In the name of green: Radiohead, from London, on Conan

Radiohead performed for Conan O’Brien’s late night talk show tonight, in light of the ‘green’ episode, and for NBC’s obvious back-patting promotion of Earth Week.

As much as I hate corporate use of environmental consciousness (and by this I mean latching on to once-a-year events to pretend to be green – meanwhile not giving two shits about the impact of societies on Mother Earth the rest of the time), I do love me some Radiohead.

“The chorus of this song is denial, denial,” Thom Yorke said about the song ‘House of Cards,’ while making reference to the man who refused to sign the Kyoto Agreement. “But he’s history,” Yorke smiled.

Yorke claimed the band was broadcasting in London instead of NYC because the amount of CO2 emissions from flying the distance would be the equivalent of driving for a year. I don’t have the scientific knowledge to prove this to be right or wrong, but it’s interesting to think about.

Radiohead rocks.

More free SXSW worth noting

Yes, it was pointed out to me that my blog is “random” and is probably more so due to my decision to include Southby posts. But seriously, there is nothing better than music taking over an entire town and having FREEEE fun!

LA Weekly, owned by Village Voice media, is throwing a free party at La Zona Rosa from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, March 14. The line-up rocks: Black Keys, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Health, The Cribs and Soundrack of Our Lives. GET EXCITED!!! and show up early enough to get in.

Here’s a sweet Trail of Dead vid..

And , as presented by Scion, Monster Energy, Cha Cha and Viva La Rock:

All you gotta do is RSVP!!!!!

SXSW ‘08 stuff for the poor kids

Thanks to the fun and dancy kids at Panda Toes, the release of Mess with Texas 2 info has been brought to my attention.

OH how exciting! This is an all day event at Waterloo Park on March 15, so you can still catch your fav bands in downtown ATX on Saturday night (assuming, of course, that you’ve spent at least $140 on a wristband).

I’m most looking forward to the $$-free shows of NOFX, The Breeders, Yeasayer and Matt & Kim.

South by Southwest is better than Christmas.. by far.