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Dead Air Space is a blog kept by members of the British band Radiohead on their website. The blog was started in August 2005 as a means of communicating with fans while the band worked on the album that later came to be called In Rainbows. In addition to using Dead Air Space to keep fans up to date on the recording process, members have posted pictures, links to various articles and have at times used it to voice their opinions on current political matters. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Radiohead are an English rock band. ... In Rainbows is the seventh album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in 2007. ...

On November 28, 2005, lead singer Thom Yorke posted a scathing article concerning the United States stance on global warming as the United Nations Climate Change Conference was taking place in Montreal. Over two years, Yorke also posted feelings about British Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, his reaction to learning that a daughter of US President George W. Bush was in the audience at a Radiohead concert in New York, and links explaining his scepticism to nuclear power as an antidote to climate change, among other subjects. Work-in-progress lyrics of songs such as "Rubbernecks", "Burn the Witch" and "A Pig's Ear" have also been posted by Yorke on the site, despite none of the songs having been performed live or made the final cut of In Rainbows. In 2006, Yorke first announced his own solo album The Eraser through Dead Air Space. is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Edward Yorke (born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the band Radiohead. ... Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ... The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 11 or COP/MOP 1, is a global event taking place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from November 28 to December 9, 2005. ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Region Montréal Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - Total 365. ... For others with the same or similar names, see Gordon Brown (disambiguation). ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... This article is about applications of nuclear fission reactors as power sources. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 450,000 years For current global climate change, see Global warming. ... The Eraser is a solo album by Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, released on 10 July 2006 in the United Kingdom and on 11 July in the United States and Canada. ...

The majority of posts were made by Yorke, but Jonny Greenwood made one of the earliest and longest posts, in 2005, about his love for dub music and his interest in listening to nothing else (Greenwood later made the track selection for a 2007 dub compilation on Trojan Records, Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller). The band did not discuss their own past work on the blog or link to articles about it. Links made by band members included YouTube videos of jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk and dance DJ Derrick May, Wikipedia articles and BBC programmes, an investigative article on Iraq War civilian casualties, and a free Japanese computer game recommended by Greenwood. For other uses, see Dub. ... Trojan Records Trojan Records is a label specialising in ska,rocksteady,reggae and dub music. ... Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller is a compilation album curated by Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... Roland Kirk Rahsaan Roland Kirk (August 7, 1936 - December 5, 1977) was a blind American jazz multi-instrumentalist, playing tenor saxophone, flute and other reed instruments. ... Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. ... Derrick May, also known as Mayday and Rhythim is Rhythim, is an electronic musician from Detroit, Michigan U.S.. He was born in Detroit in 1963 and began to explore electronic music early in his life. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...

Despite conducting media interviews throughout their tour in 2006, Yorke and the band apparently prefer direct Internet communication with their fans over the more traditional route where the press act as the middleman. However, unlike interviews, posts on Dead Air Space provided only fragments of a work in progress. They rarely consisted of detailed information about the band's songs or working methods, and during some periods posts were infrequent, separated by weeks or months. This, however, did not prevent members of the music press from reporting even minor additions made to the blog.

Dead Air Space, along with the band's website, was given a new look in early March 2007, with a new logo and white background. This is in contrast to its previous black background and blue links. One of the headlines on the top of the page reads "Hodiau Direkton". When clicked, this frequently changing section would reveal a pop-up of new artwork by Stanley Donwood,^[1] along with selections of text, such as lyrics or quotes from books that apparently inspired the band. Stanley Donwood is the pen name of English writer and artist Dan Rickwood[1], who has gained fame for his work on the album and poster art for Radiohead on every release since their My Iron Lung EP (1994). ...

Throughout spring 2007, the band continued to hint on Dead Air Space that their album was almost complete. The headline at one point read only, "mixing it." Early in the summer, producer Nigel Godrich posted a short selection of album outtakes edited together. Along with an earlier short clip from an unfinished "15 Step", this was the only audio provided on Dead Air Space from the band's work in progress. The Hodiau Direkton section was then taken offline and few posts were made on Dead Air Space throughout summer 2007, as the band were reported to be mastering the album and trying to finalise a new record deal.

In September 2007, Radiohead unveiled a new cryptogram system for releasing messages on the site. Within a day, the "code" was figured out by a fan after much debate on Radiohead message boards. The first cryptogram posting read, "Yes We Are Still Alive" and another contained the words: "BlinkYourEyes, OneForYes, TwoForNo" which are some of the lyrics from the song "Bodysnatchers".

After earlier comments leading fans to expect a then-still-untitled album no earlier than 2008, the band announced a surprise through Dead Air Space. On September 30, 2007, Jonny Greenwood posted a message: "Hello everyone. Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days; We've called it In Rainbows. Love from us all." A link was included to InRainbows.com, a web site set up by the band where their new, self-released album could be preordered as a download to be made available beginning on October 10, 2007 (as well as a physical "discbox" to be shipped in December 2007). Buyers of the download version could enter their own chosen price, including no money. As a result of the sudden release and unusual distribution method, the band received a large amount of publicity. However, Greenwood's Dead Air Space post served as the only marketing the band themselves did for the album.

Thom Yorke posted once again briefly on October 10, the day of the album's release, saying he hoped listeners were enjoying In Rainbows and quoting Robert Wyatt's views on pop music. Despite large amounts of media attention and interest in sales figures (reported to be over 1 million downloads in the first day), this remained Yorke's only public comment on In Rainbows for over a month after its release, as band members did not conduct interviews until November 19, 2007.

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• Dead Air Space
• Pitchfork: Radiohead Back in Studio
• Yahoo: Radiohead Post New Music Online
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