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 …
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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 …
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It’s gonna be a glorious day: Radiohead have announced their first live performances together since 2018. Confirming months of speculation, the band today announced a set of 20 European shows this fall. They’ll kick off with a four-night run in Madrid starting on Nov. 4, followed by four evenings each …
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Why so green and lonely? Cheer up: Radiohead are revisiting 2003’s Hail to the Thief with a new live album, out digitally today and on vinyl Oct. 31. Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 includes performances from that era in Dublin, London, Amsterdam, and Buenos Aires. You can hear …
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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‘s hiatus definitely hasn’t kept Thom Yorkeout of the studio —he’s released three great albums with the Smile, and earlier this month, he dropped the excellent Tall Tales, a long-in-the-works collaboration with veteran electronic producer Mark Pritchard. In the new episode ofRolling Stone Music Now, Pritchard breaks down the long …
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Thom Yorke temporarily walked offstage in October after a confrontation with a pro-Palestine heckler in Melbourne, Australia —now, six months later, he is attempting to clarify his views on the issue in a lengthy new post on Instagram. At the time, Yorke’s response to the heckler caused fans to speculate …
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Thom Yorke has reworked his unreleased track “Gawpers” for the new song “Dialing In,” which doubles as the opening theme for the upcoming Apple TV+ series Smoke. Back in 2019, the Radiohead frontman staged a series of Philharmonie de Paris performances with French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labeque where …
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Thom Yorke has quietly been on a bit of a tear the past year or so. In 2024, his side project the Smile — with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and jazz drummer Tom Skinner — put out two dazzling albums of crinkly art-rock, Wall of Eyes and Cutouts. He also …
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A day before Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s Tall Tales arrives, the duo has shared “The Spirit,” an uncharacteristically upbeat (and difficult-to-record) track from the collaborative album out Friday. As Pritchard told Rolling Stone, much of Tall Tales was written over email as the electronic music artist and Radiohead singer …
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