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Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, unpublished, 1997
DESPITE THE best efforts of such explosive talents as Suede, Polly Jean Harvey and the Manic Street Preachers, 1992 was not a great year for ...
Radiohead: 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' and the Poetry of Perspective
Book Excerpt by Tim Footman, Chrome Dreams, 2007
Excerpt from Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 12 May 1993
Thom Yorke and Colin Greenwood talk about how the band started; the Oxford music scene; the naming of Pablo Honey; stardom and ambition; the group's image; playing live vs. recording; the meaning of their 'Pop is Dead' single; 'Creep' and lyrical scrutiny; how to describe the band... and Thom's "loud but inaudible" guitar.
File format: mp3; file size: 27.9mb, interview length: 29' 03" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Radiohead's Phil Selway (1997)
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages audio, 17 August 1997
The Radiohead drummer on the OK Computer tour: on recent significant events for the band such as playing Glastonbury; making the album; whether or not they qualify as Art Rock; moving to playing larger venues; introducing new material into their set; how the band is perceived; Thom Yorke's lyrics; the remaining tour, and plans to take a break before writing the next album.
File format: mp3; file size: 18.4mb, interview length: 19' 07" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Interview by John Harris, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
Fresh outta Oxford come RADIOHEAD hoping to use the might of a major label to get their guitar squall onto the air-waves and squeeze out ...
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 13 June 1992
THEY'RE ALL elbows and angst, are Radiohead. They want to gouge their mark so deep into us yet don't truly know How To Do It. ...
Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 October 1992
Neurotic, paranoid, alienated, personally inadequate (sound familiar?) — RADIOHEAD's THOM YORKE could well be the new British lyricist to claim the King Of Glum's songwriting ...
Radiohead: Smashed!, Islington, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 19 December 1992
BY ALL accounts — primarily their own — Radiohead are Angry Young Men. And with good cause. Gig convention has it that the band's-mates-down-the-front scenario ...
Live Review by Pete Paphides, Melody Maker, 23 January 1993
TRANSISTOR LOVERS ...
Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 20 February 1993
THEY SAY we're repressed, us Brits, don't they? So the cliché goes — brilliantly personified by the encounter between Basil and Mme Peignoir in the ...
Radiohead: Pablo Honey (Parlophone/All formats)
Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 20 February 1993
GLOW FREQUENCY BAND ...
Turn On, Tune In, Rock Out: Radiohead at the Richmond, Brighton
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 27 February 1993
WE COULDN’T have waited much longer really, could we? What with Suede so colossal, and the likes of The Auteurs and Kinky Machine still rubbing ...
Radiohead: Signal's growing steady
Interview by Martin Horsfield, Brig, March 1993
Two months to go until graduation and Brig's music ed Martin Horsfield is still fannying around talking to pop groups. This month, he meets hotly ...
Radiohead: Pablo Honey (Parlophone)
Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1993
JUDGING FROM THE debut by this Oxford four-piece, the post-Nirvana grunge fall-out would appear to have infiltrated even the well-mannered climes of English suburban guitar ...
Radiohead, Strangelove, Superstar: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 15 May 1993
BAD RECEPTION ...
Radiohead, Strangelove: Leicester University
Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993
GUITAR VERY MUCH! ...
Live Review by Adrian Deevoy, The Times, 6 September 1993
IF THE success of a concert can be gauged by the number of moist and flailing bodies flung ceilingwards during the performance, then Radiohead's only ...
Radiohead: Creeping Up With The Joneses
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 September 1993
Their album outsells Suede's by 15 to 1, their single is in the Top 50 and MTV can't play their video enough times — in ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 11 September 1993
SO F***ING SPECIAL ...
Radiohead: Highbury Garage, London
Live Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 18 September 1993
CREEPING THEIR REWARD ...
Radiohead: 'Creep' stumbles onto fame
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 8 October 1993
IT'S BARELY NOON, but Radiohead's Thom Yorke has been awake for a very un-rock 'n' roll-like four hours. This certainly can't be one of the ...
Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade: How To Record Rock Guitar
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 5 February 1994
Producers Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade have made a career out off getting excellent guitar sounds to tape, lending their skills to the likes of ...
Radiohead: Manchester University
Live Review by Simon Warner, The Guardian, 27 May 1994
"THERE ARE A LOT of people out there who want to tear us to pieces," Radiohead's vocalist Thom E. Yorke told the churning, cheering hordes ...
