Clement Picon wins Radioheads ‘Reckoner’ Video competition with this beautiful and evocative short.

Following the sucess of the ‘Nude’ remix contest, Radiohead have decided to cash in follow on with ‘Reckoner’. You can buy the stems from iTunes at 99c a pop. (There’s usually 5 stems per track).  Pay what you’d like for the album. Heck, get it for free. Then wait a few months. And charge 5 bucks for the same track. So many people buy it it gets on the iTune charts! And then toss a few grand at a ‘winner’, even though you’ve asked Diplo, James Holden and Modeselektor to remix for you. 

I know I’ve used Kanye’s image in vain in the past, but at least he’s giving the ‘Love Lockdown’ stems away for free on his blog. No word of a prize or competition, but did you really think you’d do a better remix than James Holden?

Radiohead can, it seems, do no wrong. Not content with being considered rock gods and all round good guys for donating an extra £30,000 from their own pocket for the recent video competition, they’ve decided to webcast their entire last perfromance in their North American Tour. And it’s a doozey. Here’s what they had to say:

Hello! To celebrate the end of a brilliant tour, we’re going to webcast the last show here in America. We’ll be playing live in Santa Barbara, at the Bowl. It’s one of our favourite places to play; I think we’ve ended tours there before, once even playing a cover of [Neil Young's] ‘ cinnamon girl ‘. It’s not too big, in fact it’s very intimate, a small arena with a dirt floor, set in pretty countryside. It should be a special night, for lots of reasons, and we’re going to try and share as much of it as we can on the webcast. Nigel [Godrich], our producer, will be helping out getting it to you, so if it goes wrong….It’s live!

Thank you so much to everyone who’s come and seen us this year; it has truly been the most special and exciting tour for all of us.

Webcast details to follow…
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Colin
 

Be all over it here. Track list after the jump.
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So I’ve dropped off the radar a little during March for whatever reason, (Answers on a postcard to: ) but Radiohead certainly haven’t. Didn’t they care my parents travelled 17 thousand km to see me? Evidently not. Is a matter of fact they waited ’til my attention was elsewhere to become busy little oxford beavers.

They played a concert to 312 competition winners broadcast on BBC2. You can get the mp3’s here.

They announced a remix competition for ‘Nude‘. The individual ’stems’ are available on iTunes now for 99c a pop.

They announced a video competition two days after trent announced his. But theirs is worth $10k!

They announced a social networking site - I kid (a) you not.  Check it out!

 Thom plays DJ again, this time on NPR Radio  (US)

Thom discusses this musical tastes, where and how he buys music, and plays some of hid favourite tracks. No Burial this time, but Modeselektor gets yet another spin. You can check it out here.