Rolling Stone ranks Kid A second among the albums of the century
Twenty-five years after it puzzled its first listeners, the magazine places Radiohead's fourth album above everything else from the century bar one.
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Twenty-five years after it puzzled its first listeners, the magazine places Radiohead's fourth album above everything else from the century bar one.
Radiohead's bassist will spend much of the summer on the road with Cave, with two nights each in Zurich, Rome and Bergen.
How to Disappear, shot on film over more than 20 years, is the bassist's first book of photographs, with a 10,000-word essay of his own.
It is only the second record the two have made together, nine years after “Beautiful People” on Pritchard's album Under the Sun.
Ed O'Brien also says Radiohead have turned up takes left off Pablo Honey, their 1993 debut, and that something should come of them.
Two songs from the band's second album of 2024, after Wall of Eyes, are reworked by a producer and a sometime live member.
A string piece Greenwood wrote in 2005 gets a Berlin performance in front of a live radio audience, while a Danish ballet dances to it in Copenhagen.
He spoke twice in the city that week, on a climate panel and at a masterclass, and both times about what music had done for him.
More than 1,000 musicians have put out a record of empty rooms to show ministers what letting AI firms use their work without a licence would leave them with.
Two months before it opens in Manchester, the stage show built on Yorke's reworking of Hail to the Thief has its company of actors and musicians.
The guitar's picking hand is a motor driven by MIDI, and O'Brien was the first player to put his name down for one.
Yorke's first record for Warp comes with a feature-length film by Jonathan Zawada, to be shown in cinemas around the world for one night only.
The band set up companies like this one before In Rainbows, The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool.
Radiohead have been marking 30 years of The Bends with photographs and interviews from the time rather than a reissue, and this tape is the centrepiece.
Classic Album Sundays gave the album an anniversary night in London with the man who produced it, in front of a sold-out room.
The archive listen comes a week after all five members were named officers of a new company, the kind of step that has come before past albums and tours.
A charity listing that seemed to promise a Radiohead tour has nothing to do with the band, though talk of autumn dates in Europe goes on.
The pair's midday set at the Barby drew on Jarak Qaribak and tried out new songs for an album on the way.
The third song from Tall Tales comes a month before the album, which is due on 9 May with Zawada's film of it in cinemas the night before.
The Kid A opener scores a finale in which, as one of its directors puts it, the good guys have lost and carry on anyway.
A tidy draft from about 1996, doodles and all, came to auction from the estate of an EMI marketing executive.
Shakespeare's tragedy and the 2003 album share a stage at Aviva Studios until 18 May, before the production moves to Stratford-upon-Avon in June.
Greenwood had been writing the music for Gyllenhaal's Frankenstein film, which Warner Bros. have pushed back to March 2026.
Six years after Thom Yorke praised her for going her own way, Eilish has put a Radiohead song into her set.
The pairing was a stage designer's idea from soon after the album came out, and it has turned the songs into fragments played under Shakespeare's lines.
The campaign that stopped the concerts now asks fans to boycott The Smile and Radiohead as well, unless the bands distance themselves from Greenwood.
Daniele Luchetti's film put Yorke in the running for two of Italy's national film prizes, one of them for a song he wrote and sings himself.
The songs of the 2003 album are cut up to score Shakespeare, and played by a band in glass booths with no member of Radiohead in it.
For one night the album reaches a cinema screen before it reaches the shops, as a single film with every song in it.
Pitchfork's Jazz Monroe calls the last song out before the album its centrepiece and its highlight.
The artist behind the film that goes with Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard's album answers viewers who decided his work was machine-made.
Its first week in the shops puts the Warp album on seven of the Official Charts Company's lists, and highest on the specialist ones.
Each find goes into an online ledger of all 400 numbered coins, which shows where each one turned up and who found it.
Colin Greenwood's first North American run as the Bad Seeds' bassist came to 19 shows in a month, with his Radiohead book signed in shops along the way.
Warp now count the coins film as the third part of Tall Tales, after the film's cinema premiere on 8 May and the album the next day.
Most critics pick out “The Spirit”, and “Happy Days” is the song that divides them.
