January 2, 2008 at 12:36:00 PM | more stories by this author
Band posts second video from In Rainbows, while frontman Thom Yorke fires back at EMI.
Having dominated headlines in late 2007 with its groundbreaking release of In Rainbows, Radiohead is diving headlong into 2008.
The British rockers' previously recorded live performance of In Rainbows was broadcast in its entirety on Current TV and Radiohead.tv on New Year's Eve under the banner of "Scotch Mist." The new album hit stores as a CD yesterday, and this week the band released a video (watch below) for the song "Nude," the second music video from the album.
And although the band members have been largely silent about the business side of their decision to release In Rainbows as a name-your-price download, frontman Thom Yorke has blasted a report in the Times of London that Radiohead jumped ship from longtime label EMI after the label refused to meet its demand for a £10 million ($3 million) advance.
In a post on the band's Web site, Yorke said money was not the central issue to the talks with EMI.
"We did not ask for a load of cash from our old record label EMI to re-sign," Yorke wrote. "That is a lie. What we wanted was some control over our work and how it was used in the future by them--that seemed reasonable to us, as we cared about it a great deal."
Yorke went on to dub the label "a confused bull in a china shop," and said, "To be digging up such bulls***, or more politely airing [your] dirty laundry in public, seems a very strange way for the head of an international record label to be proceeding," Yorke said of Guy Hands, owner of the private equity firm Terra Firma, which now runs EMI.



