Radiohead fans, are you tired of congregating everywhere on the Internet to sing the praises of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and those other dudes? It doesn't seem like it, from the way that you'll take to any comment section in any far-flung blog, but the boys in the band are betting that you'd love to find just one place to get together and find people just like you! (Plus, now that Thom et al have already
changed the music industry forever and ever, they need to give their Web team
something to do.) Head on over to
Waste Central, Radiohead's safe space for fans to bond over their shared ownership of the
In Rainbows box set. The best part about the site? It shows that the trailblazing band isn't afraid of following in the footsteps of
Fall Out Boy,
50 Cent,
Kylie Minogue, and other artists who have decided to "monetize their userbase" by cutting them off from the rest of the Internet and plopping them inside boutique social networks that are emblazoned with lots of e-commerce links.
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Apparently Kylie Minogue doesn't fit into Coldplay's quest to become the Arcade Fire Mach II, as their collaboration during the Viva La Vida sessions was, to quote Chris Martin, "too sexy" to make the album's final cut. Martin told the Guardian that the song will instead appear on Coldplay's next album, which will, alas, be an odds and ends collection and not the Eurodance masterpiece so many of us were waiting for. [Guardian]
