When Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead signed their first record deal in 1991, Yorke found himself feeling “embarrassment” at leaving his training as a visual artist behind in favor of “making music, sound, and words,” he tells The Art Newspaper in a new interview. After he ended up …
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Radiohead haven’t released an album since 2016, but the band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, has been on an extraordinary run of studio creativity lately, laying down three great albums with the Smile, his band with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and jazz drummer Tom Skinner. And it turns out that since 2020, …
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Thom Yorke performed a new song and unearthed deep cuts from both his Radiohead and solo catalogs at the first show of the Australasian leg of the singer’s Everything Tour. Playing at Christchurch, New Zealand’s Wolfbrook Arena on Wednesday, Yorke debuted a new track called “Back in the Game,” a …
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Don’t ask Thom Yorke about a possible Radiohead reunion. Or if you do, expect the musician refuse to give you a real answer. The frontman spoke to Australia’s Double J, who suggested that Yorke’s “fertile” work on the Smile with guitarist Jonny Greenwood has led fans to assume there might …
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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 …
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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 …
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