Radiohead

[Scott]

oh fab they are nominated! johnny too....he scored an incredible soundtrack for that film. they all certainly deserve it. in rainbows is my top 5 for sure.

 

[ablazex]

o id still kill to hear creep.. and killer cars, maybe they'll play new songs eh?

yeah the soundtrack for there will be blood was amazinggg. really made some of the scenes in that movie.

 

[pipoca]

I'm going to see them in March, I still can't believe it!!!

 

[ablazex]

i can't believe you guys are going to get kraftwerk as well. MEGA jealous

 

[Treefingers]

I went to the Toronto show and watched it from the pit, two people away from the center of the railing. I've never been so overwhelmed by something so audibly pleasing in my entire life.

They are, and I am certain always will be, my favourite band.

 

[Girl Afraid]

kraftwerk and radiohead two nights in a row !!

 

[Inaya]

congrats pipoca radiohead are the best band and the best LIVE band also

 

[reckoner]

It's been quiet lately from Radiohead. So I was looking through youtube of old footage of them but found new interviews of Ed and Phil who are doing a project right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X3O70ttpLshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOfp-eeW8M

 

[ablazex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdjGRhkM0M&feature=channel

live on le reservoir in HD- too awesome. and i just noticed, hedi slimane at 11:08 and 48:17.

 

[milourh]

They're going to perform at the Grammies next week -end. It's been confirmed. Pretty exciting!

 

[ablazex]

yeah! wonder what they'll play. more importantly- will phil wear his purple shirt???

 

[milourh]

They will perform '15 Step'.

pics of the rehearsal on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65094&id=36736245747

not a clue abut the purple shirt yet, but thom should cut his hair!

 

[ablazex]

i like his hair

here's colin and ed, but we're missing phil

atease

 

[m.j.]

Will the industry finally give Radiohead its due?

AP – This Aug. 15, 2008 file photo shows guitarist Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead performing at the Molson Amphitheater …



LOS ANGELES – Radiohead has sold millions by making some of the most daring and genre-defying music of the last two decades. But even with their industry-changing "In Rainbows," they've always seemed to be stuck in the alternative world.
Though they've been twice nominated for an album-of-the-year Grammy, their two Recording Academy trophies are in the alternative category. Could a best-album win on Sunday elevate the critically revered group to a new — and decidedly more mainstream — level?
Jonny Greenwood, the group's multi-instrumentalist, thinks those are good questions to ask. And he isn't quite sure the answers matter.
"I don't know, I'm curious," he wondered before a rehearsal for the Sunday telecast, during which Radiohead is set to perform. "Are we the kind of band that it would change anything, really? It's sort of hard to imagine that it would."
Radiohead's "In Rainbows" was first released via the Internet in the fall of 2007 in a pay-what-you-wish model that shook up a shaky industry. The band achieved double-platinum success in the past but is not the kind of act that churns out radio hits or blockbuster CDs like Coldplay or Lil Wayne, both competitors in the album of the year race (also up for best album are the unlikely pairing of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; and platinum R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo).
Much of the talk heading into the Grammys has been about Lil Wayne, the rapper who is up for a leading eight Grammys, and Coldplay, which garnered seven.
But Radiohead — which includes Greenwood, frontman Thom Yorke, guitarist Ed O'Brien, drummer Phil Selway and Greenwood's brother Colin — was showered with six Grammy nominations (and the album got a seventh for the producer of the year for Nigel Goodrich) for "In Rainbows," a surreal and hypnotic mix of sounds.
Though the British group has lost the album-of-the-year category twice before, when they were nominated for the seminal albums "Kid A" and "OK Computer," Greenwood doesn't feel like the band is due to finally be rewarded.
In fact, he claimed ignorance on the significance of the American awards ceremony.
"I'm confused, because whenever I watch 'The Simpsons,' they're very rude about the Grammys," he said with a laugh in between spoonfuls of soup at the famed Chateau Marmond hotel. "It's hard to know how important they are."
Besides arguable prestige, the Grammys undoubtedly can provide a significant sales boost for winners in top categories, and along with its telecast, introduce an act to a whole new audience.
But that's never been much of a goal for Greenwood and his band.
"It's a big paradox for us. We're sort of ambitious, but maybe not ambitious enough," he said. "You hear some bands saying they want to be the biggest they want to be the greatest. We do and we don't.
"We don't and then we see other bands doing really well, and then we say, 'We should be doing some of that, we should be a little bit like that,'" he laughs.
To that end, Greenwood jokingly practiced his pose for Grammy day, holding out his arms and imagining the armful of Grammys that Radiohead might pick up.
But in typical self-depricating fashion, he conceded that the reality might consist of the band following Coldplay around — "helping them hold theirs."

news.yahoo.com

 

[kimair]

they performed 15 steps with the usc marching band...it was incredible...

Radiohead took home the prize for Best Alternative Album for In Rainbows, which also won for Best Deluxe Packaging.

 

[reckoner]

^ I agree best performance of the night. I love Thom spazz of a dance. Still wish they won for album of the year.

Singer Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs '15 Step' during the 51st Annual Grammy Awards held at the Staples Center on February 8, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

 

[miwa]

I agree, they should have won Album of the Year. But oh well. Their performance was awesome.
I still don't get why they arrived at the Grammys at all, since Thom is all about environment and flying to LA for only one event would be against his priorities. Plus when they showed them as nominees for Album of the Year, they looked really uninterested and like they didn't want to be there.

 

[Scott]

wouldn't you with that lot? they were the coolest artists there....totally out of place.

 

[dajrekshn]

they were incredible last night

 

[MulletProof]

wouldn't you with that lot? they were the coolest artists there....totally out of place.

I know
weren't they rejected from the grammys in 1997 (or 98?) for not being too appealing in terms of look or sound for the audience?, Thom said something like that in Meeting people is easy... I would've been happy if they had declined the invitation, the grammys meant little then and mean a lot less now.. but anyway!, last night's performance was ridiculously beautiful.. I thought 15 step couldn't get any better but the marching band took it to a whole new level.. and how lucky are these guys to be trained by Jonny?..