Thom Yorke names his band Atoms for Peace and takes it on tour in April

Thom Yorke's band has a name, Atoms for Peace, and a tour, from New York's Roseland Ballroom on 5 April to Coachella on the 18th. Yorke announced both on 25 February on Dead Air Space, Radiohead's blog.

“Atoms for Peace” is already a song on The Eraser, his 2006 solo album. it has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms for Peace. hope you like the name.. it seemed bleedin' obvious.⁴ Until now the band had been billed as “Thom Yorke????”, and that is how Coachella printed it when the festival's line-up came out on 19 January.

Flying Lotus, the Los Angeles producer, opens the seven shows from New York to Oakland. His manager told LA Weekly that Flying Lotus will not play the Santa Barbara show. Yorke sings on “...And the World Laughs With You”, a track on Flying Lotus's album Cosmogramma, due in May.

The band, which Yorke put together to play The Eraser live, are Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass, Joey Waronker on drums, Mauro Refosco on percussion, and Nigel Godrich, Radiohead's producer. They played three shows in Los Angeles in October, the first a warm-up at the Echoplex and then two at the Orpheum, and we had too much fun to just leave it there...⁴, Yorke writes.

Atoms for Peace, April 2010