EMI: Radiohead demanded £10 million deal

Posted on December 28th, 2007.

Radiohead’s former record label revealed the label split with the band for demanding ‘an extraordinary amount of money’, which new EMI boss Guy Hands refused to pay. According to The Times, Radiohead walked out of EMI in the autumn after Guy Hands rejected a deal with the band that would have cost the record [...]

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Radiohead webcast on New Year’s Eve and Day

Posted on December 26th, 2007.

A special performance by Radiohead will be aired exclusively in the USA by Current TV on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The band will be performing all of the tracks from its newest album, In Rainbows.
The broadcast is a taped, private, hour-long performance, which will run commercial-free on Current TV and on [...]

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Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ widget

Posted on December 20th, 2007.

TBD Records, Radiohead’s US record label, offers a widget, which you can install on your website, blog or on your social network accounts like facebook and myspace.
The widget includes tour dates, news, webcast videos and a podcast will be added soon as well. Have a look:

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Byrne and Yorke on the Real Value of Music

Posted on December 19th, 2007.

When Radiohead were preparing their latest webcast, David Byrne came down to the band’s Oxford’s studio to interview Thom Yorke. The interview for WIRED is now online, where they talk about Radiohead’s untraditional release.
Byrne: Do you know, more or less, where your income comes from? For me, it’s probably very little from actual music or [...]

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on Radiohead

Posted on December 18th, 2007.

Just as Radiohead, Paul McCartney has split with EMI because there was lack of excitement at the label. Ed O’Brien recently said that EMI doesn’t understand the music industry. McCartney seems to agree: “But the most important thing was, I’d felt [the people at EMI] had become really very boring, y’know? And I [...]

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Full ‘Do-It-Yourself-Packaging’ ad online

Posted on December 14th, 2007.

The full ad for Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ Do-It-Yourself-Packaging release is online now. As you can see, the cd comes in a special package with stickers you can add on wherever you want to. As reported earlier, the ad will air on American television nationwide on Monday.

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Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ ads online

Posted on December 12th, 2007.

On Radiohead’s YouTube channel a first advertisement is posted for the ‘do it yourself packaging’ of new album ‘In Rainbows’.
The ad [below] will be aired in the US starting next Monday. Expect a longer version of the ad on Friday.
Radiohead’s US label, TBD records also launched a dedicated Radiohead section to their site, where [...]

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Maple/Fontana to release ‘In Rainbows’ in Canada

Posted on December 11th, 2007.

Radiohead will release new album ‘In Rainbows’ in Canada through MapleMusic Recordings and Fontana North on January 1st.
Chart Attack reports that Toronto’s MapleMusic Recordings and Fontana North have a distribution arrangement with the Dave Matthews-formed ATO Records Group. ATO are releasing Radiohead’s 7th album in the US. And it should come as no surprise that [...]

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More cover tracks on new webcast

Posted on December 10th, 2007.

In the past week BBC Radio 1’s Edith Bowman has been playing parts of an interview with Ed O’Brien where he revealed that Radiohead are doing another webcast.
Ed: “We’re probably going to do a Siouxsie and the banshees track next week. We’re going to go back into the studio.”
On picking the forthcoming single, Jigsaw Falling [...]

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Observer - Your Questions Answered

Posted on December 9th, 2007.

A couple of weeks ago we asked you to send your questions for Radiohead to Observer journalist Craig McLean. In this weekend’s Observer Music Monthly some of those questions have been answered.
However, we didn’t get a clear answer on the question how many ‘In Rainbows’ Discboxes were sold: Ed: ‘I think there’s about 80,000 discboxes.’ [...]

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