The New Zealand Herald has posted up a review of the first night of 7 World's Collide, a series of live performances Neil Finn has put on for Oxfam. Radiohead's Ed and Phil, who took part in Finn's 2001 version of 7 Worlds Collide, came again to lend their support. Other artists there include Jeff Tweedy, KT Tunstall, Don McGlashan, Bic Runga, Liam Finn, among others.

The second half largely belonged to a combination of the Wilco and Radiohead songbook, a match seemingly made in rock-crit heaven.

It also provided the night's biggest wobble. Finn snr wrestled manfully with the vocal to Radiohead's Bodysnatchers, but couldn't quite pin Thom Yorke's original hyperventilations over its monster riff. Not one for the live concert DVD perhaps.

Radiohead's drummer Phil Selway delivered one of the night's nicest surprises in what was his live singing debut of a rather lovely self-penned song destined for the album.

Read the full review here.

(Thanks to Ollie)

Sure, there are a ton of Radiohead mashups/remixes out there, but this one really impressed us. Minty Fresh Beats has put together Jaydiohead, a mashup between Jay-Z and Radiohead.

Tracklisting:

1/10 - Wrong Prayer
2/10 - 99 Anthems
3/10 - No Karma
4/10 - Lucifer's Jigsaw
5/10 - Optimistic Moment
6/10 - Dirt Off Your Android
7/10 - Dreaming Up
8/10 - Change Order
9/10 - Fall In Step
10/10 - Ignorant Swan

Download it at jaydiohead.com. Talk about it at our Mortigi Tempo.

(thanks to Rex)

German electronic pioneers, Kraftwerk, have been announced as the opening act for Radiohead's Mexico/South American tour next Spring.

Yes, you read that right.

Ticket information can be found here.

This will be the most epic, comprehensive best-of-Radiohead list ever comprised anywhere ever, according Mortigi Tempo member Test Tones.

Go forth and participate.

Old news, we know:

GP reader Simeon sent us the following:

Amazing musicians coming together in 3 New Zealand concerts including Radiohead members (from www.oxfam.org.nz). Concerts are 5, 6 and 7 January at The Powerstation in Auckland. Post if your interested:

Neil Finn announces new Seven Worlds Collide project
Music icon and Crowded House frontman Neil Finn has today announced a follow up to the acclaimed Seven Worlds Collide project, and together with members of the original lineup and other artists, he will record an album of entirely new material in support of Oxfam.

“Seven years ago I invited a few friends and fellow musicians to do a special series of concerts in New Zealand under the banner Seven Worlds Collide. The concerts were an amazing experience for all of us and we are delighted to have found an opportunity to gather again, this time to expand the concept and the lineup too,” said Finn. “What will make these sessions particularly meaningful is that all the proceeds of this recording will go to support the continuing great work of Oxfam International.”

Taking part from the original Seven Worlds Collide lineup will be Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway, guitar supremo Johnny Marr founder of The Smiths and current member of US alternative rock innovators Modest Mouse, Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg, songwriter and violinist Lisa Germano, and Liam Finn. Other artists joining the project include Jeff Tweedy, John Stirrat, Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone from Wilco, and New Zealand songwriters Bic Runga and Don McGlashan. Behind the mixing desk will be master recording engineer Jim Scott. More names will be added to the lineup in the coming weeks.

“We are honoured to be working with Neil and so many other talented and committed artists on this project, many of whom have supported Oxfam over a number of years,” said Oxfam New Zealand Executive Director Barry Coates. “At a time when the number of people living in extreme poverty is growing, funds generated from this project will be urgently directed to those in need, providing opportunities and hope for a better future.”

The album will be recorded over the next few months in Auckland’s Roundhead Studios and is due for release in 2009.

Like its predecessor, the project will also see a series of concerts featuring many of the artists included in the lineup. The shows will take place in Auckland early in the New Year. Details will be announced soon.

“Everyone is really excited about coming together again with a few new faces and extending the magic we created with Seven Worlds the first time round,” added Finn. “With such an amazing group of people, I'’m excited about the music we'’ll be making.”

Yahoo! Music News is reporting that an exclusive remix of Radiohead's "Videotape" is to go on sale at an online charity auction. The four-hour (!!) remix video will raise funds for Missing People, the UK's leading charity for missing and unidentified people.

It was recorded by James Rutledge, who has produced and remixed for Bloc Party and The Kills. He was recently included in the NME Future 50 list as one of the "bands, artists and innovators driving music forward".

The remix will be released on a single VHS tape, signed by the band.

Read more at Yahoo!

Radiohead's In Rainbows has been nominated for "Album of the Year" in the year's Grammy Awards.

Here's who they are up against:

Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Radiohead - In Rainbows

In addition to "Album of the Year", they were also nominated in the following categories:

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (House of Cards)
Best Rock Song (House of Cards)
Best Alternative Music Album (In Rainbows)
Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package (In Rainbows)
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (Nigel Godrich)
Best Short Form Music Video (House of Cards)

See all the nominees here.

We encourage you to check out Six Inch Records, a new music label started by Radiohead artist, Stanley Donwood. Yes, that's right, Stanley is a CEO of his own record label.

What is this all about, you ask? We let Stanley fill you in:

'SIX INCH RECORDS' is a project that may take a little explaining.
The story begins around the time of Christmas 2006, when I drunkenly decided to become a record label boss. Every man needs a hobby, or so the cliché has it, and if I was going to make a late-stage attempt at normality then that was one of the things that I should do. So, still reeling from red wine, I typed out a email to three musicians that I knew, suggesting that I release their music on my as-yet-unnamed record label. I have no record of what I wrote in that fateful email, and I had no recollection of it the following morning, when I awoke with a hangover.

Forgive me, for I knew not what I had done. The three musicians replied to my email with alacrity and enthusiasm, promising to send me music, and, perhaps surprisingly, not telling me that setting up a record label at the precise historical point that record labels large and small were going to the wall was probably a really stupid idea.

Never mind, never mind. I started to work out how my 'hobby' was going to work. It was true that the musicians I had contacted made music I liked, and I was fairly sure that other people would like it too. I liked music, but during the period that I had been designing record covers I had come to detest the compact disc. The CD, I had decided, was simply too small.
I began to muse on numbers, thinking about the twelve inch record, the speed of thirty-three and a third revolutions, and so on. Eventually I realised that releasing three six-inch records in editions of three hundred and thirty-three and charging six pounds sixty-six pence for each one was the only was to do this.

There would be nine hundred and ninety-nine records in total. Half the profits would go to the musicians and half would go to me. I was going to do this properly. I drew up a contract, which I mailed out to 'my' musicians and got them to sign it. SIX INCH RECORDS was born.

Read the rest at the Six Inch Records Blog....

(thanks to Rex)

Prepare to be blown away.

Radiohead's "15 Step" as performed recently in Japan, with 12 camera angles from you to choose from. Go and check it out.

(via our message board, Mortigi Tempo)

It's official! Radiohead.com has tour dates listed for Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile for March 2009. Right now the dates for Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico are not listed, but tickets for the Santiago, Chile show are now available for purchase here.

Radiohead have confirmed their long-awaited first appearance in Santiago, Chile. The concert will take place on March 27th, 2009 at the San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium during the Cristal En Vivo Festival.

Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.