It’s only up for six more days, but don’t miss this one: Thom Yorke co-hosted a radio show with Kspace pal Gilles Peterson on the BBC, and it is incredible! Peterson and the Radiohead major domo go head to head, following each other with tracks that inspire them, and it’s an absolutely thrilling ride! Listening to Yorke’s selections, the listener really gets a sense of what thrills him sonically: a real thread emerges that draws a straight line into the disparate influences that go into his sound.

In what may be the understatement of the century, Thom Yorke proves to be a mysterious fellow. Just as suddenly as Radiohead dropped In Rainbows onto an unsuspecting Internet, he announced a series of impromptu solo shows (reviewed here) this week in Los Angeles for his album The Eraser – never mind the fact that that album came out three years ago: obviously, the routine promotional grind isn’t on the man’s mind.

The mashup is nothing new. In fact, since The Grey Album hit the internet, there seems to have been a wave of forgettable “collaborations” that either used Daft Punk or Jay Z as the focal point. This one is really no different…

Yes I am a huge Radiohead fan and I count myself very lucky to have seen them in at least 3 countries and certainly have never been disappointed. It did not cross my mind however to fly to the Grammys to catch them cause i knew there’d be a decent vid of their stuning 15 [...]