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Radiohead get remixed by old computer hardware

Hey, you remember that time you remixed Radiohead's track Nude as part of some online contest thingo? Well it was kinda cool, in fact I even thought it was (almost) straight-up 'banging'.

That was until I saw James Houston's effort.

And for those playing along at home, the 'instruments' used were - a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (guitars), Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer (drums), HP Scanjet 3c (bass guitar) and a hard drive array (speakers, vocals & FX).

Via Kripy.

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Random Little Things: Wolf Parade, Fabulous Diamonds, Radiohead, Annie

Wolf Parade have unveiled the cover art for their new (leaked) record, At Mount Zoomer. Album cover of the year?

Fantastic art-pop darlings, Fabulous Diamonds, will be launching their new album at The Toff in Melbourne tomorrow night.

Thom Yorke has said Radiohead won't be 'giving away' their future releases in the same way they did for In Rainbows. Industry revolution officially put on hold.

Popjustice have some details on the new album from pop princess Annie and they claim that it's pretty much the most awesome album EVER.

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Artist Pages: Wolf Parade   Fabulous Diamonds   Radiohead   Annie  

Random Little Things: Fabulous Diamonds, Radiohead, Weezer

Melbourne's spaced-out art rockers Fabulous Diamonds have a new album on the way. Hopefully, it will be all ready to go and available for purchase when they head out on tour with My Disco later this month.

Over at RadioheadRemixed.com you can download the components of Radiohead's Nude, remix it and then upload your crazy creation. Lovely stuff. Except you will be charged for the samples you need AND your remix is going to look shit when compared to Holy Fuck's effort.

Weezer reveal the title of their new album, which is due out on June 17. And I suppose we know how the cover is going to look as well, right?

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Artist Pages: Fabulous Diamonds   Radiohead   Weezer  

Our Favourite Albums of 2007

When the time came to put together our annual list of favourite albums of the past twelve months the task seemed a whole lot easier than last year. With the help of our rating system we were able to shortlist the albums from 2007 that we really enjoyed.

Batrider - Tara
Brutal, stripped back, dirty bath water music. You can keep your polished tiresome songs and we will keep worshiping every action of this delightful New Zealand four piece.

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Artist Pages: Batrider   Battles   Die! Die! Die!   Handsome Furs   Holy Fuck   LCD Soundsystem   Menomena   Radiohead   Sunset Rubdown   Talons  

2007 - A Mixtape

22% Sydney
9% Wolf Parade
22% New Zealand
0% Modular
0% The Panics
100% tasty

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1. Dead Farmers - Violence
Is there any better way to open an album of the best songs from 2007 than with the feedback driven noise of Sydney's Dead Farmers? From the Violence 7" single.

2. Radiohead - 15 Step
Krunk music. The opening track and defining moment of Radiohead's In Rainbows album.

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Artist Pages: Andrew Bird   Batrider   Battles   Black Kids   Bluejuice   Caribou   Cut Off Your Hands   Dan Deacon   Dead Farmers   Die! Die! Die!   Hand Me My Jetpack   Handsome Furs   LCD Soundsystem   Liars   Menomena   Radiohead   The Ripping Dylans   The Shins   Shocking Pinks   Sunset Rubdown   Surf City   Talons   Tegan And Sara  

V Festival 2008 rumoured line-up

We print this with a giant oversized warning that it is more than likely 100% bullshit.

The dates:

Sydney - Saturday March 29
Gold Coast - Sunday March 30
Melbourne - Saturday April 5
Perth - Sunday April 6

And the rumoured acts to be performing:

• The Who
• Radiohead
• Arctic Monkeys
• Bloc Party
• Klaxons
• Common
• Cold War Kids
• Lady Sovereign
• The Wombats
• Operator Please
• Sneaky Sound System
• Pnau

As said, this is all just 'word on the street' at the moment but the mere prospect of The Who and Radiohead double headlining a festival in our town makes us fairly excited. Only time will tell though how much truth is behind this.

