Monday, January 9, 2012 6:49PM - By Travis Woods
Well, live music fans, that time of year has come around again—the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced its 2012 lineup. And for those who can’t recall, this is the first year in which the festival will be repeated for a second weekend. It all goes down on April 13-15 and April 20-22. Check out the complete lineup below and let us know: does this rock, or is the lineup a bit of a letdown?
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:07PM - By Angel Baker
Without a doubt, 2011 was a year of great music. Wrapping up the year is no easy task, especially with so many new emerging artists hitting the indie scene and settled greats releasing records as good or better than their efforts decades prior. Our picks for the Top 20 Albums of the year cover a lot of ground, ranging from Indie Beard Rock to Spaghetti-Western, Rockabilly to Hip-Hop, and everything in between. Check out our Top 20 Albums of 2011 after the jump …
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Friday, November 11, 2011 11:09AM - By Travis Woods
In addition to announcing the first slew of dates on their North American tour in 2012, Radiohead also announced this week that they will be releasing a live DVD/ Blu-Ray, entitled From the Basement, which, I know, sounds like an R. Kelly home movie that you really don’t want to see.
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Monday, November 7, 2011 10:33AM - By Travis Woods
Because they want to torture us with tantalizing teases of what could have been, Radiohead has announced the first 10-date leg of their upcoming 2012 North American tour, cruelly withholding dates from the east and west coasts, and instead hitting the smaller Midwestern market and venues. Oh, why, Radiohead, why?!?
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Friday, October 14, 2011 9:17AM - By Travis Woods
Good news for fans of all things Radiohead: in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke announced that two albums are coming down the pipe—a new disc from Yorke’s side project, Atoms for Peace, as well as a new Radiohead album, despite the fact that the band just released The King Limbs earlier this year.
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Monday, September 19, 2011 9:00AM - By Travis Woods
Creating a collision course that is going to be, pretty much, the awesomest thing ever in the history of awesomest awesome things, Radiohead, essentially the biggest band of this generation that doesn’t suck (sorry, U2), will be appearing on The Colbert Report next week.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:38AM - By Jon Hughes
Amid conspiracy theories spreading like wild-fire on the web amongst fans who were not entirely satisfied with the band’s latest outing The King of Limbs, Rediohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has squashed any hopes for a sequel to the 8 track album. While they do have two new tracks coming out on vinyl for Record Store Day this weekend, nothing else is currently planned to expand on what has already been released from the TKOL sessions.
Speaking with BBC 6 Music, O’Brien goes on to state….
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:35PM - By Jon Hughes
Earlier today hundreds of fan-crazed Radiohead junkies hit the streets of Los Angeles, CA (and various other locations around the US) to receive their free copy of the bands new take on daily press, entitled The Universal Sigh. For more info on the paper, jump over to our news bit about it here.
Aside from the incredible photos, lyrics and short-stories featured in the 12 page companion piece to the band’s opus The King of Limbs (Available today in stores) was simply sleeping in rather than going to work, grabbing a Chai Tea Latte and hanging out with Radiohead fans in Silver Lake, CA. Arriving more than an hour early before the official meet-up time posted on www.theuniversalsigh.com, we were met with only a handful of fanatics ready for some free swag.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:30PM - By Joseph Oliveto
If Radiohead wasn’t one of the most talented and uncompromising mainstream music acts since The Beatles, they’d surely be subject to mockery for being more gimmicky than a can of Coors Light. While no one will complain about their “pay what you want” policy on In Rainbows, Thom Yorke’s occasional bouts of needy art-student eccentricity can distract us from the fact that, well, he’s a brilliant songwriter.
Case in point: according to Spinner, the band plans to mark the release of physical copies of their latest album The King of Limbs by treating lucky fans to a free, um…newspaper. Cool?
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