OMFG. Radiohead's new album, In Rainbows, out on October 10th.

So I was expecting to have to wait another few months for the new radiohead album to drop. Imagine my surprise when I went to their web site and found it available for preorder RIGHT F*CKING NOW. How about that.

Currently the album is only being released as a download through their web site. The deal is you can pay now, and reserve some bandwidth for october 10th, when the downloading begins. I'm a bit concerned with what sorts of elaborate Digital Rights Management bullshit they'll undoubtedly choose to include with it, but we'll all cross that bridge when we come to it.

A physical CD is also available for preorder and is being produced for release in early December.

Either way, go ahead and preorder the album here. I did. Sure hope it doesn't suck.

Preorder In Rainbows online

Tracklist from said website:

In Rainbows:

CD 1
15 STEP
BODYSNATCHERS
NUDE
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
ALL I NEED
FAUST ARP
RECKONER
HOUSE OF CARDS
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
VIDEOTAPE

CD 2
MK 1
DOWN IS THE NEW UP
GO SLOWLY
MK 2
LAST FLOWERS
UP ON THE LADDER
BANGERS AND MASH
4 MINUTE WARNING

Oh, and I should mention that it appears you can... um... choose your own price for the download. So if you're an asshole, the album can be close to free.

The Roots Concert Tomorrow Night. Fug Yes.

I'll be posting pictures and a review this sober affair on sunday.

Firesign Theater

If you were wondering what the title of this blog meant, it's an oblique reference to a skit done by the Firesign theater, who were responsible for some of the greatest and most hysterical spoken word albums of the last century. Check out these clips for a sample of their work.

MP3 clip from All Hail Marx and Lennon

MP3 clip from Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliars

MP3 clip from I think We're All Bozos on this Bus

I own all three of these albums (plus two more), and I reccomend each one. They are incredible, especially 'Don't Crush that Dwarf" (both Rolling Stone and All Music give this record 5/5 Stars.)

All Music Guide Bio:
By fusing the high-concept comic vision of Stan Freberg with the expansive studio experimentation of the Beatles, the Firesign Theatre singlehandedly dragged the comedy album into the psychedelic era. Creating densely layered montages of improvisational routines, overheard dialogue, media manipulation, commercial parodies and sound effects, the four-man troupe devised a hallucinatory brand of surrealist comic performance and Joycean satire laced with puns, metaphors and obscure literary allusions which redefined the very concept of recorded comedy.

Wasted Time

Some art I did.

Good Music: Jarvis Cocker

The video from one of the singles from the eponymous album that you should probably own.

Jarvis - Dont Let Him Waste Your Time


Listen to the former Pulp frontman's new material on his myspace. Trust me, it's pretty awesome.
Jarvis on Myspace

And go buy some Pulp while you're at it (Different Class and This Is Hardcore are highly reccomended).

Radiohead Covers — A Shitstorm of Them

Check out this compilation of Indie bands covering tracks from OK Computer while you're waiting for Radiohead to get their act together.

"To celebrate the anniversary we've asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song OK Computer covers compilation. Indicative of the album's continued importance, each invitee jumped at the chance; the results are personal, intense, tellingly various." — Stereogum.com

Stereogum Presents... OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer

Classic comment from the post:

Hmmmm.... never been much of a fan of "OK Computer" myself. It always just seemed like a necessary stop-gap that allowed them to reach the majestic heights of "Kid A" and "Amnesiac."

Thanks Gary.

New Flaming Lips...

I'm a little torn about the new Lips track that's circulating the interwebs of late. Honestly, I'll pretty much take anything they dish out and love it, and this is no exception. Sonic wierdness and nonsensical saccharine lyrics. I Dig it.

Here, Listen:

I Was Zapped by a Lucky Super Rainbow
(via The Hype Machine)

However there is a problem: It was recorded specifically for the Good Luck Chuck soundtrack. Yes, Good Luck Chuck: the upcoming film starring the spastic-joke-thieving-king-of-all-douchebags Dane Cook. Placing something so awesome as the Flaming Lips anywhere near this asshole is extremely disconcerting indeed.



In fact, I think I'll just pretend it's a lost B-side track and forget about the Dane Cook-connection alltogether. There. I feel better already.