The group released its latest record, The King of Limbs, this February with little fanfare: no interviews, no publicity, no concert tour. Still, the album shot to No. 3 here in the U.S. Now, the radio silence may be over: Radiohead played two sold-out shows last week at New York's Roseland Ballroom, and performed on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live.
Speaking recently with NPR's Guy Raz about recording The King of Limbs, singer Thom Yorke and guitarist Ed O'Brien agree that, after coming off the long tour cycle for In Rainbows, the band was feeling exhausted and uninspired. To make the new album work, everyone had to slow down and step back.
"We had an initial session of about five weeks, and it was really like kids in kindergarten," O'Brien says. "You had to simplify what you were doing — you couldn't do loads of ideas. You had to listen to one another. Believe it or not, in a band you can lose that.
"Part of what you do is rejection," O'Brien adds. "I think everybody finds it hard, but I think part of creativity is bouncing back from that. What's great about the environment that we have is that no one ever says, 'You can't do that.' You try it, and then it's judged on whether it's right for the track."
Radiohead tried a new approach for The King of Limbs: Each member worked, piecemeal, on his own contributions before sharing them with the group. Yorke says working that way was a big gamble.
"Almost every tune is like a collage: things we'd pre-recorded, each of us, and then were flying at each other," Yorke says. "You get to a point where you think, 'OK, this bit needs a big black line through it.' It's like editing a film or something.
"I don't think we really genuinely thought anything would come out of it," he adds, "certainly not an entire record."
Playing live presents its own set of challenges. O'Brien says that, as happy as he was with The King of Limbs upon its completion, the prospect of turning an intricate studio creation into a concert experience was panic-inducing.
"That's the scary part — you realize that you have created in this vacuum, in this bubble," O'Brien says. "It plays tricks on the brain."
But Yorke says adapting the new material was liberating, as well.
"That's one of the ways we move on musically, is having to force ourselves to learn this thing," he says. "It's a backward process, but it really exists in another way once you can actually play it."
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Radiohead's Thom Yorke said that the band will be returning to their studio space in England in December and January to make new music. "We can get things together quite rapidly at the moment," Yorke told Rolling Stone, adding that a rough version of a new song called "Come to Your Senses" has already been put down.
He said, "It would be fun to have them ready when we go to play next year. I don't know how we would release them. It would be nice to make it all part of the flow and just enjoy it – not think about it too much."
As previously reported, Yorke's nearly finished with an album by his side project Atoms for Peace, but has yet to determine a release date. Yorke told Rolling Stone explaining that while he wants the album finished by year's end, "It's not good enough yet."
Radiohead have announced a 2012 European tour in support of The King of Limbs. Find the dates below. They have also posted three new remixes that didn't make the cut for TKOL RMX 1234567: Jamie xx's new take on "Bloom", Nathan Fake's new take on "Morning Mr. Magpie", and Anstam's new take on "Separator". Listen to those below.
As guitarist Ed O'Brien mentioned last month during an interview with BBC 6 Music, the tour will focus on indoor venues where "the music is loud, strong, and detailed." He emphasized that the group will shy away from playing simply the hits and their new record, and will instead dig deeper to focus on songs that work best alongside their new material.
Radiohead also recently announced a string of U.S. dates for February and March. Check out all of their current dates, below.
Also below, find a poster that Radiohead visual collaborator Stanley Donwood has made in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Posting on his website, Donwood wrote, "As the mendacity of the One Per Cent continues, here is a small tool which you may download, blow up, paste, copy, pass on, and do whatever with. I'm not sure where the quote is from; I saw it on a poster at Occupy Sheffield last week, where they thought that the words were possibly from a former Prime Minister of Canada."
02-27 Miami, FL - American Airlines Arena
02-29 Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
03-01 Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
03-03 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
03-05 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
03-07 Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center
03-09 St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
03-11 Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
03-13 Broomfield, CO - 1st Bank Center
03-15 Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena
06-30 Rome, Italy - Hyppodrome Capanelle
07-01 Florence, Italy - Parco Delle Cascine
07-03 Bologna, Italy - Piazza Maggiore
07-04 Codroipo, Italy - Villa Manin
07-06 Berlin, Germany - Wuhlheide

Radiohead will appear in an upcoming episode of Austin City Limits, the television show’s website announced today. Now in its 38th season, the performance-based program tapes at the 800-person capacity Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. Afterward, the concert is broadcast on PBS.
A taping date for Radiohead’s appearance has yet to be announced, though the band is scheduled to perform at Austin’s Frank Erwin Center on March 7th. Ticket information is also forthcoming.
Other bands slated to appear on this season of ACL include The Shins, Rodrigo y Gabriella, and The Civil Wars. Stay tuned for more updates.

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