Radiohead

The Full Social Network Trailer: Creepy

Here’s the first full-length trailer for The Social Network, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s movie about the creation of social wonder/ill, the Facebook. Thanks largely to a brilliant song choice, the trailer is eerily evocative. That’s the Vega Scala Choir’s rendition of Radiohead’s “Creep,” and when coupled with sad, lonely images of people reaching out…

Recreate an Extraordinary Radiohead Video with Ordinary Tech and This Guide

Radiohead’s “House of Cards” video was equal parts bizarre and beautiful, until you found out it was all data visualization. Then it was just mind blowing. This detailed Instructable teaches the technique with stuff you probably have around the house. Point Clouds with Depth of Field from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo. Those are the results…

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood to Audiophiles: Simmer Down

Radiohead caught some flak when they released their last album online as 160kbps MP3s a couple months before a CD would be available. Turns out, they could care less about FLACs. https://gizmodo.com/radiohead-offers-new-album-for-whatever-you-want-to-pay-305566 We had a few complaints that the MP3s of our last record wasn’t encoded at a high enough rate. Some even suggested we…

The Best And Worst Of Virtual Music Video Worlds

Who can forget Jeremy London’s virtual cigarette, after having fake sex with Alicia Silverstone to Aerosmith’s “Amazing”? Some of the best and worst virtual world-building has come from the music video industry. Strange virtual music worlds, we salute you. The Good: Radiohead – “House of Cards” Virtual Thom Yorke head? Yes please. Geometric Informatics and…

Radiohead’s House of Cards Video Rendered in 3D Using Legos

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…

The Sci-Fi Mixtape of Doom

Everybody needs a good mixtape to get them through the day. Especially when it’s full of references to other stuff you love, like the vast wonders of science fiction. That’s why we’ve compiled this futuristic mixtape for the internet age, full of the best science fiction songs of all time. Adjust your bass levels and…

Radiohead’s Camera-Free, Laser-Made Music Video Hits the Web, Lets You Manipulate it in Real Time

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…

New Radiohead Video is Shot with Lasers, Not Cameras

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. https://gizmodo.com/radiohead-offers-new-album-for-whatever-you-want-to-pay-305566 The Geometric Informatics scanning…

Old Printers, Scanners and Hard Drives Used to Perform Radiohead’s ‘Nude’

Most people just create amusing videos to fit their favorite 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…

Radiohead Finally on iTunes

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] https://gizmodo.com/radiohead-offers-new-album-for-whatever-you-want-to-pay-305566

Radiohead’s Latest Tour Features LED Stage (As Well As Radiohead)

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…

Radiohead Tells Freebie-Loving Music Fans: ‘That’s Yer Lot’

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.” “It was…

Afternoon News: FBI Billboards, Radiohead Webcast, and Patents, Patents, Patents

• The FBI wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 US cities in the next few weeks to show fugitives, missing people and gadget bloggers. [Network World] • Oft–discussed Radiohead will have a live webcast concert at midnight on January 1. It’s almost cool to stay home on New Year’s Eve now. [Pitchfork] •…

Misleading EMI Ad Touted New Radiohead Album, Directed Clickers to Own Store

EMI’s efforts to ride Radiohead’s wave of rainbow-y vibes didn’t stop with their cute but obscenely priced USB drive loaded up with Radiohead’s back catalog. If you Googled “Radiohead” last week, the top ad promised to bring you to a boxset of their new album “Rainbow” (like a bad Chinese knockoff) only to push your…

Radiohead, Saul Williams and the Inevitable Rise and Liberation of the Music Industry

Click to viewWhile Radiohead basked in adulation for dipping its toe into the digital future with the pay-what-you-will In Rainbows pre-release, it wasn’t the first major act to toy with the internet model, and certainly wasn’t making a genuine move toward disruption. Had it truly boldly gone where a few have gone before, it potentially…

Maybe Radiohead Fans are Not So Cheap After All

A recent study conducted by internet research firm comScore claimed that only about 38% of those who downloaded the album In Rainbows actually paid, implying that the band’s pay your own price experiment was a failure. The band responded recently calling this claim “wholly inaccurate,” implying that the folks at comScore are a bunch of…

Radiohead Fans are Cheap According to Study

Data regarding the great Radiohead “pay your own price” experiment for In Rainbows is starting to trickle in, and according to a recent study by internet research firm comScore, only about 38% of those who downloaded the album actually paid. Of those that did pay, Americans averaged $8.05 while fans from other countries averaged only…

EMI Selling WAVs of Radiohead’s Back Catalog for a Mere $167

Radiohead made waves with their latest album, selling it in digital form for whatever price you wanted to pay for it. Now EMI, their old label, is looking to hop on that bandwagon of goodwill by offering a set of all of the band’s past studio albums and one live album in a number of…

Radiohead Selling In Rainbows on CD Via One of the Big Four in January

After basking in adulation from music lovers and RIAA haters for being enlightened poster children of the new way of doing business in the music industry, Radiohead has pulled an about-face that feels like a betrayal and a dirty cop-out: They’re releasing In Rainbows on CD in January through one of the Big Four (all…

The new Radiohead pay-what-you-want-to-download album In Rainbows will be delivered tomorrow in hot, hot 160kbps MP3. Wait, 160kpbs? Aw man, that’s a kick in the pants. [Idolator] https://gizmodo.com/radiohead-offers-new-album-for-whatever-you-want-to-pay-305566