Thom Yorke Tuesdays!

Boom.

The full broadcast of Radiohead performing the King of Limbs in the Basement.

Radiohead - The King of Limbs live from the basement 2011 - BBC from Leander Drieskens on Vimeo.

New Radiohead TKOL remixes

remixes of Separator by Four Tet, Feral by Lone, and Morning Mr. Magpie by Pearson Sound Scavenger.

REMIX!

Open you mouth wide

Looks like I'm not the only person into yoga.

Watch this performance of Radiohead performing Bloom from The King of Limbs at Glastonbury last week.

Thom yorke Tuesdays/NEW Radiohead!!!

The boys in Radiohead did it again by surprising us all with a new track they uploaded called The Staircase. The video is recorded from the basement where they will be playing The King of Limbs live along with new material on July 1st.

on a side note, Phil Selway( the drummer) wrote on the bands website “And no, you’re not seeing double. The doppelganger drummers are myself and Clive Deamer. Clive has long been one of my favourite drummers and so I was really excited when he agreed to perform with us. Hope you like what we’ve all done.”

Believe bitches.

believe.

Super Collider

Ever since last February when Alex and I were approached on the side walk by my house as we were rehearsing for lord knows what by the SF Chronicle, I have never known what to do with the actual material.

Long story short,

We were work shopping new material outside my house because it was too hot to work in my home studio and a photojournalist so happened to stroll along, see us working outside and asked us if he could shoot for a section called "A day and life of San Francisco Artist."

I had no clue what we were gonna do with the material aside the fact that I wanted to work out some new movement ideas. I did not know what medium the material would be used in or what context. A few days later we shot and filmed the material on Haight and Laguna at a Street Art installation featuring SF artist Jeremy Fish.... Fast forward a couple weeks later, we were featured in the SF Chronicle with an editorial/ interview. All of a sudden I was sitting on a street dance that i never thought about doing along with the film but no idea what to do with it. Of course i would tinkle around with a few concepts but nothing seemed to work because there was not enough material. What we had worked out was by no means a full piece. Not a rehearsal. Not a clip. Not even long enough to be a clip. We only had 45seconds of actual footage and 15 seconds of choreography. I gave myself nothing to work with because the context of the material was very site specific interacting with the surroundings. All the photojournalist did was capture the whole process. Due to the fact i had nothing to work off of I decided that it be best to not worry about it until something hit me.

A couple weeks ago something hit me.
Radiohead my favorite band released two new tracks titled Super Collider/The Butcher. Super Collider is a solo piano song that Thom's been playing for a year or so and with the band involved its a whole new beast. This one in particular song sparked my interest because its about the shelf life of a particle which is insane to think about. Thom had given the the smallest, quickest microcosm of an event a soul with major complexity and there lied my answer... I was going to make a video. Now i finally had something to use as a blueprint or launching point. I already knew that the material would not suffice for a full edit but if i put it in the right context combined with the music, lyrics and tone I could make it work. Next thing you know I'm turning 45seconds into Seven minutes which almost seems impossible but so is making a song about a particle explosion. The final product is by no means a dance film or even a about the dance. That concept was thrown out the window a long time ago. This is a music video that explores the beauty of being lost in a perpetual moment.

Enjoy.


Here are the lyrics to accompany the video for you.

Supercollider
Dust in a moment
Particles scatter
Coming up from the soup

Swimming upstream
Before the heavens crack open
Thin pixelation
Coming up from the dust

In a blue light
In a green light
In a half life
In an arc light

I’m a bass bin
Flip-flopping
I’m a pulse wave
Hot-stepping

I put the shadows back into
The boxes

I am open
I am welcome
For a fraction
Of a second

I have jettisoned my illusions
I have dislodged my depression

I put the shadows back into
The boxes
I put the shadows back into
The boxes

I see an angel hanging over the balcony
I see the angels hanging over the balcony

New Radiohead Music

Most of you dont know but Radiohead recently released two new tracks titled Super Collider/The Butcher on Vinyl last weekend in celebration of Record Store Day. The only catch is that you can only buy it if you live in the UK or Japan. America will not be getting the record until June 4th.

The good news is that the band have offered you a free download of the Two Tracks on they're website. click here to download.

Below you can listen to the Butcher which is my new current obsession. Just to be nice I found the lyrics for all of you to sing along to......Your Welcome:) The Butcher by vetter


Beauty will destroy your mind Spare the gory details
Give them gift wrapped for the man with everything
Though I lived a lonely life I was confused
A butcher
I feel nothing As it courses up my arms in position of the worms Up, up through my heart and to my brain
I’m a big slab of basic combination cut out chopped liver on the block
My heart’s still pumping
My heart’s still pumping
He’s a warrior A warrior
Here’s a little bitch coming outta him
He’s a warrior A warrior Here’s a little bitch coming outta him
Coming outta him

Thom Yorke Tuesday. The Universal Sigh edition!

Today marks the the physical release of Radiohead's new album The King of Limbs. TKOL was originally released as a download on the bands website back in February along with the music video for Lotus Flower. Aside from that there has been no band activity involving any press tours or anything outside of solo projects for the album. A lot of fans are mad that the album is too short and does not sound like the Radiohead of yesteryear thus revealing they're true colors. I know that the band is sitting on more new material and are finding new innovative ways of releasing the music so stop bitching you little bitches or go make your own music that you wanna hear. More evidence that there is more on the way go to The King of Limbs part 2. For even more evidence look down to the next paragraph.

