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The singer of The Marías opened her first solo tour with a set of her own songs and one of Radiohead's.
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The singer of The Marías opened her first solo tour with a set of her own songs and one of Radiohead's.
Flea's first solo album was made with Los Angeles jazz players, and Yorke, his bandmate in Atoms for Peace, is one of its two guest singers.
The Kid A opener belongs to Ralph Fiennes' Dr Ian Kelson, a former GP who cleans the bones of the dead.
Anyone who stood in an arena in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen or Berlin late last year can now hear again what played before the band walked on.
The film follows Isaac Harvey MBE, a disability advocate sent out of his family home into respite care, and Thom Yorke's team liked it enough to point its director at the band.
Paul Thomas Anderson's film keeps winning the big prizes, while Ludwig Göransson has taken the score award at the Critics Choice, the Golden Globes and now the composers' own society.
A short Italian study reads the band's records, from Pablo Honey to A Moon Shaped Pool, through Heidegger, Arendt and the philosophers of technology.
Radiohead's third album, 29 this year, now sits in a hall of 1,179 recordings the Recording Academy keeps for records of lasting significance.
Asked about the calls to boycott Radiohead's tour, Jonny Greenwood tells The Times that music and art should stand above politics.
Nothing has been said about what it is for, but the last time the band registered a company together, a tour followed within the year.
One Battle After Another takes Best Film and five more awards, so the night belongs to Paul Thomas Anderson even as his composer leaves without a prize again.
Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson objected to his score turning up in a documentary about Melania Trump, and the producer, a Radiohead fan who says he paid top dollar, is keeping it.
The photographer's feature from the band's November nights near Bologna has Thom Yorke explaining why Radiohead keep out of stadiums.
A US government agency has set a choral version of the song to photographs of crime victims, and the band say nobody asked them.
The concerto began as a rewrite of his 2019 Proms piece and ended up keeping only one eight-note phrase of it.
A song Yorke played live in 2019 and never put out came back as a television theme, and has now taken a prize for it in Los Angeles.
He names the band as a central influence on his new album, which has The Smile's Tom Skinner on drums.
The show's music supervisor used a song about happiness that does not last as score for the night John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette.
Paul Thomas Anderson's film takes six Oscars, Best Picture among them, but its music loses to the score that has beaten it all season.
The actor says a line in the song suits a man nobody can get rid of.
The plan comes from the member who, after the 2018 tour, was sure the band had nothing left in them.
Radiohead's bassist backed Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright and Anna Calvi on a night that sent the new Faithfull film out to cinemas.
If O'Brien has it right, it will be Yorke's fourth solo album and his first since Anima in 2019.
Lamar left the song off his 2012 album and has never released it, and a livestream clip has now brought it back round.
Radiohead played the New Adelphi Club three times in 1992 and 1993, and the drummer remembers what its founder did for them.
O'Brien takes his new album round Europe in October with the musicians who made it, and means each of the seven nights to be different.
After a premiere at the Opera House and a run in Australian cinemas, the film of Yorke's solo shows on the forecourt can now be watched anywhere, in full.
The new songs go back to Radiohead's tours of 2017 and 2018, when Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express were the support act.
The art and sound of the Kid A and Amnesiac years get real rooms in five cities over ten months, though the band will not be at Coachella.
Talking to Dorian Lynskey, Greenwood goes back from the school band to the band playing together again, and is still the irritating younger brother.
The band played no set in Indio this year, but the film they made from the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions was the first thing shown in the festival's new underground room.
With the Barbican gone in under a day, release week brings three more chances to see him in the UK, at evenings of conversation and film.
Yorke is one of three music acts at a Greenpeace benefit otherwise given over to letters read aloud, with Tom Odell and Jon Hopkins the others.
His pick for the first Radiohead record that was truly new is The Bends, the album that, by his account, the hit single made possible.
Greenwood's Oscar-nominated score lost a vote of ASCAP's composer members to a film the Academy had passed over entirely.
On Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt's podcast he also explains why he went years without a pedalboard.
Two seasons, two finales, and both times Marvel's Disney+ series has handed its last scene to Radiohead.
The first record from the Junun circle in more than a decade brings in The Smile's drummer and adds Greenwood's chord changes and keyboards.
A song from Radiohead's first album ties a young man to his father in Netflix's new adaptation.
The installation that began under the Coachella grounds now has a home in New York until 28 June, the first of four cities it visits into February 2027.
How the record will be released is undecided, and Greenwood doubts one could take it on without coming under pressure from the boycott campaign.
His second solo album is tuned to 432 Hz from start to finish, an idea Radiohead turned down when he raised it for A Moon Shaped Pool.
On the eve of his second album, O'Brien talks about the birdsong that got him through his depression and the cost of taking the record on the road.
Handed the Academy's highest honour, Yorke spent his speech on the artists coming up behind him, who he says get the dust while old catalogues take the money.
His first album under his own name grew out of a depression that set in during the second lockdown, he tells Stereogum on the day it comes out.
The director of a Korean superhero comedy set on the eve of the millennium wanted the 1990s outsider song for his misfit heroes, and uses it twice.
Their first exhibition outside the UK is on until 7 June, in one small room and with no statement to explain it.
He would rather be challenged by playing something new, and he starts his film scores by tying his own hands.
The week after his second album came out, O'Brien also told how a depression with roots in his childhood caught up with him in lockdown, and how he found his way back.
The crew behind last winter's arena tour have told how it was built, from subwoofers hung over the band's heads to screens on which every image was made live.
Two Dutch critics heard the Amsterdam performance, and one of them, a rock fan new to the concert hall, liked it a good deal more than the other.
As the man behind Curfew and Nightshift stops writing after three decades, the band credit him with giving Oxford's young bands, themselves among them, the belief they needed.
Three nights in one week gave the song Yorke wrote with his Atoms for Peace bandmate its first outings on stage.
For the anniversary the band went to their own archive, posting festival footage filmed in the week the album came out.
Two weeks on, the second solo record has warm notices, a UK chart place and an interview in which O'Brien talks about the depression he came through.
Greenwood admits past tours with the Rajasthani group have cost them money, and wonders if India is the only way to take the new album out.
A film first seen on the band's website on New Year's Eve 2007 is now kept in Britain's national film collection, and free to stream.
Anyone in New York who has not yet seen the Kid A Mnesia installation now has another fortnight before it heads to Chicago.
In the same interview he says another Radiohead tour is being talked about but is a long way off, and that Thom Yorke is recording on his own.
He also tells Variety why Ranjha, his second record with Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan Express, took more than a decade to follow Junun.
Greenwood's score for One Battle After Another made the final three at the German classical recording prizes, but the jury chose music written for television.
The piece, named after a Philip Larkin poem, sits in an afternoon of music about Antarctica, isolation and the natural world.
Played a forgotten track on a podcast, O'Brien was taken aback by the likeness, then found the one chord where Radiohead part company with it.
Yorke's evening at a free open-air festival is given over to someone else's film, one that happens to have a song from Amnesiac in it.
The tour that was announced in April as four North American cities after Coachella is down to three.
A band Lena Hall and Charlene Kaye started as a joke sold out a Manhattan club in June with a whole Radiohead album.
Four months after he set out a plan for a new continent each year, O'Brien says last winter's arena nights left the band too drained to give more than 20 a year.
A wordless outtake from the Blue Morpho sessions, named after a Welsh village, is now out for everyone.
The first time was after A Moon Shaped Pool, when the others talked him into touring the record anyway.
XL are marking the anniversary without a new edition, only the record played whole through good speakers to rooms of strangers, from Mexico City to Shibuya.
His talk in Denver at the end of May, after a screening of the Blue Morpho film, is now out as an episode of the Outside Podcast.
Radiohead's drummer and Portishead's guitarist share a stage in September, first to talk and then to play.
