The New Year’s Baby: Radiohead Webcast

It’s only fitting that the band generating the biggest industry buzz in 2007 would also make the biggest splash on New Year’s Eve.

Clay Aiken-Yorke and the rest of the Radiohead fellers put in a solid 52 minutes of work last night, webcasting a dynamic (mostly) studio performance that showed off how the material off In Rainbows may sound live. And after one listen, I’m ready to throw down the poundage to see them wherever they play in these United States. Give it a whirl yourself; the video’s courtesy of Al Gore’s Current TV invention:

Man, that’s just mesmerizing stuff, and I’ve never even been a huge Radiohead fan. Faust Arp in a field? Thom Yorke’s 15 Steps gyrations? Awesome shit. At this point, I believe anyone who didn’t think In Rainbows was the album of the year is either deaf or lying, or a lying deaf person, like that time Marlee Matlin said she’d “definitely call me” when leaving my apartment that one marvelous night.