Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, the composer-in-residence with the BBC Concert Orchestra, unveiled the world premiere of his new composition “Doghouse” for an intimate crowd at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale Studios last month. That’s newsworthy enough, I say, but thanks to a couple online reviews from the lucky few in attendance, there’s more…

According to attendee Adam Bowie, Greenwood and conductor Robert Ziegler also had a 20-minute interview after the performance and—just as Greenwood’s “Popcorn Superhet Receiver” inspired his lauded There Will Be Blood score—”Doghouse” will inform parts of the score to Norwegian Wood, director Anh Hung Tran’s forthcoming film based on Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel of the same name. It’s unclear if the film project was discussed in the Q&A, but the program handed out to attendees did indeed confirm the Norwegian Wood project.

“I wrote this piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead,” Greenwood said in a description from the BBC’s site (now removed). “This was more practical than glamorous - lots of time sitting around indoors, lots of instruments about - and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I can’t think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written.”

And now for the really great news: We will all get a chance to hear the premiere of “Doghouse” and preview of Greenwood’s next film score on Friday, March 19, as BBC Radio 3 will broadcast the performance on that date at 2PM.

Perhaps Thom Yorke is a fan of Radio 1 (or just Gilles Peterson), but fellow outspoken Radiohead member Ed O’Brien is a BBC 6 Music man through and through. In a new blog post on the band’s Dead Air Space, O’Brien revealed that he is now championing the same cause of his former foe.

Calling the proposed closing of 6 Music “a ludicrous decision for those who actually love hearing great music on the radio,” O’Brien penned a letter to the BBC Trust “who apparently have the ability to reverse the decision.” You, too, can write them here, but first check out a bit of O’Brien’s letter for inspiration:

In preparation for their upcoming South American tour with Coldplay, Bat for Lashes played two sets at the De La Warr Pavilion in England’s Bexhill-on-Sea last Friday night (2/19). While the first set, a 45-minute sampling of songs from their 2-album discography, was notable for being the group’s first public show with new drummer Valentina Mageletti, it was the second set that brought us the headline…

After a 20-minute break, frontwoman Natasha Khan and company returned with a string quartet for—what she announced online before the show would be—an exclusive one-off set, featuring covers of Radiohead In Rainbows single “All I Need” and “Wild Is the Wind” (which she perhaps first heard on David Bowie’s Station to Station).

I won’t vouch for the video quality here, but the audio is quite good: Hear Bat for Lashes cover their former tour/dinner mates’ “All I Need” here or 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.

**Update: We posted a video of this performance here.

We opened this year with an exclusive post about Radiohead’s Thom Yorke writing three new songs for upcoming Tibet documentary When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun, which will also include original music by Damien Rice and Philip Glass. Director Dirk Simon graciously allowed us to share that Yorke bit, but we were sworn to secrecy regarding the fact that Rice is set to unveil his first new song in years: the “title” track to the documentary, “What If I’m Wrong?”

Until tonight, that is. I’m still not entirely sure why the “title” track’s name shares no actual words with the doc’s title (perhaps there’s a referential lyric in the yet-to-be-heard tune), but either way, Rice has completed recording of the song and will help introduce the film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Sunday (Feb. 7) with a live performance of “What If I’m Wrong?”

Say what you will about his previous work, but something tells me Rice (post-Lisa Hannigan split) has some brilliant songs/albums in the queue. Not to mention this contribution to an important documentary, which is undoubtedly a labor of love for all those involved, is the perfect stage for a heartfelt comeback from the Irish singer/songwriter.

Ever since Radiohead announced that tickets to their spur-of-the-moment Haiti benefit concert would be auctioned off, I’ve been wondering how much people would be willing to pay for such a great cause, not to mention for the chance to see Radiohead in the relatively small Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater perform a possible preview of their next album. Well, the show is wrapping up as we speak/type/read and it looks like Thom Yorke and the boys have raised over half a million dollars for Oxfam’s Haiti relief efforts.

