THE CANON LOGIC

Danger Mouse (Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkley, and the mastermind behind the Beatles/Jay-z mash ‘Grey Album) just announced his new band.  DM and The Shins frontman, James Mercer, are releasing an album together in early 2010 under the name Broken Bells.

Meanwhile, Thom Yorke of Radiohead is keeping busy.  He just released two new singles ["Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" (above) and "The Hollow Earth"], and last night he made this statement:

‘hi

in the past couple of weeks i’ve been getting a band together for fun to play the eraser stuff live and the new songs etc.. to see if it could work!
here’s a photo.. its me, joey waronker, mauro refosco, flea and nigel godrich’

Thom Yorke and Flea finally unite…?

For Orchestra! gives us their rendition of Radiohead’s “Reckoner”.

Before the release of In Rainbows I heard a version of Radiohead playing this song in Copenhagen.  It’s called ‘Four Minute Warning,’ a song about the public alert system used by Britain during the Cold War to give citizens four minutes of caution before Soviet nuclear missiles hit the UK.  Pretty crazy stuff.  Here’s an excerpt from the script that would have been broadcast on BBC 4 Radio in the event of an attack:

“This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons…Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. By leaving your homes you could be exposing yourselves to greater danger…Use your water only for essential drinking and cooking purposes. Water means life. Don’t waste it…We shall repeat this broadcast in two hours’ time. Stay tuned to this wavelength, but switch your radios off now to save your batteries until we come on the air again. That is the end of this broadcast.”

Aaaanyways, the song is great.  Enjoy.

Great interview from ‘Addicted to Noise’ just months before OK Computer was released.  Radiohead talks touring, R.E.M., recording, writing, minidiscs, and Japan.  

Interview

Neil Young on what inspired ’After the Gold Rush’:

‘Hell, I don’t know. I just wrote it. It just depends on what I was taking at the time. I guess every verse has something different I’d taken.’

Thom Yorke cover at Bridge School Benefit in 2002:

rad…