Jonny Greenwood is best known for cranking up the distortion as the guitarist for Radiohead, but now he’s got a new claim to fame—as a classical musician.

Greenwood’s collaboration album with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has entered the U.K.’s Official Specialist Classical Chart at number seven. The project’s lengthy title, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima/Popcorn Superhet Receiver/Polymorphia/48 Responses, accounts for the names of all four compositions on the albums.

“Popcorn Superhet Receiver” previously was featured in Greenwood’s score to the Academy Award winning movie “There Will Be Blood.” Greenwood’s soundtrack for the movie was nominated for a Grammy award at the 2009 ceremony.

Greenwood has been a fan of the acclaimed Penderecki since college, and recently spoke to the Telegraph about how he was introduced to the composer.

“I did three weeks at college just before Radiohead signed to EMI,” he told the newspaper, “and one of the lecturers played us some Penderecki and said ‘orchestras can sound like this too.’ That was my idea of what contemporary music was for a long time.”

“Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” is a new take on a piece Penderecki first composed in the 1960s. The song, along with “Polymorphia,” are now considered milestones in avant-garde music.

Part of Penderecki’s influence on Greenwood and, by proxy, Radiohead, is the use of traditional instruments to create experimental sounds. Pendrecki spoke to the Telegraph of how he came to eschew electronic music in his work.

“I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds,” he said. “If you’d asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don’t need electronics.”

Greenwood’s “48 Responses” is the only new piece on the collection.

It took Radiohead nearly a year after the release of their most recent album to tour North America, but the group is currently on tour in America and recently announced even more tour dates.

The band previously had been scheduled through an April 21 date during the second weekend of the Coachella Festival, and now the band will pick the tour back up about a month later. This will happen May 29 in Mansfield, Mass. and will run through June 16 when the North American tour ends in Toronto. In all, 11 new dates have been announced, in addition to a previously announced set at the Bonnaroo Festival on May 8. Other new tour stops include a two night stand in Newark, N.J.; Washington D.C.; Cincinnati, Auburn Hills, Mich. and Montreal.

The band’s most recent album, King of Limbs, was released in February 2011, and the band kicked off the first leg of the North American tour last month. After the newly announced dates, the band will head back to the other side of the Atlantic for a handful of European dates before heading to Asia and Australia later this year.

From Oxford, England, the band hasn’t toured in the United Kingdom since 2008. Though no dates have yet been released, NME reports that the band will be confirming U.K. dates in the near future.

Fans already have gotten a taste of new Radiohead music, as the band has played at least two new songs at recent American concerts.

Together since the late 1980’s, Radiohead’s first hit came with 1992’s “Creep.” After that, the group became known for not following the traditional rules of the music industry. Among other things, they are known for self-releasing their seventh album, In Rainbows, on their own website and allowing fans to pay whatever price they wanted for the record.

The 11^th Annual Bonnaroo Music Festival features a massive and eclectic lineup headlined by Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish.

The Manchester, Tenn. festival will stretch across 13 stages and include more than 125 band and 20 comedians. The festival, which takes place on a 700 acre farm about an hour south of Nashville, will be held from June 7 to June 10, this year.

In addition to the headliners, other big names this year include the recently reunited original lineup of the Beach Boys, who recently performed their first public show in decades at the 54^th Annual Grammy Awards, which were held last Sunday. A reunited Ben Folds Five also will play at the festival. Appearances also will be made by recent Grammy winners Skrillex and Bon Iver, the latter of which picked up both the Best New Artist and the Best Alternative Music album on Sunday.

Other notable acts performing at this year’s festival include Ludacris, the Shins, the Avett Brothers, Feist, the Roots and Bad Brains. Also appearing will be Childish Gambino, the hip-hop act of “Community” star Donald Glover.

Radiohead hasn’t played Bonnaroo since 2006, and Phish hasn’t played since 2009, when they headlined two nights of the festival. Phish represents the jam-band roots of the festival that has widely expanded the genres represented by its lineup since the first festival was held in 2002.

