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Listen: Caribou and Jacques Green Remix Radiohead
On July 4th in the UK and July 5th in America, Radiohead will be releasing a series of limited edition 12” releases of remixes of their latest album, The King of Limbs, which was released early this year in February. The first of these releases will contain a remix of “Little By Little” by Caribou and a remix of “Lotus Flower” by Jacques Greene. The remixes will be available for order here on their release day. Check them out below.
Radiohead to Perform ‘The King of Limbs’ Live on TV
Radiohead will be playing their new album, The King of Limbs, in it entirety on TV, with the BBC internationally distributing the broadcast on July 1st. According to a press release, the 55-minute program will be entitled Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live From the Basement and include additional behind-the-scenes footage.
As the show’s title suggests, the live performance will be a part of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich’s “From The Basement” series. “The programme is filmed in HD, will have no audience and no presenter – just a rare opportunity to see an intimate performance from one of the greatest bands in the world.”
12 Good Looking Album Artworks (Post-2000)
Album artwork made its first appearance in 1938, when Alex Steinweiss introduced artwork over the previously, plainly labeled covers. This “invention” provided every album with its own unique identity and images that fans could associate their music with. When we think of an album, the first thing that often comes to mind is the cover; it’s become a peripheral of music that no album, EP, or single can do without, remaining with us even in the digital format.
The following twelve album artworks are not ranked in any particular order.
Fall Out Boy – Infinity On High
The flying sheep and dream-like atmosphere are this cover’s best features. The artwork has depth and gives you plenty to look at, especially the various contrasts that coexist (moon/wall and crow/wall with light and dark values, closet interior/wall with temperature values). The artwork just has a unique dream feel.
Brand New – Deja Entendu
I have no idea why the astronaut is there, but this cover just looks, to put it simply, cool. Contrasting temperatures result in an odd feel that absolutely fits Brand New’s distinct rock sound. This feel is further expressed by the textures of the water and sky.
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
No stairs here to reflect the album title, but the cover looks fantastic nonetheless. The multi-hued red, green and blue colored strips of paper being layered have great visual texture and the fact that no two strips share the same tone (more or less) gives this cover a lot of interest.
Radiohead – In Rainbows
This pop art styled cover designed by Stanley Donwood, who has done every Radiohead artwork since 1994, looks like something created digitally when in fact it (surprisingly) isn’t. It features a galaxy photograph layered with paint and interesting type that looks simple and fits Radiohead’s style of experimental music. The variety of color also serves to reflect the album title itself.
MGMT – Congratulations
‘Psychedelic’ just about sums up this cover. Odd colors, an i-don’t-know-what’s-going-on scene, and the cartoony style makes the cover seem like it’s something you’d see in a weird dream or trip (drugs are bad for you, kids).
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Clean cover, with something other than the generic rapper’s face or body photograph. From a distance, the red bars have strong dominance and clearly indicate the cover is of the 3rd installation of Jay-Z’s ‘Blueprint’ records. Closer up you notice the objects piled up which adds complexity and depth.
Delphic – Acolyte
The artwork is absolutely amazing. Great photo-manipulation of the band members and the smoke they fade into. It’s something you definitely won’t mind looking at on your ipod.The background may be a tad simple when the complex photomanip is placed on top, but the Delphic typeface works to ease the combination.
Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light
Beautiful photograph with vibrant colors, giving insight to what the music itself is like. Nothing really much to say, just a wonderful looking cover.
The Killers – Hot Fuss
Smoooth. A soft blue dominates the cover (plus hints of red), and gives off a fuzzy, mellow feel. The Killers’ logo typeface fits well too, although I’m not sure I can say the same for the buildings lining the bottom…
Kanye West – Graduation
The cartoon style of this artwork by Takashi Murakami is great and the colors are extremely eye-catching. The illustration features West in a teddy-bear form (known as “Dropout Bear”, referencing an earlier record) being shot out of a colorful, vectorized who-knows-what. This is one creative rap album cover that sets it apart from nearly every other.
Passion Pit – Manners
Green paint, white text. What else do you really need?
Pendulum – Immersion
The feel of this cover is great. This artwork by Polish artist Valp is mysterious and just seems to fit the sound of Immersion. The colors are great, using a majority of cool green and blue while adding hints of warmer purple and red to increase interest. There is just so much going on here that some may not notice all the subtle elements of the art from a quick glance or from their music player screens.
Radiohead Denies King of Limbs, Part 2
Radiohead are a band known for their antics, surprising fans earlier this year with the release of eighth studio album The King of Limbs. Almost as soon as the album was released, rumors began to spread indicating that perhaps the album was not finished and that the band would be releasing a second album.
Two months of silence later, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien confirmed to BBC 6 Music that the rumors are untrue and no King of Limbs, Part 2 will be released. The band, however, will still be releasing two previously unreleased songs (“The Butcher” and “Supercollider”) on Record Store Day (April 16th). Ed O’Brien stated to BBC, “’The Butcher’ is from the King Of Limbs sessions. ‘Supercollider’ was recorded during that period and finished off after the album came out”.
He added, “There are [other] songs that we have started, that we never finished, but there’s not like seven or eight finished songs waiting in the wings to be released now, or in the autumn, or something. When we start a new record, we tend to start afresh. It’s kind of an evolutionary thing – only the fittest survive.”
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business “Pick What You Pay” Tour
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business will be headlining a three week “Pick What You Pay” tour this spring, a new and innovative plan from Ace Enders, who we talked to last month after he raised over $30,000 via Kickstarter. The audience will be able to choose their own ticket price for the shows, an idea that seems extremely unique and risky for a cash-strapped musician, but also highly rewarding for the fanbase, which Ace is passionately devoted to.
