Influx

A few days back, I wrote about the rise of the "Radiohead pricing model" that we've started to see crop up in other places like restaurants and hotels. Digging a little deeper, it seems there are some environments where this has been going on for some time, Berlin's honesty bars being one...

Radiohead continues to demonstrate its understanding of the 2.0 world with its new remix contest. Potential remixers download the elements of the track "Nude" from iTunes and then upload their remix to http://www.radioheadremix.com. The band seems to have given up on the whole idea of free and...

There seem to be no limits to Radiohead's cultural impact; all the headlines for the name your own price album, the upcoming New Year's concert on Current TV and Johnny Greenwood getting critical aclaim for his soundtrack to the movie of the moment, PT Anderson's "There Will Be Blood". In additon,...

Radiohead delivered onto the world a complete surprise; they released an album when everyone was expecting to have to wait a year for. They announced it a few days before launch. There's no ad campaign, no PR campaign, no hype, no leaks, no listening parties, no preview issues sent out to critics...

Record companies helped establish and grow bands, they help build them into brands big enough to do away with the middleman and connect directly to their audience.Posted by Ed Cotton

Radiohead's new album release is a few days away and for a band without a record label, they are out of contract with EMI, so they have to take matters into their own hands. Firstly, there's been no pre-publicity for the album, most fans were expecting it to be released next year and secondly the...