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Podcast: Rawkblog.tv: Jon Brion @ Amoeba Music, 10.17.04

source: The Rawking Refuses To Stop!

Five years ago tomorrow, Jon Brion played a rare set at Amoeba Music in honor of his soundtrack for I Heart Huckabees — the last time Jon released a set, even a small one, of new vocal recordings. Here are my freshly Vimeo’d videos from the show (including his Tom Waits-plays-”Creep” cover),...

Published Fri, Oct 16

Gadling's Guide to Summer music

source: Slam X Hype

 CA This year brings yet another killer lineup including uber-rockers Radiohead and Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West, Lucinda Williams, and many others. Alright, so the Spanish music festival is out of your budget this year. ...

Published Thu, May 28

Solarcade – Songs for the Gathering EP

source: adequacy.net

 PA Many accuse Coldplay of sounding like a third-string, generic version of Radiohead. To me, Radiohead has three qualities that bands like Coldplay and Solarcade can't touch: (1) the alluring, tangible tension and fragility of Thom Yorke's vocal; ...

Published Thu, May 28

An extended conversation with Tim Pourbaix

source: blogs.westword.com

 CO Max got me into Radiohead, playing "Fake Plastic Trees" and "High and Dry." He showed me the way -- of drinking and doing drugs and playing music and trying to learn other people's songs at fifteen and sixteen. I didn't know this was okay, ...

Published Wed, May 27

Thom Yorke: My Autobiography by Steven Wells

source: The Quietus

Actually I've just dug out Pablo Honey and with the obvious exception of 'Creep' it is, from start to finish, run-of-the-mill pompous/amateurish/grandiose/whiney indie rubbish. Which suggests I was either savagely stoned when I first saw Radiohead or ...

Published Tue, May 19

Clapton and the fate of virtuoso guitar solos

source: Financial Times

 UK Jonny Greenwood is a prime example. The Radiohead guitarist is capable of cathartic bursts of action, as on “Paranoid Android” – but he more often seems content to hide himself in a wide range of tones, as if wielding multiple shimmering guitars rather ...

Published Fri, May 15

Miley Cyrus Debates Radiohead Vs. Coldplay... Sort Of

source: TwentyFourBit

 CA There's more in the clip, but there's only so much of that show I could stomach. This isn't really news, obviously, but Thom Yorke is probably too busy reading about the oil industry to TiVo his favorite television shows, so I stepped in. ...

Published Fri, May 15

Down Home Spirit: Delta Spirit

source: Express

 DC THE DELTA SPIRIT's lead singer, Matt Vasquez, has a message for Coldplay, Radiohead, Oasis and any other UK band infiltrating the US music shores: Quit it. "A lot of bands that have been going in the last 10 years, in between songs, they speak with a ...

Published Wed, May 13