Updating a story first posted yesterday (Sept. 2), Radiohead will play four-night runs in five European cities this winter, their first since 2018. The group will visit Madrid, Bologna, Copenhagen, Berlin and London as part of the itinerary, tickets for which can be obtained here. “Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the […]
Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium—when some truly believed the world would end—chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and world change. The O.J. Simpson murder trial began in January, 1995. The Oklahoma City Bombing took the lives of 168 people in April. The Srebrenica […]
Radiohead is turning back the clock for a look at material from its 2003 album Hail to the Thief, in-concert versions of which have been assembled for the just-released digital collection Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009. Mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton, the project will also be available in a […]
For decades, having a signature guitar was reserved for classic rock legends — the Claptons, the Hendrixes, the Pages, the SRVs and EVHs. But that’s no longer the case. From pop-punk to heavy metal, alt-country to neo-soul, modern artists of all genres and backgrounds are getting signature guitars from companies big and small. Among the […]
The Smile has extended its creative partnership with the hit Netflix British drama Peaky Blinders via a new video for its song “Pana-vision” starring the show’s Cillian Murphy. “Pana-vision” previously debuted in an April episode of the show’s sixth and final season and can be found on the Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood-led group’s debut […]
OK Computer might not have come out until July 1, 1997 in the United States; however, May 21st marks the 25th anniversary of the release in Japan, and Radiohead‘s Ed O’Brien took the opportunity to reflect on the album in a pair of Instagram posts. Inspired by a BB6 Music’s celebration of OK Computer, the guitarist […]
Fifty-nine seconds into “The Same,” the first track from The Smile’s debut release A Light for Attracting Attention, the unmistakable voice of Thom Yorke begins singing about how “we are all the same” atop a sci-fi pulse of piano, acoustic guitar, and analog synthesizers. There’s no easy release from the tension of the song’s slowly […]
The Radiohead side-project The Smile has unveiled yet another new song, “Thin Thing,” ahead of the Friday (May 13) release of their anticipated debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention. The track is accompanied by a creepy, black and white stop-motion animation video directed by Cristobal Leon and Joaquín Cocina, which features vintage technology being […]
Thom Yorke performed a handful of Radiohead songs solo for the first time during an acoustic set at Zeltbühne in Zermatt, Switzerland last night. His 23-song setlist included the solo live debuts of “Bodysnatchers” (from In Rainbows), “Exit Music (For A Film)” (from OK Computer), “Decks Dark” and “Daydreaming (both from A Moon Shaped Pool). Yorke […]
The Smile — the group consisting of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner — released their third single, “Skrting On The Surface” along with an accompanying video via XL recordings. [embedded content][embedded content] The video was filmed in 16mm black and white, directed by Mark Jenkin, the BAFTA-winning writer, […]