Santa Monica, Calif. - The Recording Academy, producer of the annual Grammy Awards, announced on Monday that Radiohead and Paul McCartney will be among the artists performing live at this year's ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 8. The event will mark Radiohead's first live U.S. television performance since 2000.

London - Radiohead's "In Rainbows" has sold more than 3 million copies across downloads, CDs and boxed sets, and the initial pay-what-you-want online release generated more digital income than the band made in total from its previous album, "Hail to the Thief," Music Ally reported, citing data from publisher Warner/Chappell UK (NYSE: WMG).

Manchester, England - A coalition of over 60 U.K. recording artists that includes Radiohead, Billy Bragg and Robbie Williams has been formed with the objective of lobbying for artists' rights in the digital age.

Los Angeles - Following their successful remix contest with the song "Nude" off their recent "In Rainbows" record, the band has placed the underlying "stem" tracks for the song "Reckoner" for purchase on the iTunes Store. This time, instead of charging 99 cents for each individual stem, the band is offering all of the stems together as a 99-cent bundle, and eliminated the $5 fee for uploading remixes for voting on by the RadioheadRemix.com community. The band's merchandise company told Wired.com the remix page for the last contest got over 6 million unique visitors, who streamed 1.7 million tracks from the page. So far, over 200 remixes of "Reckoner" have been submitted.

Santa Barbara, Calif. - Radiohead have announced they will offer a live webcast of the last show on their North American tour tonight from Santa Barbara, California, Pitchfork reports. "It should be a special night, for lots of reasons, and we're going to try and share as much of it as we can on the webcast. Nigel, our producer, will be helping out getting it to you, so if it goes wrong....It's live!" Radiohead's Colin Greenwood wrote on the band's website. Details on the webcast will be made available from a link below.

London - CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) social music discovery service Last.fm announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Radiohead to offer the band's "In Rainbows" album for free streaming from its site, supported by advertising. The rights were licensed through the "one stop" digital licensing platform that Radiohead and publisher Warner/Chappell Music created at the end of last year. The band previously made "In Rainbows" available as a pay-what-you-want download; Last.fm said it has already been streamed 22,000 times in its first 12 hours of availability.

New York - Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis), best known for his mashups that combine dozens of samples in a single track, has announced plans to release the follow-up to his 2006 album "Night Ripper" in a pay-what-you-want format -- a la Radiohead's "In Rainbows." Following the digital release of "Feed the Animals" from Gillis' website, a physical CD is also scheduled for release several months later.

Cupertino, Calif. - Radiohead's catalog is now available for download in DRM-free format from Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes store, after the band apparently caved on its stance that its songs only be sold bundled as albums. Apple's policy dictates that consumers may purchase individual songs. Radiohead's music has been available on digital services like 7digital since last year, but only as full albums.

San Francisco - Music-focused social network imeem said on Friday that it has partnered with Capitol/EMI to let its users stream the entire two-disc, 30-song special edition of "Radiohead: The Best Of," as well as every music video from "Radiohead: The Best Of DVD" for free prior to their North American release on June 3. The site, which claims 24 million unique monthly users, said fans will also be able to create and share custom Radiohead music and video playlists to embed on blogs or other social network profiles.

Last week we issued a news release titled Coldplay's Free Single Propels Website to #1 Online Among Bands and Artists. We found that U.S. visits to Coldplay.com increased 19 fold on the back of the band's new single, Violet Hill, being released for free online. On April 29, 2008, the day the single was released on Coldplay.com, the website ranked as the most visited website among the Bands and Artists category. A little more than 1 out of every 40 visits to Bands and Artists category went to Coldplay's website that day.

Los Angeles - Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has called the band's move to let consumers decide how much, if anything, to pay for its new album "In Rainbows" a "one-off," which likely won't be repeated again, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Mountain View, Calif. - With one more record due to Warner Music under their current contract, Metallica is considering a Radiohead-style release for future efforts, drummer Lars Ulrich tells Rolling Stone. "We've been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor and in twenty-seven years or however long it takes for the next record, we'll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet," said Ulrich. Since notably coming out against illegal downloading during the heyday of Napster, the band now offers FLAC and MP3 versions of shows for sale on its website, while older shows can be downloaded for free.

Suffolk, England - Among the 2,000 or so who have uploaded their own remixes of Radiohead's song "Nude" after the band made stem tracks available for download from iTunes was electronic musician Thomas Dolby, the artist said on Tuesday. "I was trying out my new wireless router to see if I could get reception down on the beach in front of my house," said Dolby. "Sitting there shivering beside the North Sea with my laptop, huddled in a blanket and listening to Radiohead's 'Nude' stems on iTunes, with the waves lapping the shore and a crowd of seagulls fighting over a crab shell, I got an idea for a lovely remix." The song is available for free download from RadioheadRemix.com.

Los Angeles - Radiohead has launched its own social networking site, based from the same W.A.S.T.E. merchandise website that offered its "In Rainbows" album on a pay-what-you-want basis, Pitchfork Media reports. At launch, the W.A.S.T.E. Central site lets users create profiles, see who else is going to shows on the band's current tour, and view and upload photos and videos.

Los Angeles - Radiohead has partnered with Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes Store to give fans the ability to create their own remix for their new single "Nude," offering the separate vocal and instrumental parts of the song for download from the online store.