We’ll get to the set list in a moment, but first: Thom Yorke made an interesting statement during the show’s second encore, revealing not only that some attendees had bid as high as $2,000 for their seat at the one-off concert, but that the night’s total haul for charity totaled $572,754! Wow is right.

As for the setlist (the show isn’t over yet, btw), the band played a mixture of old and new tunes, including Kid A’s “The National Anthem,” “Morning Bell,” and “Everything In Its Right Place,” as well as OK Computer’s “Paranoid Android,” “Exit Music (For a Film),” and many more. The most notable song choice (so far) was their new jam “Lotus Flower,” which Thom Yorke also previewed at one of his solo “Eraser band” shows.

**Update: Here’s the full setlist.

We’ll point to some more in depth reviews in the morning, but, until then, how about a round of applause for Radiohead and all the fans that made this awesome charity event possible.

Get your credit cards and cell phones ready… Radiohead just announced on their official Dead Air Space blog that they will play a concert at the Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, CA this Sunday (January 24) to raise money for the relief effort in Haiti.

Drummer Phil Selway writes:

We’re trying to raise as much money as possible so tickets will be sold by auction at this site from 8pm tonight until 11am Saturday (PST):

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09004434FC1C86AC

We’re in the middle of recording at the moment, so you’ll be catching us on the fly…. but if you’re up for it, then we are too.

So let’s see… I can donate money to a great cause, see Radiohead perform in a relatively small venue, and get a possible preview of LP8 all in one fell swoop? Umm… yes, please.

Let’s clear out the bookmarks folder: Here are a few quick stories of note…

• First off, this is sort of big news: M.I.A. is prepping her follow-up to Kala for this summer! Speaking to Rolling Stone, she revealed two new track titles (“I Fight the Ones That Fight Me” and “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection”), and a few other deets.
• The February issue of Vogue has a great interview with Alison Mosshart that’s chock full of possible pull quotes. Here’s my favorite one: Jack White is asked to describe the Dead Weather/Kills frontwoman in just three words. His answer? “Lady Gaga’s nightmare.” The article isn’t officially online yet, unfortch :(
• Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien spoke in a video for MIDEM recently about the story behind the band’s In Rainbows scheme, while sporting (what I’ll wishfully call) a recording sessions beard. Watch it here.
• The New York Times posted an interesting piece on Spoon in which frontman Britt Daniel sounds off on the “indie band” label and more. There’s also this funny bit:

“What’s your criteria for a good video?” Mr. Harvey asked.
Mr. [Britt] Daniel: “Is Devo in it?”
His band laughed, but Mr. Daniel seemed serious.

Director Dirk Simon has spent the past 7 years filming and interviewing for upcoming film When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun, a documentary about the ongoing, and seemingly endless, plight of the Free Tibet movement, but all his hard work is about to pay off brilliantly, as this truly epic project is set to include not only an all-star cast of interviewees (Dennis Haysbert, Richard Gere, the 14th Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, etc.), but also new music from Thom Yorke, Damien Rice, and Philip Glass.

Thom Yorke wrote three new songs for a particular chapter of the film, Simon revealed to TwentyFourBit exclusively. Take that, New Moon (they only got one song from the Radiohead frontman). But that’s not all: Damien Rice has also written a song for the documentary—his first new original composition to come out in quite a while—and composer Philip Glass has penned the main theme for the film, including a piece for a key “grand finale” sequence.

Those details alone should place this project into the “Best Documentary Soundtrack” category, but that only accounts for the new music to be featured. Simon also told us that Björk, Eric Clapton, UNKLE, DJ Spooky, and Rob Dougan, aka Rob D, have contributed existing music for the score as well. What’s more, an official release of the soundtrack is being negotiated as we speak. Amazing.

We’ll keep you updated as new details emerge, but in the meantime, check out the trailer and official site here.