Radiohead Pull A Nine Inch Nails With Video Contest

Nine Inch Nails "pulled a Radiohead" earlier this month with the digital release of Ghosts I-IV, and now Radiohead have "pulled a Nine Inch Nails" with an online fan video initiative.

Last week, we told you Ghosts I-IV had made Trent Reznor another million dollars. To celebrate, he launched a "virtual film festival" to encourage his fans to upload their videos for tracks from Ghosts I-IV to YouTube. The next day, Reznor dissed Radiohead when he called their 2007 online pay-what-you-want release of In Rainbows "insincere."

Radiohead are now encouraging fans to create their own videos for tracks from In Rainbows through an initiative with TBD Records, Adult Swim and Aniboom.com. Unlike Reznor's film festival, which he insisted was "not a contest," Radiohead's initiative is a full-blown competition in which the winner will receive $10,000 towards the production of their video.

The competition kicked off on Monday. Fans can now upload storyboards of anything from sketches to videos to Aniboom.com, but their uploads won't be judged or appear on the site until April 7. You have until April 27 to upload your content. On April 28, 10 semi-finalists will be chosen and each entrant will receive $1,000 to make a one-minute clip. Those one-minute clips will be narrowed down to the best five by June 30, and Radiohead will select the winner on July 7.

In the meantime, Radiohead have announced they will soon release a four-hour remix of In Rainbows' "Videotape" on VHS. That means that not only will you be able to listen to the bizarre repetitious video sweeping sounds at the end of the track, you'll be able to imagine them as the tape inside your copy rotates in your VCR (if you still own one). Former Dakota Oak Trio member James Rutledge is responsible for the remix, of which only one copy has been made. The video features (fitting) red, blue and green visuals and will be auctioned on eBay on behalf of Missing People, a U.K. charity that works to reconnect runaways and missing relatives with their families.