Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and Robbie Williams - along with many others - have joined a pressure group which hopes to give artists greater control over their music. A report in the NME says: “The Featured Artists’ Coalition argues that bands should maintain the copyright to their music, which can then be leased to record labels. [...]

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If you were in any doubt whatsoever that Coldplay are on the wrong side of cool, then look no further. Their record company has just launched what they describe as “a new dawn in Coldplay news reporting” the uniquely-monikered, ‘Coldplay Messenger’. The e mail newsletter gets going gently, like a copy of Christian Music Weekly [...]

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Taking yet another leaf out of Radiohead’s book - this time pilfering the chapter entitled Pretending To Be Cool Using The Internet While Marketing The Shit Out Of Our Medicore New Music - Coldplay have just released their first single Violet Hill off new album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends [...]

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Radiohead have dissed George Bush on late night US TV show Conan O Brien, reports the NME. Thom Yorke revealed the chorus of one of his dirges was directed at the man who “turned his back on the Kyoto agreement.” George Bush, the world’s most powerful man, who has never heard of the indie guitar [...]

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Radiohead are set to release a best of on June 2, says the NME.
The two CD set is being released by their ex-record company EMI - run by Musictoob’s good friend, venture capitalist Guy Hands.
(Radiohead put their last album out via X L Records.
Here’s the tracklisting:
CD1:
‘Just’
‘Paranoid Android’
‘Karma Police’
‘Creep’
‘No Surprises’
‘High And Dry’
‘My Iron Lung’
‘There There’
‘Lucky’
‘Fake Plastic [...]

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More Radiohead. There’ll be newer bands soon. I promise.

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Here’s an old bit of Radiohead and here’s an old piece of advice for young bands hoping to break America. After watching countless “hot” UK bands fail in the US, I have concluded that the best way to do it, as Oxford’s finest have shown, is to be a bit like Pink Floyd: white, brainy [...]

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