EMI streamlines workforce, cutting 2,000 jobs
EMI recently announced its plans to cut about 2,000 jobs from its Recorded Music division, reducing its staff by one-third. Terra Firma, a private equity firm, acquired EMI last August for $5 billion. Their proposed cuts are projected to save them about $400 million per year. "We believe we have devised a new revolutionary structure for the group that will improve every area of the business," said Guy Hands, EMI chairman. Not all agree with Hands. Artists such as Coldplay, The Verve and Robbie Williams have said they plan to withhold their material for upcoming albums. Paul McCartney has walked... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRadiohead - "Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
Click above to watch "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" from Radiohead's new album In Rainbows out now.... read more
Found in: Video of the DayPaste Radio Select top album chart 12/10-16
1.Radiohead In Rainbows [self-released] 2.Band of Horses Cease To Begin [Sub Pop] 3.Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 100 Days 100 Nights [Daptone] 4.Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand [Rounder] 5.Iron and Wine The Shepherd’s Dog [Sub Pop] 6.Various Artists I’m Not There soundtrack [Columbia] 7.Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala [Secretly Canadian] 8.José Gonzalez In Our Nature [Imperial/Mute] 9.Stars In Our Bedroom After The War [Arts & Crafts] 10.Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [Merge] Based on monitored airplay provided by Mediaguide (mediaguide.com) from Dec. 10-16 for the following seven stations: WRAS—Atlanta, KCRW—Los Angeles, KEXP—Seattle, WFUV—New York, WERS—Boston,... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRadiohead roundup, vol. 3: physical CDs, feuding, etc.
Last time we checked in on those newsworthy Brits in Radiohead, they were releasing advertisements, getting remixed and spouting off on people who just don't understand. This roundup, then, will sound kind of familiar. The feuding continues, though this time, it's with another newspaper and the band's former label. However, in the hallowed name of the Radiohead roundup, let's do this in a stylistically consistent fashion... Thom Yorke corrects newspaper, record label: Following a Times UK story which quotes an EMI spokesperson about certain unreasonable demands made by Radiohead, Yorke expressed the band's collective sadness that "such dirt" had even... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRadiohead roundup, vol. 2: ads, remixes, etc.
Welcome to the second edition of Paste's weekly Radiohead roundup, where the only subject that's off limits is bowel movements. It wouldn't matter, though, since the members of Radiohead no longer have to engage in the lowly task of digesting physical foodstuffs, but rather feed exclusively on sound itself. Here's the scoop: In Rainbows ad hits the web, Pitchfork promptly gives it a 9.6: Radiohead has never been big on advertising its wares. You might recall Thom Yorke's solo debut, The Eraser, dropping with minimal fanfare last summer, or Kid A's quiet release before that. But given that these guys... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRadiohead roundup: downloads to end, tour, etc.
Welcome to what we expect to become a weekly feature on PasteMagazine.com: the Radiohead roundup. Has the band posted a cryptic missive on Dead Air Space? What will they wear on tour? Or have they evolved past the point of corporeal existence? With this handy-dandy compendium of headlines, you'll be able to stay up to the minute with everything that Thom Yorke and his dour men are planning. Let's begin, shall we? In Rainbows downloads to disappear completely: Yeah, it was a beautiful ride, but it we all knew it couldn't last forever. Radiohead's "pay-what-you-want" download experiment for In Rainbows... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRadiohead tour machine roars to life with European dates
We've reached the point where even complaining about the excessive amount of Radiohead news items here at Paste is cliche, so let's just give it to you straight. Radiohead really is touring (in Europe), dates and locations are starting to emerge (slowly) and Paste just might have to bump In Rainbows down a few slots on our Top 100 albums list if this Radiohead news spamming continues. Listen up, you arty Brits: you're on notice. All dates are available here, including the two German festival dates we reported yesterday. In typical Radiohead fashion, it's cryptic stuff, with most of the... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRadiohead plays Germany, rest of the world envious
Radiohead is doing things. Tour-related things. Strong enough lead for you? Well read the following words closely: Radiohead will play the Southside and Hurricane Festivals in Germany. Interestingly enough, these events are a set of twin concerts, sharing promoters and acts as freely as In Rainbows torrents. Both appear to have pulled a serious coup in getting the tour-resenting Thom Yorke and his cohorts on their respective rosters. Southside (not surprisingly) takes place in Southern Germany (Tuttlingen, to be exact) and Hurricane occupies the northern section of the country. Both festivals run from June 20-22. No word yet how Radiohead's... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRadiohead, leave us alone: release dates, webcasts, more
Dearest Radiohead, We are reasonable men and women, get off our case, get off our case. Did we not lavish enough attention on you the last time you released an album? This time, you had to scrap and rebuild the entire music industry in your image, and we've been hearing nothing about you and your staggering genius ever since. Seriously, can we voluntarily select the number of Radiohead news items that arrive each week? No? Well, okay, here's another... As rumored, Radiohead has signed with Dave Matthews' ATO Records to help distribute its new album, In Rainbows, in North America.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsData on In Rainbows downloads emerges
At long last, we can relay something other than anonymous reports or non-scientific survey results about how Radiohead's In Rainbows experiment has fared thus far. Has it been a success? Well, it depends if you're a "glass is 38% full" or "62% empty" kind of person. According to Comscore.com, a website that monitors the purchasing behavior of some two million voluntary consumers, the majority of In Rainbows downloaders (62%) opted to pay nothing. Of the 38% who did pony up for the digital version of the record, the average price paid was approximately $6. Comscore has posted a detailed analysis... read more
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