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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

The Guardian - UK

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

What Hi-Fi?

“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"

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"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"

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“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

Guitar World

20 Radiohead guitar chords you need to know

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

MusicRadar

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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"We had goosebumps... it was a very cool thing to be a part of": DJ Shadow on how watching Thom Yorke in the studio blew him away

The producer collaborated with Yorke on the 1998 UNKLE album Psyence Fiction

Louder

"The standouts here rank alongside Radiohead's best": The Smile's Wall Of Eyes hops from wonky avant-samba groove to super-nimble math-rock gyration

Radiohead's breakaway trio The Smile return with psychedelic sambas and rule-bending jazz rock

Louder

The Smile - Wall of Eyes album review: an experimental triumph

Still no sign of that elusive new Radiohead album, but it's hard to feel short-changed with a side project this brilliant

Evening Standard

The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – agile, tuneful second album

With strings and psychedelia added to the mix, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s ever-evolving side project feels as dynamic now as their day job

The Guardian - UK

The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – inventive Radiohead side project risks eclipsing the real thing

Despite all the lyrical disquiet, there is a lovely sense of ease to the Smile’s second album – and some of the best music Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have put their names to in at least a decade

The Guardian - UK

10 of the best releases in electronic music this year

Our selection of the most imaginative and innovative albums and tracks from electronic artists in 2023

MusicRadar

Black metal has gone orchestral and nu-disco shred is back, baby: This week’s essential guitar tracks

Unmissable tunes from John Mayer, Dre DiMura, Heriot, Ihsahn, Julian Lage, Porno for Pyros and so many more…

Guitar World

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5 more artists that loved their gear so much they named themselves after it

It's all here: teenagers rioting, pitches being shifted, modes being selected, and Dom's Roland sampler

The Guardian - UK

‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy

Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra

Louder

"I like the idea of my face leering out, some guy drowning himself in the corner of one of these terrible disco bars where they have MTV playing": Thom Yorke on the making of Radiohead’s shocking No Surprises video

When Radiohead got to thinking up ideas for their No Surprises video in 1998, frontman Thom Yorke knew he wanted something a little out of the ordinary. Enter director Grant Gee and a slightly terrifying encounter with a fishbowl

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The Avalanches to Daft Punk: who has the record for the most samples in a song?

Daft Punk used a lot, DJ Shadow most definitely, and The Avalanches 'used thousands', but who really has the record for the most samples used in a single tune?

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Louder

"We’re fried": Thom Yorke on keeping it together as OK Computer blew up big

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke was having a rough time of things in 1998, as this MTV interview footage makes clear

Louder

That time Thom Yorke formed a glam rock band with members of Radiohead, Suede, Roxy Music and, umm, David Gray’s drummer

When Thom Yorke was recruited for fictional band The Venus In Furs as part of the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, the Radiohead singer was told to “ham it up”

Louder

Thom Yorke on the Radiohead and Massive Attack album that never happened

Bristol trip-hop dons Massive Attack were lined up to remix Radiohead's OK Computer in its entirety – until life got in the way...

The Independent UK

Free milk, £1 camping and political protests: Glastonbury through the years, in pictures

As music fans return to Worthy Farm, it’s worth a look back on how much the world’s biggest festival has changed over the years

Evening Standard

Radiohead and Sons of Kemet side-project The Smile release live favourite Bending Hectic

A fan of Radiohead’s 1995 classic rock record The Bends? Step this way...

Belfast Live

'Nowhere quite like NI' for Turin Brakes frontman Olly Knight ahead of Stendhal return

Turin Brakes return to Stendhal 13 years after headlining first ever edition of the Co Derry festival

Guitar World

Mikey Way: “I was borderline terrified a lot of the time My Chemical Romance was active. I was learning the bass in front of 20,000 people every night!”

The reunited emo kings’ low-end ranger reveals why he swapped out his signature Fender Mustang for a sparkling new signature Jazz Bass, learning bass in arenas, and how he overcame insecurity about his chops

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