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Artist Pages: Arctic Monkeys   Bloc Party   Cold War Kids   Common   Klaxons   Lady Sovereign   Operator Please   Pnau   Radiohead   Sneaky Sound System   V Festival   The Who   The Wombats  

Friday wrap-up

The Mint Chicks recently announced that they are relocating to Portland at the end of the year to give the Yanks a chance to experience their 'power' and also possible record some new material. According to their website bassist Mike will not be going with them - instead opting to move to London to be with his girlfriend. The band will be continuing as a trio for the time being with no word as to when they will replace him - or if they will.

It is esimated that Radiohead have made $10 million from their recent In Rainbows experiment on the launch day alone. They have also just signed a record deal with XL to release a CD version of the album early next year.

Trail Of Dead have ditched Interscope ... via their Interscope blog. We have linked to the cached version of the post - where they slag off their former record label - as the original posting has been pulled down.

According to this thread an Australian edition of the incredibly cool Take Away Shows is starting up. The first few episodes are set to feature Darren Hanlon, The Paper Scissors and Holly Throsby.

Local label etcetc, who recently signed a deal with Pnau to release their new album, have just signed a deal with Universal Records for Australia and New Zealand.

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Artist Pages: Batrider   Etc Etc   The Mint Chicks   Pnau   Radiohead   Trail Of Dead  

In Rainbows Part 2 (the come-down)

Our forum discussion on In Rainbows.

Thom Yorke comments about it all on Dead Air Space.

Jonny Greenwood talks to Gothamist about the new album, their chosen method of delivery and their tour plans for next year.

Van Mega (rightly so) nails the slightly over-the-top reactions in this Stereogum comment thread.

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In Rainbows

Radiohead's new album is out!

Those who pre-ordered it would have already received their download codes and probably (depending on your speed) already have a few listens under their belt. If you haven't got your copy of it yet head over to the Radiohead website and pre-order it.

Our first impressions? It's pretty fucking incredible. Yorke's voice switches moods at a rampant pace and explodes over the music, which is made up of both electronic and organic based sounds. It's probably about as good as you would expected it would be.

Once we piece ourselves back together we will surely put some better thoughts on the record together.

Sean aka The Worlds Biggest Radiohead Fan aka Mr Radiohead aka Sean Mixmaster Sean has a very good wrap-up of the interweb hype surrounding the album from all fifteen corners of the globe.

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Sydney Big Day Out sold out already

By the looks of things tickets for the Sydney Big Day Out has sold out already.

It seems as though the whole two tickets per person thing didn't really stop the scalpers and/or 16-year olds from snapping them up quickly.

But who gives a shit? The download codes for the new Radiohead album are being sent out as soon as the morning hits in the UK which, according to our special world time clocks, is in only about 8 or 9 hours time. Get excited!

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New Radiohead album announced

In case you are completely behind the times like us, you probably already know that Radiohead will be releasing their new album In Rainbows in only 9 days.

The band will be offering the album in 3 formats: a digital download version that allows you to set your own price starting 10th October; a Discbox with vinyl, CD and download versions plus extra artwork shipping early December, and only available from their website; and a regular CD version starting early next year.

At this point it seems that the band are doing it all without a record label and handling it all themselves. What's more, they are completely bypassing the agonisingly annoying pre-album hype phase and the inevitable leak that comes along with it, allowing them to have full control over how the release of the album plays out, without having to resort to the nasty, ugly DRM and other restrictive tricks the record companies have been trying to force on their consumers for the past few years.

Kudos to the band for doing something different and forging their own path. Lets hope the album is as nice as the band are being to their loyal fans

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ABC's My Favourite Album

Last night, ABC TV in Australia counted down the top 10 favourite albums as voted by viewers. It threw up an interesting result, with the top 3 being:

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Jeff Buckley - Grace
3. Radiohead - OK Computer

This is certainly a surprising result. The rest of the list can be found here.

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Artist Pages: Jeff Buckley   Pink Floyd   Radiohead