The rumors were true: Radiohead announced today that they will publish an actual newspaper to accompany the North American release of their “newspaper album,” The King of Limbs, on Tuesday, March 29 (the rest of the world will receive it on 3/28). Free copies of The Universal Sigh will be handed out by “dedicated teams of newspaper delivery people” at various locations around the world, all of which are listed with links to Google Maps on the publication’s official site.

To preemptively thwart rumors that might lead to mobs of hopeful concertgoers, the band points out that “This event IS NOT a live performance by Radiohead,” adding that they plan to offset the ecological impact of the project by using Carbon Retirement.

Details on the specific content of The Universal Sigh are still not known, but we’ll all find out next week if any surprises (download codes?) are therein. So, without further ado, go find your nearest Radiohead newsstand thataway.

Despite the excitement surrounding Radiohead’s surprise LP8 release last month, The King of Limbs left many fans asking — and exploring a few conspiracy theories about — whether more new music is on the way from Thom, Jonny, and the gang. While there’s still no evidence that another release is imminent, Jonny Greenwood sat down for his first post-TKOL interview this week and revealed that the band hasn’t taken a hiatus from the studio just yet. Here’s what he was willing to reveal to BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt about the immediate future of Radiohead:

We’re kind of recording at the moment, Radiohead. We’re rehearsing a bit and just playing and making music and trying to work out what to do really… We’ve stopped planning ahead very far, and we’re just making music and wondering where to go next and what to do.

While watching Thom Yorke discuss his longtime obsession with Neil Young tonight (via a chat with the BBC from a few years back), I got to thinking about Radiohead’s surprise cover of After the Gold Rush cut “Tell Me Why” at the Hollywood Bowl in 2008, as well as Yorke’s multiple performances of the title track off that 1970 classic record, beginning with his 2002 Bridge School Benefit rendition mentioned in the Q&A. As it turns out, though, there are 3 more Young songs that Yorke has applied his similarly high-register vocal range to with Radiohead over the years, and, fortunately, listenable clips are readily available. So I can’t help but share multiple versions of one of my favorite bands of all time covering 5 timeless tunes by one of my favorite solo artists of all time below (alongside the aforementioned interview):

Happy Radiohead Day, everyone! While we’ve been letting The King of Limbs soak in and getting irrationally excited about a conspiracy theory or two, some links of note made a blip on the radar…

• Step aside, Who Is Arcade Fire?! meme. Dancing Thom [Yorke] arrived.
• Read an excellent (and rare!) interview with the Radio Dept., in which Johan Duncanson and Martin Larsson reveal that they’re not familiar with Coachella (where they’re performing at in April), future recording plans, and their lost collaboration with Jens Lekman.
• With help from Hipsters United, Popdust calculated that Billy Corgan’s claim that current Smashing Pumpkins bassist Nicole Fiorentino was on 1993’s Siamese Dream cover has a 0.33% “Truth Threshold.”
• Lykke Li is streaming another cut off her sophomore LP, Wounded Rhymes, “Love Out of Lust.”
• Enjoy new Ryan McGinley-shot Strokes promo pictures here or below.

And now for the second-biggest Radiohead story of the day… Jonny Greenwood will follow up his 2007 score for There Will Be Blood and this year’s Norwegian Wood with original compositions for director Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, a feature-length drama based on author Lionel Shriver’s novel of the same name. According to The Hollywood Reporter, news broke that Greenwood is scoring the film at the Berlin International Film Festival (where Arcade Fire’s new short film debuted over the weekend).

We Need to Talk About Kevin, which stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and newcomer Ezra Miller, is currently in post-production with a hopeful premiere tentatively set for Cannes later this year.

Behold! Radiohead announced this morning that their eighth album, The King of Limbs, will arrive digitally on February 19, followed by an elaborate physical release — dubbed “the world’s first Newspaper Album” on their new Website — set for May.

MP3 copies of their In Rainbows follow-up are priced at $9 (WAV are $14), as Radiohead have moved on from their 2007 pay-what-you-want model, asking this time for $48 for the physical + digital bundle, which includes two 10” clear vinyl records, “many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.”

Check out the album cover above and head here to pre-order The King of Limbs.