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Radiohead- THE KINGS OF LIMBS

   THE KINGS OF LIMBS Editor Katie Watkins Now that the music on In Rainbows has had four years to outshine its launch mechanism, it's easy to forget that the album originally came bundled with an onest attempt to solve a business problem.  The pay-what you-think-is-fair system wasn't just Radiohead being magnanimous, it was using their popularity and their newly won independence to ask what might have been the single most important question facing a shaken music industry: What is an album in the download era actually worth to fans?  Announced on Monday of last week and then chucked out to rabid fans like flank steak a day ahead of schedule, the band's eighth album dispenses with the honesty-box pricing model but still finds them using their influence to interrogate the terms around how we consume and relate to music.  Containing a slight eight tracks across 37 minutes, The King of Limbs is Radiohead's first album to clock in under the 40-minute mark, falling in...

Pulp reunite for 2011 concerts

Pulp reunite for 2011 concerts Music News : Katie Watkin's (Music Journalist) 7th Jan 2011 This article is more than 9 years ol Pulp  announced  they are to reunite for 2011 concerts in a short statement the band, which alongside Blur and Oasis defined the Britpop era, promised to play fan favourites as they confirmed dates at the Wireless festival in Hyde Park and at Spain's Primavera Sound festival, both next summer. A tour could follow. Pulp are  just one of the latest band to reform amid a wave of nostalgia, stretching from Led Zeppelin's comeback gig at the O2 arena in London in 2007 to Spandau Ballet's recent world tour.  But perhaps the most successful have been two other stalwarts of the 1990s; Blur, who reunited in 2009, with a headline slot at Glastonbury festival, and Take That, recently reunited with fifth member Robbie Williams.  Pulp appear to be prepared for the onslaught of questions that inevitably accompany news of a band's reunion. Pulp origin...