Primal Scream, Radiohead, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers et al: Reading Festival, Berkshire — Saturday
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
ON A REMARKABLE autumn's day on which Chelsea go from to two down to three up at Leeds, Everett True gets hospitalised because he's too ...
March Of The Modulations: Radiohead: Garage, Glasgow
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 8 October 1994
LET'S GET straight to it. Radiohead are fundamentally a very good group. They have a guitarist with space alien good-looks and the natural swagger of ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 8 October 1994
THE FIVE YOUNG men lounging about in the hotel bar after their storming sell-out performance seem to be having the time of their lives. They're ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, 1995
"THE LAST couple of years", says Thom Yorke, "have been pretty mind-altering." Thom, 26, is so thin and sharp-edged you’d cut yourself if you touched ...
Radiohead: The Bends (Parlophone TPS7372)
Review by Craig McLean, Vox, 1995
THIS TIME last year, there was abject fear in the Radiohead camp. The band were in Micky Most's Rak studios in London, in the middle ...
Live Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 25 February 1995
"THIS SONG'S about Oxford, I s'pose," says Thom Yorke, managing to sound like a spiteful 25-year-old adolescent. Then he starts singing: "I can't afford to ...
Live Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 25 February 1995
America Beckons ...
Report by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 9 March 1995
IS THE NEWEST WAVE FROM THE U.K. A WASHOUT? ...
Radiohead: Wired up for better reception
Report and Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 17 March 1995
David Sinclair meets a band tuning in to tomorrow's wavelength ...
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 8 April 1995
Radiohead: The Forum, London ...
Radiohead: The Bends (Capitol)
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, May 1995
THIS IS one of those follow-up albums (like the last Spin Doctors one and, I fear, the next Counting Crows, the Offspring, and Blur records) ...
Radiohead: The Bends (Capitol) ***½
Review by Ted Drozdowski, Rolling Stone, 18 May 1995
LUCK AND LYRICS that capped the Zeitgeist's ass made Radiohead's 'Creep' the summer radio hit of 1993. ...
Radiohead: Carve their Nayims with pride
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 19 May 1995
Radiohead had scored with 'Creep'; but it took a thriller of a long-player to fill their cup in extra time ...
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 10 June 1995
Radiohead's The Bends is one of the albums of the year. We already know this. We also know that Thom Yorke is the next richeykurt ...
R.E.M./Radiohead: Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, CT
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 21 October 1995
SCARY 'MONSTERS' AND SUPER 'CREEPS' ...
Radiohead: Shiny Unhappy People*
Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 28 October 1995
*Only kidding. RADIOHEAD aren't solely responsible for the Culture Of Despair. But they are prone to the occasional spot of miserabilist navel-gazing, and they have ...
Radiohead: A band so big you never hear them
Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 10 November 1995
Everyone loves Radiohead — or at least they would if this was a just, intelligent and discerning world ...
Radiohead: Don't Call 'Em Britpop
Interview by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, May 1996
BRITPOP. IT'S ALL over the place – all of a sudden. There's Oasis, the Beatles' rip-offs trying to emulate the Rolling Stones' drug-taking, groupie-filled past. ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Spin, May 1996
Radiohead's The Bends reveals a band whose musical flights go far beyond 'Creep' — and, as J.D. Considine discovers, rely on none of the ususal ...
Radiohead: T In The Park, Strathclyde
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, September 1996
WHOEVER PUT "great" and "outdoors" in the same sentence was not a rock fan. Rock needs four walls and a roof. In the case of ...
Creep Show: Radiohead: The Tramshed, London
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 19 October 1996
IN THE CORNER of this wretched party for the beautiful people hangs a photograph of Thom Yorke, pointing an accusing finger around the room; he's ...
Report by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
"THERE ARE lots of double standards with British bands when they talk about America," says Jonny Greenwood. "They like to talk badly about it, yet ...
Report and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, June 1997
BRIGHTLY EARLY most weekday mornings before 9am, when other rock stars still have at least a good six hours of kip ahead of them — ...
The Tourist: An Interview With Thom Yorke
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, June 1997
Thursday 22 May, 1997IT'S A SEARING summer's day in Barcelona, one of Europe's most beautiful cities. Three things are creating a buzz in the Catalonian ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 13 June 1997
EXPERTLY SURFING THE WAVE of pre-millennial tension, OK Computer offers a dozen snapshots of contemporary unease that combine to form a larger picture of The ...
