Even those of us who only took half a music appreciation course in college know about the impact of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, the orchestral ballet that nearly caused a brawl at its debut. Ah, but how times have changed in the exactly one hundred years since that May evening at the Théâtre […]
We asked NME users to vote for the best Radiohead tracks – and the results are in… 20. ‘Just’ (1995). The seventh track on ‘The Bends’, this song has become the closest thing Radiohead have to an ‘indie anthem’, despite being murdered by Mark Ronson in a 2008 cover. 19. ’15 Step’ (2007). An absolute […]
For a man who left Bromley Technical High School with just one ‘O’ level (in art), David Bowie ended up a remarkably well-read man. Bowie, who died aged 69 on January 10 2016, said that “when I’m relaxed what I do is read” and described a good week as one in which he pored through […]
Mr. Jagger, what kept you from completely going off the deep end? I mean we all did excessive things and I had a lot of unstable moments as I’m sure everyone does in their life. Maybe it helped me that I had a very centered upbringing. So your parents basically. Yeah, I think so. When […]
Which is more overrated: Sgt. Pepper’s or The White Album? Okay yes but hear me out. First of all Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a masterpiece. It’s a work of art and when paired with Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane (the single released in advance of the album that George Martin regretted […]
It should come as no surprise that our list of the Top 10 David Gilmour Pink Floyd Songs is full of brain-melting guitar solos, lilting vocals and gorgeous music. Although Roger Waters will forever be the group’s lyrical genius and thematic mastermind, Gilmour brought a stronger (and more versatile) voice, a knack for memorable melodies […]
On Sunday, May 06. Radiohead bleached its Internet presence—its Web site faded to white; its Twitter and Facebook pages were scrubbed of content—a move so blatantly counterintuitive that acolytes knew to recognize it as a portent. The week prior, inscrutable paper leaflets had been stamped and shipped to some fans, embossed with the band’s toothy-bear […]
In 1996, while most major British bands were blowing their royalties on cocaine, light aircraft, Patsy Kensit and Hampstead piles, Radiohead did something quite different. They spent a big chunk of what they’d earned on building an entirely new studio and filled it with a variety of exotic types of pricey, abstract and futuristic noise-making […]