Radiohead is collaborating on a new stage production of Hamlet, set to premiere next spring in Manchester, England. The play, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, is being adapted and directed by Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett and will feature re-worked music from Radiohead’s 2003 LP, Hail to the Thief. The …
Read More »The Smile Are Back With New Album 'Cutouts,' Second LP of 2024
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 …
Read More »The Smile Share Video for New Song 'Don't Get Me Started'
Radiohead side project The Smile have shared their new song “Don’t Get Me Started,” which first arrived surreptitiously last week as a vinyl-only release to independent record stores. The track was paired with an animated video created by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, who previously teamed with Radiohead on a short visual …
Read More »The Smile Cancel European Tour After Jonny Greenwood Becomes 'Seriously Ill' From Infection
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 …
Read More »Radiohead Bassist Colin Greenwood Announces Photo Book 'How to Disappear'
Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood will reflect on the band’s history with How To Disappear – A Portrait of Radiohead, out Oct. 15. The announcement arrives two months after Greenwood joined Instagram, where his first few posts featured his dogs and a pencil sharpener. In the announcement of How to Disappear, …
Read More »Is There Life on Planet Yeat?
Yeat is from the future. Yeat is not from this planet. According to the Yeat mythology, this is all the biographical detail you need to know about the 23-year-old Portland rapper who currently has a stranglehold over children and young men aged 12-30, and whose new album 2093 does little …
Read More »Paul Thomas Anderson Helms Music Video for the Smile's 'Friend of a Friend'
Radiohead side project the Smile have released a music video for their recent single, “Friend Of A Friend,” which was directed by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. The video premiered in 35mm alongside a surround sound album playback of the group’s new LP,Wall of Eyes,at a series of events at independent …
Read More »The Smile Are More Than a Radiohead Side Hustle
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 …
Read More »The Smile Share 'Friend of a Friend' Ahead of 'Wall of Eyes' Independent Movie Theatre Events
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, …
Read More »Should '90s Nostalgia Be the New '60s Nostalgia?
The further we get from the Nineties, the more it looks like a series of musical golden ages all stacked atop one another, a kaleidoscopic moment when grimy hip-hop and future-shock R&B hit artistic and commercial peaks at the same time as a procession of fuzz-pedal-toting rock bands found themselves …
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