The boys from Radiohead are backing their words on climate change with positive action after announcing they will be giving a “green performance” on US talk show ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ on Wednesday night.

The band will perform their hit “House of Cards” from the current “In Rainbows” album, but will not fly to the US to directly in front of a studio audience. Instead, the band will record the performance from their London studio and pass the material to the broadcast network.

The special performance will form part of O’Briens contribution to “Green Week” on network NBC.

Radiohead has received a nomination for Best Album at this year’s Ivor Novello songwriting awards.

The Oxford rockers will battle Stephen Fretwell for his self-titled album, and Simon Aldred with Third For Romance for the gong.

Amy Winehouse leads the nominations for the prizes. The troubled singer has two tracks nominated in the “Best Song” category - “Love Is A Losing Game” and “You Know I’m No Good”. She is also nominated in the “Best Selling Song” category for her aptly titled track “Rehab”.

The full list of nominees are as follows:

Best Song Musically & Lyrically

Ben’s Brother / Let Me Out
Amy Winehouse / Love Is A Losing Game
Amy Winehouse / You Know I’m No Good

Best Contemporary Song

Kate Nash / Foundations
Klaxons / Golden Skans
Simon Aldred / Cherry Ghost

Best Original Film Score

Dario Marianelli / Atonement
Adrian Johnston / Becoming Jane
Christopher Gunning / La Vie en Rose

Best Television Soundtrack

Martin Phipps / Oliver Twist
Jonathan Goldstein / Primo
Paul Moessl / Who Killed Mrs de Ropp?

Most Performed Work

Kaiser Chiefs / Ruby
Take That / Shine
Just Jack / Starz In Their Eyes

Best Selling Song

Beyonce & Shakira / Beautiful Liar
Mika / Grace Kelly
Amy Winehouse / Rehab

Best Album

Radiohead / In Rainbows
Stephen Fretwell / Stephen Fretwell
Simon Aldred / Thirst For Romance

Radiohead have scotched reports that they would sign a deal with Starbucks. Thom Yorke and his band Radiohead are currently halfway through the recording of the successor to the album Hail To The Thief, released in 2004.

This will be their first release since they left the record company Parlophone/Capitol. Recently, there have been rumours that Radiohead would follow in Sir Paul McCartney’s footsteps and sell their albums through the coffee king Starbucks. However, the Courtyard Management spokesman declared those stories to be false on the band’s behalf.

“Radiohead are currently in the studio working on their next record. They are not negotiating a new record deal with anyone, and will not even consider how to release their new music until the album is finished,” said the Courtyard spokesman.

Last week, McCartney confirmed that he had signed the deal with the Starbucks label Hear Music, reports Yahoo! Music.

Online retailer Amazon have given Radiohead’s seventh studio album an August 6 release date.

The album has yet to be titled, and the band are still in the studio working on the new material, but if the date is proven accurate fans would be delighted at getting their hands on new material before the end of the summer.

It should be said release dates on retail music sites are invariably inaccurate however, and are often used as a tool to start collecting pre-orders ahead of the competition. But after two years in the studio working on this release, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

More information as we get it.

Outspoken Oasis bandleader Noel Gallagher has blasted political musicians Thom Yorke and Bono, telling them to stick to playing their hits, and to stop preaching their political beliefs to the masses.

The Mancunian rocker is coming under the media spotlight this week, in the run-up to next week’s Brit Music Awards where his band will achieve the Lifetime Achievement Award for their contribution to the British music industry. And once again, he hasn’t disappointed with his latest rant.

Gallagher says: “Thom Yorke sat at a piano singing, ‘This is f**ked up,’ for half an hour. We all know that, Mr Yorke. Who wants to sing the news? No matter how much you sit their twiddling, going, ‘We’re all doomed,’ at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play CREEP. Get over it.”

On U2 frontman Bono, Gallagher says: “It’s the same with U2. Play ONE, shut the f**k up about Africa.”

The Flaming Lips cover version of Radiohead track ‘Knives Out’ is to appear on a forthcoming compliation album in the US.

The American alternative rock band join the likes of REM, The Magic Numbers and Paul Weller on ‘Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project’ who will have cover versions of tracks appearing on the disc. The track originally appeared on the critically-acclaimed 2000 album Kid A.

