"The Greatest Band In The World"

For the most part I try to subdue my Radiohead "fanboy" biases, but there are times when I'm less ashamed to listen to Pablo Honey or "The Gloaming."  Times like uh... now.  There has been way too much Radiohead news lately to pretend like I'm too cool for the biggest band in alternative rock.

I'll start with the most exciting news first:  US Tour!  Okay, it's only the south, ironically the most undeserving region that has received any dates, but that means that soon I'll hear news about Philly, NYC, and Boston.  Here are the confirmed US Dates:

05-05 West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
05-06 Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
05-08 Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre
05-09 Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
05-11 Bristow, VA - Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge
05-14 St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
05-17 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
05-18 Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center

Next: the rumored Amplive In Rainbows (Rainy Dayz) remixes have been allowed and published, featuring verses from Del the Funkee Homosapien (Ice Cube's cousin) and Chali 2na (Jurassic 5).  It's good too.

http://www.onesevensevensix.com/amplive/index.html

Most Discouragingly:

In another attempt to undermine the most subversive band in music, EMI will release a Radiohead greatest hits compilation coinciding with their tour this summer (Just to clarify: the band will be touring in support of In Rainbows not any compilation).  Although I'd be disappointed to see a live set that didn't include any of my favorite songs from the first six LPs, I would love it if the band stuck it to its former label and didn't play a single song off the compilation during the tour.  Hopefully they'll stay away from "Stop Whispering" and "Pop Is Dead" anyway.

Normally I wouldn't post about this, but:

Today Thom will be DJing on NPR today during the program "All Songs Considered."  Figure out when it's playing near you: http://www.npr.org/templates/stations/schedule/index.php?prgId=37&showNav=1

This also makes me happy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUBE_wiPtU

Hopefully, this will make it on the greatest hits comp. Actually I don't really care.

Check this out:

Street Spirit Remix