Articles tagged "radiohead"

Notes from the Road

David Bazan House Show: 3 September 2009 - Washington D.C.

by Mehan Jayasuriya

[8.Sep.09] :. Words and photos by Mehan Jayasuriya.

Notes from the Road

Mixed Media

Radiohead - “These Are My Twisted Words” (stream)

by Brian Parks

[24.Aug.09] :. Lead singer Thom Yorke recently stated in an interview that Radiohead would not be releasing a new album anytime in the near future. While this unfortunate fact has not changed, it has not prevented...

Mixed Media

Sound Affects

“These Are My Twisted Words”: Yet Another New Radiohead Track?

by Mehan Jayasuriya

[13.Aug.09] :. Let it not be said that the members of Radiohead don’t know how to employ the element of surprise. Just a few short days after loosing uncharacteristic new track “Harry Patch (In Memory...

Sound Affects

Sound Affects

Radiohead - “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)”

by Mehan Jayasuriya

[5.Aug.09] :. In classic Radiohead fashion, Thom and the boys unleashed a new track on an unsuspecting blogosphere today: “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)”. The song is a tribute to Harry Patch, the British...

Sound Affects

Column: Pop Goes Philosophy

Hail to the Thief, Again?

by George A. Reisch and Brandon W. Forbes

[22.Jul.09] :. Thom Yorke’s thoughts about political power are in good company. Great theorists of power and justice agree: “you do it to yourself”.

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Music Feature

How Radiohead’s Business Model Shook Up the Music Industry

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[21.May.09] :. Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music tells the story of a new grassroots music industry, created by the laptop generation, with the fans and bands in charge.

Recent features

Jigsaw Falling Into Place: Revisiting Radiohead’s ‘90s Output

by Mehan Jayasuriya

[16.Mar.09] :. With deluxe reissues of Radiohead's first three albums in stores next week, PopMatters takes a look back at Pablo Honey, The Bends and Ok Computer.

Phil Selway, Future Frontman?  “Family Madness” (video)

by Thomas Britt

[19.Feb.09] :. Radiohead fans that call drummer Phil Selway their favorite member of the group, form a small but dedicated minority. As Tobias Fünke might say, “There are dozens of us. Dozens!”...

Radiohead: “15 Step” live at the Grammys (video)

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Feb.09] :. Radiohead, not surprisingly, turned in the best performance last night at the Grammys. They played a super percussive version of “15 Step” with help from the USC Marching Band. Visually...

Rainyhead

by Vijith Assar and Mehan Jayasuriya

[24.Jul.08] :. When PopMatters sent two writers to cover Radiohead’s show in Virginia, we didn’t expect such divergent results. Mentally exhausting in a myriad of different ways, they report from the battle lines via text messages. Some things, apparently, shouldn’t be saved for a rainy day.

Radiohead

by Chris Conaton

[10.Jun.08] :. Clearly, people are willing to travel long distances to see Radiohead play, and they now seem to be developing the kind of rabid fanbase that very few artists outside of the jam band community enjoy.

Radiohead: The Best Of

by Michael Keefe

[6.Jun.08] :. Capitol actually does a respectable job of compiling Radiohead's strongest material from their first seven albums.

Radiohead: The Best Of [DVD]

by Evan Sawdey

[2.Jun.08] :. This no-frills collection of Radiohead's music videos is exactly that, and that's both good and bad.

Nine Inch Nails’ experiment: A bigger bang than Radiohead?

by Jason Gross

[23.Mar.08] :. After the Saul Williams album he produced didn’t tear the charts, a frustrated Trent Reznor got pissy, saying that fans didn’t want to support artists at all, even when they provided a...

Amplive: Rainydayz Remixes

by Andrew Martin

[21.Mar.08] :. The California producer maintains the integrity of some of last year's best songs while also breathing new life into them on this excellent remix project.

Beating the System: Radiohead Gives The Man the Middle Finger

by Rachel Smucker

[31.Oct.07] :. Like it or not, Radiohead's new marketing strategy is changing the way people think about digital music.

Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ not quite up to the band’s standard

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[15.Oct.07] :. The wonder of Radiohead’s very good new album “In Rainbows” isn’t that the band has invited the world to download it for a pittance (if you’re stingy) at least six...

Radiohead tries to change the music biz with digital album

by Sarah Zupko

[1.Oct.07] :. Using their position as one of the biggest rock band’s in the world, Radiohead is attempting a game-changing move on the music industry. Music blogs are aflutter today at the news that...

Radiohead: Classic Album Under Review [DVD]

by Michael Franco

[5.Oct.06] :. Ultimately, this documentary is mildly interesting simply because its topic is undeniably so.

Radiohead

by Matt Mazur

[22.May.06] :. !!

Various Artists: Exit Music: Songs for Radio Heads

by Dan Raper

[19.Apr.06] :. Covers are a tricky beast. When, say, Jose Gonzalez covers the Knife, I'm fine with it. But the moment someone pulls an acoustic guitar to Radiohead, I feel a pain in my chest.

Radiohead: Kid A

by Christine Klunk

[27.Jul.04] :. On Kid A, Thom Yorke uses his voice more as an instrument than as a vehicle for his lyrics. And it’s a beautiful instrument—mournful and keening one minute, pissed off the next, jubilant the song after that.

Radiohead: Hail to the Thief

by Scott Hreha

[20.Jun.03] :. So even if Hail to the Thief isn’t the protest record of the decade, or OK Computer 2 as Yorke suggested in an interview earlier this year, it’s still an incredible album from a band that continues to redefine its boundaries.

Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong—Live Recordings

by Nicholas Taylor

[13.Nov.01] :. I Might Be Wrong—Live Recordings gives a complete picture of Radiohead’s music—the fear, the recognition, and, in the guise of simple desire and devotion, the redemption.

Radiohead

by Nicholas Taylor

[16.Aug.01] :. The Wonderful Re-Humanization of Radiohead In many ways, Radiohead’s August 17th concert at New Jersey’s Liberty State Park could’ve been one giant outtake from the...

Radiohead

by Shan Fowler

[29.Jun.01] :. . They eschew attention, yet they're media darlings. Reactions to their recent recordings are anything but lukewarm, yet they refuse to explain themselves. They transform studio-centric creations into live songs that are both towering and incandescent, yet they tour infrequently.

Radiohead: Pyramid Song #1 & #2

by Nicholas Taylor

[21.May.01] :. With the release of the Pyramid Song two-CD single set, Radiohead has given us their first B-sides since those coming off 1997’s OK Computer.

Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy [DVD]

by Sarah Zupko

[15.Oct.99] :. Ultimately, Meeting People is Easy is a disjointed film with a meandering narrative that somehow succeeds despite its real lack of focus in capturing the chaos, pressure, and frequent boredom of the celebrity lifestyle.