It seems that some people were interesting in flailing with me over Thom Yorke's performance with his new band (and Flea) on Friday, so I thought I'd share the bootleg I discovered today... It's pretty decent quality audio and of course it contains the four (!) new songs he played solo during the first encore. Someone uploaded a zip file of the ( Read more... )

I accidentally my HTML so badly when I tried to add videos to my previous post. I spent forever just trying to restore that post to its original state so I'm making a new one.

( Harrowdown Hill. GUH. )

New song!

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Thom Yorke played a "warm up" show with his new band last night in LA. It was supposed to be short but they played 2 encores and 4 new songs. Not to mention Flea playing bass on songs from The Eraser.

( Setlist under the cut... )

Normally, new Grizzly Bear songs make me happy. Especially when said songs are duets with Victoria Legrand (of Beach House). But not when said songs are on the New Moon Soundtrack. Seriously, guys. Seriously. Twilight is not a high quality franchise. I mean, they're exposing their music to an entirely different demographic of people, which can only ( Read more... )

So I turn on the computer and open up Pitchfork (Yes, Pitchfork. Shut up.) and the headline is something about the Dirty Projectors playing a new song live, which is cool and all, and normally I would be excited about that. But. BUT. Right underneath the main headline, it says

Thom Yorke Starts New Band With Flea From Red Hot Chili Peppers

Whaaaaaaat ( Read more... )