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Radiohead Releasing “The Daily Mail” / “Staircase”
Despite not appearing on The King of Limbs or their Record Store Day single, my favorite new Radiohead song of the year was “The Daily Mail,” originally unveiled with Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace before the band played it at Glastonbury and a proper Nigel Godrich-produced rendition arrived a year later on From the Basement. As it turns out, they’re putting this tune out before the new year along with another standout from the TKOL cutting room floor, “Staircase.” Based on Amazon snippets, both tracks were culled from the Basement recordings, though a quick trip back to the above take proves that the live, in-studio version is more than ready for official release. Update: Radiohead shared a stream of both tracks via their official YouTube channel:
“The Daily Mail”
“Staircase”
In Other News
By Casey Newton
Wilco’s 8th record, The Whole Love, came out in September, and was greeted with hosannahs by rock critics yearning for a return to form. “Powerful, mind-reeling stuff, if you have the heart for it,” said Rolling Stone. “Wilco’s most sonically adventurous work since 2004’s A Ghost Is Born,” offered Entertainment Weekly. Pitchfork, in the most enthusiastic 6.9 review you’ll read, said The Whole Love “recaptured some of that old unpredictability”: “From Being There through A Ghost Is Born, the band’s best work has always perched itself upon the edge of traditionalism and experimentation, and The Whole Love is the first of their albums in years not to shy away from such risks.”
To make their case, reviewers fixated on the record’s little sonic oddities, which Wilco festooned upon its new songs like so many rhinestones on a belt buckle.
Radiohead returned to Saturday Night Live moments ago for the first time since their 2000 tour de force performance of Kid A’s “Idiotheque” and “The National Anthem.” While Thom Yorke broke out plenty of dance moves for their set over a decade ago, tonight he graced the 30 Rock stage with maracas and a few of those fresh steps we saw in the “Lotus Flower” video back in February. Guest drummer Clive Deamer rejoined the band for the second segment: a take on post-The King of Limbs tune “Staircase.”
Below, you can revisit Radiohead’s 11-year transition with videos from both tonight’s Alec Baldwin-hosted SNL premiere and their first appearance:
Feist & Friends Cover Velvet Underground Live
Earlier last month, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, the HotRats (aka Nigel Godrich with Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass), Soap&Skin, and Air’s Nicolas Godin, teamed up for a one-off tribute to the Velvet Underground in Paris, aptly titled Velvet Underground Revisited. The set was comprised almost entirely of covers off VU’s Andy Warhol-produced 1967 record with Nico, including a faithful take on “Femme Fatale” that featured a guest lead vocal by Leslie Feist. You can take a break from spinning her new single and hear a decent glimpse of the performance above.
Trailer: Jonny Greenwood-Scored We Need to Talk About Kevin
As previously reported, Radiohead multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood’s latest original film score — following 2007’s There Will Be Blood and this year’s adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood — is for director Lynne Ramsey’s feature-length take on lauded Lionel Shriver novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. Short scenes were teased earlier this year when the Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller-starring thriller premiered at Cannes, but now an official trailer has arrived ahead of its fall release, complete with what might be a glimpse at the music. While it’s unclear if the upbeat portion of the trailer’s score is by Greenwood, a more menacing, dissonant composition sets in as the tone becomes darker at the 30-second mark that recalls bits of the aforementioned P.T. Anderson drama. Check out the creepy Rosemary’s Baby-esque poster to the left and trailer above.
Video: Radiohead – “The Daily Mail” (From the Basement)
Radiohead’s performance of The King of Limbs for Nigel Godrich’s “From the Basement” debuted last night on Spain’s Canal+, complete with a live take on new tune “The Daily Mail” in addition to their previously-unveiled song “Staircase.” You can check out footage of the former cut above (there’s a short glitch midway through, but all’s well in time for the thrilling rock section at the 3-minute mark). Watch more from the set here. *Update: Video of the whole show is above.
Radiohead – “Staircase” (Live From the Basement)
Radiohead previewed their upcoming performance on Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement this morning by debuting a brand new song, “Staircase,” with guest drummer Clive Deamer.
Radiohead guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood unveiled his follow-up to Popcorn Superhet Receiver, a 2005 orchestral composition that went on to inspire his brilliant There Will Be Blood score, for a U.S. premiere at the New York Society for Ethical Culture last week. Doghouse, a piece that debuted in London last year and later informed Greenwood’s score for the film adaptation to Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, was performed by the 55-piece Wordless Music Orchestra alongside works by Philip Glass and Gyorgy Ligeti. Given the dissonant beauty and evocative textures in his cinematic compositions, I can’t wait to hear what Greenwood, who started out playing violin in high school, has conjured up for his next film score: the Tilda Swinton-starring drama We Need to Talk About Kevin. In the meantime, you can watch some excellent audience-shot footage of last week’s Doghouse premiere below:
New material and tour dates from Radiohead, following the release of The King of Limbs and a pair of singles, might not be on the horizon, but we will be getting a chance to watch the band perform their eighth LP live this summer: On July 1, BBC Worldwide Music Television will broadcast a 55-minute performance, during which Radiohead will play their latest record in its entirety for an episode of longtime producer Nigel Godrich’s excellent web series, From the Basement.
In a press release (via Exclaim), manager Bryce Edge said the performance will be filmed and recorded by Godrich, “Dilly Gent, who commissioned many of the memorable Radiohead videos and Grant Gee, who filmed the Radiohead documentary Meeting People is Easy.”
As you may recall, Radiohead made a similar move after they released In Rainbows a few years ago, performing the album in a live New Year’s Eve webcast called Scotch Mist. Here’s hoping Thom Yorke breaks out some new dance moves, but while we wait, get a taste of what’s to come via the band’s last performance on From the Basement below:
New Radiohead: Supercollider + The Butcher
Radiohead’s highly anticipated pair of post-The King of Limbs songs will hit Record Store Day-ready shops in a matter of hours, but before the tunes arrive on wax, the web is abuzz tonight with the first digital versions of said songs.
As for when this new material was recorded, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien says: “‘The Butcher’ is from the King Of Limbs sessions. ‘Supercollider’ was recorded during that period and finished off after the album came out.”
Hear them both above (via SoundCloud), and pick up a copy tomorrow, along with a slew of notable releases.