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Tomorrow's Modern Boxes

Reading & Leeds Preview: Radiohead Triumph In Prague

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World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends

Though The Bends has since been overshadowed by what followed, its release 30 years ago found Radiohead on the cusp of stardom. Wyndham Wallace joins them on a journey from their early days to their inevitable worldwide breakthrough. This article was first published on 3 March 2015
Baker's Dozen

I Hear New Worlds: Chris Carter’s Favourite Albums

From a clandestine love of ABBA to a mind-expanding teenage encounter with Pink Floyd, via Joe Meek, Wendy Carlos and Tangerine Dream, Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle writes on the music that changed his life

Baker's Dozen

Ennio Morricone RIP: 13 Artists And Writers On Their Favourite Morricone Compositions

As news breaks that the prolific and acclaimed composer Ennio Morricone has sadly died at the age of 91, we compile a Baker's Dozen of artists and writers on their favourite work by Il Maestro, from Jane Weaver and Blanck Mass to Årabrot and Rachel Zeffira
Film

I Wish I Was Special: The Irony Of Anima

Thom Yorke's latest project warns of the dangers of cultural overconsumption, but the very nature of its existence poses an unavoidable tension, finds Thomas H. Sheriff
Anniversary

World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends

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 them on a journey from their early days to their inevitable worldwide breakthrough
A Quietus Interview

The Incorrect Path: Gabriel Prokofiev Interviewed

"It’s when people get too high and mighty and too precious that things become dull", Gabriel Prokofiev tells Peter Meanwell during Nonclassical's tenth birthday celebrations
Black Sky Thinking

Wreath Lectures 2013: Why You Shouldn’t Feel Guilty for Using Spotify

In our latest Wreath Lecture, Charles Ubaghs uses actual facts and figures to offer you absolution for your streams, as he explains why Thom Yorke, David Byrne and their glum pals are wrong about Spotify
Film

There Will Be Flood: The Island President Director Interviewed

Styled like a drama and soundtracked by Radiohead, US filmmaker Jon Shenk's new doc highlights the parlous state of Indian Ocean 'paradise' the Maldives. He chatted to Anna Coatman ahead of its UK theatrical release
A Quietus Interview

Video Game Loops & Aliens: Flying Lotus Interviewed

Louis Pattison talks to Steve Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, about spirituality, Thom Yorke and Mephedrone
Black Sky Thinking

Dr Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: The Letter B

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon’d for the common LISTENER

Black Sky Thinking

Kid Eh? Ned Raggett Is Unimpressed With Radiohead Reissues

So EMI have reissued Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief with bonus material and DVDs. Something to be glad about? Not on your nelly says Ned Raggett, Le Homme Du California
Rock's Backpages

A 1996 Radiohead Interview – The Bends, Britpop And OK Computer

The year before the release of _OK Computer_ Radiohead were standing on the verge of becoming the biggest alternative rock band in the world. Clare Kleinedler, spoke to them for US magazine _Addicted To Noise_

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 1

Baker's Dozen

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

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