In September of 1996, R.E.M. followed their fuzzy, grungy, glammy album Monster with the relatively expansive and immersive LP New Adventures In Hi-Fi. The band worked on the album's tracks while on the road, following the example of their young friends in Radiohead, and they came up with a set of songs that worked as a transitional document for...

Longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, basically the sixth member of the band, also contributes to Thom Yorke’s solo work, his Atoms For Peace project with Flea, and the Smile, the new group that features Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and British jazz drummer Tom Skinner. The Smile made their debut at the livestreamed Glastonbury event L...

Back in March, Thom Yorke made another foray into the fashion world, when he reunited with Jun Takahashi to soundtrack the designer’s Undercover Fall 2021 show Creep Very. (Previously, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood made a Radiohead megamix for Takahashi’s 2017 Paris Fashion Week show.) This time around, Yorke provided a new remi...

Live music is back, which means grainy cell-phone videos of strange live-music moments are also back. Last night, in a show that was announced just a couple of weeks ago, the Foo Fighters played at Madison Square Garden — the venue’s first indoor full-capacity live show in more than a year. We’ll have more on that s...

In place of an in-person event this year, the venerable UK music festival Glastonbury hosted a ticketed livestream event from its longtime venue Worthy Farm. It included the surprise debut of the Smile, a new band with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood plus drummer Tom Skinner. Also on the bill were former Radiohead acolytes C...