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Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood To Audiophiles: Simmer Down
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Radiohead caught some flak when they released their last album online as 160kbps MP3s a couple of months before a CD would be available. Turns out, they couldn’t care less about FLACs. More »
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Radiohead’s House of Cards Video Rendered in 3D Using Lego
1:48AM Adam Frucci | Radiohead’s latest music video, as you may have heard, didn’t use cameras, instead using lasers to capture data that could be presented visually. They then released all that data, allowing people to fiddle around with it. Ian Mackinnon took that 3D plotting data and created this Lego version of the House of Cards video. It’s totally awesome. More »
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Radiohead’s Camera-Free, Laser-Made Music Video Hits the Web, Lets You Manipulate it in Real Time
3:53AM Adam Frucci | The Radiohead video for “House of Cards” that used no cameras or lights, only fancy lasers, just hit the web, and it’s just as crazy and trippy as the screenshots suggested. Above, check out the video, while after the jump you’ll find another video that details just how it was made. Did I mention that because this video is pure data instead of images you can manipulate it in real time using a visualiser? Because you can. More »
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New Radiohead Video is Shot with Lasers, Not Cameras
6:51AM Adam Frucci | Radiohead, never ones to shy away from trying new things, has shot its new video for “House of Cards” without using cameras at all. Whaa? Yes, they’ve used two fancy new technologies called Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. To shoot it using lasers and stuff. Let’s break it down here. More »
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Old Printers, Scanners and Hard Drives Used to Perform Radiohead’s ‘Nude’
9:10AM Adrian Covert | Most people just create amusing videos to fit their favourite songs, but James Houston went one step further and synchronized a bunch of obsolete gadget noises to recreate Radiohead’s “Nude.” A Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8-bit PC was used for rhythm and lead guitars, an HP Scanjet 3c was used for bass guitar, an Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer was used for drums, and an array of hard drives were used as bad speakers to distort and reproduce vocals and effects. More »
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Radiohead Finally on iTunes
9:20AM Matt Buchanan | Tired of being bold and exciting, Radiohead is capping its return to the status quo by finally making the move to iTunes. Everything is available as iTunes Plus, and you can buy tracks a la carte (a first). Was anyone still really waiting for this? [iTunes via TUAW] More »
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Radiohead’s Latest Tour Features LED Stage (As Well As Radiohead)
8:00AM Mark Wilson | Radiohead, wishing to alleviate the guilt of being a rich and famous semi-wielding touring band, has opted to use LED stage lights for their current tour. LED for such purposes is a relatively new phenomenon, as it’s only recently that they’ve become bright enough to have any sort of eye-burning factor. The band is pleased to be wasting less power every performance, but bass player Colin Greenwood pointed out, “It’s very exciting, but without the big Rock Lights it’s going to be fucking freezing onstage.” Though as we understand the rock world, that’s what they make groupies for. [Word] Thanks Mike! More »
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Radiohead Tells Freebie-Loving Music Fans: ‘That’s Yer Lot’
5:00AM Addy Dugdale | Any hope that the pay-what-you-want release of In Rainbows would set a precedent for Radiohead albums of the future has been dashed. Tortured treehugger and all-round good bloke Thom Yorke set the record straight yesterday, calling the band’s decision to let their fans agree on a price on their last release a “one-off.” More »
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Most Ridiculous (or Brilliant) Music Industry Plan Yet: Hear the Album First, Pay a Lot More
11:00AM Matt Buchanan | The music industry did take something away from Radiohead’s experiment, though it’s not exactly what most of us were hoping for. A senior Universal VP dropped this inspired business idea at Mobile World Congress: “If an artist has just delivered an album from studio, we could potentially deliver it to a limited number of users for a higher price. It’s something we’re quite keen to develop; for example, through our own B2C channels—artists’ Web sites.” This is the dumbest idea ever. More »
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