By the time the Red Hot Chili Peppers play the festival, they will be new inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The group will be inducted during this year’s induction ceremony, which will be held April 14, along with Guns N’ Roses, the Beastie Boys and The Small Faces/The Faces, among others.

Though specifics have yet to be announced, Bonnaroo events typically include various vender tents and activities in addition to the music and comedy stages.

After a heady dose of breathless anticipation, Radiohead is finally set to embark on their 2012 American concert tour beginning February 27 in Miami, Florida. Radiohead is touring behind its 2011 release ‘The King of Limbs.’ The album was digitally released last February to critical acclaim and Radiohead has kept a relatively low-profile on the touring front since the album’s debut. The upcoming tour will hit 13 US cities with indie rock band Other Lives providing opening support.

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The lineup for this year’s Coachella Music Valley Music and Arts Festival was announced Tuesday, and the headliners are Radiohead, Black Keys and Dr. Dre. More commonly known simply as Coachella, this year’s festival will feature more than 125 bands over two weekends – the first time since the festival was founded that it has stretched over more than a single weekend. The shows will take place April 13-15 as well as the following weekend, April 20-22. If the number of headliners doesn’t seem to match with the number of days, it’s because every band will play both weekends.

But, just as it is every year, the headliners aren’t the only notable artists heading out to the desert of Indio, Calif., where the festival is held at the Empire Polo Club. The reunion of At The Drive-In is one of the biggest stories of the year. After a fairly unfriendly breakup at the height of their success in 2001, band members consistently went on record as saying a reunion was unlikely, but the band wrote a Tweet Monday, preceding the Coachella announcement: “¡ ATTENTION ! To whom it may concern: AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11 year silence THIS STATION IS…NOW…OPERATIONAL”

Though British band Pulp reunited last year for a series of festivals in the U.K., the Coachella dates mark the first 2012 dates for the band. Similarly, Jeff Mangum, the reclusive lead singer and songwriter for indie cult-superstars Neutral Milk Hotel, will play the festival, after playing a handful of smaller shows last year. Prior to those shows, Mangum rarely made appearances since 1998, the same year that Neutral Milk Hotel released the landmark indie album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Other notable acts in the always eclectic lineup this year this year include Snoop Dogg, the Shins, Florence + the Machine, David Guetta, Arctic Monkeys and Jimmy Cliff.

Radiohead have announced the first North American dates of a 2012 tour to support The King of Limbs, the band’s most recent album.

The tour will consist of 10 dates and will begin in Miami on February 27, 2012 and will continue through March 15 when it will conclude in Glendale, Ariz. Indie rock band Other Lives will act as support for the tour. Other stops on the tour will include Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Texas and St. Louis.

The King of Limbs was released digitally on February 18 and in physical form the following month. Though the band has not toured in support of the record thus far, they have made several appearances, including performances on “The Colbert Report,” “Saturday Night Live,” and two shows at New York’s Roseland Ballroom in October.

The band also made a surprise appearance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in June, where they played many of the songs from The King of Limbs. Additionally, they taped a live performance for the television series From the Basement in which they performed every song from the new album as well as a non-album track called “The Daily Mail.”

Radiohead became known for innovative album release methods when they released their 2007 album In Rainbows under a “name your price” payment system as a digital download on the band’s website. The King of Limbs continued this innovation.

In addition to the aforementioned digital and physical release, the band also released The King of Limbs as a “newspaper edition” in May 2011. In addition to the physical CD, the packaging included a multitude of various pieces of paper containing poems and other art works by the band. The designer said he wanted the packaging to give the feel of a hard to hold Sunday paper.

Frontman Thom Yorke confirmed Radiohead will be on tour in 2012. To date, the band has performed just one live show this year at Glastonbury in June to support “The King Of Limbs,” their new album. Yorke confirmed with Giles Peterson during an interview on BBC Radio 1 that the band was going on tour. He said, the idea is we will be going out to play on and off throughout the year.
Earlier in the week, Radiohead announced that on September 28 and 29 they will be performing at New York’s Roseland Ballroom. They will also be appearing on “Saturday Night Live” while in New York.

