And yea, the children will come from miles around to sweat in the desert, take colorful drugs and listen to reunited Swedish punk bands. Two of the biggest surprises in the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival lineup announced on Monday were reunion shows from Refused and post-hardcore cult favorites At The Drive-In, who broke their 11-year silence on Twitter.

Before Radiohead was Radiohead, they were called On A Friday—your typical schoolboy garage band, maybe, but filled with future millionaires and Grammy nominees. Courtesy of Radiohead fansite AtEaseWeb, you can hear a demo from one of those On A Friday recording sessions, right before guitarist Jonny Greenwood joined up with the group. It's called "Fat Girl," charmingly enough, and was recorded at Abingdon School in 1986. You can hear it after the jump.

Sure, it may be a brand-new year, but that doesn't mean we can't take some time to reflect back on what was awesome and what was terrible from last year. People love giving their opinions and others love to hate said opinions! It's pretty much the only thing to read on the internet in the last two weeks of the year, so it's unsurprising that it'll carry over to the first business day of the new year. Take Pitchfork's year-end lists, for example: the staff lists were full of considerate and well-written criticism, which is somewhat dissimilar to the point-of-view of most of the site's detractors, who still associate Pitchfork with pretentious hipster snark. The 2011 Pitchfork Readers Poll, on the other hand, does without the commentary, and instead compiles lists of the so-called best albums of the year, as well as the most underrated and overrated albums. 

The world loves Radiohead, the Internet especially. Last week, a "new" Radiohead demo entitled "Putting Ketchup In The Fridge" was posted online, equipped with all of the typical Radiohead hallmarks: chiming guitars, moan-y Thom Yorke vocals, incomprehensible song title. People listened, shared, and got hyped as hell. New Radiohead! NEW RADIOHEAD!

Are you ready for another gem from the cavernous mind of Thom Yorke? Radiohead will be releasing a newspaper called The Universal Sigh on Tuesday. This is not the same as the "newspaper album" option for King of Limbs. This is just a newspaper venture, because newspapers are now something that Radiohead does, apparently.

"It's Friday... It's almost the weekend... It's a full moon...." all legitimate reasons – perhaps in order of importance -- that Radiohead gave for releasing their new album The King of Limbs a day early, after announcing its completion only a week ago. On Monday the band revealed that the album was finished, ready to go and would arrive on Saturday. But in a pleasant twist, Yorke and crew have premiered the album today, just to say: TGIF.

More Radiohead activity, guys! We already told you about how their new album will be out "sometime this year," but guess what album is definitely going to be out this year? Phil Selway's debut solo album, Familial. On August 31st, to be exact. He's released a promo track titled 'By Some Miracle,' and it's an delicate, intimate performance, with great room sound on the recording. Check it out after the break.

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien recently appeared on the BBC radio program Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape and, lucky for us all, he decided to drop some details on the likely release date of the band's eighth studio LP. “Ideally, it’d be great if it came out sometime this year. It’s got to," O'Brien said, before adding, “We’re at the studio at the moment… we’re in the heart of the record, the finishing line… it’s in touching distance.” According to O'Brien, the record will likely be completed in “a matter of weeks.” Are you feverish with anticipation? Are your palms sweaty? Are you shaking? Do you need your Radiohead fix? Full interview after the break.

Yesterday heralded a landmark development where rock band Pink Floyd won an estimated settlement of $90,000 against EMI, who had been selling tracks off the band's concept albums individually on digital retailers like iTunes. The band basically argued that albums like The Wall are meant to be experienced as entire entities, not piecemeal. And their victory begs the question: What other celebrated bits of rock and pop should be sold as entire extravaganzas? To keep this manageable, let's look at it through the same rose-colored filter through which everyone's waxing nostalgic about the '90s. Mind you, these are in no way the best records of their time--although such an assessment wouldn't be untrue in any of these cases, either.

Once in a while, two amazing forces will collide and a sudden, consequent burst of ultratubularity will send the world spinning off its axis and out of its orbit. Today, such a cosmic feat comes courtesy of the confluence of acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami and Radiohead keyboardist Jonny Greenwood. Greenwood is set to score an Anh Hung Tran-directed adaptation of Murakami's Norwegian Wood, due in Japanese cinemas later this year. The tone of the soundtrack? Kind of like a 20-minute composition he wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra entitled "Doghouse."