We first mentioned the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s 30-minute robot love story, I’m Here, when the ASKA-soundtracked trailer dropped in January, noting a collaboration by Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner and Red Hot Chili Peppers/Atoms for Peace bassist Flea on the film’s theme song, “There Are Many of Us,” as well as a then unknown contribution to the film’s score by Zinner as The Lost Trees. This week, Chocolate Industries announced the October 5 release of the I’m Here OST, a 9-track compilation that includes the above song and Of Montreal’s alternate (abridged) version of Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? jam “The Past Is A Grotesque Animal” with Zinner, as well as selections by Girls, Animal Collective, Sleigh Bells, and others.

The I’m Here soundtrack isn’t the only forthcoming record with ASKA’s song, however, as the LA-based Moonrats/Sads member will release it on her debut solo EP via Manimal Vinyl on November 10. Meanwhile, she is streaming the entire 7-song effort, including “There Are Many of Us” (track 3) on Bandcamp. Pre-order the I’m Here OST here, watch the film thataway, and listen to ASKA’s album below:

Thom Yorke has finally replaced those pesky question mark placeholders for his new solo outing with producer Nigel Godrich, percussionist Mauro Refosco, bassist Flea, and drummer Joey Waronker. Now dubbed Atoms for Peace (a named which “seemed bleedin’ obvious”), the quintet will finally venture outside of Los Angeles this April. In addition to their previously reported slot at Coachella in Indio, CA, Yorke and friends will play 8 more dates in 5 U.S. cities (New York, Boston, Chicago, Oakland, and Santa Barbara).

If you live near one of these cities, trust me, you don’t want to miss this. For Yorke’s Dead Air announcement, tour dates, and ticket info, go here.

Spike Jonze may have reached all new levels of notoriety with the success of his film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, but the director du jour isn’t going to let the wild rumpus end anytime soon. Premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival tonight is Jonze’s next short film, I’m Here, a 30-minute “robot love story” featuring “a male robot liv[ing] a solitary and methodical life — devoid of creativity, joy and passion - until he meets an adventurous and free spirited female robot.”

Sounds nice and twee, right? Par for the course. But it gets better: I was watching the trailer and noticed that the music sounds awfully similar to Wild Things composer/Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O. It isn’t her, as it turns out, but I was only one degree away…

It has only been seconds since I tweeted speculation that Thom Yorke would explain the “????”s next to his name on Coachella’s official lineup announcement on BBC Radio, but we already have an answer, and… it’s a pretty big deal:

Remember that so-called “supergroup” Thom Yorke assembled for a handful of incredible shows in LA last year? According to Entertainment Weekly, Yorke’s reps have confirmed that he plans to get the band back together for the Coachella slot on Sunday, April 18, but they still don’t have an official name, so the “????” represents Flea, Nigel Godrich, Mauro Refosco, and Joey Waronker.

That’s a lot more exciting than a solo show, right? I mean, check out the last time these guys got together.

Many are confused today about how on earth the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea got set up with Josh Groban for a performance of the National Anthem at the Rose Bowl BCS National Championship last night. And though I can provide a probable explanation for the meeting of these bass and vocal masters, respectively, an artistic analysis will be harder to come by.

As for the former, the answer is Rick Rubin. Groban’s next album will reportedly be produced by Rubin, you see, and Flea, alongside the now John Frusciante-less Red Hot Chili Peppers, has been rumored to be back in the studio with Rubin, a longtime producer, collaborator, and friend to the band.

When a supergroup decides to play a surprise intimate show in LA, celebrities flock to the gig, and last night’s Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco set at Echoplex was no different. Even though the ‘superaudience’ included Rick Rubin, Danger Mouse, Spike Jonze, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, actress Ellen Page, Muse (Glenn Beck’s new favorite band), and many more, Yorke wasn’t going to let them talk over him while unveiling four new jams: “If you want to have a chat, go fuck off outside, alright?” he said, before starting the piano intro to new song “Open the Floodgates” and adding, “‘cause you won’t get back in.”

Yorke and Friends played 16 songs in about 90 minutes last night and you don’t have to take the word of audience members or reviewers that it was an amazing set because the Internet has been flooded with videos to prove it.

Here’s the setlist with a link to video from every performance:

The Eraser
Analyse
The Clock
Black Swan
Skip Divided
Atoms For Peace
And It Rained All Night
Harrowdown Hill
Cymbal Rush

New Songs:

Open The Floodgates
Lotus Flower
Skirting On The Surface
Judge, Jury, Executioner

Encore:

Paperbag Writer
The Hollow Earth
Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses

“Paperbag Writer”

“Cymbal Rush”

I toyed with the idea of putting the word “supergroup” in the title, but I’ll hold off on that. Let’s just call them “friends.” Very, very famous friends. Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco will join Thom Yorke for two concerts at LA’s Orpheum theater in less than a week. Yorke made the announcement on Dead Air just moments ago (via CoS):

hi
in the past couple of weeks i’ve been getting a band together for fun to play the eraser stuff live and the new songs etc.. to see if it could work!
here’s a photo.. its me, joey waronker, mauro refosco, flea and nigel godrich.

at the beginning of october the 4th and 5th we are going to do a couple of shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
we don’t really have a name and the set will not be very long cuz ..well …we haven’t got that much material yet!
but come and check it out if you are in the area. we’ve also got locals Lucky Dragons playing.
all the best

Do you have a credit card handy? Buy tickets for the shows today at 7AM EST here or here. Yorke & friends may just be dipping their toes in the supergroup waters, but they do have a promo pic (see above) already.

Oh Thom, I knew there was a reason you’ve been dressing for the second coming.