News · 14 May 2004

Laser Radiohead opens a New Jersey planetarium

first posted on Treefingers by Miro · rewritten for the archive September 2026

Rowan University in New Jersey opens its new $940,000 planetarium to the public next week. One of the first shows is Laser Radiohead, 50 minutes of coloured lasers that turn the band's music into animation and images.

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also in May 2004

Jonny Greenwood's “Paranoid Android” solo comes 34th in Guitar World's top 100

Radiohead headline Coachella after a day of rumours they had pulled out

Christopher O'Riley takes his Radiohead piano to Philadelphia

Colin Greenwood says Thom Yorke has started on a solo album

Danish TV's DR2 airs a Radiohead special from Montreux

Thom Yorke on the covers of rockin'on and Crossbeat in Japan

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