Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams Sample Thom Yorke
A new Lupe Fiasco tune has appeared online that samples the Thom Yorke track 'The Eraser.'The song, titled 'US Placers', also features hip-hop heavyweights Kanye West and Pharrell Williams rapping over the sample track.
The three rappers’ verses are loosely organized around Yorke’s haunting refrain: “The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.”
Very hard-hitting, 'US Placers' sees Pharrell rap about the recent Virginia Tech Massacre, while Kanye has a dig at MTV. Sadly, it's unlikely to get a full release unless the Thom Yorke sample is given the green light by his record label.
The trio of rappers are thought to be going under the name of Child Rebel Soldier, with Lupe telling Billboard earlier this month it was a "top secret project" that featured "another superstar rapper and someone who is a rapper/producer."
Ever checked 'How to Be Like Colin Greenwood – In Ten Easy Steps'? I haven't, but it's worth a visit... And it's actually won a silver award at the 2007 Horizon Interactive Awards in the blog category. So shame on me.
How to Be Like Colin Greenwood, a Blogger-based Radiohead fan site launched in December 2006, uses humor, quotes, and a variety of social networking tools to give a unique perspective into the music, books, and other pleasures of life that inspire one member of the band.
This summer, the Lazarides Gallery will present an exhibition of brand new art by Stanley Donwood. Known internationally for his work on album and poster art for the band Radiohead, he was the recipient of a prestigious Grammy Award in 2001. His first solo show at the Lazarides Gallery received huge interest from the public, and for his second solo exhibition Donwood has created a series of new etchings and paintings, including Home, illustrated below.
If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now includes a series of ten prints that reflect Donwood’s distraught meditations on the issues that have preoccupied the artist over the past three years including the dislocation and alienation of the individual, the morbid state of society, mass conformity, and the proliferation of war.
The prints are made in a complicated and laborious photogravure etching process, using a printing press more than 150 years old. According to the artist, "Photogravure etching is an almost unbelievably complicated, laborious, involved, lengthy and difficult process. I now look upon my endeavours last year with all that London Views linocutting and printing as pretty much a walk in the fucking park."
Donwood’s work has been represented in numerous publications worldwide, and he has exhibited in provocative exhibitions such as Dead Children Playing in Barcelona in 2006 and Department of Reclusive Paranoia in Rotterdam earlier this year.
And on another note. The New Statesman asked Stanley to sum up the Tony Blair asking to illustrate his feelings about the past decade. Stanley Donwood made a woodcut on cherry plank in 2006 entitled: "Dr David Kelly, RIP"
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have just posted their sexiest celebrity vegetarian contest and Thom Yorke has been nominated again.
Previous winners include Russell Brand, Andre 3000, Tobey Maguire, Chris Martin, Prince, Alicia Silverstone, Natalie Portman and Shania Twain. Can Thom win this year? Vote at the PETA website ;)
The Scott Walker documentary '30 Century Man' will be broadcast tonight on BBC 1. The BBC's 'Imagine' programme will explore the history of Scott's career from his life in the Walker Brother's until present day featuring an interview with Radiohead.
For a time in the 60s Scott Walker was more popular than the Beatles. Then, one of the all time great voices of pop, he disappeared. Imagine... tells the story of one of music's greatest enigmas with insights from people such as Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead and David Bowie, and rare interviews with the man himself. Check it out tonight, BBC 1 @ 22:35 hrs. [thanks Chris]
Jonny posted on Rashaan Roland Kirk today. Kirk was a blind American jazz multi-instrumentalist, best known for his ability to play more than one saxophone at once.
Jonny: Love Rashaan Roland Kirk. Apperently he was often dismissed
as a gimmick, but check this out....doesn't even breathe. And
he invented that talking/over-blown flute sound.....
Belgian newspaper 'De Morgen' has a 5-page special on Stanley Donwood today with an interview, photos and artwork.
Stanley talks about his art, working with Dr. Tchock and Radiohead. The feature is available in 'dm magazine', free with every copy of 'De Morgen' in Belgium. All of this is of course related to the exhibit 'Department of Reclusive Paranoia' at V!P's in Rotterdam.
And another Radiohead bit today, check 'De Keuze van Dolf Jansen' on tv channel Nederland 3 in the Netherlands which will air Radiohead from their 2001 Pinkpop performance including Paranoid Android ('there's a fire'). Tonight at 23:25 hrs.
Stanley Donwood & Dr. Tchock's exhibition at the Rotterdam Art Gallery V!P's, entitled 'Department of Reclusive Paranoia', opened on Friday May 11th and runs until June 17th.
On Thursday May 10th, Stanley put his final touches on the exhibition. Before the doors opened at 19:00 hrs to press and guests, Stanley sat on top a ladder and hand wrote a text, translated into Dutch for him, on a large sheet of paper. Later in the evening, he finished the Dutch inscription ending it with the only non-Dutch word: 'I N H A L E R S'.
The exhibition features Stanley Donwood's artwork from the OK Computer era through his more recent London Views, which was used for Thom Yorke's The Eraser, as well as the original large format Kid A paintings of mountainous landscapes. Inspired by a Guardian UK front-page photograph of the Kosovo war, Donwood was upset in a way war had never upset him before.
Exclusive to 'Department of Reclusive Paranoia' at the V!P's Gallery are numbered and signed exhibition books (limited to 500 copies), 250 (numbered and signed) poster prints and 50 men and women's lingerie sets in a very nice box.
May 11th - June 17th - Tuesday - Sunday (12:00 - 18:00 hrs)
V!P'S International Art Galleries
Westelijk Handelsterrein, Van Vollenhovenstraat 15
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
010 2251120 - info@vipsart.nl, www.vipsart.nl
Today on Radiohead's Hodiau Direkton another short clip from 15 Step can be heard. Move over to Dead Air Space, click on Hodiau Direkton and have a listen to hear Thom sing 'Etcetera, etcetera'.
Radiohead's 'No Surprises' was number 23 in Spinner's Top 25 of 'Most Exquisitely Sad Songs'
MOJO magazine nominated 'Jonny Greenwood is the Controller' for best compilation at the Mojo Magazine awards.
Winner of Interactive Music Award & Online Music Award
2006: Jonny & Thom interview to be aired (+ podcast)
This Saturday a nearly 40 minute interview will air on Chicago Public Radio at 7pm CST and MPR's The Current at 9am CST, which will feature Thom Yorke and Jonny...
2006: Thom Yorke radio interview
Thom Yorke did an interview for Chicago radio station 93.1 XRT, broadcast on June 20th. Thom talks about his forthcoming release The Eraser. Some topics discussed are the samples used...
2003: 'Hail to the Thief' Reviews
There are two takes on Radiohead's Hail to the Thief and a review of Radiohead's performance at the Field Day festival at Atrocity Exhibition. More reviews at HUGO, No Ripcord...
2003: More MTV airings
MTV is airing 2 Bill Show Concert once again Monday - June 23, 2003 Time: 12:00 am - 01:00 am ET MTV2 will be airing the Radiohead Videography and the...
2003: Jonny Greenwood interview
There's a small interview with Jonny Greenwood at Nuvo Magazine [thanks Candace]...
Yes, it's the big 4-0 for Phil today. People say life starts at 40 (but that's just the ones who have just turned 40).
Stanley Donwood & Dr. Tchock's exhibition at the Rotterdam Art Gallery 
Exclusive to 'Department of Reclusive Paranoia' at the V!P's Gallery are numbered and signed exhibition books (limited to 500 copies), 250 (numbered and signed) poster prints and 50 men and women's lingerie sets in a very nice box. 
