Six months ago Radiohead released the ninth album of their storied 31 year career. As ever, they didn’t disappoint. A sprawling, emotional masterpiece, A Moon Shaped Pool is filled to the brim with soaring ballads and layered, experimental rock songs. It’s their best since 2007’s In Rainbows. What’s even more interesting though is what’s on it. […]
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 […]
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 […]