Ed O'Brien says he is deep into his second solo album
Nearly four years after Earth, the record he made as EOB, a follow-up is well under way.
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Nearly four years after Earth, the record he made as EOB, a follow-up is well under way.
The one-off screenings are billed as the only time the album will be played in surround sound.
Songs fans know from the live shows but not from Wall Of Eyes will be released in time, the band promised.
The Rotterdam festival, where the film has its world premiere this week, says his music amplifies its enigmatic, claustrophobic intensity.
Anderson, who also filmed the title track, has the trio play the song to a school hall of young children.
Less than two years after their debut, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's other band have a second record the critics rate higher still.
On Monday it looked like The Smile's first number one, until a surge of physical sales carried James Arthur past them.
The piece Steve Reich wrote for Pat Metheny in 1987 sets one live guitar against recorded ones, and in Manchester the live part was Greenwood's.
The Bad Seeds' first album since Ghosteen in 2019 is due on 30 August.
Mojo gives the first night four stars and puts Tom Skinner's drumming at the heart of a band looser and leaner than Radiohead.
The BBC streamed the whole Manchester headline set on its website, from the orchestral set to the trio's encore.
The band added the date on the day Wall Of Eyes came out, because the rest of their UK shows had already sold out.
Three of the 21 songs were still unreleased: “Colours Fly”, “Instant Psalm” and “Bodies Laughing”.
Claire Glover, reviewing for Louder Than War, rates “I Quit” a high point of a set without a weak spot.
Fans get a view of the band's middle years from inside the room, in pictures taken by one of the five and mostly never seen.
With Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood out on tour with The Smile, two other members of Radiohead have been recording together.
A song that stalled at number 78 in Britain on its first release now has a video watched a billion times on YouTube.
Two of its 12 pieces are songs he sings, and one of them, “Four Ways In Time”, had not been heard until today.
His eight-hour drone piece for church organ, 268 Years of Reverb, has its premiere at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival on 18 May.
For the first time on a tour of his own there will be no band behind him.
Greenwood answers that he cannot join calls to silence Israeli artists who tour abroad, and that he and Tassa are honouring a shared culture.
It was the first time Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood had been to Greece since Radiohead's two nights at the Lycabettus Theatre in June 2000.
Healy says it took years for Thom Yorke to warm to him.
Anastasio counts the remark, made backstage at O'Brien's first Phish concert, among the greatest compliments he has had.
The trio now have no shows booked; Thom Yorke's solo tour of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Japan is due in October.
Word on Jonny's health comes from his brother, with a picture from the A Moon Shaped Pool sessions.
The Smile's first new music since Wall of Eyes could be bought only over a shop counter for six days before one of its songs was released online.
Their second album of 2024, due eight months after Wall of Eyes, comes from the same sessions in Oxford and at Abbey Road.
Colin now plays with the whole band, for two months of arenas.
Colin let it slip at a book festival, six years after Radiohead's last show.
A new series that sets silent films to rock records starts with Murnau's vampire film and two Radiohead albums.
The idea came from a director who saw Radiohead on the 2003 tour and soon afterwards read the play with the album playing.
Five of the ten songs were already out before release day, on a 12-inch and as advance tracks from August onwards.
A Smile tour for Cutouts will have to wait until he is fully well, he says.
The fast “Zero Sum” is the song most of them single out.
Alongside the pictures, the book carries a 10,000-word essay in which Colin tells the band's story in his own words.
Two days before his solo tour opens, Yorke tells an Australian interviewer that Radiohead owe nobody an account of what they do next.
The one sentence they put their names to says that training AI on people's work without a licence threatens their livelihoods and must not be allowed.
Ten of the 24 songs were Radiohead's, and only “Karma Police”, the last of the night, came from the band's first three albums.
Yorke changed more than half his set between the Friday and the Saturday at Spark Arena, and closed the second night with a song he had never played alone before.
Yorke has said nothing in public about the war in Gaza, NME notes, and a man in the crowd tried to make him say it from the stage.
Yorke had not played Sydney since Radiohead's two nights at the Entertainment Centre in 2012, and had never toured Australia on his own.
He puts in a word for the small independent venues where bands learn to play live, which he says are under a threat they did not face in 1991.
The shirts and sweatshirts go on sale during Yorke's ten-night solo tour of Japan.
Talking about his photo book, Colin says his brother was the one member of Radiohead happy to be photographed.
She wrote it in Sicilian, for the character she plays in Michele Placido's new film about Luigi Pirandello.
Three songs from the orchestral set at the 6 Music Festival come out on record, sold only by Rough Trade.
Next summer the art behind Radiohead's records goes into a museum, in the first exhibition to hang Yorke's and Donwood's work side by side.
The map paintings Yorke and Donwood began with The Smile's first sleeve have now been woven into cloth.
On Nick Cave's arena tour, Colin's lessons came from the two drummers either side of him.
Whether the five play again is for all of them to decide, he says.
Radiohead are on hold while each member works alone, he says, because the group needs time to come back fresh.
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