Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have formed a new project called the Smile along with drummer Tom Skinner and longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich. Yorke announced the new band Saturday morning, hours before the group was set to make their debut and perform new music during the Glastonbury Festival Presents …
Read More »Hear Radiohead's Ed O'Brien Remix Paul McCartney's 'Slidin'
Paul McCartney has released Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien‘s remix of his song “Slidin’.” The song will appear on McCartney’s upcoming release, McCartney III Imagined, which features numerous artists putting their own spin on songs from last year’s McCartney III. O’Brien shared the story of his remix on BBC Radio 6 …
Read More »Chris Stapleton's New Song 'Cold' Has Radiohead Vibes for Days
Chris Stapleton evokes the chilly atmosphere of late-Nineties Radiohead with “Cold,” the latest release from his new album Starting Over. The follow-up to Stapleton’s two-part From A Room series, Starting Over will be released November 13th. Framed by an angular minor-key piano part played by the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench, “Cold” …
Read More »Kelly Lee Owens Finds the Techno Soul in a Radiohead Classic
Twenty years ago this fall, Radiohead shocked the world by renouncing rock & roll — or at least making its traditional sounds and aims secondary to those of the heady techno music that Thom Yorke and his bandmates were listening to more and more of as the 20th century crashed …
Read More »Radiohead's Ed O'Brien Unveils First Solo Song 'Santa Teresa'
Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has shared his first-ever solo song, “Santa Teresa,” a preview from his long-awaited debut solo album. Despite earning a reputation as a strong singer in his own right while backing up Thom Yorke at Radiohead gigs, O’Brien relies entirely on his guitar work for his inaugural …
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