Caption Competition

This picture was posted at Dead Air Space, entitled 'Caption Competition'... So please go ahead and be creative and post below.

And in other silly news... Some media actually thought Radiohead were going to sign to Starbucks' label Hear Music. Here's a statement from Radiohead's management on this:

"Radiohead are currently in the studio working on their next record. They are not negotiating a new record deal with anyone, and will not even consider how to release their new music until the album is finished. The rumour that they are about to sign with Starbucks is totally untrue."

Radiohead rumoured to play at Zodiac re-opening

Oxford's premier live music venue, The Zodiac, is being transformed into a club "for the future" as part of a 2 million pounds expansion project. Radiohead are rumoured to play when the club re-opens in September.

The Zodiac has a long history with Radiohead. The band's management funded an earlier refit in 1995 and the video for 'Creep' was filmed in the same venue.

The plans will see the club partially demolished and rebuilt with three separate venues under the same roof. The total capacity will increase from 750 to 1,150 to be renamed The Carling Academy Oxford. The Zodiac's name will live on, though as a 436-person upstairs venue, which will host new bands.

Work will start in mid-May, and see the club closed for four months. Its re-opening in September will be celebrated with a party. AMG, the current owner of the club, remains tight-lipped over who could appear, but refuses to rule out Radiohead.

The club's general manager, Carl Bathgate, said the larger venue would allow Oxford to attract bands which were currently by-passing the city. He said: "Bigger acts will visit Oxford more frequently." [source: thisisoxfordshire.co.uk, thx Steve]

DAS: Back At The House

Karsh Kale remix of Backdrifts

Producer and percusionist Karsh Kale remixed Radiohead's Backdrifts. The track is available on his website.

Karsh Kale has named Radiohead as one of his influences for his work. Check this page and then select the fifth track. [thx jurg]

Dead Air Space: Mixing it (!!!)

Radiohead included in album cover exhibition

Eyestorm will be staging an exhibition of new limited edition prints by four of the UK's most accomplished designers of music cover art at its Bankside gallery from April 20 - May 20th 2007.

Stanley Donwood, Reggie Pedro, Jason Kedgley and Simon Taylor have all gained wide recognition through their creative collaboration with leading rock bands, but less well known is that all four continue to pursue parallel careers as independent artists.

Stanley Donwood is celebrated for his involvement with Thom Yorke and Radiohead, Reggie Pedro has designed album covers for five-piece British band Gomez, while Jason Kedgley and Simon Taylor - both members of the multimedia design agency Tomato - designed the album covers for electronic music group Underworld.

Eyestorm CEO, Martin Cox, says, "The Cover Up show is Eyestorm's first exhibition in our wonderful Bankside premises. We are delighted and privileged to be able to publish these exciting new editions by some of the UK's most talented artists and designers."

All the limited edition works in the Cover Up show have been produced specially for the exhibition and will appeal to collectors of contemporary art and design as well as to fans of contemporary music.

Another shot from the studio

Todays tears

Tom Traubert's Blues 6:39 Tom Waits Small Change 17/03/2007 17:09

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Maybe we should wait for the Dead Air Spice (!) entry... ;)

DAS catch-of-the-day

Today 2 photos from Colin were added. Colin also posted a review of Nick Cohen's book "What's Left".

New pictures on Dead Air Space

Four new pictures from the studio have been added on Dead Air Space.

Thom updated later on:

ha ha ha ha click oh

(theres more photos on the way... colins on a roll)
link to>...
something not about global warming
but the same time cleverly slipping it in
without you even suspecting
that i maybe asking
for your assistance in some way

i think and it involves music..... phew eh?

thm

Thinking About You remixed

Production company Elements Of Noise have remixed several tracks and posted them on their MySpace. The available tracks include a remix of The Beatles' 'Taxman' as well as Radiohead's 'Thinking About You'. Have a listen at the Elements Of Noise MySpace.

Radiohead.com: white is the new black

A refreshing new look on Radiohead.com. The site went from black to white. Check the frontpage, dead air space and the newly added section 'Hodiau Direkton'.

TIME: Rebels without a contract

TIME Magazine have a story on Radiohead's upcoming release. TIME presents a thinking person's guide to the year to come ("No band has as many weeping acolytes among people who make a regular contribution to a 401(k).").

Radiohead made it to The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Definitive 200 “that should be in every collection.” They are number 111.

Rolling Stone picked Thom Yorke as one of the best five singers of all time. [thanks Ed, Michael & Daniel]

Thom & Jonny's Big Ask performance on FOE CD

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood appear exclusively on a Friends of the Earth CD free with The Observer on Sunday 18 March.

The CD - Artists taking action on climate change - has been compiled in support of The Big Ask. It includes three exclusive live tracks performed by Thom and Jonny at the sell-out Big Ask Live benefit gig at London's KOKO on 1 May 2006.

To tie in with the CD, Friends of the Earthe also released exclusive video footage from The Big Ask Live gig, which includes previously unseen clips of Thom and Jonny in rehearsal.

Other artists who have donated live tracks to the CD are Razorlight, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Damien Rice, Guillemots, Roots Manuva and Polar Bear. [thanks Cris]

Mood music

"They knew they were being lied to, but if lies were consistent enough they defined themselves as a credible alternative to the truth. Emotion ruled almost everything, and lies were driven by emotions that were familiar and supportive, while the truth came with hard edges that cut and bruised. They prefered lies and mood music...."

J G Ballard
Kingdom Come

Thom

The Eraser - Special Edition, Airbag EP reissue

Thom Yorke's The Eraser will be re-released and available through Amazon.com on March 27th.

According to Amazon 'The Eraser - Special Edition' is an "extremely limited Taiwanese pressing includes his debut solo album (with OBI,) a bonus CD single for 'Harrowdown Hill' that includes two non-album tracks, 'The Drunkk Machine' and 'Harrowdown Hill' (Extended Mix) along with an exclusive Thom Yorke/Eraser T-shirt!(One size 48 x 70cm)" [thanks Jordan]

Radiohead's Airbag EP 'How Am I Driving' will get a reissue as well. Pre-orders available at Amazon as well. Release on March 31st.

The Fog Of War

According to Thom: "what a mind melting film!"

Thom Yorke: How to appear completely...

...in Photoshop. A time-lapse video of somebody painting a portrait in Photoshop of Thom Yorke was posted at geekarmy.com. A lot of people wrote in about this. So here it is:

And since we're on the subject. Here's one (probably without Photoshop) by Leigh Ann Culver

Department of Reclusive Paranoia in Rotterdam

Stanley Donwood posted another Taglibro. In issue number 5 he announced a new exhibition, which is a follow-up on the Barcelona exhibtion.

Donwood and Tchock's exhibiton can be seen at VIP's International art gallery in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Westelijk Handelsterrein, Van Vollenhovenstraat 15) from May 11th to June 10th 2007. Read the full Taglibro here.