Radiohead: OK Computer (Parlophone 7243 8 55229 £13.99)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 13 June 1997
Modem life is rubbished ...
Radiohead: It's true, things can only get better
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 13 June 1997
Radiohead's Thom Yorke looked around, saw what a mess we're in, wrote about it on an album called OK Computer... ...
Profile and Interview by Stuart Bailie, New Musical Express, 21 June 1997
WHAAAH! SCREECH! Yakka yakka! They're incoming from all sides. Fierce noises from the right, altercations from behind. Just now there's a stormy advance on the ...
Radiohead, Massive Attack: RDS Arena, Dublin
Live Review by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 23 June 1997
Storming through the downpour ...
Ground control to Major Thom — Radiohead: OK Computer (Parlophone)
Review by John Harris, Select, July 1997
Neurosis, steel, glass, Random Access Memory — welcome to The Future Sound Of Radiohead ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, July 1997
Thom Yorke tells Jim Irvin how OK Computer was done. ...
Radiohead: "Everything was just fear"
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Select, July 1997
"Pop is dead," they once sang. Now with "Pop" floundering, Radiohead return with a scary new album of stadium-sized space rock, ready to prove all ...
Review by David Cavanagh, Q, July 1997
WITH THEIR 1.5 MILLION-SELLING 1995 ALBUM The Bends, Radiohead executed something of a perfect Yin and Yang: a great white hope and a big black ...
Review by Nick Kent, MOJO, July 1997
A year in the making, the follow-up to their multi-poll-topping classic, The Bends. ...
Radiohead: Zeleste Club, Barcelona
Live Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, July 1997
FOR THE EUROPEAN launch of their brilliant but peculiar third LP, OK Computer, Radiohead have opted to take it reasonably easy, hang out in one ...
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, July 1997
HELLO. It seems that I am meant to give Radiohead's new album – their "other" album, their brainwashed nerve-scathed translunar completely assumed third masterpiece where ...
Radiohead: OK Computer (Capitol) ****
Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 10 July 1997
THE DAYS of whine and poses may be over, but don't tell that to Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. He has survived the demise of grunge ...
Radiohead: Radiohead Get The Details
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, September 1997
On tour in Spain with five musicians for whom the little things mean a lot ...
Radiohead: The Dour & The Glory
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, September 1997
You join us in Belgium where RADIOHEAD are currently entertaining a rather large festival crowd. So let's slip away with frontman THOM YORKE as he ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, September 1997
FEBRUARY 1992. The Melody Maker's young Oxford correspondent pops up Cowley Road to the old Co-Op dining hall, a glamour-free venue – small stage at ...
Radiohead, Laika: Bridlington Spa
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 13 September 1997
YORKE SHOW HOST ...
Profile and Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 5 November 1997
It's hard to believe, but only four years ago no one really knew who Radiohead were. Now, with OK Computer lodged firmly in the Top ...
Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Teenage Fanclub: International Arena, Cardiff
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997
TO DAI FOR! ...
Interview by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 25 December 1997
WITH THEIR inspirational third album, OK Computer, released this July, Radiohead became one of the decade's cornerstone British acts. Emotionally ragged and musically precise in ...
Report and Interview by Pat Blashill, Spin, January 1998
Thom Yorke is one paranoid android: freaked out by cars, haunted by houses, suspicious of everyone. You couldn't ask for a better rock star. ...
Profile and Interview by Mac Randall, Guitar World, 1 April 1998
ON A FRIDAY RELAUNCHED itself in the summer and autumn of 1991, playing a series of gigs at Oxford's Jericho Tavern and circulating its first ...
Tibetan Freedom Concert: People Have The Power
Report by Paul Lester, Uncut, August 1998
MONDAY, JUNE 15, THE CAPITOL BUILDINGIt is 10 days before Bill Clinton's historic first presidential visit to China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. An ...
Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy
Film/DVD/TV Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 14 November 1998
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Nigel Godrich: How to Become a Hot Producer In Eight Easy Steps
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 21 January 1999
Beck, Radiohead and Pavement producer Nigel Godrich explains ...
No Surprises: Radiohead And Their Kind
Report by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 14 April 2000
After the success of OK Computer, Radiohead's next album is one of the most eagerly awaited records ever. Perhaps, says BARNEY HOSKYNS, that's why copycat ...
