LITTLE ROCK — RADIOHEAD'S IN RAINBOWS
Radiohead has a new album, but fans can buy it only on the group's Web site, www.radiohead.com. In Rainbows, produced by Nigel Godrich, will be available as an MP3 download Wednesday. Price? Radiohead says name your price - just remember, it's in pounds and pence, so you could pay one penny (less than one U.S. cent) and get 10 new songs.
But 40 pounds (about $82) will get you the deluxe edition, called the discbox. It includes double vinyl and CD versions, a second enhanced CD with seven more songs, art, photographs and the MP3 download. This set will be packaged in a hardcover book and slipcase. The discbox is expected toship "on or before Dec. 3," according to the site.
In Rainbows is expected to be released commercially sometime next year. At present, the band has not signed with any recording label.
MARS HAS LIPS
The Flaming Lips have been working on their film project Christmas on Mars for six years, and they see an end in sight. Group member Wayne Coyne says he hopes the film will premiere at the South By Southwest film and music festivals in Austin, Texas, in March. Coyne told billboard.com he believes the film will go out on "tour," with special screenings to give fans "a Flaming Lips experience of another kind."
"It'll be like our live show, whichevolves as it goes," Coyne says. "We'll show it to the audience and let them talk out there on message boards, and then maybe we'll take that and go back and change it and put it out there again and see what they think."
MUSIC NOTES
Graham Nash is finishing work on a 65-song career-retrospective boxed set, Reflection, due in February. Nash, 65, says, "It starts in 1964 and ends in 2004. So it's the Hollies to the last record that David [Crosby] and I put out. It's me solo, me with Crosby, me with Neil [Young], me with Stephen [Stills] and Neil, and me with Stephen, Neil and David." The set will include unreleased tracks and different versions or mixes of previously released songs.
The new Eagles album, Long Road Out of Eden, arrives Oct. 30. The twodisc set will be available exclusively at Wal-Mart.
The Beatles' second film, 1965's Help!, will be released as a double-DVD Oct. 30. The first disc is a digitally restored version of the film with a 5.1 audio soundtrack; the second DVD has a 30-minute documentary, a missing scene, a feature on the restoration process, interviews with cast and crew, theatrical trailers and a radio ad. Help! will also be issued as a boxed set with a reproduction of director Richard Lester's script and a 60-page book.
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