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Radiohead talked about their upcoming European tour and opened up about why they needed to take a nearly decade-long break in the band’s first interview together in years. “I guess the wheels came off a bit, so we had to stop,” Thom Yorke told The Times UK about the band’s …

One Battle After Another, the sui generis 162-minute epic that’s now in wide release, is many movies in one. It’s writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s fiendishly inspired riff on postmodern master Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland; it’s a riveting action flick; it’s a hilarious stoner comedy; it’s a treatise on the …

On Nov. 4, Radiohead will emerge from a seven-year slumber when they kick off a European tour at the Movistar Arena in Madrid. At the moment, there are no shows on the books outside of Europe. There’s also no evidence they’ll be unveiling any new material. “So we’ll play anything …

Radiohead have had a spy in their midst for years. As his excellent new book, How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead, reveals, bassist Colin Greenwood has been snapping candid, lovely photographs of his bandmates since the early 2000s — in the studio, in dressing rooms, and even, somehow, onstage …

Over 20 years after Radiohead’s studio sessions were fruitful enough to yield a pair of now-classic albums, Kid A and Amnesiac, the side project the Smile have pulled off a similar feat with Cutouts, the band’s second LP of 2024. Arriving October 4, just eight months after the release of …

Radiohead side project the Smile have canceled their upcoming European tour after guitarist Jonny Greenwood recently became “seriously ill” with an infection. “A few days ago, Jonny became seriously ill from an infection that needed emergency hospital treatment, some of it in intensive care,” the trio of Thom Yorke, Greenwood …

The release of a new Radiohead album is greeted in certain circles as a kind of holy occasion, a time to drop everything else going on in your life and commence Deep Listening. We have not witnessed such a hallowed event since 2016, when Radiohead droppedA Moon Shaped Pool,and a …

When The Smile first premiered the single “Friend of a Friend,” it was to an eager audience in Croatia. During that show, back in 2022, the trio made up of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner revealed that the song had been written that same day. At the time, …

Radiohead side project the Smile — featuring the band’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood along with former Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner — have announced their second album, Wall of Eyes, the follow-up to their 2022 debut A Light for Attracting Attention. Ahead of the LP’s January 26 release, …

Nearly a year after The Smile surprised fans with a new song at Montreux Jazz Festival, with Thom Yorke confessing he had only written the words 30 minutes before taking the stage, the band has finally released their new single, “Bending Hectic.” The eight-minute track by Radiohead’s Yorke and Jonny …