Stormy Return: Radiohead live in Arles
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, CDNOW.com, June 2000
RADIOHEAD'S DECISION to embark on a low-key, off-the-beaten-track summer tour of Europe nearly backfired from the kickoff last night when a cataclysmic downpour threatened to ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 21 June 2000
Most eagerly awaited comeback of the year? That'll be Radiohead's European tour, then. We meet the band and fans abroad… and hear the new songs. ...
"Thank you, ignite!": Radiohead at Meltdown
Report by Jim Irvin, MOJO, July 2000
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This was a piece for the news section of MOJO in July 2000 previewing songs from the forthcoming Radiohead album that were unveiled ...
Radiohead: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2000
CONFUSED, SCHIZOPHRENIC, sneering and intense yet sometimes transported by innocent joy – Radiohead's audience sure are a strange crowd. The crossover-cult idols' first English gig ...
Radiohead: Victoria Park, London ****
Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 25 September 2000
FOR DARLINGS of an allegedly slack generation, you can't deny Radiohead have high standards. This is the band who recently took 373 days to record ...
Exit Music: Can Radiohead save rock music as we (don’t) know it?
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, GQ, October 2000
THE POSTERS on the ancient streets of Arles give little away. Sting is playing soon in Marseille, and coming up is a "Super Big Reggae ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Smith, The Observer, 1 October 2000
IN THE EARLY '90S, you knew you'd arrived as a rock group the day you made it on to MTV and the Beavis & Butthead ...
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 3 October 2000
TO LIVE THROUGH October 2000, when music's critical landscape has eaten, slept, and breathed Radiohead. To watch the drama unfold: It Band, shaken by Internet ...
Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, November 2000
MAYBE WE SHOULD all get a little perspective on this. Radiohead are five blokes from Oxford; they've been at it nearly 10 years now; their ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, November 2000
WITH THEIR FOURTH album Kid A, Oxford quintet Radiohead have caused a tsunami-sized wave of confusion by breaking with stadium rock orthodoxy to exhibit an ...
Radiohead's Kid A: Revolution In The Head
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, November 2000
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE STATE OF BRITISH ROCK, AND HOW COME RADIOHEAD'S KID A HAS GOT IT SO RIGHT? ...
Here Are The Young Men: Radiohead’s Kid A
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
2000 WAS PARTLY about waiting for Yorko: waiting for the follow-up to the huge, incandescent, panoramic, faux-pomp OK Computer. And when Kid A finally arrived ...
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 18 December 2000
FOR A MUSIC whore like myself, even a good album can be a little like a one-night stand. There's that lovely moment of courting, checking ...
Profile and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, 2001
THE TOWERING inferno is visible from miles away. Thom Yorke drives towards the horizon, the acrid stench of toxic smoke filling his car. He cranks ...
Report and Interview by Pat Long, Q, April 2001
Brit jazz veteran Humphrey Lyttleton helps out on new album's free-form epic. ...
Radiohead: Amnesiac (Parlophone CDFHEIT45101 CD/MC/2XLP)
Review by Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2001
Radiohead's Amnesiac pursues the detours into electronica essayed on last year's Kid A, but Ian Penman's world remains unrocked ...
Radiohead: In The Forest As The Fire Burns
Essay by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 23 June 2001
Esoteric? Non-Commercial? Then how come it's #1? ...
Review by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 26 June 2001
THE PROP PLANE circled the ballpark, trailing the type of banner you might also see at the beach. The message, though, was not what you ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2001
IF IT WASN'T quite the summer garden party it should have been, Radiohead's big homecoming bash at Oxford's South Park was mostly (or at least ...
Review by Chris Ingham, MOJO, July 2001
THOUGH CONFUSING at least as many as it impressed at the time, seven months and several listens on, the litany of anguish that is Kid ...
Radiohead: Amnesiac (Parlophone)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2001
DISGUST, DESPERATION, desolation, derision – all of these were once key qualities in what constituted left-field/indie. From The Birthday Party to PiL, from Elvis Costello ...
Radiohead: Walking on Thin Ice
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, July 2001
Radiohead may be one of the biggest groups on the planet, but their dissenting voice and exploratory studio techniques conflict with the commercial pressure to ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, September 2001
IT'S ALWAYS been easy to hate Radiohead, and I always have. There have been undeniable sparks of beauty on every album ('High And Dry' to ...
