Osheaga is coming with a stacked line-up - my picks

Osheaga seems to have really outdone itself with an absolutely amazing line-up this year. The festival takes place from July 29-31 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in always-amazing Montreal, truly one of my favourite cities in the world.

The stacked line-up includes several artist I have covered or would love to cover including: Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lana Del Rey, Death Cab for Cutie, The Lumineers, M83, Haim, Half Moon Run, Grimes, Bloc Party, Coeur De Pirate, The Arcs, Cypress Hill, Silversun Pickups, Foals, The Cat Empire, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Daughter, Elle King, July Talk (at Lee's Palace and at TURF), Jazz Cartier, St. Lucia, Lapsley, Dragonette, Jack Garratt, Borns, The Strumbellas (at The Horseshoe and at TURF), Frightened Rabbit, Lucius, The Struts, White Lung, The Wombats, Allie X, Dilly Dally, Busty and the Bass, Dear Rouge, and many more.

Radiohead

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Lana Del Rey, Summer

Death Cab for Cutie

The Lumineers

M83

Haim

Half Moon Run

Grimes

Bloc Party

Coeur De Pirate

The Arcs

Cypress Hill

Silversun Pickups

Foals

The Cat Empire

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

Daughter

Elle King

July Talk

Jazz Cartier

St. Lucia

Lapsley

Dragonette

Jack Garratt

BØRNS

The Strumbellas

Frightened Rabbit

Lucius

The Struts

White Lung

The Wombats

Allie X

Dilly Dally

Busty and the Bass

Dear Rouge

Pic from Osheaga.

New music from Radionhead: Daydreaming, plus album release date

Radiohead just let us hear "Burn The Witch" from their forthcoming album the other day. Now we get another tune and video, this for the delicate and nuanced "Daydreaming". We see Thom Yorke wandering through various doors of perception as the tune plays in the Paul Thomas Anderson directed clip.

We also get the exciting news that the album is being released this coming Sunday, May 8 at 2PM Eastern. Exciting!

Pic from Facebook.

New music from Radiohead: Burn the Witch

After months of rumours of new music on its way, Radiohead has released a new song and its accompanying video. The tune is "Burn the Witch" and the claymation video that goes with it is below. The song is pure Radiohead with Thom Yorke's unique vocals over a symphonic cacophony of beautiful noise.

Give it a listen:

Pic from Facebook.

Radiohead - the Bends is 20

Radiohead's second album The Bends came out 20 years ago. It's widely regarded as one of the best albums ever and it's certainly one of my all time favourites. Many people have summarized the significance and wide-ranging influence of this album better than I ever could so I'll just put up some of my favourites from this alternative music classic. I focused on live versions for most of these tunes.

The full album:

"Planet Telex"

"The Bends" from Jools Holland

"High and Dry" from Jools Holland

"Fake Plastic Trees"

"Bones"

"Just"

"My Iron Lung"

"Black Star"

"Street Spirit (Fade Out)"

Pic from Wikipedia.

Five-by-Five: Great UK bands

Why does the UK have such a stronghold on freaking awesome bands? I was grooving to a playlist of 5-star songs and I heard Radiohead, The Kooks, Biffy Clyro, Hard-Fi, and Maxïmo Park. Rule Britannica!

"High And Dry" by Radiohead from 1995's The Bends

"Naive" by The Kooks from 2006's Inside In Inside Out

"Saturday Superhouse" by Biffy Clyro from 2007's Puzzle

"Hard to Beat" by Hard-Fi from 2005's Stars of CCTV

"Graffiti" by Maxïmo Park from 2005's A Certain Trigger

Five by Five: Jools Holland

Later with Jools Holland is a fantastic show in that they bring together diverse artists, present them in a true live sound setting and give exposure to new artists and established stars. If they could get Jools himself to enunciate, it would be perfect, but I'm probably reaching.

Here are five five-star rated tunes performed live on Jools.

"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead

"Tighten Up" by The Black Keys

"Glory Box" by Portishead

"Stuck Between Stations" by The Hold Steady

"Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS

Favourites: Radiohead doing "The Bends" for Jools

I've seen a fair number of great performances courtesy of Later with Jools Holland. I hadn't seen this one until now. Killer performance of "The Bends" from the album of the same name by Radiohead.

One of my favourite songs from one of my favourite albums.

New Radiohead. Amazing.

Cool. The new album from Radiohead is out. It's called The King of Limbs and here's the first video.

Imogen Heap, Radiohead, The Junction, Built to Spill and Other Cool Stuff!

Spinner has the premiere of Imogen Heap's video for the track "First Train Home" from her new album Ellipse. I've really enjoyed Imogen's earlier albums and I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with Ellipse when it comes out August 25th.

Stereogum's got a pack of recent news:

• There's a new song out from Do Make Say Think. It's 10 minutes long and sounds cool to me. I'll have to check out more from this band. They're playing tomorrow night at the Polish Combatants Hall. Other tour dates are in the article.
• Built to Spill has a new album coming out. It's called There is no Enemy and it's coming out in October. I'm heading to the show on October 7th at Lee's Palace. It's not listed among the tour dates on Stereogum, but it is listed on the band's site.
• Radiohead have a new song out, but the rumours are still unconfirmed as to whether there's a new EP called Wall of Ice on its way. The torrent is spinning.

The New Rockstar Philosophy has a funny article about the recent trend of the major labels and iTunes trying to get music fans interested in buying albums again. I still prefer to buy albums over singles, but maybe that has more to do with the fact that I don't buy a lot of Top 40 music.

I saw an article on Dead Sexy about a band called The Vicious Guns. I like the songs on their myspace and will be watching for a release. I couldn't find anything on emusic or iTunes.

The New Music, former television show and current blog, posts some new music in the form of First Spins. However, they don't seem to keep them up for long. A couple that I wanted to check back later to give a listen are for Sean Bones and The Junction. Both are available on emusic. I like 'em.