Awesome Music

We here at SHA actually avoid posting most Radiohead related news as it tends to mostly be of the rumor and conjecture variety as opposed to actual news and anything involving Radiohead gets so many hearts a flutter that it sort of feels like a demented form of torture in a way. But today is not like every other day, today is a day with really awesome super legit for serious news. Radiohead is releasing a new album and it's coming out this Saturday.

Never ones to shrink from their responsibility as one of the most ground breaking acts in the world, the band who famously sold their last album In Rainbows for whatever amount you wanted to pay, have announced the details for their latest album titled The King Of Limbs a mere five days before the album's release. You want to stop leaks? There's your answer, not to mention something we suggested months ago: Digital copies almost immediately after the record is done with hard copies at a later date. The later date in question will be May 9th and will consist of the fancy sounding Newspaper Album.

Radiohead's new record, The King Of Limbs, is presented here as the world's first* Newspaper Album, comprising:

• Two clear 10" vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
• A compact disc.
• Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
• The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with all good digital media players.
• The Newspaper Album will be shipped on Monday 9th May 2011 you can, however, enjoy the download on Saturday 19th February 2011.
• Shipping is included in the prices shown.
• One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12" vinyl.

*perhaps

Well then, this is awesome. Really really awesome. For those awaiting the Bonnaroo announcement tomorrow things may have just gotten a bit more exciting as clearly you can at least convince yourself this somehow means Thom Yorke and company will be on the farm. Here's to hoping. For more details and to pre-order the new album for $9 head on over to The King Of Limbs site.

Also thank you Radiohead for being so awesome.

The first paragraph of Robin Hilton's introduction for the NPR Exclusive First Listen of Bright Eyes new album The People's Key should get any and all fans of Conor Oberst's various musical outlets extremely excited. So much so that we are just going to reprint it right here.

I won't mince words: This is the best record Bright Eyes has ever made. In fact, it's the best record the band's frontman, Conor Oberst, has ever been a part of. Publicists like to say as much any time an artist releases a new album, but in this case, it's actually true. The People's Key is a career-defining work of art.

While we can't vow for the accuracy of the above statement as we have yet to listen to the album ourselves, it certainly has our hopes up. Check out the stream below until the album is officially released February 15th.

Time to kick your hipster into overdrive as the official lineup for this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festial is here. Somehow the hipster ointment known as Kings Of Leon are headlining Friday night so maybe this year will feature a few less people wearing Converse than normal. Joining in on the large font on the poster are Saturday night's headliner Arcade Fire, and closing things out in an extremely self-absorbed way will be Kanye West on Sunday night, apparently with a little help from The Strokes as they too stuffed armadillos in their font trousers.

Yeah, so that's a pretty messy set of headliners, featuring two that make me physically ill. As per usual the undercard is where it's at featuring SHA favorites The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, The Morning Benders, Chromeo, Delta Spirit, The National, Animal Collective, Tame Impala, Broken Social Scene and more. To be fair there's a bit of something for everyone although the lineup as a whole is giving me a really hollow feeling, granted that's usually the case with Coachella. What do you think about this year's lineup?