The album will be sold in special-selected Starbucks stores from March 13 in the USA. The full track listing is as follows:

‘Out In The Weekend’- Girls In Hawaii
‘I Got The Sleep’- Sia
‘Crazy In Love’ - the Magic Numbers
‘Creep’ - Damien Rice
‘I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl’- Nikka Costa
‘Fire And Rain’- Dido
‘Wishing On A Star’- Paul Weller
‘Harvest’- Rufus Wainwright and Chris Stills
‘Gentle On My Mind’- REM
‘Mad World’- Gary Jules
‘Knives Out’- The Flaming Lips
‘Black Dog’- Robert Plant
‘Moses’- Missy Higgins
‘Let’s Dance’- M. Ware
‘Hallelujah’- k.d. lang

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has posted up a list of his current favourite songs up on Apple’s iTunes site as one of their Celebrity Playlists, and we find out he’s a fan of Bat for Lashes, The Dears and Spank Rock.

“dear iTunes listener . . .
this is just some stuff that really floats my boats at the moment. the list is meant to be played from start to finish in the order you see it with a slight crossfade set in the preferences of 4 seconds like an old mix tape.
err . . . maybe. XX love thom

[Bat for Lashes] “Horse and I” (Track 1): “natasha khan of bat for lashes ain’t scared. i love the harpsichord and the sexual ghost voices and bowed saws. this song seems to come from the world of grimm’s fairytales, and i feel like a wolf.”

[Modeselektor & Sasha Perera] “Silikon (Featuring Sasha Perera)” (Track 2): “Hello Mom! break this. into your drink. then stir it. drink down in one go. then go out. for conspicuous consumers everywhere. ’should a known he’d leave you for that little hooker heather.’ oh yeah. Modeselektor are genius. no-one has ever cut up a voice like this.”

[Madvillain & Medaphoar] “Raid” (Track 3): “i’d play this on the radio and get your moving your ass in a traffic jam 1st thing in the morning . . . if i was a dj, which i’m not. some people know how to sample. some people know how to rap. but then there’s those who show you how it’s really done . . . like these guys. produced by quasimoto.”

[Stephen Malkmus] “I’ve Hardly Been” (Track 4): “genius non-generic nutville not rock music. should have been a hit. i guess this compilation is POP music - at least it is to me . . . with the best guitar solo that never happened . . . ”

[Surgeon] “Scorn” (Track 5): “this is like the storms that await us in our future. i found Surgeon after OK Computer, it is the true sound of post-rave darkness. this is an early one from my favorite bits of vinyl, Basictonalvocabulary.”

[The Dears] “No Hope Before Destruction” (Track 6): “i heard this a while ago and it has stuck in my head ever since. the way the voice comes in and your speakers freak out. and what he’s saying. it sounds all soppy, oh but then all hell breaks loose. i don’t know much else by them.”

[Boxcutter] “Skuff’d” (Track 7): “i love this record because of the lizard bass sound. i don’t know nothing about it. turn the drum machine on.”

[Quasimoto & Madvillain] “Closer” (Track 8): “quasimoto and madvillain have done some amazing records. madvillain has the best rhymes . . . nursery rhymes mixed with stream of consciousness and venim and straight observation that read like poems. and quasimoto’s way of constructing tracks is like nothing else.”

[Liars] “Drum Gets a Glimpse” (Track 9): “more terror from the subconscious. i love LIARS. they make records that are as good as my favorite records. records that make you think what the f- is this? and then you fall head over heels for it. this and Spank Rock’s YoYoYoYoYoYo are my fav records last year.”

[Spank Rock] “What It Look Like” (Track 10): “when this record came out last year, it cut through all the sh*t for me. it was like a slap ’round the face. the computers speaking over their reference points and pointing to something brand new. turn it up. night night.”

It would seem Deerhoof touring with Radiohead has spawned the potential for a beautiful relationship between the respective bands.

So bowled over by the Oxford boys was Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier that he said working alongside Thom Yorke and the rest of the band totally changed his perspective on life.

“Everybody knows what an uncommon live group they are, and even with years of buildup and knowing there was no way they could live up to the legend, they were so much better than even my highest expectation that my whole outlook on the world had to be immediately revised.

“But what people might not know is that they are so great in person. All five of them, and everyone in their enormous crew, were all so sweet to us. They really supported our music.”

Frontman Thom Yorke confirmed the news in a posting to their popular, yet (expectedly) bizarre online blog Dead Air Space: ” back at werk. so we have staRTed up again had a good today. working on a version of 15step and rebuilding our studio in the wind (the UK was battered by gale-force winds on Thursday).”

The band debuted 15step on the North American leg of their tour last year.

Alternative metal band Korn are to release their own cover version of the Radiohead classic Creep on their forthcoming MTV Unplugged album.

The track has already been covered by the likes of Moby and Damien Rice. Creep climbed as high as No. 7 in the UK charts back in 1993, appearing on the band’s debut album Pablo Honey.

Korn were joined on stage by The Cure when recording the album back in December 2006 and the combination performed a special version of Cure classic In Between Days which will also feature on the album. The album is due to be released on February 19.