It's the morning after the Grammy Awards, when the recording industry is still recovering from after-parties, after-after-parties and any pathogenic bacteria it might have picked up from Lady Gaga's egg, so who would expect there to be any music news before Justin Bieber wakes up?
Radiohead, that's who. That nonconformist British band opted to wait until immediately after the Grammys (and, in Britain, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards) to announce that its next album, ''The King of Limbs,'' will be available as a digital download on Saturday before its physical release in May.
But unlike its last album, ''In Rainbows,'' for which Radiohead allowed online customers to pay what they wished (if they wished to pay anything at all), ''The King of Limbs'' will not be sold at such flexible prices. On its Web site for the new album, thekingoflimbs.com, the band said a digital version can be bought in advance for $9 (for MP3 format) or $14 (for WAV format).
Radiohead is also offering what it calls a ''newspaper album'' release of ''The King of Limbs'' (a metaphor that was lost on at least one newspaper employee) which includes two 10-inch vinyl records and a CD, as well as ''many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-color piece of oxo-degradable plastic to hold it all together.'' This release is sold for $48 (for MP3 digital files) or $53 (for WAV), and will be shipped on May 9, the band said.
This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.
PHOTO (PHOTOGRAPH BY IRIS SCHNEIDER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES)
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