Much of it is about why he said nothing after a heckle in Melbourne last October, and what being called complicit for it has cost him.
He had come to the Hay Festival to talk about his book of Radiohead photographs, and spoke about Jonny's cancelled concerts too.
With Thom Yorke giving no interviews for Tall Tales, his collaborator has told the album's story alone, from a dinner in Sydney in 2012 to the Sunday video calls that followed.
The film catches the last European night of the Wild God tour, at the Accor Arena, in front of a crowd Bass Magazine put at 20,000.
Yorke tells Electronic Sound he has yet to see a machine produce an original thought, and that devaluing everyone else is what the tech industry does best.
With no tour yet announced, the statement rests mostly on Jonny Greenwood's concerts in Tel Aviv with Dudu Tassa.
A year after he joined the Bad Seeds on bass for the Wild God tour, Greenwood is the whole of Cave's band for the summer.
Thirteen years after Reich turned Radiohead songs into a piece of his own, Greenwood was in the orchestra for one of Reich's works on the opening night of a Manchester weekend.
A song fans have only known from his concerts since 2019 now has a finished recording, made with Sam Petts-Davies and with his daughter Agnes among the backing voices.
Answering a fan under his Glastonbury post, O'Brien says that staying off social media is not the same as staying silent.
The staging that turned a Radiohead album into the score for Shakespeare has finished its two runs, first in Manchester, then in Stratford-upon-Avon in June.
Nick Cave's piano-and-bass tour spends its Italian week outdoors, in two town squares, a Roman arena and the open-air Cavea in Rome.
Greenwood's French run with Cave began on a festival stage in Rochefort in late June and ended with a sold-out Roman theatre on its feet.
This Is What You Get, opening at the Ashmolean in Oxford tomorrow, is the pair's first exhibition in a museum.
More than 180 works from the pair's 30 years of art for Radiohead, Yorke and The Smile are on show in Oxford until 11 January.
Two members of Radiohead join the musicians asking ministers to turn down any new bid to drill a North Sea field whose approval a Scottish court struck down in January.
It is the first full-length live album Radiohead have put out; the only other, I Might Be Wrong in 2001, had eight songs.
The live set scores below the studio album's 9.3, but 22 years on Pitchfork's reviewer finds “Myxomatosis” far stronger on stage than on the record.
As the Ashmolean shows his art with Thom Yorke's, Stanley Donwood goes back to how a fire-breathing busker ended up making Radiohead's sleeves.
Most of its pictures, of Radiohead at work and on the road, date from 2003 on, and most were shot on a small film camera.
Talking to his old university's magazine, O'Brien goes back to his Manchester student years and to the audit that changed where Radiohead chose to play.
After Norway, Latvia and Bulgaria in August, one night will be left of Greenwood's summer as Cave's only accompanist, in Skopje on Friday.
Neither Yorke nor Stanley Donwood likes giving interviews together, but with their art filling the Ashmolean in Oxford they sat down as a pair for this one.
Behind the Italian title is a French film from 2019 that reads Radiohead's records through the politics of the years they came out in.
The climb took all summer, through the UK chart and four US Billboard charts in June, and it carried “Creep” along with it.
After Norwich in 2024 and Knoxville in March, the work has now been heard in four countries, played each time by the same two organists.
Eight of them come from the two Earls Court nights of November 2003, on tapes found and restored for the live album.
Shot over three days in February in the city's outlying neighbourhoods, the film is about the artists who resist there.
The longest break of Radiohead's career ends in November, and nobody gets a ticket without registering for the chance to buy one first.
Radiohead's first shows in seven years will draw on a shortlist of about 70 songs, played in no fixed order, he tells Adam Buxton.
The registration scheme meant to keep the tickets away from touts left most of the fans who signed up with no chance to buy one.
Radiohead have headlined Coachella three times; this time their name comes with Kid A Mnesia attached, at the foot of the bill.
The Wiltshire oak that named Radiohead's 2011 album was on this year's shortlist for its place in culture, and nearly a quarter of voters backed it.
The album takes Greenwood back to the label that put out his music for There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread.
