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"We're playing Creep and looking terrible": revisiting Radiohead's most deranged performance ever

Thom Yorke & co. played the MTV Beach House in 1993, and the singer wasn't shy in showing his displeasure about it

Louder

“I met Brian May and said, You're the reason I used to spend months and months on end in my garage trying to build a f***ing guitar.” How Queen inspired Radiohead's Thom Yorke to follow his dreams

At the age of seven, Thom Yorke decided to become a rock star, thanks to Queen

Louder

“We did some rehearsals about two months ago in London... And it was really fun, we had a really good time”: Colin Greenwood reveals that Radiohead are playing together again

Radiohead are back together playing

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“I’m not very good at ignoring people who slag us off”: the story of Radiohead’s My Iron Lung, the song that changed everything for Thom Yorke & co.

The Oxford band were determined to show there was more to them than Creep, and they wrote just the song to do so

Louder

“People would be like, ‘This again?’ I’d tell them it made my shift easier”: P.O.D.’s Marcos Curiel played Radiohead to survive working in a goth retail store

Guitarist explains his love for Thom Yorke’s band and (almost) everything they’ve ever done

Metal Hammer

Radiohead’s most underrated album is one of my all-time favourite test records

It’s not the biggest or boldest album the band ever released, but Radiohead’s Amnesiac is worthy of a place in your regular rotation of test albums.

What Hi-Fi?

From solo albums to The Smile and Peaky Blinders to Flea: the 10 best non-Radiohead Thom Yorke songs

The Radiohead frontman has built up a huge body of work away from the group and here’s some of his best

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“Don't ever misconstrue melody with weakness. I think Thom Yorke misconstrues that. I'm not afraid of melody. Radiohead are.” Travis' Fran Healy explains why he's “frustrated” with Radiohead's Thom Yorke

"Why are we still listening to Radiohead? It's not because of the last record they brought out"

Louder

The Smile cancel European tour due to serious Jonny Greenwood illness

The Radiohead side-project have scrapped all dates to give the guitarist time to recover

Louder

“He put on a tape, and it was OK Computer. We were there going, Oh, that’s quite good.” Travis frontman Fran Healy recalls nights out with his friends in Radiohead

The friendship between Radiohead and Travis dates back to the mid '90s, and has involved some memorable nights out

Louder

“No one knows how to put out music any more – including us”: In 2009 another new technology was threatening music, but Radiohead had a solution

When social media rumours ran wild that the band were splitting up, bassist Colin Greenwood revealed the complexities and confidence of what was really going on

Louder

The Kids Are Alright! 10 rock star offspring following in their parent’s footsteps…

From Noah Yorke to Tye Trujillo to Olivia Vedder, here's the kids joining the family business...

Louder

Thom Yorke brings his first-ever solo tour to Australia

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has announced his first-ever solo tour, including concerts in Sydney and Melbourne.

AAP

Jonny Greenwood: ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’

The Radiohead guitarist changed rock music, then conquered the world of soundtracks. But can he revolutionise the church organ with an eight-hour composition?

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“They’re not interested in pleasing their label or fans – just themselves. That’s what I try to do too”: Ihsahn and his wife want you to listen to Radiohead

When people were just beginning to see that the Emperor man was a progressive musician, he’d long been all over Thom Yorke’s artistic bravery

Guitar World

“Sometimes I make the bassline too complex and too noodly, but Thom is good at putting the brakes on that”: How Colin Greenwood came up with his deceptive stop-start bassline on Radiohead’s Airbag

Colin Greenwood’s bassline drives the opener of Radiohead’s OK Computer, even though it contains more rests than licks

Louder

"Get the **** off my stage before I punch you in the ****ing face": Ten times a band stopped a gig to lambast a member of their own crowd

Shoe-throwing, stopping fights, people chatting, stage invaders... it's tough up there for your heroes

Louder

“Their sense of adventure has never been up for debate; their progressive ambitions are a perpetual undercurrent”: These songs prove Radiohead are prog

From spanning musical styles to blending odd time signatures, the band have always been restlessly creative

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The Smile review – Thom Yorke on jolly and utterly joyful form

Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner’s pandemic-born band fly free from expectations, taking in everything from krautrock to Afrobeat

What Hi-Fi?

12 of the best British indie and alternative tracks to test your hi-fi system

We've rounded up our favourite British indie and alternative tracks that we use to test hi-fi kit and headphones

MusicRadar

“There were so many demos that sounded like major songs, but that one was near the top of the list": The making of the 1995 Radiohead classic that became one of their all-time greatest anthems

Producer John Leckie: "It sounded instantly like a big track"

MusicRadar

"It was a dark place, and we realised we didn't want to go back there": is Radiohead's King Of Limbs not just their most underrated record, but the one that helped save them?

Thom Yorke: "It was an experiment. I didn't think we really genuinely thought anything would come out of it, certainly not an entire record"

Guitar World

“Thom Yorke called Colin Greenwood the secret weapon to Radiohead, and I think he was right”: John Garrison on the 5 bass albums that shaped his sound

John Garrison, currently holding down the low-end with pop swooner James Blunt, talks us through his top 5 bass albums

MusicRadar

20 Radiohead guitar chords you need to know

Voicings that will open your mind and change the way you play guitar

The Guardian - UK

Kali Malone: All Life Long review – music to blot out the world’s clamour

Returning to the organ-playing that made her name and adding brass and vocals, the Thom Yorke-approved composer revels in the possibilities of her instruments

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