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  Here's Radiohead in the '80s, Posing With Iron Maiden Posters

  March 25, 2013 – If you haven't watched Anyone Can Play Guitar, the 2011 documentary on the Oxford music scene, there's a good chance you've never seen the photo above, which captures four out of five members of Radiohead in the mid-'80s, back when the band was called On a Friday. Thom Yorke looks like a Culkin kid. Phil Selway has a full head of hair. Ed O'Brien could blend in at Bayside High. …
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  Hear New Radiohead Song 'Harmonics Loop' From Thom Yorke's Two-Hour BBC Mix

  March 11, 2013 – Last month, SPIN took a visual-textual trip through Thom Yorke's 20 Biggest Influences, but part of what keeps the Radiohead and Atoms for Peace main brain's music so fresh is that his inspirational palette is always evolving. …
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  Can You Spot the Radiohead in Steve Reich's 'Kid A'-Inspired 'Radio Rewrite'?

  March 7, 2013 – Radiohead fans, here's your mission, if you choose to accept it. Steve Reich, the hugely influential modern composer, saw his Radiohead-inspired piece, "Radio Rewrite," premiere earlier this week in the very capable hands of the London Sinfonietta. …
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  Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood Unfurls Guitar Minimalism in Aussie Live Video

  March 5, 2013 – Last December, Jonny Greenwood joined Australian electro-acoustic collective ACO Underground for a surprise appearance at Sydney venue the Standard. Their collaboration included a rendition of an excerpt from "Electric Counterpoint," a late-'80s piece by minimalist composer Steve Reich. Now, as The King of Limbs Part 2 points out, video of the performance has surfaced online. …
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  In Their Right Place: Ranking 10 Radiohead 'Creep' Covers (Plus One Bonus Clip!)

  February 22, 2013 – Twenty years ago today (February 22), Radiohead released Pablo Honey, their mostly unremarkable debut album that nonetheless features the song that put the band on the map in a big, big way. Oddly enough, it was an incredibly sullen (yet tersely gorgeous) single about having a gnarled body and a broken soul in a shiny happy society that couldn't ever in a million years find such features attractive. …
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  Positively Charged: Thom Yorke's 20 Biggest Influences

  February 22, 2013 – A map of Thom Yorke's mind must make room for masters of electronic music and barroom balladeers, sci-fi doomsayers and tragic teens, ancient wisdom and modern jazz. It's a wild, thrilling place, and we've isolated 20 of the Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman's most deeply felt influences — many of which left their mark on AFP's new Amok, out February 26. Want to know what makes Thom's music go? Start here.   …
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  Thom Yorke Talks 'Amok' Leak, Photobombing in Reddit Q&A

  February 18, 2013 – "Oh did it? How nice," Thom Yorke typed on Reddit this afternoon after being asked if he was aware Atoms for Peace's Amok had leaked this weekend. …
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  Radiohead Start Work on a New Album This Summer

  February 13, 2013 – Radiohead will begin work on their ninth album at the end of the summer, according to bassist Colin Greenwood.The NME points out that in a recent interview with BBC Radio, Greenwood said, "We're taking some time out whilst people are doing some other stuff, doing their own things, and the plan is to get back together again [at the] end of the summer." The elder Greenwood first broke the news to Africa's Mail & Guardian on Febru …
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  Jonny Greenwood's Guitar Awesomeness Inspired Steve Reich's Radiohead Composition

  January 29, 2013 – In just over a month's time, legendary minimalist composer Steve Reich will debut his latest piece Radio Rewrite, an 18-minute chamber-music composition inspired by Radiohead. And in a new interview with the Globe and Mail, Reich discusses how the Radiohead project came to be and how he transformed the band's music for the composition. …
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  Watch Lance Armstrong Channel Thom Yorke in Satisfying 'Creep' Mashup

  January 28, 2013 – In a sentiment that Sheryl Crow would likely echo, doping disgrace Lance Armstrong at last gets his comeuppance in a mashup of his Oprah interview and Radiohead's "Creep." The DQ'ed Tour de France winner came off more dickish than apologetic in his confessional one-on-one, and the remix puts in his mouth the words we all wanted to hear: "I'm a creep" and "I want a perfect body" and "I don't belong here." The clip's choppy, Aut …
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