Radiohead rumor control: Their next album is NOT finished

We Radiohead fans have a way of getting all hyper-ventilate-y every time the slightest shred of news, gossip, or implication slips out regarding our beloved band. (No offense meant. I can say this of Radiohead fans because I most fervently am one.) So when a rumor got out today that the band threw a wrap party in L.A. last weekend to celebrate the completion of their eighth studio album, quite a few people got very excited.

Only one problem: It's not true. I just asked Radiohead's publicist whether the band had indeed finished recording LP8. "FALSE,"came the reply within minutes. As for the so-called "wrap party," their rep couldn't confirm or deny whether that happened — but if it did, it presumably had nothing to do with completing an album.

Looks like we'll have to wait a little longer for the new album that guitarist Ed O'Brien promised us in 2010. Oh well. Fellow Radiohead worshippers, you may now return to your regularly scheduled activity of listening for the thousandth time to the unbelievable B-sides from Amnesiac, and I will do the same.

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