom Yorke. In OOR's journalists 2000 poll 'Kid A' made it to #2 (just behind Eminem's album).

Dutch newspaper 'de Volkskrant' is about to release a book with background stories and interviews from the year 2000. A radiohead article is also included.

Radiohead's Kid A is the best album of the year, according to a poll of 40 UK music journalists. Radiohead beat controversial rapper Eminem and alternative act Primal Scream to the top of the chart, compiled for internet retailer Amazon.co.uk.

New York Rock have put an interview with Colin and Thom online. Click here to have a read.

NIGEL GODRICH WEBCAMMING AGAIN

[06-12-00] Now producer Nigel Godrich is finished with Radiohead's 5th album, he picked up his work with Travis again. Last night Nigel was in the Travis studio and appeared on their webcam. They all seemed to be in high spirits as can be seen from this photo - yes that is Fran and co in fake moustaches with their tops off! Nigel is producing Travis' forthcoming LP.

[thanks Ken Okumura]

VOTE FOR 'KID A' AT ROLLINGSTONE.com

[05-12-00] rollingstone.com is holding it's 2000 readers poll. To vote for Radiohead's KID A in the twenty-fifth annual Rolling Stone Readers Poll, fill out the ballot here. And if you do, make sure you vote for 'www.ateaseweb.com' for Best Online Fan Site. Would be nice..

[thanks Jean-Francois Proulx]

NEW ALBUM COMPLETELY FINISHED

[05-12-00] The fifth LP is now completely finished. Here's some information on it : It will be a long and complete full length LP with either 11 or 12 tracks and will hopefully be released some time around April/May 2001. The LP will be made up of the tracks left over from the Kid A sessions which have recently been played live. That'll be balanced out with some of the less 'live' sounding tracks from the Kid A sessions, at least one older track, as well as quite a few tracks recorded since Kid A. There are no plans for blocking any single releases, so the record company may release a single preceeding the album. Thom's quote from the recent Rolling Stone magazine interview : "It goes off in two ways. One is like very broken machinery. The other is really fat and dark". Artwork for the LP is currently being produced. Remember nothing has been officially confirmed yet, of course. There are no live dates confirmed at the moment, although rumours suggest a visit to North America, maybe with the tent in tow, around April/May or May/June time. [thanks a lot Max!]. Want more info on the new album? Click here.

IDIOTEQUE VIDEO RELEASED

[04-12-00] Radiohead have released a video for Kid A's "Idioteque". This came as a surprise, because the band decided not to release any promotional videos for Radiohead's 4th album.

The succes of the 'Idioteque' promo single sent out to radio stations is probably the reason why Radiohead eventually released a video as well. The video is shown on a lot of music channels and features the band doing a live version of the song in their studio.

AUTOGRAPHED 'OK COMPUTER' POSTER FOR CHARITY

[04-12-00] Independent radio station 97-X started a Modern Rock Auction for Charity on their website, www.woxy.com One of the premier items that is currently listed is an Autographed "OK Computer" Poster from Radiohead. Fans can bid on this item, as well as the other items listed in the auction simply by going to www.woxy.com and registering with the auction. 100% of the money that is raised from the auction is given to charity.

KID A ON TOP OF 2000 POLLS

[04-12-00] VOIR (www.voir.ca) published their list of the 20 bests albums of 2000. Kid A recieved the "album of the year" title and the second place of the "reader's choice". VOIR claims that Radiohead should be given the "Nobel Prize for artistic courage" because of the anti-commercial release of Kid A. They also say that "Radiohead should be considered the most important band of its generation. And whoever does not agree just don't look in the good direction". Read the full article (in french) here You can see the list of the best albums according to VOIR here. [thanks Jean-Francois Proulx]

4 'KID A' TRACKS RERECORDED FOR BBC SESSION

[01-12-00] Radiohead have recorded four tracks, including a radically reworked version of 'National Anthem', for a rare session set for broadcast in little over a week on BBC Radio 1 The band recorded 'Everything In Its Right Place', 'How to Disappear Completely', 'Idioteque' and 'National Anthem' in their own studios in their hometown of Oxford this week. The tracks will be broadcast, one a night, on Steve Lamacq's Evening Session show starting on Monday, December 11.

In addition, the entire band will be interviewed at length for the show the following week. They will be in conversation with Lamacq on Wednesday December 20, talking about their year and fielding questions, many of which come directly from fans. [full story here]