As those of us wait for the upcoming Radiohead tour to hit North America, the band has offered up an appetizer to hold us over until they reach our shores. They performed in the UK at the BBC Radio Theatre yesterday, where they rocked through two gigs and participated in a series of interviews. From one of those - Source

Major labels are quickly shifting their staffing priorities towards digital expertise, and EMI is no exception. - Source

Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes, watch out! UK rockers Elbow are elbowing their way back onto the scene with the Stateside release of their new album, The Seldom Seen Kid. The follow-up to 2005's Leaders of the Free World is available now across the pond, and it comes out April 22 here via Fiction/Geffen. The Seldom Seen Kid's recently-released first U.S. single, a digital affair, is called "One Day Like This". - Source

With each new piece taken from Elbow's upcoming new album, The Seldom Seen Kid, that we've been able to preview, we continue to get more excited about its upcoming US release. We only have to wait a couple of weeks until it hits stores on April 22 on Fiction/Geffen, and everything we've heard so far - Source

This year's Sasquatch! Festival continues to get even better, now with the addition of even more bands as well as a comedy tent. The three-day festival taking place over Memorial Day weekend at The Gorge in Washington now features a comedy tent, including the Upright Citizen's Brigade - Source

Nah, we're not talking naked Radioheads (thank god, really). But just when you might've assumed Thom & Co. would run out of In Rainbows angles, they went ahead and created a website that allows you to upload your remix of new old single "Nude," input info about it, create your own personalized widget, and watch with bated breath as folks vote away on the fruits of your GarageBand. - Source

'90s alt-rock fight! As prematurely mentioned, we dig the new Breeders album, Mountain Battles. We also like aspects of Real Emotional Trash, though we still say it runs on (and on). Which is sorta what Kim Deal's saying about the mouth of our favorite late-night Fox News Channel guest in the new issue of Time Out. It starts with this question from the interviewer:

TONY: Did the success of that song ["Cannonball'] cause any jealousy among your indie-rock peers? - Source

The band shares the following message on their official site: *Good day. We are almost finished mixing our howling hawk of a new record and we're so pleased with it that we might never release it and instead just put it on our own iPod shuffles and walk the streets of Glasgow, never speaking, Syd Barrett style forever. It's got it all, dreamy ballads about forbidden love gone awry, one minute pointless instrumentals and even some spoken word about the future of the music industry in India!* - Source

The band's been tackling 'Lullaby' on their current Euro trek.  - Source

A few short weeks ago, Pitchfork announced the April 7 beta launch of its new independent music video site, Pitchfork.tv. As previously mentioned, Pitchfork.tv will be updated daily, and will feature live and intimate performances, mini-docs, and interviews with independent artists, plus music videos and full-length music documentaries and DVDs-- all of it on-demand, on one of the web's largest and sharpest players. - Source