The former Talking Heads’ front man talks to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke about the thinking behind the release of In Rainbows. It’s a shame that this is not an in-depth interview as the pickings are very slim. A synopsis - Radiohead’s managers came up with the idea. The band embraced it based on the perceived value [...]

Image from Motel De Moka
Moose contributor, Josh K, sent me a link to a cool blog called Motel De Moka where he’d discovered a great MP3 list of dubstep cuts posted up - Deep Night Dubstep (2:45AM), there’s some very good cuts there. And digging deeper Josh found another post that was a rather fascinating [...]

It’s tomorrow in London as I write this post and the good folks at Boomkat offer up a digital download of Yorke’s ‘And it Rained All Night’ and ‘Skip Divided’ with respective mixes by Burial and Modeselektor. So my 2007 Best Albums of the Year top 3 artists are all represented here….such prescience from the [...]

American Gangster
The MP3s keep arriving. I wrote the other day about the new Stephen Malkmus album and today I received a cut from it - Baltimore - a couple of blogs have written that this is a Randy Newman cover but a quick look at the lyrics from Newman’s Baltimore put that rumour to rest. [...]

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I’m not sure why I received this press release so late although I do know I was in Turkey playing a festival at the time so maybe I missed it. So Radiohead seem to have opted for the non-environmentally friendly plastic disc package; and so soon after releasing In Rainbows as [...]

The Guardian newspaper here in London reports that EMI had placed a misleading paid Google ad (see image above) referencing the word ‘Rainbows’ which is of course itself a reference to the new Radiohead album ‘In Rainbows.’ Here’s an extract. Full story here. Drastic times make for drastic measures I presume.
“Tension between Radiohead and EMI [...]

Bang bang!
Fresh MP3s hit the site each week, courtesy of Peel, I’m amazed at the amount of great stuff out there that bands just happily post for the world to hear and download. Here’s my top ten faves from October in no particular order:
Band of Horses Is There A Ghost
White Rainbow Waves
The Duke Spirit Masca
Slaraffenland [...]

One for Josh I think. Here’s a video of Thom Yorke doing his thing….sweet beats..
Update, Justin Lowe sent me a link to yet another new Radiohead video. YouTube, the new MTV.
Radiohead - Ceremony [MP3]

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