The goodwill doesn’t end there, though. Each advanced purchase ticket will come with a limited edition signed poster and admission to a discussion session about the future of music with the band that will be filmed and included in a documentary to be released this coming fall. Pre-sale tickets will be available through Artist Arena starting on March 15.
Considering that the majority of a band’s revenue is generated through ticket sales and merchandise, I Can Make a Mess’s willingness to allow fans to choose ticket prices is extremely unprecedented. While the pay-what-you-want business model has been quite successful with digital album downloads (Radiohead‘s In Rainbows comes to mind), the same approach is new to touring and, actually, to the best of my knowledge has not actually been implemented before. With all the bonuses tied in to the advance tickets, fans of the band should be more than satisfied – the only question that remains is whether or not enough money can be generated to make a profit or at least break even. Best of luck to Ace and his band on their new endeavor.
Check out the tour dates below.
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business “Pick What You Pay” Tour Dates:
5/17 – Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
5/18 – New York, NY – Studio @ Webster Hall
5/19 – Providence, RI – Club Hell
5/20 – Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance
5/21 – Manchester, NH – Rockos
5/22 – Hartford, CT – Webster Underground
5/24 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
5/25 – Lansing, MI – Mac’s Bar
5/26 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen
5/27 – Madison, WI – The Loft
5/28 – DeKalb, IL – The House Café
5/29 – Des Moines, IA – House of Bricks
5/31 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
6/1 – Covington, KY – Mad Hatter
6/2 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Smiling Moose
6/3 – Vienna, VA – Jammin Java
6/4 – Philadelphia, PA – Northstar Bar
Radiohead Releases ‘The King of Limbs’ Early
It appears that Radiohead has surprised their fans once again. Their newest album, The King of Limbs, has been released earlier than previously announced, with digital pre-orders already beginning to arrive. The album is eight tracks long and a MP3 version can be ordered here for a set price of $9. The King of Limbs will also be available in CD, vinyl, and “newspaper” editions. Check out all the options here and the tracklisting below.
The King of Limbs Tracklist:
01. Bloom
02. Morning Mr Magpie
03. Little by Little
04. Feral
05. Lotus Flower
06. Codex
07. Give Up The Ghost
08. Separator
Radiohead Gives their Valentine’s Day Love with an Eighth Album
There have been rumors circulating recently about Radiohead‘s new album, but these have finally been cleared. The new album, The King of Limbs, has been announced to be released in 5 days, on February 19. You can pre-order and view the details of the album here.
Review: Underoath – Ø (Disambiguation)
Underoath – Ø (Disambiguation)
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Label: Solid State Records
Purchase: iTunes | Insound | Amazon
With zero, count ’em, zero original members in the band, some longtime Underoath fans will be bold enough to say that this Underoath just isn’t truly the Underoath that originated in 1997. Some radical fans went as far as saying they should change their name or just call it quits, which was the exact thing suspected to evidently happen by vocalist Spencer Chamberlain, who had doubts about the band’s future after the departure of the band’s sole original member, drummer/singer Aaron Gillespie, in early 2010. But with the recruitment of former Norma Jean drummer, and long-time friend of the band, Daniel Davison, and a refreshed state of mind, Chamberlain and his fellow bandmates decided to press on with the Underoath name and record a brand new record, marking the point of new beginnings for the six-piece Florida-based metalcore band.
The new album titled Ø (Disambiguation) shows just how much Gillespie’s presence was holding back the band. With complete control over vocal duties, Chamberlain doesn’t hold anything back. Unleashing an incredibly dark and eerie singing variation, while transitioning beautifully into utterly menacing screams, it is quite clear that this is Chamberlain’s band now, and nobody is going to stunt his creative control.
Lyrically, Chamberlain has never been more vulnerable in his career. Knowing his past struggles with drugs, and his current passion and faith for the lord, Chamberlain weaves a thick, yet shallow web of words that undeniably seeps from the very depths of his dark memory. As he repeatedly shouts “Where is my fix?” in “A Divine Eradication”, one can’t help but feel the passion and emotion that flows up and out of Chamberlain’s throat.
Not only is the vocalization stunning in the newest edition of Underoath, but new stickman Davison also delivers a style of drumming that flows smoother than ever, yet hits you harder than anything Gillespie has ever accomplished on previous releases. The guitar work of Timothy McTague and James Smith continues to keep the same intricacy and experimentation, staying on par with the two previous Underoath’s releases,Define The Great Line and Lost In The Sound Of Separation. Also, the atmospheric delivery of programming, graciously provided to the listener by longest tenured member, Chris Dudley, on Ø (Disambiguation) is about as prominent as it has ever been, creating the illusion of floating adrift at sea in each and every song (most present in “Paper Lung” and “Driftwood”) of this undoubtedly water-themed album.
From the heaviness of the tracks “Illuminator” and “My Deteriorating Incline” to the ambient, Radiohead-esque feel of and “Driftwood”, Ø (Disambiguation) is a huge step forward for a band that has already progressed so far in their musical endeavors. With no end in sight (crossing my fingers!), Underoath has proven they are one of the top dogs in today’s declining music scene, always creating something fresh and intricate to rejuvenate the slow downfall of the state of music.
8.7
Standout Tracks: “Catch Myself Catching Myself”, “In Divison”, “Vacant Mouth”
Colin Greenwood on Music Distribution
Radiohead bassist, Colin Greenwood, has written about music distribution and how Radiohead tries to utilize and improve it.
“The ability to have a say in its release, through the new technologies, is the most empowering thing of all.”
Free Radiohead Concert Download
Live in Praha is a fan-made and fan-shot dvd of Radiohead‘s performance in Prague on August 23, 2009 with audio provided by the band themselves. You can either download or stream the entire thing on their website free of charge.
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