In celebration of the physical release of The King of Limbs on CD and Vinyl in record stores the band has a special edition News Paper called The Universal Sigh that will be distributed world wide to select cites. San Fran was lucky enough to be on that list. In this post is me with a copy which sucks because they were only giving away one to each individual. Sorry to everyone that asked me to grab them one. As a peace offering I give you footage of Thom Yorke handing out the paper yesterday along with Stanley Donwood in London.




Are we cool? if not the band also announced a new single coming out April 16th of Super Collider and The Butcher.





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This what you get when you get to stay behind in the studios after a teacher meeting only equipped with a hand held camera, loud speakers and some ADHD.




Music "Feral" by Radiohead from the album The King of Limbs.

Lotus Flower

I woke up this morning with a text from a friend about Radiohead's new album The King of Limbs was released a day early and they have a new music video. I quickly headed over to the site to be amazed that not only did they make a music video for the track Lotus Flower but it features Thom Yorke dancing with choreography by Wayne McGregor. For all of you who don't know who he is, McGregor has the post of resident Choreographer of the Royal Ballet based in London. One of the world best dance institutions. Any real fan of the band knows that Yorke is a crazy muppet of a dancer with tons of soul who looks like hes on acid. McGregor really captured his movement style and added some of his signature loose limb style which ended up being a great collaboration. I have had the chance to meet McGregor a few years back when he set a Chroma on the San Francisco Ballet. He is a very intelligent man with his own unique style and it was great chatting with him as he offered me some good advice while i was starting off my career.

Yet again the Radiohead nailed it in the head and in-cooperated two of my favorite things. Music and dance!

For more on McGregors work you can you can download Entity through Tendu Tv and watch or rent it on itunes. Clearly the band is a fan.

Link here

The King of Limbs new Radiohead Album!

Radiohead announced on they're blog today the name of they're 8th studio album The King of Limbs which is now on pre-order. Unlike In Rainbows this album will not be a free pay what you want digital download but you two options to choose from. The best option is getting the download for 9bucks this mo fucin Saturday!!!!!!

Newspaper Album

Two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
A compact disc.
Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with all good digital media players.
The Newspaper Album will be shipped on Monday 9th May 2011 you can, however, enjoy the download on Saturday 19th February 2011.
Shipping is included in the prices shown.
One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.
Digital Only

MP3 version is a 320K constant bit rate file.
WAV version is a full CD quality uncompressed digital audio file.
One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.

2 of my favorite things.

Street League Skateboarding made a best of video featuring Ryan Sheckler to the music of Radiohead.

The track is called Reckoner off of the album In Rainbows.

Say what you want haters but this kid is hands down no argument better than you'll ever be mo fuckas!


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THom Yorke TuesdayS

When i purchased Radiohead's Amnesiac in Paris back in 2001 i had this song on repeat on my CD player (yes im getting old) for 8 hours on my train ride to Florence to visit my brother.

I forget how addicting and haunting this song truly is.

take a listen for yourself.

Thom Yorke Tuesdays.

Radiohead are in the studio working on new material to the follow up of 2007s In Rainbows.

The song posted below is titled the Present Tense which was played during a sound check in Mexico in 2009.

Think that this track will make it onto the album seeing how Thom has played it solo in festivals and with his new band Atoms For Peace?





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Thome Yorke Tuesdays The Hollow Earth

"Time to freak out. Freak out!"

-Thom


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THom Yorke TuesdayS

Thom performing solo sets of Like Spinning Plates from Radioheads Amenesiac and Everything in its right place from Kid A

THom Yorke TuesdayS

Radiohead performing the ending track from the album Kid A perfectly illustrates why its a good thing to grow as an artist.



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THom Yorke TuesdayS

Watch my man get down at the 4:58 mark during the Scotch Mist taping of All I Need.

THom Yorke TuesdayS

Today we have a special guest blogger doing the TT's by the name of Paul Atreides whos a huge Radiohead fan such as myself. What he did not know was that his selection also has a dance video made by my T.A.G. team featuring the talented Jacoby&Pronk. Killing two birds with one stone so without further doodoo.......THOM YORKE TUESDAYS!

Radiohead – Up On The Ladder



Since it’s been almost three full years since the release of Radiohead’s In Rainbows, I can’t help but feel like the album’s 2nd disc never got the love from fans it deserved. Granted the dividing of tracks between the album’s two discs was a source of much frustration for the band. Thom would want one song on the main album disc, and other band members would want different tracks. The weakest aspect of In Rainbows is certainly the shaky track listing across both parts, that leaves in question that if a band finds peace with what they’ve come up with at some point during the creative process of making an album, can that be as much true artistry as seeing it through to its originally-envisioned conclusion? I say absolutely yes. A great example of a stellar track caught in the limbo of track division politics is “Up On The Ladder”, a stand-out from the 2nd disc. Coated in an eerie groove with crackling phonographs and a subtle driving beat, “Ladder” not only sets the bar for the latter (…ha) half of the album, it gives us a preview of some of the newest flavors Radiohead’s been tasting. Between the solo hits Thom Yorke has been putting out and the individual singles released by the band, I can only hope that if there is a huge-hit new record anywhere on the horizon in the near future, songs like this one will help guide the way.

Maybe we all dream to be.........? from T.A.G.San Francisco on Vimeo.

- Guest Posted by Paul Atreides

THom Yorke TuesdayS

the Rip was my favorite track off of Portishead's latest album the Third......Seems like im not the only one.


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