Yorke’s comments were consistent with comments made in July by Philip Selway, Radiohead’s drummer, who said on BBC 6Music that their successful Glastonbury gig had helped to re-ignite the band’s passion for performing live. He said, it was exciting to do that. It felt like musically we have something more to offer, when he was asked if Radiohead was planning to perform more live gigs.

Radiohead’s singer also revealed that Clive Deamer from Portishead, who performed with them at Glastonbury, will be touring with the band.

In addition, Yorke discussed his plans for releasing a new album with his project Atoms For Peace with Flea, bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and producer Nigel Godrich. He indicated they were currently finishing the album.

Recently, Yorke performed a show in Cornwell during European Fish Fry festival.

Ticket details and tour dates for the upcoming Radiohead tour should be out by the latter part of this year.

Radiohead. Two nights at the Roseland Ballroom. Tickets? Well, good luck with that. The last time the band performed in the New York City area was three long years ago over in All Points West across the river. After it was announced that Radiohead would be in NYC this month for television appearances, rumors ran wild about how inevitably the band would have a performance outside a television studio.

Radiohead’s management announced that two shows for Radiohead have been confirmed for Roseland Ballroom in New York City for September 28 and September 29. On September 26, tickets will be going on sale at www.ticketmaster.com starting at 10:00 am. There is a limit of two tickets per household. Tickets can be picked up at will call on the night of the show starting and 6:30 pm. Ticket holders will be required to enter the venue immediately after receiving their tickets. None of the tickets will be distributed before the event.

Considering the band’s infrequent performances lately, the relatively small size of the venue and the undeniable magnificence of Radiohead, undoubtedly the tickets will be white hot. According to Twitter, Consequence of Sound has noted that Four Tet, in addition to fellow producers Pearson Sound, Falty DL and RocketNumberNine, will be opening the two shows. Pearson Sound and Four Tet both were participants in the remix series The King of Limbs. The shows now are up at Ticketmaster. In terms of Radiohead, of course money isn’t any object. However it appears that if you are lucky enough to be able to purchase tickets, they will cost $65 in addition to fees of $14.75.

With 2011 coming to an end and 2012 almost here, speculation about festival headliners for Coachella next year are already gaining momentum. Although we just said goodbye to Bestival, rumors from the music industry over who will be topping the bill at Coachella, one of the first big events on the musical calendar, are already making the rounds.

Hits Daily Double, a music trade publication, is inferring that No Doubt and Radiohead are locked in to be the event’s headliners next year, according to Consequence of Sound. The same source last year reported how The Rolling Stones had almost finalized a deal for headlining the event in 2010. However, rumor is still rumor.

Hits Daily Double said that although record revenues for rock has decreased, the concert business has been holding steady and increased in some cases, led by multi-decade career acts performing in stadiums and arenas. The same can be said for festivals that are high profile such as Coachella.

Radiohead has squashed rumors of a new album in the works. They stated that most of their recent work was used up on “The King of Limbs.” Ed O’Brien, the band’s guitarist said, when we start working on a new album, we usually start afresh. It’s nice putting a lid on this.

Within hours of “The King of Limbs” being released, fans started to exchange conspiracy theories. They suggested that Radiohead, after working in the studio for a year, must have more than eight tracks recorded. The theory of a sequel to “The King of Limbs” was started with the TKOL1 file name on some album preorders, in addition to the name of “Separator,” the album’s final track. These details inspired websites to cling to every clue of supposed new material from Radiohead.

However O’Brien has squelched the rumors of any follow-up. We have other songs we started and didn’t finish. But there isn’t seven or eight songs that are finished waiting to be released in the fall or now, O’Brien said to BBC 6 Music. When we made the album, we didn’t want it to be too long. About 40 minutes is a record’s optimum time.

However, Radiohead does have some new music headed our way. Tomorrow two songs are due out in celebration of Record Store Day. However the tracks aren’t harbingers, they are leftovers. O’Brien said, “The Butcher” came out of the session for “King of Limbs.” We recorded “Supercollider” during that time frame, however we finished it after the release of the album. We are releasing both of them in support of independent records stores. Record shops are an important place for people to come together and to choose the music they love. Anything we can do to help out during these tough times, we want to do.