Radiohead Removes Online Content

A day after fans in the United Kingdom received mysterious mailers perhjaps hinting at a possible new Radiohead album, the band’s online presence has begun to disappear. Throughout the day Sunday, Radiohead’s social media accounts and official website have been wiped away.

Visitors to www.radiohead.com today slowly found the website dissolving to a completely blank white homepage with no clickable links. The band’s (and frontman Thom Yorke’s) official Facebook, Twitter and Google+ pages have had their posts and tweets deleted and avatars changed to blank white images.

Yesterday, mailers reading “Sing the song of sixpence, burn the witch” and “we know where you live” with an embossed stamp of the Radiohead logo were received by several fans in the U.K. Radiohead teased a song titled “Burn The Witch” live in 2006 and again in 2008.

Stereogum pointed to a post on Reddit regarding a correlation between today’s date and Walpurgisnacht — or “Witches’ Night,” noting:

[A]ccording to Germanic folklore, Walpurgisnacht — or “Witches’ Night” — falls on either 4/30 (today) or 5/1 (tomorrow), depending on the year. Radiohead recently started two companies, Dawn Chorus LLP and Dawnchoruss LTD, and International Dawn Chorus Day is held on the first Sunday in May, which also happens to be tomorrow, 5/1.

Possibly in support of a pending new album, Radiohead will set out on a World Tour mixing festival appearances and headlining performances starting in Amsterdam on May 20.