Thom Yorke Drops ????, Forms Atoms Of Peace

News Roundup: Justin Timberlake’s “Hallelujah,” Radiohead’s New Song, The Next MP3

Fiona Apple, Radiohead, And George Clooney’s All-Stars To Rock For Haiti

Crazy Covers: Hanson Do Radiohead

Thom Yorke Writes Songs For Tibet Documentary

Sounding Off: I’m The Man Who Loves You

It’s that time of year again: time to take stock in what popular music has provided us in our time of need. Time to quantify both the best music of 2009, and the best of the 2000s.
And given the fact that the Mayan calendar suggests that the world will be ending in 2012, the stakes [...]

The 25 Best Albums of the Decade

We’re not as crazy about lists as some other media outlets. At times, they’re a lot of fun, while at other times they can cause some epic intra-office battles. For our Best Albums of the Decade list, the editorial staff was pretty much unanimous about who was going to be at the top, which averted [...]

News Roundup: Radiohead Plot Return, Weezer Want Your Demos, Taylor Swift Goes Back To The Drawing Board

RADIOHEAD > Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief

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Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
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Radiohead’s OK Computer tour nearly killed them. After much soul-searching, they had created one of the most beloved albums of the 20th century. However, like all good ‘90s alternative rock bands, they were mortified by success, and the conveyor belt of endless self-promotion was nearly too much for them to [...]

Beck Salutes “Harry Partch”

Mere weeks after the Internet erupted with news that Brooklyn rockers Fiery Furnaces dissed Radiohead for trying to appear trendy by writing a song about avant-garde composer Harry Partch (they were off by one letter — the song was actually about Wolrd War I veteran Harry Patch), Beck Hansen, he of the spontaneous Internet [...]