I adore Radiohead, but today’s announcement that their “Seattle” tour stop is at the White River Amphitheater on 20 August is more than a little bit disappointing [pitchfork]. This, from an interview between Thom Yorke and David Byrne last year:

Yorke: … at the moment we make money principally from touring. Which is hard for me to reconcile because I don’t like all the energy consumption, the travel. It’s an ecological disaster, traveling, touring.
Byrne: Well, there are the biodiesel buses and all that.
Yorke: Yeah, it depends where you get your biodiesel from. There are ways to minimize it. We did one of those carbon footprint things recently where they assessed the last period of touring we did and tried to work out where the biggest problems were. And it was obviously everybody traveling to the shows.
Byrne: Oh, you mean the audience.
Yorke: Yeah. Especially in the US. Everybody drives. So how the hell are we going to address that? The idea is that we play in municipal places with some transport system alternative to cars. And minimize flying equipment, shipping everything. We can’t be shipped, though. [wired]

I’ll be seeing them twice at All Points West (admittedly, making this trip will leave a much bigger carbon footprint than the 40 mile drive to Auburn along congested two-lane roads so I should stop whining.); so I don’t know that I’ll be queuing up for tickets when the pre-sale starts on 9 April. I haven’t seen anything about ticket pricing, but I’m guessing that it won’t be along the In Rainbows “pay what you like (no, really!)” model. update: tickets will run between $35 and $55 before fees, taxes, and other sundry charges. [livenation]

Maybe they can pull off something cool like Coachella is doing — including free train tickets for campers going from LA to Indio to mitigate some of the frustrating traffic.

Oh, and the rumors about Grizzly Bear opening were only half true. They’re opening on the first part of the tour; West Coasters will have the pleasure of seeing Liars instead.