How Radiohead Learned To Loathe The Bomb
Report and Interview by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 11 October 2001
IN THE DAYS following the terrorist attacks on New York, the Pentagon and Pittsburgh on September 11, 2001, Radiohead were not the kind of band ...
Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 11 November 2001
THERE ARE FEW GROUPS who can successfully support the twin burdens of leftfield artistic endeavour and big-time bankability. We know one such group, though. A ...
Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong — Live Recordings (Parlophone) ***
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2001
JAZZWANK ROADSHOW goes nuclear. ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2001
A live album dominated by Kid A and Amnesiac material: Radiohead's art-career strategy maintains brisk pace and high enigma quotient. ...
Music for a Divine Moment: The Best Music of 2001
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 17 December 2001
IN THESE DAYS of crusades, jihads, and God-Bless-This-Lands, I've been wondering why so much music writing is riddled with religious imagery. ...
Live Review by Alvaro Costa, Rock's Backpages, July 2002
EVERYTHING WAS in its right place during Radiohead's intense Portuguese tour: sunny skies, five sold-out nights in Porto and Lisbon Coliseums, an adoring and ...
Radiohead: Subterranean Homesick Aliens
Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 3 August 2002
How five bookish Middle Englanders became the world's most vital band ...
Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 November 2002
Underground movement nurtures new progressive rock bands and supports existing ones. ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 2003
THE SCENE SHOULD you need it: quiet, sunny May Tuesday morning in Oxford. 10am and all quiet because the students are in bed or at ...
Review by Sheryl Garratt, The Word, 24 February 2003
"Music for toxic times" — Radiohead offer a troubled noise for a troubled world ...
Radiohead: Hail To The Thief (Parlophone); Elbow: Cast Of Thousands (V2)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
AS YOU'LL KNOW by now, rock's favourite Oxonians have hauled their guitars out of the deep freeze and put the Warp(ed) electronica of Kid A ...
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, June 2003
"IS THAT BACKWARDS?" a colleague asked of the music I was playing as he passed by my office. "That's not backwards," I replied; "it's Radiohead." ...
Radiohead: Hail To The Thief (Parlophone)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 6 June 2003
THOSE RADIOHEAD fans hankering after the band's more mainstream indie-rock style will be heartened by the first sound they hear on Hail To The Thief, ...
Comment by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 6 June 2003
IN 2000, RADIOHEAD'S Kid A was delivered to journalists like Holy Writ, handed out individually to the chosen few in a candle-lit chamber. It's 2003, ...
All Hail Yorkie Boy: Radiohead
Profile and Interview by Will Self, GQ, July 2003
IN THE MEDIEVAL trench that’s Turl Street in Oxford, Thom Yorke, the city’s most famously and aggressively diffident son, rocks back and forth in his ...
Review by Will Hermes, Spin, July 2003
IT'S ALL RIGHT – you can admit it. When the bedroom lights are out and all you can see are the shooting stars on your ...
Review and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2003
Ungainly gothic masterpiece marks partial return to classic rock. ...
Radiohead: Alarms and Surprises
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, Bang, July 2003
With the albums Kid A and Amnesiac, Radiohead achieved the seemingly impossible and brought uncompromisingly experimental music to the arena-going masses. However, their latest, Hail ...
Profile and Interview by Pete Paphides, MOJO, August 2003
Depression, dysfunction and near-dissolution – Radiohead have spent the last few years in the wilderness. In a series of astonishingly intimate interviews, Peter Paphides charts ...
Column by Steven Wells, playlouder.com, 2 August 2003
The The Stages Of Pop-Man ...
So Long to Jonny Guitar: Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood
Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 31 October 2003
THOM YORKE may be the driving force and most recognisable face of Radiohead, but for many fans it's the guitarist Jonny Greenwood, the thin, twitchy ...
Radiohead: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, November 2003
"Computers are useless. They only give you answers" – Pablo Picasso ...
The Greatest Songs Ever: Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees'
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, Summer 2003
MOST BANDS SPEND years trying to score a hit single, but Radiohead have spent years trying to live one down. 'Creep' took America by storm ...
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Q, Summer 2003
ON FEBRUARY 27, 2002, Radiohead designer Stanley Donwood mounted the stage at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, to receive a Grammy for "Best Recording Package" ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Age, April 2004
EVERY GENERATION produces a band that fiercely divides critical and public opinion, and nobody has carried that torch higher in the 21st century than Radiohead. ...