Two organists will play it on a pipe organ nearly 200 years old, and Greenwood will not be among the performers.
Harrison, who usually runs his own records from behind the computer, left the shaping of these songs to Godrich and stuck to singing and guitar.
Nearly two years after he first stood in for Martyn P. Casey, Radiohead's bassist is still holding down the job, and was there when the band played Nick Cave's adopted home town.
The shop's anniversary series gives each year it has been open one record, and for 2007 that record is Radiohead's.
Radiohead's drummer spent the night behind a Tyneside folk band and an orchestra, and Radio 3 airs the whole concert tonight.
From a band that turned interviews down in its early years, Skinner gives a detailed account of the first jam in Oxford and of how the three albums were made.
His music for Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another puts him up against the year's best film composers, with the prize given in Belgium in October.
The Australian singer strips the Radiohead song back to piano and guitar, with one odd instrument saved for the end.
Nothing is booked there yet, but in two Spanish-language interviews O'Brien spoke of a return as a certainty.
Three of Radiohead are among more than 200 musicians urging the Prime Minister to turn down Rosebank, which Hot Press calls the UK's biggest untapped oilfield.
On J-Wave, O'Brien calls the dark spell that produced Blue Morpho a place he needed to be.
Japan has waited for Radiohead since 2016 and Australia since 2012, and a festival screen and a card left outside a café both point to 2027.
Greenwood also gives the reason he left Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! so late in the day: he was recovering from sepsis.
After sold-out runs in Manchester and Stratford, Yorke's Hamlet comes to London for the winter, and its Hamlet, its Ophelia and its whole band are coming too.
It will be Greenwood's first concert in Israel since 2024, when a Tel Aviv show with Tassa brought a call to boycott Radiohead.
The band say their first trip to Australia since 2012 and first headline run in Japan since 2008 is everything they will play next year.
Out of a whole evening of Bond title songs, the theme the film's producers turned down was one both critics singled out.
Radiohead had therapists on call for their 2025 tour, and the drummer wants the same help for bands still driving the van to small rooms, as they once did.
A guitar Greenwood played in the making of In Rainbows is expected to fetch £15,000 to £30,000 when it comes up for sale in London next month.
Fans who missed out can still hope for a few later releases to registered fans, or official resale at face value from next April.
Godrich says the band was really an excuse for two old friends to spend time together, and it now has a record, a live band and dates in Europe.
Sharon Horgan's new comedy closes its first episode on Radiohead, over a mother lying awake beside the son who has just come home.
In the first British chart week after the 2027 tour dates, three of the band's older albums and “Creep” all went up.
The pair tell Het Parool their drawings began beside The Smile's first album sessions, in a medium that keeps every slip.
Once a seat type at a show is fully applied for, it closes, and the official site says it then gets no general sale.
Steve Reich's piece built on two Radiohead songs got a Radiohead member on bass, and Greenwood took the solo guitar in Electric Counterpoint as well.
Fans in Mexico City now get two months with the Kid A Mnesia film, instead of the three weeks first planned.
Before his Milan show, O'Brien tells Corriere della Sera how making his second solo record helped him work through a depression rooted in childhood.
The tour's first night mixed the new album with three songs from Earth and one that never made the record.
Yorke traces his love of Young back to a magazine that told the teenage singer his demo tape sounded like Neil Young.
On the tour's only Italian night, O'Brien invited the stalls to join him at the front, until the ushers sent them back to their seats.
The poster first went up on London walls in black and white; this time it comes in bright green and orange, signed, in a small edition.
Talking to O'Brien backstage in Milan, Rolling Stone Italia learned when Radiohead go back to the rehearsal room before Australia and Japan.
Between songs in Paris, O'Brien talked to the hall about his day and about not being used to life at the front of the stage.
The shows were fun while they lasted, Yorke tells Harry Styles, but he needed months and a return to his solo work before he felt himself again.
Yorke tells Styles how “Everything in Its Right Place” came out of a winter when he could not write, and says he could not write another one now.
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