27-Feb Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
29-Feb Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
1-Mar Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
3-Mar Houston, TX Toyota Center
5-Mar Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
7-Mar Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
9-Mar St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
11-Mar Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
13-Mar Broomfield, CO 1stBank Center
15-Mar Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena

General on-sales for these shows will begin November 12, with the exception of the February 29 Tampa, FL date, which will go on sale November 19. There will be a four ticket per person limit. For further information on ticketing, go to http://radiohead.com/tourdates/

Yep, and apparently there are no strings attached. Just email XL11@xlrecordings.com with your mailing address and the first 1,000 people get free double 12″ vinyl with these tracks:

A1 Adele- He Won’t Go.
A2 Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – I’ll Take Care Of You
B1 Radiohead – Supercollider
C1 Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
C2 Friendly Fires – Show Me Lights
D1 The Horrors – Still Life
D2 Jai Paul – BTSTU (Edit)

Full release from the XL site:

We work with some amazing artists, and we appreciate the support you show them. To celebrate their work, and say thank you to you, we’ve made a limited edition, double 12″ vinyl sampler. It features a track from each of the artists we’ve worked with this year. It won’t be available to buy anywhere.

We would like to give you a copy of the XL Recordings Sampler 2011. If you’d like a copy of the sampler, email your postal address to XL11@xlrecordings.com and we’ll send you one, wherever you are in the world. We have 1000 copies to give away. First come, first served.

Radiohead announced a new album coming out Saturday but released it today basically because it was ready to go. Pick it up digitally or fancy vinyl package here.

Full package due out in May. Preorder here. Apparently it’s a “Newspaper” album. I dunno. Pfork has the deets:

And…they’re back. Radiohead have just announced their eighth full-length record, The King of Limbs. Billed as the world’s first “Newspaper Album,” an extravagantly packaged version of the record will be issued on May 9; however, the music itself will effectively be issued on Saturday, February 19 when digital downloads become available to those who made pre-orders.

So Radiohead have set aside the “pay what you want” patronage model that dominated the conversation surrounding the In Rainbows release, yet have retained that album’s more important business aspects: Packaging their music as a high-end collectable and controlling and monetizing its leak, which has the effect of creating what these days is a rare, worldwide, collective listening experience. Once again, we all know exactly when we’re first able to hear a new Radiohead record and therefore will largely all experience it together, something almost completely lost in today’s pop music landscape. This in effect is also what Kanye West did so successfully with his G.O.O.D. Friday project.

The King of Limbs will be released by TBD Records in North America, XL in the UK, and Hostess Entertainment in Asia.

Full information is quoted below, and pre-orders are currently being accepted at Thekingoflimbs.com. At present there is no track information.

“Radiohead’s new record, The King of Limbs, is presented here as the world’s first* Newspaper Album, comprising:

* 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.
* *”perhaps”

In the U.S., the mp3 version of the newspaper album is $48 and the WAV version is $53. In the UK, the two sets are £30 and £33; in Europe, €36 and €39; and in the rest of the world.

A digital-only presale version is also available:

“Radiohead’s new record, The King of Limbs, is presented here with a choice of two digital formats:

* 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.

The King of Limbs can be pre-ordered now and downloaded on Saturday 19th February 2011.”

In the U.S., this version is $9 for mp3s and $14 for a WAV version. In the UK, £6 and £9; in Europe, €7 and €11

You can download it from Radiohead’s website.

In some ways this is awfully similar to the Radiohead model, with a few improvements. First of all, the higher baseline kpbs encoding is nice, but I really like the fact that if you pay, you can get the download in whatever format you’d like on up to FLAC.

Secondly, I don’t think this is physically coming out, so it won’t be viewed as a leveraging ploy / future CD-sales tactic. In fact it’ll probably give Williams more recognition than he’s (ever?) had. This is not just due to the sales model, since obviously Reznor’s involvement is pretty noteworthy … especially given his own recent outspoken disdain for the Major Label model of distributing music.

I’m liking these changing times.

In Rainbows .. available now! With liveblogging!

15 Step
Getcher hip-hop on boys, including the trademark Yorke yowl.

Bodysnatchers
A rocker, but in the “anthemic” sense, a la “National Anthem.” Get it? Anthemic sense? Whatever … next song.

Nude
All I can say? finally.

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
The title would lead one to believe this is a throw off track .. but it’s not. In fact it’s a slow builder in the vein of King Crimson. That is if Fripp when knew when to hold back, which he doesn’t. A great bridge too, by the way.

