Featuring Shawn Fogel and Radiohead

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Friend of gitpop Shawn Fogel has been busy in the studio lately with producer Peter Katis (Spoon, The National and Mates of State) working on a follow-up to last September’s One Day in the Desert EP. The record is slated for release in early 2009, but you can get a sneak peak by downloading this MP3 - “The Fight at the End of the Tunnel.” Also, if you happen to be in New York City on Monday night, you might want to go to The Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston) where Shawn will be playing with Eef Barzelay (of Clem Snide), Ferraby Lionheart and Brian Bonz. Tickets are $12.
 
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Featuring Tom Waits, Radiohead, Bob Geldof, Bono, Tokyo Police Club, J. Lo, Bad Religion and Joe Strummer

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Well, it looks like MP3s are slowly killing the radio stars, as music sales fall to their lowest level in over twenty years. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Pitchfork has some pretty awesome photos of the first night of the Tom Waits “Glitter and Doom” tour. I hope he comes to Toronto. I haven’t had a chance to see him since Mule Variations, and I was in the second last row of the balcony (and it was still an awesome show).

 
Radiohead have narrowed down the finalists for their animated video contest. You can find out more details at the band’s MySpace page.
 
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Well, I’ll be jiggered, and you can knock me down with a feather. Prince has mad back catalogue, but when he played Coachella earlier this month, he whipped out this cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” in favour of any of his own tunes:

 
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Here’s some bona fide Radiohead news for this April Fools Day. They’ve announced a remix contest for the song “Nude.”

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I came across this seemingly alarming post today before I realized what date it was …

Jonny Greenwood Quits Radiohead, All North American Dates Cancelled!?!

Happy April Fools Day!

Search for songs by Radiohead on iTunes

 
Note to my high school self: you’re gonna kick yourself for ever liking Metallica. Not only will they try to sue their fans for file sharing even though they became multi-millionaires partly due to a whole lot of tape swapping back in the early days, but they’ll eventually sing the praises of having their tunes turned into muzak for babies.

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