Johnny Marr, Jeff Tweedy, Ed O’Brien + Others Team Up for Oxfam


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Pitchfork reports Crowded House’s Neil Finn, Johnny Marr, Ed O’Brien (Radiohead drummer), Phil Selway, Jeff Tweedy, KT Tunstall, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Pat Sansone and others have formed this supergroup-esque collaborative follow-up to 2001’s 7 Worlds Collide. Unfortunately, Monsters of Folk just announced their record and Dead Weather remains fairly awesome. Too many supergroups in existence at one time will swallow all other non-super bands into a supergroup black hole, but we can look the other way just this once because this one’s a benefit for Oxfam International and not just a publicity stunt or excuse to tour with your bros. It’s also less a supergroup and more Judgement Night-style pairings of famous artists with other famous artists for individual tracks, only instead of rappers pairing up with rockers and our music collections suddenly including a Mudhoney/Sir Mix-A-Lot song, Neil Finn teams up with KT Tunstall and a ton of little kids around the world get to eat.

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Radiohead Open Up Digital Shop


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Just a few days after Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon sounded off on Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want model, the British rock demigods have opened up their own digital record shop at their Dead Air Space page. You may remember that when the band released their latest, In Rainbows, only the first disc in the set of two was available for whatever you fancied, the second only for purchase as part of a relatively pricey box set. No more. Now, in addition to Thom Yorke’s The Eraser and guitarist Johnny Greenwood’s work on the “There Will Be Blood” soundtrack, you can purchase Disc 2 from In Rainbows exclusively from the new w.a.s.t.e shop. Or just rip a friend’s copy!

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Radiohead Enters Studio, Get Ready To Be Informed About Every Annoying Detail


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Us Radiohead fans are a rabid bunch; any mention of “Radiohead” and “new” together, and we think the second coming of Christ is here. Hell, Thom Yorke could crook his pinky at us and we’d break out into hives trying to interpret it.
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The Award For Worst Advice Ever: Radiohead’s Managers Told Them To Split Before In Rainbows


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Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but we bet that Brian Message feels like a pretty big tool for actually recommending that Radiohead part ways prior to the release of their epic, insanely successful In Rainbows.
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Cave In Release Official Statement: Band To Reunite And Release New EP


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In 2006 Cave In took a break from the music world after releasing Perfect Pitch Black. But it looks as though a three and a half year hiatus was enough to rekindle the desire to make music, because the Boston-based band has regrouped and will be releasing a new EP along with a coinciding reunion show this July.
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