Radiohead

Radiohead is a British rock group who first burst on the scene in the early nineties with the album Pablo Honey, whose single "Creep" gained fast airplay on the then-emerging alternative-rock radio format. Although this quickly got Radiohead tagged as "alt-rock," the band would go on to make several genre-defying albums.

After the album OK Computer was widely hailed as a masterpiece (to this day the album routinely shows up on best-of-all-time lists), Radiohead followed that up with Kid A and Amnesiac, two albums of stripped down, mostly electronic music. The live shows which followed only served to further enhance their standing as one of the world's biggest bands.

Most recently, Radiohead turned the record industry on its ear by initially releasing its 2007 album In Rainbows in a download-only format, urging its fans to pay whatever they wished by going to a website. There have never been firm figures to confirm the numbers, but most observers agree that the experiment was a success, and that the group turned a profit. In Rainbows was eventually released on CD in 2008.

Always a technology conscious band, Radiohead's fans in the blogosphere have followed their lead. They remix their singles on a number of websites, and blog at sites like ateaseweb and green plastic.

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• Defining a Decade: Radiohead Kid A (2000)

  
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  10 Reasons why Kid A Transformed Music in the 2000s 10.  Have you seen Meeting People Is Easy ?  Imagine being Radiohead and having the weight of expectation bearing down on you to deliver a follow up to OK Computer .  What other band could have created an album of such stunning beauty and originality as ...
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• Discourse & Dischord

  
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  The Good White Stripes release song from tour documentary Stoking the fires of anticipation for the March release of the White Stripes tour documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights , the band has released one song, “Let’s Shake Hands” as well as a trailer for the film. If you like bowling and ...
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• Radiohead -"Winter Wonderland"-mp3

  
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  As Minneapolis is covered like a blanket in snow and always a "Winter Wonderland", plus its Santas day, this track seems appropriate. Radiohead is heading back into the studio, guitarist Ed O’Brien says "10 years ago we were all collectively (that’s the band) in the land of Kid A .. and although hugely proud of ...
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• Best Songs of the Decade

  
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  A countdown of the top songs from the past decade.
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• Thursday News Threads

  
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  Sondre Lerche, fan of Merriweather Post Pavilion Everybody loved that Animal Collective album this year. Including Sondre Lerche who called the song “Bluish,” off that album, his “favorite song of the year.” As a result of this love, you can download a faithful but scaled back cover of the song below, ...
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• 2007.

  
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  2007.
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• she lives with a broken man. a cracked polystyrene man, who just...

  
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• Top 10 Things Were Looking Forward to in 2010

  
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  Filed under: The Hit List , UK 2010 is upon us. 2009 is all but over, and with the loss of the likes of beloved King of Pop Michael Jackson and Dirty Dancing sweetheart Patrick Swayze , its been quite the emotional roller coaster. Its cold, grey, not yet Christmas and weve already eaten too much ...
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• BuzzSugars 20 Favorite Albums of the Decade

  
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• Field Music to tour with The Clientele

  
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• Parker/Park

  
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  At The Atlantic , the great James Parker —who wrote about Personal Days a couple of times when it came out in ’08—calls the book one of the Top Pop Culture Moments of the Decade (alongside Radiohead and Grand Theft Auto)!
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• Potent Quotables: Yorke Sours on Summit

  
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  Filed under: Potent Quotables "Im truly disgusted about the way things have ended." -- Thom Yorke After attending the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen, Radiohead s frontman called the "posturing" during "two weeks of crap" too little an effort "far too late." Next Quote
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• Top 10 Late-Night Talk Show Performances of the 2000s

  
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  Filed under: The Hit List There are dozens of late-night talk show performances every week, so picking the 10 best from this decade was no easy feat. Plenty of great bands invariably didnt make the cut, and plenty of great performances didnt quite have that "wow" factor. The following -- be it how it made us ...
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• Sex Pistols VS Coldplay and Radiohead

  
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  Johnny Rotten, also known as John Lydon, the lead singer of The Sex Pistols has some choice words for his fellow British front men, specifically Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. The punk rock singer ranted “Coldplay and Radiohead bug the hell out of me because it’s so soulless. It just seems ...
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• Radiohead Returns to the Studio in January

  
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  There have been updates before about expecting Radiohead to get back in the studio to work on a follow-up to In Rainbows , whether that be a true LP or a series of singles and EPs or whatever, but that news has been reconfirmed by Ed O’Brien, the band’s guitarist. He writes at Dead Air Space that the “vibe in ...
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• Afternoon Jams: The Twelves Essential Mix

  
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  Click on the link to download. The Twelves Essential Mix Join us on Twitter Join us on Facebook Track listing: Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix) The Rapture – Sister Saviour (DFA dub) Phoenix – Fences (accapella) Cerrone – Look for Love Kraftwerk – Music Non Stop (vocoder) Daft Punk – Da ...
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• Radiohead(ed) back to the studio!

  
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  Ed O’Brien recently updated Dead Air Space with a post, where he ranted a bit about various things, basically leading into a end of the year round up. He then gave us some juicy details about Radiohead working on their new album! They are apparently headed back into the studio to continue working on their followup ...
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• Homeless person makes “Creep” into a tearjerker

  
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m late to the party on this one. So sue me (please don’t). Anyway! A little while ago, The Opie and Anthony Show found this apparently homeless fellow on the street, brought him into the studio, gave him a beautiful Taylor guitar, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or at least it’s ...
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• MW2K #41-#50

  
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  If you have not notice, I have been doing a decades list which is called MW2K . Doing a list of the best albums from 2000 to 2009. So far you can find out from #51-#100 on here . Here is #41-#50. Aaliyah – Aaliyah (2001) It was a shock in 2001 when Aaliyah was tragically killed in an airplane crash. Her ...
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• No Bird Sing: Favorite Albums of the Decade

  
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  A list of the best albums of the decade as compiled by No Bird Sing.
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