Ateaseweb.com's been closely following all that's going with Radiohead, because that is what they do. A few weeks ago the site reported the band's been tinkering with a new tune during soundcheck, and yes now a new song's in the setlist. It's called "Super Collider." Dublin got the first performance of it on Friday night: Thom solo, soulful vocal overtop a central, major-key piano figure (a quick flip to a descending minor thing and a bridge, too). Also, as for the Single Song Eliciting Multiple Instances Of Goosebumps award I just made up, this year's big winner is Portishead's "The Rip," which did it upon premature evaluation and again in the desert and again in pencil-drawn form. Just the prospect of Thom and Jonny covering it backstage in St. Louis was enough for a fourth, Thom's vocal swell where the band would enter a fifth, and so on. Two Heads are better than one. (Shoot me I just did that.) So there's that little video waiting for you, too.
"Super Collider"
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"The Rip" (Portishead cover)
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Here's a vote for that -- full-band, "Unravel"-style -- at the next internet party. I like how Thom's reading the lyrics off his Macbook. Thom Yorke: He's just like us! Except that he's an alien. From laptop-enabled Radiohead, we bring you dot-matrix enabled Radiohead: On Friday BWE tipped us to "Nude," done by a roomful of old-school computer gadgets. Stick with it through the bleeps .
