Radiohead

 NY During the taping, according to a Reuters reporter, West was aggrieved that Radiohead singer Thom Yorke had allegedly snubbed him backstage at the Grammys five days earlier. That hurt, West told the audience, because he idolizes the British band, ...

Trent Reznor: Always Thom Yorke's Bridesmaid  NY - Feb 9, 2009 and the way his arguably more innovative digital-distribution methods keep getting lost in the shuffle over to peoples' regular Radiohead-worshiping ...

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Thom Yorke's Taste In Music Gets Made More Mainstream By The Man  NY - Jan 19, 2009 So, a new version of Thom Yorke's Grammy ad, which crafts a mosaic of the Radiohead frontman's face from the titles of various songs that have influenced ...

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 NY - Jan 19, 2009 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: In a development that probably shouldn't be all that surprising—yet still is—Bono is sorta channeling Radiohead's Thom Yorke on the lead ...

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By Maura Johnston Our look at the closing lines of the week's biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, which has inspired many a music writer to talk about things like "left turns" and Radiohead albums:

By Maura Johnston In honor of In Rainbows' one-year anniversary, the UK branch of Warner Chappell, which licensed all digital rights for the album, released a few statistics about its "pay-as-you-like" digital release, as well as some notes on the the physical distribution of the album. You probably won...

By Maura Johnston 1. Radiohead OK Computer 4. Nirvana Nevermind 5. Pixies Doolittle 9. Radiohead The Bends 10. Pixies Surfer Rosa 11. Radiohead Kid A 16. The Smiths The Queen is Dead 20. Radiohead In Rainbows 23. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon 49. Miles Davis Kind of Blue 50. Band of Horses Everything All The Time

By Dan Gibson Turns out I was wrong (like most people, which makes me feel a little better) with my prediction of a Mercury Music Prize win for Burial. Somehow, Elbow—a British outfit that no one on this side of the ocean seems to feel much passion for, despite their Destiny's Child cover—took home the hon...

By Maura Johnston However, it would appear from the complaints by ticketgoers that this festival's alcohol policy wasn't spelled out beforehand, which is something that would rankle even if I wasn't planning on getting completely plastered in preparation for Thom Yorke & Co. busting out "Fake Plas...

By Anono-Critic It has been a long-running meme at this column that mainstream entertainment magazines don't like it much when their competitors run a cover story featuring the same famous people at the same time as they. And so it comes to pass that the July 2008 Spin hits newsstands two weeks after the mos...

By Maura Johnston 1997 (5 albums) 24. Come On Over, Shania Twain 26. Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan 46. Homogenic, Björk 62. OK Computer, Radiohead 93. Either/Or, Elliott Smith 2007 (5 albums) 9. Back to Black, Amy Winehouse 10. In Rainbows, Radiohead 33. As I Am, Alicia Keys 50. Sound of Silver, LCD Soundsystem

By Maura Johnston But a half hour after the band came onstage, I would have happily barred every camera from the place. And mobile phones too. An endless array of shiny silver doodads held up, videoing, photographing, relaying. There's something distracted about the way we're enjoying ourselves now. It's no...

By Maura Johnston 448. Radiohead - There There 414. Coldplay - Yellow 413. Radiohead - No Surprises 392. Bloc Party - Banquet 203. Radiohead - Optimistic 103. The Smiths - Panic 76. Radiohead - Just 59. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees 32. Radiohead - Karma Police 9. Radiohead - Paranoid Android 1. Radiohead - Creep

By Chris Molanphy This week, we have evidence that Radiohead should release singles more often—or at least, release them in pieces. They score only the second U.S. Top 40 hit of their career, with one of the least catchy songs on the catchier-than-usual In Rainbows.

By Maura Johnston Radiohead fans, are you tired of congregating everywhere on the Internet to sing the praises of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and those other dudes? It doesn't seem like it, from the way that you'll take to any comment section in any far-flung blog, but the boys in the band are betting that y...

By Anono-Critic Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles--or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the...

By Maura Johnston Notable Jumps: Not really much to report here, as pretty much every album in the top 50 except for In Rainbows experienced major dropoffs in sales. The Once soundtrack did jump from No. 74 to No. 38 because its week-to-week sales totals only went down by five percent, though!

By Maura Johnston • "Music Criticism 2.0" may be the worst phrase I've heard all year! Especially since it's being used to describe people who only write about bands if they're "into" them (or, in the case of The Music Slut, if said artist can rile up the readership enough to get the pageviews rolling). Is that r...

By Jess Harvell Since October and the great In Rainbows freakout, pundits great and small have been arguing over the question Merge Records' Mac McCaughan raises at one point during the final part of his audio interview: "Do you need record labels?" Wipe the Radiohead stars from your eyes, and yes, it's...

By Jess Harvell 44 Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block 42 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 37 Down - Over the Under 36 Alicia Keys - As I Am 35 Feist - The Reminder 23 1990s - Cookies 22 Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full 10 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 09 Against Me! - New Wave 06 Radiohead - In Rainbows 03 Jay-Z - American Gangster

By Maura Johnston THE BAD: I can think of about 10 albums that came out last month that are more interesting than Band Of Horses' Cease To Begin. Just... no. THE WHAAAA? For an album that just came out last Tuesday, The Dream's Lovehate sure made an impact! It's No. 7, just behind In Rainbows.

By Jess Harvell Rolling Stone has named the most recent comeback from the (for the time being anyway) president of Def Jam the No. 1 single of 2007. And at No. 2... Randy Newman. (We give up.) At least Lil Wayne placed ahead of the Boss. (Bet that made for some fun editorial meetings.) The full 100 is after the jump, but fi...

By Maura Johnston 38. Dizzee Rascal, Maths + English 34. Bat For Lashes, Fur And Gold 23. Peter Bjorn & John, Writer's Block 18. Feist, The Reminder 17. The National, Boxer 15. Justice, † 12. Prince, Planet Earth 11. Lil Wayne, Da Drought 3 9. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 8. Jay-Z, American Gangster 6. Radiohead, In Rainbows

By Jess Harvell THE BAD: Like a lot of (seemingly) dance/electronic-focused magzines, Fact's taste in guitar-based music sometimes feels a little shaky. Vampire Weekend released the best rock single of the year? If you say so, you crazy Englanders.

By mjohnston 1 LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver 2 Radiohead, In Rainbows 3 The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America 4 MIA, Kala 5 Klaxons, Myths of the Near Future 6 Kings of Leon, Because of the Times 7 Grinderman 8 Battles, Mirrored 9 PJ Harvey, White Chalk 10 Feist, The Reminder

By jharv Brit rock mag Q gives countrymen Radiohead the gas face (by daring to stick them at No. 4!), choosing 2007's first universe-altering rock release, the Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, as the best album of the year. Their picks for more or less every middle-of-the-road rock album released in 2007t...

By Maura Johnston Paste came out of the gate with its Top 100 Albums Of 2007 list, and it's topped by The National's Boxer, with the Arcade Fire (hey, remember them?) and Bruce Springsteen right behind it. (For those of you who were wondering, Radiohead's In Rainbows came in at No. 11.) The full list is after the j...

By Chris Molanphy The Billboard 200 is the main, industry-approved album chart, heir apparent to the former "Top Pop Albums," which before that was "Top Stereo Albums," and so on--it's got decades of history. What you might not know about the album chart is that Billboard, at the behest of the industry folk...

By Maura Johnston Not to mention that the news that In Rainbows will be coming out as a plain ol' CD next year kind of makes this whole run-up seem like a very, very well-executed advance marketing strategy, one that Kanye West will no doubt be paying homage to when he releases his next album.