Comment by Martin Aston, MOJO, August 2006
How Radiohead sound like Radiohead, and like none of their influences. ...
Thom Yorke: Ghost in the Machine
Interview by Nick Kent, MOJO, August 2006
Q: What happens when "a bunch of stupidly self-critical pathological overachievers" form a rock band? A: They become Radiohead. Thom Yorke talks candidly to Nick Kent ...
OK Computer: Why The Record Industry Is Terrified Of Radiohead's New Album
Comment by Andy Gill, The Independent, 5 October 2007
Radiohead are the latest — and greatest — band to shun the conventional CD release. Their new album is available online — and you don't ...
Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 9 October 2007
NOT SINCE 1998 when Oasis delivered Be Here Now, their feverishly anticipated sequel to What's The Story (Morning Glory), has a rock album generated as ...
Radiohead's In Rainbows: Jonny Greenwood speaks
Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, January 2008
Radiohead have made the album of the year. No one is more surprised than them. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood talks to Mark Paytress. ...
Radiohead: 93 Feet East, London
Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 17 January 2008
IT STARTED AT 10am yesterday and by mid-afternoon reached epidemic proportions. Radiohead fans all over London complained that they felt unwell — well, that's what ...
Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, February 2008
Four years in the making, In Rainbows is both tortured and triumphant… Here, for the first time, is the unexpurgated inside story of the album ...
Radiohead: In Rainbows Discbox/CD Seven Album Box/USB stick
Review by Pete Paphides, Uncut, September 2008
The Parlophone years in a box, plus an In Rainbows you can hold. Like the universe itself, it starts with an explosion and expands to barely ...
Radiohead: Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer (reissues)
Retrospective by Mark Kemp, Paste, 27 March 2009
WHILE THE BRITISH PRESS argued over whether Oasis' Definitely Maybe or Blur's Parklife would be the savior of mid-'90s U.K. rock, Radiohead sneaked a spanner ...
Second Comings: The Klaxons and the Struggle to Follow Up a Hit Debut Album
Comment by Pete Paphides, The Times, 27 March 2009
IT TAKES SOME doing to instigate a backlash from your fans without actually releasing a record. Yet this month, by revealing that their record company, ...
Radiohead, Ian Brown, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs et al: Reading Festival, Berkshire ***
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 31 August 2009
Radiohead's modern jazz wrong-foots the crowd ...
Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, February 2011
A fans-pleasing eighth album from Britain's most consistently brilliant band. ...
Radiohead: The King Of Limbs – A Track-by-Track Breakdown
Guide by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 18 February 2011
RADIOHEAD RELEASED its eighth album, The King of Limbs, as a digital download this morning, a day earlier than expected. With eight tracks spanning 37 ...
Jonny Greenwood: "What do I do? I just generally worry about things…"
Report and Interview by Rob Young, Uncut, April 2011
THE CAR PULLS into the courtyard of a small complex E of offices in the middle of a housing estate on the fringes of Didcot, ...
In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee
Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012
Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...
Radiohead: MEN arena, Manchester
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 8 October 2012
"HELLO. MY name's Lady Gaga." Thom Yorke's introduction to Radiohead's first British audience in four years was happily and tellingly unpredictable. Saturday's sellout show in ...
World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends
Memoir by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 3 March 2015
Though The Bends has since been overshadowed by what followed, its release 25 years ago found Radiohead on the cusp of stardom. Wyndham Wallace joins ...
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 2016
THEIR BUSINESS CARD might read: "Radiohead: Dealers in Unease since 1992." Confounding expectation has been somewhere in everything they've done, from Pablo Honey's declarations of ...
Review by Maura Johnston, Time, 9 May 2016
IN MANY WAYS, Radiohead is the ideal band to be scoring 2016's increasingly dystopian present. ...
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool (XL)
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, July 2016
WHILE THE 2011 release of The King Of Limbs caused the kind of cyber kerfuffle that tends to greet the slightest of stirrings from the ...
Present Tense: A Radiohead introduction
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Present Tense' (Constable), February 2019
IN THE FINE essay included in Present Tense on Radiohead's 2000 album Kid A, Simon Reynolds asks why we shouldn't consider its predecessor – 1997's ...
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see also Phil Selway
see also Thom Yorke
see also Atoms for Peace
see also 7 Worlds Collide
see also Smile, The
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