All I Need
Mmmmm … bass keys. Nice and claustrophobic. Slowly expands,. but never really resolves itself.

Faust Arp
Think “Row Your Boat,” if “Row Your Boat” was sailing on the seas of paranoia. Also, file under folk tinged disaster.

Reckoner
I’ve heard this before … the band is beginning to repeat themselves. But at least their cribbing from some of their best moments. Creepy, subterranean, folk.

House of Cards
A distant cousin of “Pyramid Song,” only with a taste of The Bends.

Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Oh! Now we’re back in OK Computer territory? I suspect this is the one that will have have fans wetting their pants. Aside from the inclusion of “Nude” of course/

Videotape
And again, a taste of the past, sort of “Exit Music.”

Overall, well worth the four bucks I paid for it — with is twice what the band would have made from a physical copy sold through a label.

Color us pleased androids.

BTW: The downloading process? Seamless, super-quick, and painless.

In my mind, Justin Timberlake is Radiohead. You know. Anyone with taste would see that its great music.

And if Timberlake is Radiohead, then Kells is Bjork. You know—>acclaimed music by a quirky weirdo pervert. (watch a Matthew Barney movie. I dare you. Thats Bjork’s boo. His films are borderline as bad as Kells’ urinating video)

After the break.
It’s Your Boyfriend!!
Kells.

So. In Columbus, 16 Bitch Pile-Up gets peas cause they know Thurston Moore. The Catalyst gets love for being down with Kool G, Rap. So why can’t I use some blog space on a girl that had sex with the King of R+B? You can’t spell R+B without the R. You also can get the word ho out of Ohio if you are Kells..

This girl from A+F was in Chi. Here is what went down. She meets the R at a club.
They go back to some suave place that I will never be able to afford. They hump. Before reaching the peak of his evening, R. Kelly yells, “big dick coming.”
He tells her to wait there.

I guess she waits, and Kells is nowhere to be found. The lady tries to leave. But Kells has these fancy-ass doorknobs designed not to open when women wake up after he has sex with them. She is stuck in Kell’s love den for like 22-24 hours.

Finally the R returns. The girl is like, ‘You trapped me. What the hell is wrong with you?’
Kells tells her to “pull em down”. She obliges. They do the do. Kells yells “big dick coming!”

Everything is kosher. And the lady returns to the Bus, and tells her friends about the greatest thing that will ever happen to her.

And that kinda sums up Double Up, the new R. Kelly album. Kelly is such a weird-ass freak that he is gonna give you the weirdest experience of your life involving sex & music.

The album starts off with “The Champ” which Kelly answers all his enemies that have the audacity to judge him for peeing on a child. He is so fired up, that you almost want to be on his side on the matter.

Then the cd segways to the albums title track “Double-up.” Kelly unveils his new catch phrase “It’s Your Boyfriend” which hopefully will be this summer’s “Ballin”. The beauty of this phrase is that Kelly says it before songs that have nothing to do with being in a committed relationship.

Its kinda like saying “I Love You” to some friend of some girl you are trying to hump after you told her to shut up accidentally. Its confusing enough that it works.

Double Up is about trying to hook threesomes up. The new twist on ‘two girls for every boy’ is the constant desire Kelly has for the girls to be related or at least appear to be related.

This album is on a major label, and is executed by someone that will go down in music history in the hearts of millions as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. And he dreams of incest.

Other highlights on the album are “I’m a Flirt” which Kells thankfully stole from Bow Wow, and made a great song about how he is gonna steal your girl; “Real Talk” where he tells his girlfriend to “go fuck her funky ass friends next time she needs sex” because he is tired of their gossip;”The Zoo” and “Sex Planet” in which Kelly extends metaphors about zoo, and outer space and sex.

What makes the album so special is that it’s good music. I don’t listen to music just because its funny. In fact, I hate Ween. The new Kelly joint sounds good. Way better than any album that Ween has ever done. I hate Ween. The album has the DJ Toomp’s and Polow da Don’s bringing the heat. Like as nuts as Kelly is, I would imagine 7 out of 10 music majors would argue the technical validity of the album. The other three would be racists that listen to Wagner.

The album has some missteps like including Nelly and Kid Rock. But other than that, this album is prolly the best album by a sincere criminal since 50 Cent’s “Get Rich or Die Trying.”

Don’t get me wrong, I think Kelly should be in jail. But since he is not.
Alls I can say is:
Only in America!!

but yeah check out this clip from the boondocks.