The Guardian's art critic judged the paintings poor as art, but Hyperallergic and Oxford's student paper both found the show well worth the trip.
After a year of screenings in American cinemas and drive-ins, the silent film scored with two Radiohead records gets its first British run.
The former Pink Floyd leader says Yorke wrote back to him, with jokes, and that the whole exchange will be published.
Radiohead's bassist, who joined Nick Cave's band in 2024 as a stand-in, is in its printed line-up for a third straight year.
The signatories want to know why so much of the money collected for them goes on running the society.
A month after every night of the European tour sold out, fans who missed the September sale get a second chance at face value.
On release day NME listed the piece under Greenwood and the London Contemporary Orchestra; three weeks on, the film's own music credits, printed by The Playlist, name Yorke as its co-writer.
The Smile's drummer wrote most of his new album on guitar, and one critic finds his drums in the background for much of it.
Tall Tales was made almost entirely by file, email and video call, with the producer in Sydney and the singer in Oxford.
Ramsay talked about what comes after Die My Love, her new film with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, in a profile for an Australian weekly.
Days before their first tour since 2018, Radiohead talk about the boycott campaign against them, and about why they stopped.
Carried by TikTok, the 1997 album track has given Radiohead their first Billboard Hot 100 entry since “Nude” in 2008.
Five days before the tour opens in Madrid, the campaign answers the band's Sunday Times interview with its third call since June.
Radiohead's first tour since 2018 opens in Madrid next week, and two Flemish papers say the band are getting ready for it just outside Antwerp.
The seven years since Philadelphia were the longest the band have ever gone without playing, and they ended them in front of an arena that holds about 17,000.
Only 11 songs survived from the opening night, and those came in a new order, as the band keep their promise of a different show every night.
Four nights into the tour, Madrid has heard 41 different songs, all but two of them in the first two shows.
Three months after it slipped out as a download, the live set has reached the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, from UK vinyl to the very foot of the Billboard 200.
Labour promised a cap on resale prices at the last election, and the artists want the prime minister to put that promise into law.
Radiohead's four nights at the Unipol Arena swapped between two sets, so anyone who went on two nights running heard two different shows.
The opening London night drew reviews that ran from five stars in NME to complaints that the in-the-round speakers boxed the sound in.
The OK Computer song had not been heard since a night in Pittsburgh in July 2018.
The song Thom Yorke learned to sing from a reversed tape of “I Will” turned up in the encore of the band's last London night.
Metallica's eight-year-old mark at the London arena fell on Radiohead's first night there and kept falling until the last.
The first shows of the comeback tour to be called off move to mid-December, so the tour will now end in Denmark rather than Germany.
Left with a free night in the city, some of them a long way from home, ticket holders sang the songs themselves.
For the band's first show in the round, the crew had to make sure nothing hanging over the stage blocked anyone's view of it.
All four Copenhagen shows had sold out, and some of the fans whose nights were postponed had come from northern Jutland and the Netherlands.
Oxford's museum, on course for its first million-visitor year since it reopened in 2009, names the Radiohead exhibition as one of the two big reasons.
The second night back at the Royal Arena also brought out “Like Spinning Plates”, only its second outing of the tour.
The German reviews split on whether Thom Yorke's voice was back to its best, and one wished the band had reached further into the 65 songs they rehearsed.
Night two in Berlin changed more than half the set from night one, so anyone who came to both heard close to a different concert.
A song from OK Computer finished the year near the top of the app's British list, in a year when Radiohead went back on tour.
The arena show in the round has one Berlin night left, on Friday, before the band play the two postponed Copenhagen dates on 15 and 16 December.
After the throat infection that had already cost the tour two Copenhagen nights, Thom Yorke's voice failed him for one song and held for the rest.
Thom Yorke's album with Mark Pritchard, out since May, ends the year on two of the big lists of 2025's best records.
The shortlist leaves Greenwood one step from a third Oscar nomination for a film score.
The band's first shows in seven years, 20 nights in five cities, finished on the two Copenhagen dates a throat infection had pushed back.
Cave was stunned by the crowd, and in the same issue holds up the band's nerve on stage to a songwriter with stage fright.
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