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Solo Album for Radiohead Frontman

Radiohead fans that are anxiously waiting for the band`s next album, will get some fresh air on July 11, when Radiohead`s frontman releases his solo album ? The Eraser. Although this album is not a Radiohead album, fans have nothing to worry about. The U.K. band has no intention of splitting up, and they are currently working on their seventh album.

Instead, he reports that Radiohead has been feverishly working in its U.K. studios on new tunes for the band`s highly anticipated seventh album, which Radiohead has been road testing with a short tour that began earlier this month in Europe. The tour makes its way to North America in June via intimate theater venues, as well as a June 17 headlining gig at the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee, before wrapping up in August.

"Yes it`s a record! No, it`s not a Radiohead record," the singer wrote in a post dated Friday. "As you know, the band are now touring and writing new stuff and getting to a good space, so I want no crap about me being a traitor or whatever splitting up blah, blah...this was all done with their blessing." And while The Eraser is his own baby, Yorke tells fans he doesn`t like referring to the disc as a solo project, claiming "it doesn`t sound right." Solo or not, the new disc is going to be distributed by Indie label XL Recordings and feature nine tracks produced and arranged by Nigel Godrich, the famed Radiohead collaborator who shepherded the group to prominence via his work on The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A and Hail to the Thief.