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Pianist Christopher O’Riley has been sneaking Radiohead into the classical music world for years. As host of NPR’s child-musician showcase From the Top , he gets to pick the music that gets played during station breaks.

Following the devastating tsunami that ravaged Japan last year, Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino wanted to do something about it, rounding up in-progress, yet-to-be-finished works by many of her famous musician friends and releasing the whole thing as a charity album. She tells PopMatters all about it. One year after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tokohu coastal region, the people of ...

Blonde Rehead, sticking mainly to material from recent releases, blended everything together like one big long sonic ride.

Artist: Matthew Dear Hails From: Detroit, Mich. Song: 'Headcage' Sounds Like: Matias Aguayo, Fever Ray In Their Words: "'Headcage' was sitting around collecting a bit of digital dust in between album cycles. This was shortly after the 'Penny Sparkle' album by Blonde Redhead was released, and I'd been reminded of the Subliminal Kid and Van Rivers' work. I found an e-mail address for them on their ...

A new track by the Knife / Fever Ray 's Karin Dreijer Andersson called "No Face" appears on We Are the Works in Progress , the compilation organized by Blonde Redhead to benefit Japan in the wake of 2011's tsunami. According to Fever Ray's website , the song was written for Andersson's previously reported score for a theatrical adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1968 horror film Hour of the Wolf ...

Four Tet: "Moma" Blonde Redhead 's compilation We Are the Works in Progress , curated by frontwoman Kazu Makino to benefit Japan's ongoing recovery from the March 2011 tsunami and its aftermath, is out January 10 on the band's new imprint Asa Wa Kuru. The comp includes tracks from folks like Deerhunter, Karin Andersson of the Knife/Fever Ray, John Maus, Pantha du Prince, Interpol, Broadcast ...

Blonde Redhead have put together the compilation We are the Works in Progress to benefit Japan in the country's ongoing recovery from the March tsunami and its aftermath. The release is curated by frontwoman Kazu Makino, who was born in Kyoto, Japan, and is out January 10. It's the premiere release on the band's new imprint Asa Wa Kuru, which is Japanese for "Morning Will Come."

By Zachary Swickey New York City indie noisemakers Battles will be celebrating their tenth anniversary next year and it’s been quite the tumultuous journey for the trio. Not many bands can boast guest appearances from Gary Numan (“Cars”) or indie darlings Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino on their new record, but I imagine it went rather [...]

Today, record label 4AD released the very limited LP (a mere 1,000 copies worldwide), 4AD Sessions: 2008-2011 . The album's made up of live sessions from artists such as: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Deerhunter, Efterklang, and many more. You can find the track list below. The beauty of the album is that even though you may not get your hands on it, you can get your hands on the recordings of ...

WHAT: Pukkelpop WHEN: August 18-20 WHERE: Hasselt, Belgium WHO: Fleet Foxes, OFWGKTA, James Blake, Battles, Explosions in the Sky, the Kills, A-Trak, Lykke Li, Blonde Redhead, the Horrors, Warpaint, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Matthew Dear, OFF!, Wild Beasts, Twin Shadow, Fucked Up, Smith Westerns, Kurt Vile & the Violators, tUnE-yArDs, Destroyer, Yuck, Foo Fighters, the ...

BLINK-182 Germany: Frankfurt (Festhalle) June 26, Berlin (Zitadelle) June 30. BLONDE REDHEAD Germany: Frankfurt (Brotfabrik) Aug. 8, Berlin (Lido) Aug. 24, Cologne (Luxor) Aug. 28.