RADIOHEAD guitarist Ed O’Brien told Rolling Stone Magazine in a
new interview about new gigs: “It’s definitely happening. What we’re
going to do is, every year we’re going to do a different continent, and
we’re going to do 20 shows each year, starting in 2027.”.
.@radiohead to play “20 shows each year” on a different continent from 2027, reveals Ed O’Brien
"No more, no less" https://t.co/XgkYyTQE16
— NME (@NME) March 17, 2026
RADIOHEAD have shared a brief statement addressed to the US’s
Immigration and Customs Enforcement who killed two American civilians,
after the Department of Homeland Security used a choral rendition of their
song LET DOWN (an absolute standout track from their standout 1997 LP
OK Computer):
“We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take
it down. It ain’t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you
don’t get to appropriate it without a fight.”
Also, go fuck yourselves.”
10 November 2025
On the road right now.
For the first time in 8 years.
RADIOHEAD released their last LP A Moon Shaped Pool
back in 2016 and played their last gig in 2018.
Two days ago they returned to the live scene for 16 concerts in Europe
and 4 in London. For weeks journalists and fans fantasized about the
set list.
Well here’s the one they played on the first night of
the tour, on November 4th in Madrid, Spain. 25 gems.
Thanks to fan Javi Dieguez we can have
an idea of the full concert. Good quality.
After 25 years of music in this Century Rolling Stone Magazine
looks back and picked their 250 favourite tracks.
As expected hip-hop-pop is the big winner pushing guitar rock into a figurant
role although Radiohead (with surprising track choice, The White Stripes (with
their classic cracker) and Yeah Yeah Yeahs at No. 2 (completely unexcepted)
are in the Top 10.
Full List HERE.
Let’s have a closer at the Top 10.
10. Thinkin’ About You by FRANK OCEAN
More than 1,4 billion streams on Spotify
Album: Channel ORANGE (2012)
9. Toxic by BRITNEY SPEARS
More than 1,7 billion streams on Spotify
Album: In The Zone (2003)
8. Idioteque by RADIOHEAD
More than 47 million streams on Spotify
Album: KID A (2000)
7. Allright by KENDRICK LAMAR
More than 961 million streams on Spotify
Album: To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)
6. Dancin’ On My Own by ROBYN
More than 401 million streams on Spotify
Album: Body Talk (2010)
5. All To Well by TAYLOR SWIFT
More than 450 million streams on Spotify
Album: Red
4. Seven Nation Army by THE WHITE STRIPES
More than 2,030 billion streams on Spotify
Album: Elephant (2003)
3. Crazy In Love by BEYONCE
More than 1,8 billion streams on Spotify
Album: Dangerously In Love (2003)
2. Maps by YEAH YEAH YEAHS
More than 278 million streams on Spotify
Album: Fever To Tell (2003)
1. Get Ur Freak On by MISSY ELLIOT
More than 327 on Spotify
Album: Miss E… So Addictive (2001)
7 October 2025
Photo by Nick Pickles/WireImage
Thom Yorke was born on 7 October 1968 in
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.
Happy 57!
All RADIOHEAD UK/Euro concerts sold out.
Signifcant longplayers from yesteryear
2 October 2025
RADIOHEAD released their fourth LP KID A
this day 25 years ago, on 2 October 2000.
The band incorporated influences from electronic music, krautrock, jazz and
20th-century classical music, with a wider range of instruments and all sorts
of effects. Yorke wrote impersonal and abstract lyrics, cutting up phrases
and assembling them at random.
Following the critical and commercial success of their 1997 album
OK Computer, the members of Radiohead suffered burnout.
Thom Yorke became ill, describing himself as
“a complete fucking mess, completely unhinged“.
Pitchfork wrote: “The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A
are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having
the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax. It’s an album of
parking paradox.
It’s cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like,
spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite
yet 48 minutes.”
Thom Yorke: “We toyed with the idea of making it a double album,
but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so
we decided to stick with the songs we picked.”
KEY SINGLE
ALBUM
.
Back on the road this Fall.
27 August 2025
What? RADIOHEAD at the top of the
Billboard Hot 100 with Let Down,
28 years after it came out?
I love it. Let Down, is one of my absolute favs from their 1997 masterwork
OK Computer. And I’m not alone in this. It has more than 337 million
streams on Spotify, that’s 100+ million streams more than lead single
Paranoid Android.
It should have been No. 1, 28 years ago too, but hey, better late than never.
19 August 2025
It’s been 9 years since RADIOHEAD released their last LP A Moon Shaped Pool.
Afterward all members, mostly frontman Thom Yorke, did solo work or got involved
in collaborative projects.
But they’re back now, well, sort of. They just shared a live album, named HAIL TO THE THIEF LIVE RECORDINGS 2003-2009. The album compiles live versions of 12 of the songs from the 2003 record taken from performances in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Dublin. Have a listen below, great quality.
‘There There’ live in Buenos Aires
Thom Yorke: “In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for
the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail To The Thief theatre production. I asked to hear
some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy
behind the way we played.
I barely recognised us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to
get these live recordings mixed and released (it would have been insane to
keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process. We very
much hope you enjoy them.”
The album will also be available on vinyl
as a one-off pressing, out October 31.
Pre-order here.
Original studio album
18 May 2025
Fighting his demons of insecurity.
